Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme

Earl Grey, still at Elsewhere University - how many years has it been?  I should maybe do something with this blog again, but for now it lies dormant

[intercal]

The doctor was unable to separate the art from the artist. I’m so sorry.

[sharp-tender-shock-deactivated2]

Time of death of the author: 3:32pm

[swan-bones]

Woodland Garden

Gouache on paper, 2019

by Kelly Louise Judd

[lovergroves]

[levitann]

[the-cozy-room]

stampsandstamps

[fennelore]

[cryptonature]

You can look at any human life as the sum of a complex collection of chemical reactions,

in much the same way as you can look at any beautiful painting as a collection of pigments,

which is to say, you can miss the point of most anything.

[stimman4000]

heikala

[punkenglishnerd]

Unpopular opinion: Being intelligent isn’t an excuse for being unkind.

[stns-classics]

Pretentious asshole is OUT! Pretentious Sweetheart is IN! Wearing dapper clothes and holding the door open for others makes you feel COOL AS H*CK! Glance up from your hefty books to give a stranger a smile!! Quote literature to inspire others! Be presumptuous in the way that you presume that everyone needs their day to be a little brighter!!!

[representationthirst]

Administration showed us this tweet on day one of grad school and boy did it hit home

[oracleanne]

I got to hear the brilliant Dr. Eugenia Cheng speak on logic and intelligence at a library conference recently and I will love her forever because she says that intelligence should be a recursive relationship between logic and empathy. That the use of these things to help the world is what intelligence truly is.

[la-laborista-republiko]

[cryptiboy]

what if public libraries were open late every night so that:

- children and teens who cant get home until a later time have a safe, warm, well lit, populated area to socialize, charge devices, rest, etc

- children and teens have a safe place to go to stay away from danger

- people who have jobs that take up most of the day would still have time ANY DAY OF THE WEEK to go use the libraries facilities (printing, computers, etc)

[raptorkin]

This is exactly what public libraries are trying to achieve - public libraries as a third place is a whole thing - it’s just that the funding isn’t there (yet).

[captaindibbzy]

Libraries need and deserve so much funding

[a1-b2c3-deactivated20230114]

why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like… 

rainbow mountains (peru)

red soil (canada/PEI)

rings (saturn’s if they were on earth) 

bioluminescent waves

northern lights (canada)

salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)

and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens

BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species

[wearethesparkk]

I KNOW!! I did a report on filming locations in Star Wars last year and just made a list of places that looked so surreal they could make a convincing other planet. You covered some on my list but if I could just add a couple more:

Tsingy di Bemaraha, Madagascar

Zhangye Danxia, China (similar to the Rainbow Mountains in terms of appearance)

Chocolate Hills, Philippines

Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland

So many missed opportunities with cool ass things on Earth, Lucasfilms smh…

[memcjo]

Earth is effing amazing!

[isnerdy-deactivated20190101]

Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina

Lake Retba, Senegal

Tepui, Venezuela

Tianzi Mountains, China

[bunjywunjy]

these would make amazing Star Wars planets OR fantasy material:

Tsingy du Bemaraha, Madagascar again (but a different part)

(those are razor-sharp, if you were wondering. very little of this area has been explored because YIKES)

Lake Natron, Tanzania

(looks cool, but is alkaline enough to Kill Your Shit)

Lake Baikal, Russia

(the deepest lake in the world, seriously)

and I’ll wrap it up with Son Doong Cave, Vietnam, the largest cave in the entire world.

it puts anything Dagobah has to offer to absolute shame:

(seriously, the largest chamber is 660 feet high. you could jam a fucking skyscraper in there and still lose it) 

anyway I really like caves thanks for coming to my ted talk

[meggiemufin]

Allow me to throw in Catatumbo Lightning, which is also called the “Everlasting Storm” because it’s been raging for thousands of years in Venezuela and throws down some totally badass lightning on the daily

Source

[beautifulcheat]

that… last one seems dangerous to film in

[suicunesrider]

Pokemon has actually used some of these  as inspiration for it’s world, lol take some notes big-budget studios

Anyway I can’t stop thinking about how all of this is on our ONE little planet– just imagine what else is out there in the big wide universe. And I’ll never get to see it, GOD THAT MAKES ME SAD???

[shorteststory]

VAMPATH // a postcard story dedicated by Chris to PAGM

I have a new book of stories and deck of story prompts on Kickstarter right now. Check it out! http://shorteststory.com/engine

[beautyandthepriest-deactivated2]

concept: instead of hedwig, Harry goes into the pet store and this little snake in the back of the store talks to him, obviously gets his attention more than the other animals, and harry feels sorry for it so he takes it home. Then the snake helps Harry throughout his years at hogwarts as harry carries it wrapped around his hand all like “pssssst, haaarryyy, the dark lord isss coming sss” or just petty shit like “haaaarrryy, now is the time, assskkk out cho chaaannngg”

[hogwartsaheadcanon]

The snake getting really agitated in second year and Harry like ‘Aw, what’s wrong little friend?’

And snake’s like ‘Nah don’t worry it’s cool, it’s just that big fuck-off snake in the pipes that keeps making you think you’re hearing things—it’s like, ten thousand foot long, and I’m a corn snake, so you know. Bit intimidating.’

[analyticalsenshi]

Third year he eats Scabbers and saves them all a lot of time

[nomzoms]

my hand slipped

[l0vegl0wsinthedark]

LOOK AT HER SHE IS A RAY OF SUNSHINE

[fluffygif]

Pomegranate world

[flarehunter76]

Pomegranate world

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

why did it censor out something she said. what did she say. let her speak

[floaroma-flow]

Okay so what she says (from what I can figure out, please correct me if I get something wrong) is basically:

“Alright today we’re gonna teach everybody the Proper way to open a pomegranate. First you’re gonna make four cuts in a square on its ass, top and bottom, side to side, cut cut cut, and then take this piece of the skin off. Now you COULD not follow my instructions and cut it in half right down the middle; however, you’re gonna end up cutting into the fruit, sending juice flying all over the fuckin place and your girlfriend is gonna beat your *ss and leave you; SO, it’s better to follow my directions using the cut cut cut method. Then, in a star shape make more cuts and pull back the pieces, and presto there you have a beautiful pomegranate flower; tell me that isn’t the prettiest fucki-“

[thecollectibles]

Art by Betty Jiang

[stonecrop]

I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants. 

[made-of-love-and-stars]

THIS.

[tr4shpandaa]

Don’t forget kids, jewelweed is a natural counteragent to poison ivy rashes but it won’t do shit against whooping cough

[dovewithscales]

Mint for nausea, valerian and chamomile for sleep, antibiotics for fucking infections.

[just-mythyk]

educational and salty. i like it.

[madness-and-gods]

Kilchurn Castle is a ruined 15th and 17th century structure on a rocky peninsula at the northeastern end of Loch Awe, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.