Mismash

ISTP. No Gifs are mine. Blog about what I feel like. If you're looking for something nice and curated and themed this ain't it!

[historicaltimes]

A game of human chess St Petersburg then Leningrad Russia circa 1924

via reddit

[gatheringbones]

general book rec for Deathless fans looking to get a better handle on russian/soviet history and the time period of the book

Koba The Dread: Laughter And The Twenty Million by martin amis is a good, basic, conversational, well-researched book on the whole slide into darkness thing that russia did when adapting to soviet life, i read it in high school when i was also first getting into this shit,  this book does a great job of implicating that motherfucker Lenin in the culture of murder that the ussr adopted, his tone is great, he quotes solzhenitsyn a lot, he quotes a lot of other g r e a t underground soviet writers a lot, it’s a really great introduction if russian/soviet history is new to you and you’re just looking to get a round of rocksalt to the face in terms of getting to know what’s what

on that note The Whisperers: Private Life In Stalin’s Russia by orland figes is a heavier (literally, it’s fucking huge) book that i got for my 22nd birthday, and it is p e r f e c t, it is literally how the family unit survived (and didn’t) in soviet russia, it is about the culture of fear and anonymous denunciations and the effects of collectivization, you will learn about kulaks and the children of kulaks, you will learn about the young pioneers, you will learn about the house committees that the domoviye in Deathless formed imitations of, you will learn about the prisons, you will learn about resistance and keeping family and religious traditions alive when it is death and torture to keep those traditions, you will learn, so much, i promise you you will.

[morgotha]

Whenever I watch Return of the King during the scene where he is marching with his living son talking about how his house is ruined I always have that thought of:

Wow Denethor son of Ecthelion, you’re such a drama queen get over yourself.

[morgotha]

Gandalf: "Knock your head against these doors, Peregrin Took! And if that does not shatter them, and I am allowed a little peace from foolish questions, I will try to find the opening words!”

Me: “Calm your shit Gandalf. Christ.”

[morgotha]

tfw you strike fear in the hearts of your middle schoolers.

[morgotha]

It’s only the first day of the school week and I already wanna collapse lord give me strength lol

[writterings]

fun gender neutral things to call your s/o

my precious

dear hobbit

fool of a took

[kingpinnn]

The most beautiful thing I have  heard all day and you have the opportunity to hear it too.

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One of my faves that was lost to the internet is back

[alexander]

does anyone know the name of this instrument and possibly the source of this video?

[weird-syrup]

it’s a hang drum :)

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Everytime I see this I reblog.

[morgotha]

This is lovely

[selenaquintanillaperez]

[morgotha]

<3

[saloandseverine]

UK Vogue October 1987, Chic List

Naomi Campbell by  Neil Kirk

[theambassadorposts]

know your history

[morgotha]

My grandfather told me this and many other corrections to my history book. He is Ojibwe. He is the only native person in my family that I’ve met. He married a white lady, became a fireman, and moved off the reservation and never went back. He always talks about these things with sadness. He would occasionally ask me what I was learning in history class and add to it. When I mentioned the slaughtering of the bison in class in 4th grade or so, people just looked at me like I was making it up. Like good ol’ westward expansion and manifest destiny couldn’t possibly be that terrible. I wish these things were taught. I don’t like the excuse that ‘its too serious for little kids to learn’ or ‘it’s awkward to teach’. I could handle hearing and processing it in fourth grade, the rest of America and the world can process it. It was conquest. It still has far-reaching and devastating effects. Just call it like it was and is. Modern America does not like to own up to its history, and this is part of why there’s still so many problems allowed to perpetuate and fester. I do not get angry about these problems anymore. I do not have outrage. Perhaps I should. But I do not have anger because the glossing over of problems and histories and injustices does not surprise me.  I get disappointed. 

[morgotha]

Pretty sure I just cooked and ate my weight in potato/chorizo tacos

I do not regret this at all

[morgotha]

Bones: Space. The final frontier. "Final" because it wants to kill us.

[morgotha]

Me, when I go back to school on Monday. I’d say never have I related to Gandalf so much but that would be a bold-faced lie.

[rubyetc]

It is a 2018 mood

also small reminder you can buy this as a print along with many other things I have drawn as prints and mugs and t-shirts etc & so on over here

[naoisnow-blog]

I used this as profile pic and I swear some people just talked to me for asking about it.

“IS THAT AN ICE CREAM CONE WITH TITS??”

so blessed. I love you.

[rubyetc]

It is all of those things. Love you too 

[glumshoe]

“Relaxed straight”? What about “anxious gay”?!

[glumshoe]

everyone who’s commented or messaged me about this has either been gay or a music major excited about Shostakovich 

[fuckecheeses]

I can’t tell if this is a twink or a butch lesbian

[glumshoe]

neither can anyone at the bar, which gets interesting

[thali-lemmonpie]

So… This is from the spanish wikipedia… 

Cónyuge=Spouse

I’m diying here. hELP.

EVEN WHEN I SEARCH IN GOOGLE APPEARS… 

I’M DEAD

[morgotha]

¡Oye! ¡Cónyuges cósmicos!