The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

A finnish gal who goes under the name of Alice runs this little corner of Middle-earth! c:

[girlsclothes-deactivated2023030]

what do people in their twentys do except go to the grocery store……….

[what-grace-has-forgiveness]

sometimes we lie in bed paralyzed by the knowledge that life is neither meaningful nor enjoyable

[asgarddropout]

and then we go get snacks

[hufflepuffscholar]

you know what i find really weird? that when people ask me what languages i can speak or what languages i’m studying, i never think of saying “english” too. knowing this particular language is such a taken for granted thing, like everyone everywhere should know it, like it doesn’t take years of efforts and immersion, mistakes upon mistakes, constant trial and error. so i guess what i want to say to those who are not english natives: congratulations. you do know a language, however much it feels some days like it’s obvious you should know it. you worked for it, however much passively it entered your life. and you’re doing amazing.

[thelatestkate]

[darknightshining]

I kind of really needed this…

[watchers-grove]

This actually made me feel better

[moriquendis]

Intense, negative ranting ahead because i need to vent somewhere

I’ve 4 intense courses with their weekly assignments as well as two terms papers and exams and I’ve honestly never struggled this much during my 3,5 years of uni. It’s already at the point where I can’t really even sleep much because the 24 hours just aren’t enough for all the research and exam studying I need to get done in the day. Throughout the years I’ve felt so grateful to be able to study something of interest to me, but as of late it’s so difficult to motivate myself and I just feel like I’m not even enjoying anything in life anymore, just jumping from one assignment to another. I thought it can’t really get any worse, but then I wake up with a flu, my head is killing me and I honestly just want to fall back into bed and weep my eyes out but I don’t even have time for that. I’ve so much at stake (funding for one – hopefully I can keep paying my rents adjgds) and it just doesn’t seem to be enough that I basically do nothing else all week than study. 

[touika]

I perhaps owe becoming a painter to flowers. — Claude Monet.

[aredhels]

sons of fëanor: maedhros the tall

There Maedhros in time was healed; for the fire of life was hot within him, and his strength was of the ancient world, such as those possessed who were nurtured in Valinor. His body recovered from his torment and became hale, but the shadow of his pain was in his heart; and he lived to wield his sword with left hand more deadly than his right had been.

[tossme]

the two towers + blue requested by the-maskedman

[lilmamafromthemiddleeast]

Italian conservator Lorenza D'Alessandro

[silmaspens]

Some practice doodles I don’t think I’ll finish- but I thought I’d share anyway

[lovelysuggestions]

do not put up with passive agression. the people in your life should respect you enough to be straight forward with you. If someone does not come to you directly with an issue, it is not yours too fix. you can’t spend all your time picking apart your relationship with someone, searching for what you did, and blaming yourself when you don’t even know what for. it’s not fair for people to put you through that.

[prollyright-deactivated20260122]

Finding someone who thinks you’re interesting enough to talk to you every day, whether they’re a friend or a lover, is one of the best feelings ever.

[slayerbuffy]

Gillian Anderson for Winser London 2018.

[thelordsoftherings]

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand… there is no going back?

[marxistbarbie-deactivated202109]

i’m in the middle of writing my dissertation on the european witch trials and the more research i do into it the more it bothers me that the whole thing has become such a gimmick today, like the town i live in runs a nightly ‘ghost tour’ which ends on the hill where they hung 12 women for witchcraft in the mid 17th century. the reality is the witch trials were a crime against humanity, the victims were mostly children, widows and elderly women and some historians have estimated that the total number of people tortured and killed was upwards of half a million. it’s such a torrid chapter of human history but it’s viewed almost entirely as a joke outside of academic spheres and i think we all know the reason why

[yourghostcat]

TAEMIN - WANT

[psionotic]

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973). (via psionotic)

[griffys]

me @ myself: maybe u should try not to depend so much on validation and attention from others because u really let it dictate your mood and it’s so unhealthy

me: huh. interesting. anyway whom here loves me