the last page of middlemarch

medli 23 🌠 in the graveyard doing handstands

[pearlydewdrops]

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_eO7Z-HCmV/

[thislovintime]

Screenshot from footage (via YouTube) featured during Micky Dolenz Celebrates The Monkees.

“The mass media has a tendency to distort. As long as capitalism remains the underpinning of society, what is good will always take a back seat to what will sell. General Motors isn’t concerned with making a quality automobile. Sears isn’t concerned with offering a quality television set. All that counts in a capitalistic society is selling. And to the mass media’s way of thinking, a picture of Peter Tork as a so-called ‘burned-out hippie’ with a beard and long hair implies a hopeless case who can’t lift his hand to his face to get his razor up and who has no interest except in stealing to support his drug habit. If that’s what sells, they’ll print that. The truth of the matter is, my primary concern was and is self-realization in a social setting.” - Peter Tork, Blitz!, May/June 1980 “He took the sixties to heart, and if the failure of the sixties took the heart out of him for a while, he hasn’t let that failure break him. ‘You’ve got to struggle over the material,’ he said. ‘The struggle involved in keeping those people who want what you’ve got from getting it deprives you of the time to really be yourself. Instead of struggling to keep things out of everybody’s hands, if you give what you’ve got – as Jesus said – if you give away what you’ve got, life unfolds for you. And the Catholic church would have us believe that heaven doesn’t happen until after the death of the body. But I report differently. I report that heaven is an experience available in this life. And it comes from giving your shit away. If you give away your heart, your life, your soul, your goods, and live as close to the bone as you can prudently do, and don’t worry about next week, if you live as close to that level as possible, you will find yourself as happy as possible. If you put your faith in the future, you’re going to be chasing something all your life. Put your faith in the present; it’s all right.’” - When The Music Mattered (1984)

[jareckiworld]

Roman Opałka (1931-2011) — Adam and Eve  (etching, 1968)

[apoemaday]

Blessing the Boats

by Lucille Clifton

(at St. Mary’s)

may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back     may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that

[cobbain]

Kurt and Courtney at their wedding, Waikiki Beach - Hawaï.

Feb. 24, 1992

[sundaysadghost]

[wholefamilydeadringerforsimpsons]

my new favourite twitter poster

[finelythreadedsky]

Classical Literature and Folk Ballads

Martial, De Spectaculis 29/25b /// Clyde's Waters (Child Ballad 216, Roud 91)

[worldsandemanations]

Athena Nangala Granites. “Napalijarri-Warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming)

[starwarsfilms]

STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE 1977 | dir. George Lucas

[invisible-goats]

In honour of having it for tea two days in a row due to weather

Fellow brits: what do you call a meal that is made up of various bits and bobs such as might be found in a picnic?

Bitsa

Picky bits

Indoor picnic

Buffet

Nibbles

British tapas

Beige dinner

Something else

Voting ended onMay 29

God it's hard to phrase this question in a non-biasing way. Also I promise I've encountered all of these phrases irl

if something else please tell me what!

ok now that you've voted i call it bitsa (short for bitsa this and bitsa that) because that's what my mum calls it and if you call it picky bits i assume you shop at m&s and use phrases like holibobs and hubby

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Humpback whales singing off the leeward coast of O’ahu

(sound on 🔉)

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

<— to answer these tags on main, since it’s a fun question, our guide lowered a hydrophone and so my phone is leaning on the railing right next to the hydrophone

[04k96]

[cair--paravel]

Tintagel Old Post Office, Tintagel, Cornwall. A 14th-century stone house that briefly served as a post office in the Victorian era.

[dreamstars]

[rthwrms]

HOW TO START (2026)

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image transcriptions under the cut

How to Start by rthwrms

for the times when you really truly want to do something, but find resistance or that starting feels impossible

most helpful action to get into a task is: look at it options include: review what you've already done open the tab on screen blur your eyes at first if that helps fullscreen the image browse or skim relevant texts let your gaze move around how it will JUST...LOOK!!!

Your brain has resistance towards starting the particular project in the way that you've previously conceived of it. Instead of fighting that resistance, try to change your approach to starting your work. Ie, start with colored pencils on a piece you were doing in gouache, include a new stitch in a crochet piece, Step one: identify the process Step two: identify places where something new can be included Step three: brainstorm new options to fill these spots Step four: select one or more options and try your piece from this new angle

encourage yourself by asking questions start with: "What am I actually trying to do right now?" then try: "What would this look like if it were more fun?" "How would I do it if anything was possible?"

divide into discrete tasks make the closest or shiniest one literally as small & specific as freaking possible

image text: I BELIEVE IN YOU screenshot text: The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W.B. Yeats (via billowy)

there is a window now there is a door

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[twoblogger]

People in the 1500s were genuinely just constantly being put into situations