still alive but i'm barely breathin'

LIZA (lee-zuh) - she/her - 26

[gabescrayons]

in memory of my childhood fish tank lamp

[tineiya]

[genderoutlaws]

Never read Baldwin before?

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)

[creatingblackcharacters]

My next Black History Month request:

Pick one of James Baldwin's works and read it!!! The Fire Next Time is an excellent essay, most of us are familiar with the quote on gay white people from The Last Interview but not the rest of it. If Beale Street Could Talk even has a movie!

[theinternetarchive]

california through the eyes of photographer wilson davis ellis, american c. 1940s-50s.

[trailcams]

source

[identifying-deer-in-posts]

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

[theinternetarchive]

embroidery samples of silk and metallic thread on felt, french c. early 1800s.

[nobrashfestivity]

Helen Frankenthaler, Monoprint VII

[kitkatstu-dies]

Day 9/120 (9/11/2025)

Super tired today but studied physics (maybe I actually do know what I'm doing), pre-cal, and read some more!

[retrocausality]

T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

[fragiledewdrop]

Yes! Eliot had read reports of a mission in Antartica where this exact thing had happened, so he incorporated it in the poem. There is a double meaning, obviously, because it's also a reference to Jesus on the road to Emmaus. But it is very much on purpose. He wrote:

 "The following lines were stimulated by the account of one of the Antarctic expeditions (I forget which, but I think one of Shackleton's): it was related that the party of explorers, at the extremity of their strength, had the constant delusion that there was one more member than could actually be counted"

[huariqueje]

Starlings - Mia Bergeron , 2025.

American, b. 1979   -    

Acrylic on flat panel , 7 x 12 in.

[lamignonette]

[desimonewayland]

Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding, Great Britain, mid-19th century

Yale Center for British Art

[violetsandshrikes]

to all my researchers, students and people in general who love learning: if you don't know this already, i'm about to give you a game changer

connectedpapers

the basic rundown is: you use the search bar to enter a topic, scientific paper name or DOI. the website then offers you a list of papers on the topic, and you choose the one you're looking for/most relevant one. from here, it makes a tree diagram of related papers that are clustered based on topic relatability and colour-coded by time they were produced!

for example: here i search "human B12"

i go ahead and choose the first paper, meaning my graph will be based around it and start from the topics of "b12 levels" and "fraility syndrome"

here is the graph output! you can scroll through all the papers included on the left, and clicking on each one shows you it's position on the chart + will pull up details on the paper on the right hand column (title, authors, citations, abstract/summary and links where the paper can be found)

you get a few free graphs a month before you have to sign up, and i think the free version gives you up to 5 a month. there are paid versions but it really depends how often you need to use this kinda thing.

[nerd-brarian]

A nice librarian gave me this and I really like it.

[tierras]

passenger seat photo beaded curtain by noorann matties

[electronicgallery]

A beautiful Mesolithic amber figure of a bear. It washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. 12,500-3,900 BCE, now on display at the National Museum of Denmark.

[rthwrms]

oh yeh we're drawing on fabric again lol

[noonwalkdiary]

i love when i'm in the car at night and i look out the window and the moon is following me. it's so romantic. we've been doing this since i was a child