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Holy shit, an active duty American soldier set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. Before he set himself on fire he introduced himself as "an active duty member of the U.S. Airforce I will no longer be complicit in genocide." Then repeated "free Palestine" while he was on fire. He did it while wearing his duty uniform too. There is footage of the act. I don't know how I feel about posting images of a man's self-immolation but it's such an unprecedented action to be almost unbelievable without visual evidence. Even with the several self-immolations that occurred on American soil during the Vietnam and Iraq wars, I don't think I can point to one undertaken by an active duty soldier. I will instead link to the Twitter post where it was first made public under the "more" cut below. It goes without saying that the image is graphic.

filurig

instructional booklet for basal and listless ceteceans feeling like looking for porpoise

everythingfox

Mission accomplished

tiktoks-for-dead-pope

wvterways

source

graycatluna

Hey, could you do me a favor?

Could you just RB this?

The little RB statistics chart is so pleasant and stimmy to look at and I want to see what it looks like when it gets really REALLY huge because it makes me think of some deep sea lifeform

melynnwaters

here lemme help

*ahem*

reblog this post to kiss the person you reblogged it from

hope that works :)

graycatluna

THANK YOU THIS IS MAKING MY BRAIN SO HAPPY AAAAAAAAA

THIS IS SO SATISFYING ITS LIKE A GROUP OF PLANKTON OR A RAILWAY CHART...

ariadne-mouse

look how beautiful we all are

michaelnordeman

Lichens, fungi and birch-bark. Lavar, svamp och näver. Värmland, Sweden (February 15, 2020).

virtuallyinsane

Photo by insung yoon

aroaceofthesea

Haven't seen goncharov (1973) yet? In that case go watch it RIGHT NOW, but if you don't have the time for a 3h 32mins film (which is understandable but you have to make the time at some point) and you want to understand the memes I have you covered. (Keep in mind that there are gonna be important spoilers in this post)

Important characters:

Goncharov

Katya Michailov - Goncharov's wife

Andrey - Goncharov's lover (or almost)

Sofia - Katya's lover

Minor characters

Mario Ambrosini

Ice pick Joe

Valery Michailov - Katya's brother

Important scenes

The Boat Scene: a scene in which Katya almost dies.

Beer Bottle Scene: an infamous scene in the movie

Anchovy scene: a scene with heavy homoerotic subtext between Goncharov and Andrey

Dressing for dinner scene: a scene where Katya and Andrey are shown dressing up with cuts that give each of the things they wear the same importance as survival items, from Katya's high heels to Andrey's dagger

Bridge scene: goodbye scene between Katya and Goncharov. Beautifully made as you can see Katya second guessing her choice to betray him but she's too far in to turn back

Fruit stand scene: a heavily homoerotic conversation between Katya and Sofia while they are buying apples

Important plot points

Katya betrays Goncharov

Andrey betrays him too for money

Goncharov has betrayed Katya's family too, and Andrey is a living reminder of that

Goncharov is shot at the end, resulting in his death

Katya fakes her death at one point

Katya's father is killed at the beginning of the movie and she feels responsible for it for almost the entire movie, until she finally accepts that there was nothing more she could have done to save him, only to die alone in the boathouse

Even though Katya loves Goncharov, when she has to choose between him and Sofia, she chooses Sofia

There is a love triangle between Goncharov, Andrey and Katya too

Other important things

The clock symbolism is just so important in this film it deserved to be here

annafridacharlotte

fluffygif

Spring sunlight

nicosta-music

Caster’s Sea is out now, y'all! She’s another concept album in which each song covers a different person/experience that was in my life at some point. Overall it’s an EP about not running away from the things that made you who you are, and instead accepting that emotional reactions can be multi-faceted and not black and white. The song below is Mockingbird, which is ironically a song I wrote about someone who used to make fun of me for liking things that I liked because of Tumblr (think Superwholock, unfortunately).

Caster’s Sea is available for purchase on Bandcamp and streaming on all major streaming services, which can be accessed via my website nicosta.wixsite.com/music :)

Finally, special thanks to hxppyhxt for designing the album cover! I tend to be a very visual person and they captured exactly what I was picturing this album to be.