A Flaming Ice Cube

a veteran of many sleepless nights

[bleakandhollow]

when sherlock said “taking your own life. interesting expression, taking it from who? once it's over, it's not you who'll miss it. your own death is something that happens to everyone else. your life is not your own, keep your hands off it.” i almost cried

[dduane]

But then this passage is a straight lift from Doyle (The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger.) Doyle wasn't just a good writer because of inventing Holmes. He was good because he saw life and death as a doctor, and learned from them; and learned how to talk about them.

[quotemadness]

There will always be a person who looks like a poem the earth wrote to keep you alive.

Juansen Dizon

[quotemadness]

I assure you, I’m not put together at all. Nor am I broken. I am recovering - finding the beautiful in the ugly and stitching it into my life.

Rachel Wolchin

[aelstra]

does anyone else love those very intellectual discussions in dark academia books where all the scholars reunite and debate on a theme, and contribute to the making of knowledge while you, the reader, are enraptured and in awe of this display of culture, or is it just me?

[tvandfilm]

THE FACULTY (1998) dir. robert rodriguez

[oh--life]

“Why is it that people only like it when you ask questions that they have answered a million times and hate you for stumping them? I love questions that stump me. I really enjoy thinking about possible answers to those types of questions for days and days. Does anyone else like to ponder anymore, or am I just a total freak?”

— Matthew Quick, Forgive me Leonard Peacock

[bibo-deactivated20240915]

Best thing about complimenting girls for their outfits is they Always have a little fun fact to tell you about it. "It has pockets!" "It was on sale!" "I've had this old thing for years!" Thank u for this small detail from your world :)

[catonhottinroof-deactivated2023]

Frank Craig (1874–1918)

A Comforting Gaze. Illustration for unknown story, possibly Harper’s Bazaar.

[glittermbti]

Cognitive Functions Metaphors

Ne is like time and space within itself, with so many possible timelines in existence.

Ni is like a weather forecasting stone, because it can just feel and tell what’s about to happen.

Se is like a camera, because it records everything around it and takes it in fully, every single detail.

Si is like a calculator, because it has all the info it needs to know stored within it, it remembers.

Fe is like a hospital, because it cares for those who are hurt, and fulfills their every need, and forgets about its own needs because it’s busy with others.

Fi is like a compass, because it leads us to the true and correct direction we should follow to stay true.

Te is like an office, because it’s organized and lets everyone know what needs to be done to get things done accomplished accordingly.

Ti is like a science lab, because once the experiments are conducted, it can analyze the results well.

[lex-entj]

Hmm.

[germanyinusa]

Word of the Week: Eigenbrötler

We all know someone who hates teamwork, avoids other people and willingly spends a lot of time alone. You might call someone like this antisocial or introverted. But in German, you would call this person an Eigenbrötler.

Eigenbrötler is a noun that comes from the words eigen (ones “own”) and Brot (“bread”). Basically, this describes someone who eats his or her own bread. But there’s more to it.

The German word Eigenbrötler is a very old word that first arose in the 16th and 17th centuries. Back then, the term was used to identify a person who kept to him or herself in a care- or retirement home. Instead of participating in community meals, an Eigenbrötler would pay to eat his or her “own bread” (meals) all alone. An Eigenbrötler often also paid extra to have his or her own furniture, room and other necessities. Overall, an Eigenbrötler did his own thing, separate from all the other residents in the home.

Today, Germans use this word to describe any type of person who keeps to him or herself. An Eigenbrötler is absolutely not a team player and tries to avoid participating in group activities. Usually, he or she has some peculiar habits or traits and spends more time alone than with others. We all know someone like this - right?

[anxietyproblem]

[normal-horoscopes]

The funniest part of the whole "Dante's inferno is fanfiction" crowd is that they seem to forget that none of the medieval Italians at the time considered the bible fiction.

[normal-horoscopes]

I am trying to explain to y'all that Dantes inferno was not fiction. It was neither fiction nor non-fiction. It was a type of contemporary literature called Biblical Vision Literature.

[postsforcrabs]

can you move explain what Biblical Vision Literature is?

[normal-horoscopes]

Dante's Inferno was considered the result of a divinely inspired dream on the part of Dante. The idea being that god gave Dante a dream of all the things that happened in the inferno, which Dante then recorded in the form of an epic poem.

Oftentimes when someone had what they claimed to be a divinely inspired vision or dream, the nature of the dream was evaluated by a panel of priests who would judge the dream for how well it aligned with biblical theology. If it matched up, your vision was real. If there were discrepancies, you were a liar, or a victim of the devil, and would be punished. Biblical Vision Literature was considered 100% non-fiction for the time, angels were considered to be 100% real, and they would 100% give people divine visions.

[normal-horoscopes]

I'm saying that there's a shitload of historical context to this work that y'all are missing. Using the modern language of fandom to describe the Divine Comedy isnt just wrong, it's actively creating an ahistorical understanding of an important work.

[cryptvokeeper]

ok look. I think if we’re gonna go the historical context route something else that is important to note abt the inferno is that Dante wrote it after being exiled from his home city for backing the wrong political/religious faction in a power struggle. the inferno for all that it may be a piece of “biblical vision literature” is far more Dante‘s petty revenge fantasy where he goes to hell and meets a bunch of figureheads for the political party he disagreed with, who lament about who awful they were, one of whom explicitly states that the current pope, the one still alive and in power at the time of its writing and publication, is also going to hell. Any panel of priests that may have looked at this work would never have approved it if they valued their immortal souls (or more importantly, their pope-given positions in power). Dante, as a person in politics, would’ve known this.

I’m not saying this to argue that the inferno is pure fanfiction, but I find the argument that Dante meant for his writing to be read as 100% real and accurate or that he and anyone reading it at the time wholeheartedly believed what he wrote were visions direct from god is a bit inaccurate. Dante wasn’t a prophet and the inferno isn’t his prediction. It was a political statement couched in a Religious ‘vision’

[normal-horoscopes]

Yes thank you! I was trying to articulate this but couldn't figure out how

[michaelgovehateblog]

I would like to wish everyone an uneventful new year

[michaelgovehateblog]

It’s only November and this is already getting notes again, you guys are really manifesting this energy early for the new year

[primarybufferpanel]

We would like to live in Less Interesting Times please

[susiephone]

when will YA authors realize that the mr. darcy fantasy isn’t “hot rich guy is a huge dick to you” but “hot rich guy fucking respects and listens to you”

[inkbleeder]

“hot rich guy only seems like a huge dick because he has the social skills of an agarophobic lobster.”

[bemusedlybespectacled]

“hot rich guy realizes he has some dickish qualities and works to improve himself solely on the merit of your criticism and not to win you back”

[thrift-store-tea-cup-deactivate]

“hot rich guy apologizes and also understands that his apology doesn’t entitle him to forgiveness.” 

[queerpyracy]

lazy faux-feminist "i can't breathe in a corset" scenes are OUT high tension sexually charged lacing scenes are IN

[amarguerite]

Hot damn these are smart tags!!

[bemusedlybespectacled]

doing up a corset for your lover has the same energy as putting on their armor for them before battle in terms of the interplay of vulnerability and protection i will die on this hill

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Dialogue Responses

"How are you?"

"Fine." (A lie)

"I'm fine." (Honest)

"I have been better."

"Not that bad actually."

"Why would you even care?"

“I've been feeling worse before."

"I feel like I should ask you that."

"Well, it's so nice of you to ask..."

"I'm doing quite well at the moment."

"Probably a lot better than you look like."

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[fruitpilled-peachcel]

this image of Mongolia's best known paleontologist, Altangerel Perle, standing in between the fossilized arms of Deinocherius is undeniably the most powerful image in paleontological history