in the face of such a beautiful life

Kaś | 26 | she/her | history PhD candidate liker of many things, collector of many things

[permanenthistorydamage]

An Actual Pinned Post?? On my blog??

Want a front-row seat to my ongoing mental breakdown? You've come to the right place! (Just kidding)(or am I?)

I'm a PhD student in history. Specifically Central/Eastern European history over the long 19th century.

Other Interests: many many things. But officer that's my emotional support hyperfixation on 19th century naval fiction

"Why are some of your tags in latin?" I studied it for 12 years and damn if it isn't going to be useful.

The image for my header is Noc Gwiażdzista (Starry Night) by Jósef Chełmoński, yoinked from @polish-art-tournament . This is one of my favorites! (look. It was almost a Majetko)

[loveridden1999]

the thing about phone in bed is that it's so awesome. almost makes you feel like betraying & destroying yourself for nothing isn't all so bad

[eymurn]

Oh! The intimacy of adopting each other’s vocabulary.

[pandabunnycallmeeither]

ohhhh I love love love this with my friends. This and like, gestures. I get so many things off my friends and like, the first few times I wave my hand in a specific way or say phrases I got off my friends, I always pause and think happily to myself that I just did a [name]ism. My joy shoots through the roof when I notice others doing something I do all the time

[so-many-ocs]

“how’s the writing going?” i’m glad you asked! my room has never been cleaner and i’ve decided to take up baking

[mayasaura]

Is Mensah (Dr. Ayda Mensah) really the only human character in tmbd to have a full name mentioned?

[mayasaura]

Once again, fiction is a spectrum

[mayasaura]

Expanded scale based on feedback

[permanenthistorydamage]

One of my cousins: "do you seriously not use chatgpt for ANYTHING????"

Me, feeling a blood vessel in my eye explode: "WHAT WOULD I NEED TO USE IT FOR???"

[shubbabang]

[dark-wizard-guy-fieri]

context (via @mellorocket)

[chimthecappy]

doubly funny that I saw a compilation of all the corporate accounts like "aw thanks elmo, we're doing well" meanwhile all the flesh and blood real human people are extremely not okay

[artistefish]

Okay but Elmo had actually the best and sweetest response to all this trauma dumping:

And then all the other Sesame Street character accounts joined in:

And now I’m thinking maybe we’re gonna be okay… 💗

(Comment compilation from this Twitter)

[aqueerkettleofish]

I kinda feel for the poor person running Elmo's Twitter.

"So, boss... I may have messed up."

"What did you do, Ray?"

"Well, I made a post for Elmo saying 'Hi, how's everybody doing?'"

"I mean, that's kind of what we pay you for."

"Yeah, but.... <sigh> it turns out pretty much everyone is hanging on by a thread, badly enough that they needed to tell Elmo."

"Oh."

"God help me, boss, I think Elmo needs to be there for them."

"Get the others."

[shu-of-the-wind]

this is the energy that jim henson would be proud of.

[anna-neko]

and important addition

Source: instagram

[animentality]

[werewolfetone]

It’s so ignatius of loyover

[byjove]

Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*

My cat: Father is...evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

The spiritual successor to Miette

[manicgoblinnightmarewoman]

Might I also add

[shydestinybread]

May i add the piece from artist Verbal Vomit

[unyanizedcatboys]

Glad to see we’re all in agreement that cats talk like disparaged victorian children

[explorerrowan]

I am so incredibly glad we finally moved on from "i can has". Cats are clearly smart enough for advanced sentence structure and dumb enough to draw entirely incorrect conclusions about what they're talking about.

[dualclock]

My cat, banging the cabnet door over and over and over: bang bang bang

Me: you will not earn what you desire by banging the cabinet door.

My cat: This is a test of wills, is it not? We shall see if your ability to put up with my incessant banging outlasts my eternal lust for snackie treats. Years of conditioning have hardened me for this purpose. bang bang bang

Me: ksst!

My cat, throwing herself to the ground like she's been shot: Oh! Oh I have been assailed in my own home! Have mercy, have pity! Surely in the cruel darkness of your heart there is some mote of goodness that might stay your hand! Do not strike me, I pray you!

Me: ok

My cat, after waiting about 3 minutes: bang bang bang

[notcaycepollard]

[callmebliss]

Can haz snackytreat

[ladyshinga]

(source)

[dogsrulepeopledrool]

Source

[cryoverkiltmilk]

#the ancient texts

... My reblog was only six years ago!

[eelizabit]

Ok girlies time for our prescription 1-2 hour walk, imagine we r all in line like Madeline

[eelizabit]

in an old website on the internet all covered in vines, lived some lovely little mutuals in two straight lines..

[hungwy]

Another reason why trains would be good is that most people are not good at driving

[pret-boy]

"I wish we met sooner" is such a gentle sentiment. I love you so much I not only want you in my future, but in my past too. I want to have known you when we were small stupid kids, have held hands together as we played outside. I want to have stressed out over exams together, nudging a mug of still steaming hot chocolate against your elbow to get you to focus. I want to have told you I love you before I did anyone else. I want to have held you in my arms when all those sad memories you describe to me were still fresh wounds. I want my past to have been full of you, and full of meaningful memories with you. I want my past lives to have been spent with you, whether as two lovers, or two housecats cuddling by the fireplace on a snowy day, or two flowers that just happened to bloom on the same day, next to each other. I want to have consumed your existence and intertwined it with my own since my birth, never to be separated from you for a moment. I want to have loved you throughout it all, for all time.

[twistcmyk]

no, i do not have cameras in your home (yet)

[mountainstackedwithfear]

[only-cat-memes]

[forgwater]

[knightclubbing]

going into battle (mincing a single shallot)