curiouser & curiouser

reblogging things that remind me why i'm still here / originals @squid-and-a-seapen

[lena-oleanderson]

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

[lifeinpoetry]

Free Palestine Reading List

Haymarket Books: Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine!

Verso Books: Solidarity with Palestine: Free Resources and Further Reading

OR Books: THE FREE PALESTINE READING LIST

City Lights Books: Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha

[lifeinpoetry]

Hard Exercise

In Gaza, breathing is a task, smiling is performing plastic surgery on one’s own face, and rising in the morning, trying to survive another day, is coming back from the dead.

— Mosab Abu Toha, from Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

[talonabraxas]

The Dream of Androgynous René Magritte

[70sscifiart]

Greg Irons, 1970, for “Slow Death” comics.

[vonnart]

Mother Mushroom 🍄 -  Collab with @gawki 

[metamorphesque]

— Mary Oliver, "Why I Wake Early"

[squid-and-a-seapen]

[expended-sleeper]

"I think the imagination is the single most useful tool mankind possesses. It beats the opposable thumb. I can imagine living without my thumbs, but not without my imagination.

I hear voices agreeing with me. “Yes, yes!” they cry. “The creative imagination is a tremendous plus in business! We value creativity, we reward it!” In the marketplace, the word creativity has come to mean the generation of ideas applicable to practical strategies to make larger profits. This reduction has gone on so long that the word creative can hardly be degraded further. I don’t use it any more, yielding it to capitalists and academics to abuse as they like.

But they can’t have imagination. Imagination is not a means of making money. It has no place in the vocabulary of profit-making. It is not a weapon, though all weapons originate from it, and their use, or non-use, depends on it, as with all tools and their uses. The imagination is an essential tool of the mind, a fundamental way of thinking, an indispensable means of becoming and remaining human."

- Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Operating Instructions"

[arcadefan]

"Planet earth needs you.... Hostile aliens have used genetic engineering to mutate camels from normally harmless beasts into 90 foot high, neutronium shielded, laser-spitting death camels!!"

Attack of the Mutant Camels (1983) artwork by Steinar Lund.

[nevver]

Fixed it, Ememem (@ememem.flacking)

[shitiunderline]

I look at you, Red, and see much of myself: a desire to be apart, sometimes, to understand who I am without the rest. And what I return to, the me-ness that I know as pure, inescapable self... is hunger. Desire. Longing, this longing to possess, to become, to break like a wave on a rock and reform, and break again, and wash away.

Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This is how you lose the time war

[ex0skeletal-undead]

No Lights Allowed by Ben J

This artist on Instagram

[stlowens]

Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos, tr. by Anne Carson [ID in alt text]

[myxomycota]

Diachea bulbillosa by Takehiko Sato

[70sscifiart]

A 1978 image from famed space artist Chesley Bonestell, illustrating a molten, prehistoric Earth.

[eroscestlavie]

I’m pretty that this image/others by the artist were featured in LIFE magazine’s “The World We Live In” series, which I had a copy of as a kid and loved obsessively

Did anyone else have this as a kid? It got me into this type of sci-fi art at a young age.

[oldschoolfrp]

"No I'm not going to hurt you, but I want you out of my litterbox!" (Mary Hanson-Roberts, "Dragon Mirth," Dragon 76, August 1983)