Space Necromancer Yuri Afficinato @pomegranatefae - Tumblr Blog

"Hiraeth" is a welsh word that doesn't have a direct English equivalent, but it more or less means "homesickness or longing for a place to which you cannot return"

I don't know how much of Alecto's pov we'll get when the last book comes out, but that will be a very relevant concept for her and likely for everyone in the book what with the whole "to love and be loved is to be fundamentally and irrevocably changed" thing.

#camilla and palamedes were loved by nona #pyrrha was loved by nona #it's finished #it's done #you can't take loved away #i'm not crying you're crying #i adore nona she's excellent #alecto the first #alecto the ninth #nona the ninth #pyrrha dve #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #camilla and palamedes are gone now #and nona is alecto again #but they and pyrrha loved each other #and they can never go back to how things were #but it happened #there's something beautiful about that I think

vampire-apostrophe

I love how everyone is arguing and it looks like it’s going to be some complete redirect of the plot until Nona starts actively dying and then everyone instantly stops giving a shit about motivations and goes back to opening the tomb.

Nothing matters, not the apocalypse, not god, not the possible antichrist they are awakening. Just that Harrow’s body/Nona’s soul survives. Who will fall on the sword first? They are all ready to do so.

crafteeauthor

Imagine Eva Stratt years after sending her favorite guy to boss around to space. Getting the logs and recordings and finding out that her guy made first contact with sapient alien life and it IMMEDIATELY started bossing him around too. Like what if you surrendered your dog and it got adopted by an alien instantly. Happened to my girl Eva Stratt

ceruleanheaven

not to be a disgusting pervert but i really want someone to hug me from behind wrap their arms around me and rest their head on my shoulder

crowttore

Are you currently suffering from The Character?

ozdical

#gideon nav #the saddest girl in the whole universe

great-and-small

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

great-and-small

“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”

bogleech

This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.

thepastisaroadmap

[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:

Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.

We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]

But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?

End image description]

headspace-hotel

because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing

rackiera

I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation

a-book-of-creatures

anonymousalchemist

happy birthday to all the queers I assume it just works like horse birthdays where they all turn a year older on Jan 1.

reallyveryhuman

One of the best things a piece of gothic media can do is make memory into a horror

#there is a horror in remembering #in knowing exactly what you lost and how and that you can never get it back #and there is a horror in forgetting #in consigning the past to oblivion #in feeling a crushing sense of loss but not knowing why #and harrow the ninth does BOTH

ashes2caches

tgirls who casually squeeze each other’s boobs whenever they get bored.

#boobs are such fun fidget toys #they're such a good texture #and if you do it to yourself it comes with the bonus euphoria of 'I have tits now that's rad'

crimsolyn

I think the purest form of love is just wanting someone to notice life with you. "taste this. look at that. hear this song." again and again. until you can't imagine noticing life without them.