now far ahead the road has gone

and i must follow if i can. | 30. bisexual babe, indigenous icon, boricua beauty, disabled darling. | aspiring poet, librarian, and half-assed novel planner | if a character has daddy issues i guarantee they're my fave

[realife-mermaid]

if you’re like who tf is this person and why are they following me and spam liking my shit, please understand i am dumb of ass and am more active on my sideblogs than this one. it’s likely we interact from my more active fandom blogs, which i keep separate from this one for ~online stranger danger safety~ reasons. but if you regularly interact with some shouty bitch with one of these icons:

hi, hello, that’s me creeping thru your blog. i mostly just reblog ~aesthetic~ stuff and writing resources and poetry to this one, it’s not super fandom oriented, so if you want to see me bitch about writing or talk about the books i’m reading, feel free to follow :)

here’s my dog, his name is rocky road:

[elena-gilbert]

Ellen MacKenzie + Beltane Festival dress Outlander: Blood of My Blood | S01E05 Costume design by Trisha Biggar

[athanza]

From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

[realife-mermaid]

i was margaret atwood neutral until i read and watched alias grace, that ending where she's like "and YOU reader YOU wanted to watch me suffer for fun you're JUST AS EVIL" pissed me off so bad i haven't read a margaret atwood since.

[realife-mermaid]

if i'm honest i find margaret atwood very annoying as a person

[realife-mermaid]

making a list of recommendations for a patron who says they want magical realism (amongst other things) and i couldn't remember if silvia moreno garcia is like, magical realism or more strictly fantasy and come to learn she apparently hates this label bc it's "stuffy" and i think that's deeply unserious, and i hate that margaret atwood started this trend of authors going "um i'm not like that NORMAL genre i'm a COOL genre" no bitch you're a scifi author stop pretending you're above it

[realife-mermaid]

i feel like the only three shows that are explicitly competitive & don’t involve like a cooking or fashion element are bb, survivor, and traitors that have stood the test of time. i mean j guess the challenge sort of counts here too but i hate it. like, xavier was on the mole, and i know the circle also exists, but none of these caught on very well (at least in the states). so when designing my own game show, in just trying to think of what elements i like & what works. i’ve heard a lot of people say that traitors doesn’t get very strategic bc “there’s only so much strategy in werewolf” but i don’t think that’s true at all, i think if you’re playing a very long version of werewolf there COULD be strategy they just actively discourage it. so i want a format that ENCOURAGES strategy but isnt a clear rip off of any of these shows.

i think one thing people like within the fandoms is a format without too many twists. something that is structured, and understandable. the worst seasons of both bb & survivor are the ones where a twist went crazy & people hated them bc they fucked with strategy. i like the aspect of survivor where people are in groups & then merge, but i also agree that having too small groups inevitably leads to a gender war.

[realife-mermaid]

have a homebound patron that likes historical fiction & is very responsive, she mentioned civil war history so i sent her the good lord bird by james mcbride bc i love that book and she was like “i couldn’t put it down!!!! great choice!!!” i am getting an A at being a librarian today

[bumblebeebats]

Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n

[spectralhauntings]

I've been using the pet poison hotline's poison list cause it has a search function. It also tells you whether something is mildly, moderately, or severely toxic which can be very handy! It doesn't contain like everything but it might be a good place to start, it also includes plants for fellow houseplant lovers <3

Explore Pet Poison Helpline®s vast knowledge on poisons by reviewing our pet poison list. Explore our top 10 poison and holiday poison lists

[littlemousling]

For plants specifically, there’s also a wildly detailed set of posts and listings about toxicity on the old, wonderful, Plants Are the Strangest People blog

[tlirsgender]

We need more women characters who are Male Protagonists. You know. Slightly haggard. She's splashing cold water on her face and gripping the edge of the sink staring in the mirror for a minute. She's coping badly with her deadwife

[tlirsgender]

Ok listen I get that people tagging posts with men is a rule of physics on this hellsite but it's kind of bizarre how badly some of you have failed the assignment on this one. A generic male protagonist archetype who is a man is nothing. That's just the normal cliche I'm talking about subverting. What?

[miamaimania]

“Tired of mourning etc etc” (2021) ◇ When grief becomes routine

[huariqueje]

Northern Fires, Sunset - William H. Hays , 2026.

American , b. 1956 -

Colour reduction linocut print , 9 x 12 in.

[thoodleoo]

[mutual one] friday afternoon there goes antigone to be buried alive

[mutual two] anyone else here reading about triremes

[mutual three] do you guys think marius and sulla ever explored each other's bodies

[mutual four] i miss her so much (linear b)

[mutual five] 5th century attic red figure kylix posting

[mutual six] do you guys think helen and aphrodite ever explored each other's bodies

[mutual seven] dionysus big naturals

[mutual eight] thesis-level content on the construction of aqueducts in the reign of vespasian

[mutual nine] anyone else think necromancy is kind of sexy

[mutual 10] something kind of gay about the assassination of caesar. like, why are you getting together with a bunch of your friends to stab a man?

[mutual 11] in the club reviewing my noun paradigms

[mutual 12] do you guys think the perfect and the aorist ever explored each other's bodies

[derrick532]

jack innanen

[yviisxo]

rest in peace to this diva

[97642]

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han (2014)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onJun 14

[venusimleder]

Dazed & Confused, January 2004.

Illustrations. John Galliano Studio