Just Leave Me Your Stardust To Remember You By

The average life is full of near misses and absolute hits. Of great love and small disasters. It's made up of banana milkshakes, loft insulation and random shoes. It's dead ordinary and truly, truly amazing.

[ant-twan]

This little old abandoned house in my neighborhood is a beautiful sight on a spring day

[pure-presence]

[aconissa]

Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle Vincent van Gogh, Garden at Arles (1888)

[lonelyroommp3]

that late 90s-early 2000s trend of loosely adapting literary classics into teen romcoms was the BACKBONE of our culture and society and we need to make it a thing again

[aaaangel444]

agridulceart

[expressions-of-nature]

by Igor Svibilsky

[angelasscribbles]

[eos-sign-deactivated20250622]

Dust if you must, by Rose Milligan (September 1998)

Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better

To paint a picture, or write a letter,

Bake a cake, or plant a seed;

Ponder the difference between want and need?

Dust if you must, but there's not much time,

With rivers to swim, and mountains to climb;

Music to hear, and books to read;

Friends to cherish, and life to lead.

Dust if you must, but the world's out there

With the sun in your eyes, and the wind in your hair;

A flutter of snow, a shower of rain,

This day will not come around again.

Dust if you must, but bear in mind,

Old age will come and it's not kind.

And when you go (and go you must)

You, yourself, will make more dust.

[iggyfing]

absolutely flabbergasting to see people who have so enthusiastically succumbed to despair. like okay denethor, but some of us are gonna actually face the armies of mordor in battle nonetheless.

[figtreeandvine]

The thing about Denethor is that he not only succumbed to despair, he wanted to ensure that Faramir succumbed with him. Similarly, a lot of people now are not only succumbing to despair, they're actively proselytizing despair, trying to convince others to join them in their hopelessness. Despair is apparently lonely and they want company in their self-immolation.

[knives-in-the-dishwater]

btw denethor succumbed to despair bc he was doomscrolling on the palantir. Sauron tweaked his algorithm so he only saw bad news, and he fell into the trap of thinking the world couldn't be saved.

[aathen13]

There is definitely a bunch of astronomical clocks at Hogwarts. it makes sense, it's witchy, and it's aesthetic, it's just so perfect.

a few examples of astronomical clocks from the middle ages :

and other examples from later eras (because i just find them cool, bear with me)

[taylornprice]

foraging finds

[traveling-paradise]

Why don’t they make beautifully illustrated manuscripts like these anymore??😭

To The Night & The Cloud - Calligraphed and Illuminated by Jessie Bayes (1914)

[littlealienproducts]

Dandelion and Rabbits - Archival Print by SarahDrawsThings

[cupidsquilll]

[wealdgirl]

let's chew cud with mama

[arcandoria-archived]

@thetartmuse @maggotknight

[hoziernatural]

i got that dog in me

[spitblossoms]

[brandonlees]

THE PRINCESS BRIDE 1987, dir. Rob Reiner