[fylgjasgaldr]

Green explotion

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

The end of summer in Denali National Park, Alaska

Taken August 2020

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[socialistmodernism]

Avala Tower (Telecommunication and observation) Belgrade, Serbia Originally constructed in 1961, rebuilt 2006-2009. Architects Uglješa Bogunović and Slobodan Janjić. © BACU https://www.instagram.com/p/CMjmORcnWTL/?igshid=1jwbcq464apr2

[brutgroup]

The Polygon Nuclear Test Site I, Kazakhstan cca 2011 #brutgroup photo via Nadav Kander via #utilitarianarchitecture https://www.instagram.com/p/CKw5OcFlqdW/?igshid=3u1c0a1ksb1q

[vintage-sweden]

Sami (northern indigenous) couple, 1871, Sweden.

[brutgroup]

@fdestribute Castelgrande fortress, Bellinzona, Switzerland. Architect: Aurelio Galfetti #brutgroup photo by author https://www.instagram.com/p/CJY7mOzFCh5/?igshid=1049a42uvdhzx

[mockwa]

[visual-infinity]

Utah’s otherworldly landscapes will leave you in awe once you visit this enthralling state! Tag your hiking buddy!⁣ | Photos by @benstraussphotography

[adreadfulidea-deactivated202402]

I think a surprising amount of writers don’t realize that tragedies are supposed to be cathartic. They’re intended to result in a purging of emotion, a luxurious cry; the sorrow caused by a great tragedy is akin to fear caused by a good horror movie – it’s a “safe” sorrow, one that is actually satisfying to the audience. It can still be beautiful! It’s isn’t supposed to just be salting the earth so nothing can grow.

But that’s how you get grimdark: writers who don’t realize that they’re supposed to be doing something with the audience instead of to the audience.

[jadewhisper]

#i once heard a lecture where someone said that the great appeal of tragedy is to see terrible things happen to people you’re supposed to#empathize with and see yourself in#and that the catharsis comes from seeing someone’s life go horribly wrong and still have the author hold your hand and tell you#‘this story mattered. even though it had a sad ending it still mattered. even if you don’t succeed your attempts matter’#grimdark tells you that the world sucks and nothing you do matters#well-written tragedy tells you that sometimes the world sucks but everything you do matters so so much#your story is still worth telling even if you never achieve that happy ending#or if you lose it along the way#people have inherent value and their stories deserve to be told no matter if they turn out okay or not#and in a reality that has no concept of ‘fair’ that shit just hits good man!!! feels good!!!!! it’s COMFORTING

[oneiro1996]

dolce & gabbana nylon cropped jacket, 2003

[cundtcake]

swiss cows celebrating their autumn tradition of leaving the alps to go down to their other home in valley while wearing big bells and flower crowns (x)

[alwaysbewoke]

the laugh at the end

[tapireye-deactivated20220708]

“Remote Control” Dress by Hussein Chalayan from Spring 2000, with flaps that can be opened by remote control to reveal a layer of pink tulle beneath

[itscolossal]

Check Out Copenhill, the Snow-Free Ski Hill and Climbing Wall Atop a Copenhagen Power Plant

[etherea1ity]

Oh to live in a little cottage on top of a mountain beside the sea

[awed-frog]

“The Caucasus mountain range is probably the most variegated ethnological and linguistic area in the world. It is not a melting pot, as has been said, but a refuge area par excellence where small groups have maintained their identity throughout history.” ― Richard Nelson Frye