Sleeping Willow's Flower

Aroace & Chronic Procastinator This Blog is a dumping ground Don't Expect Consistency

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bouquets behind foggy glass is a photo style i will never get tired of

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by Zhou Hong

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[socialistexan]

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

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it is genuinely hilarious how the Hand Jumper fandom keeps collectively forgetting Doyeon Lee. every single time i see a "Lee family" edit or post it's ALWAYS Sara, Samin and Sayeon. it's like the exact opposite of when fandoms get really annoying about male characters to the point of overlooking the women. no one gaf about that man. he contributed a wee bit to the existence of his fab daughters and then died. their ma perished a bit later too but SHE'S constantly haunting the narrative so still seems to be extremely plot relevant. meanwhile the only thing i remember about him is that only two people cried at his funeral and his wife wasn't even one of them

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

the people have spoken Mr Lee stop being a gatekeeper

[classicalcanvas]

Water Lilies painted by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

[darkandstormyranger]

finally some relatable content on ig

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Le dormeur du val - Arthur Rimbaud

[mysteryteacup]

As a someone with a classical studies degree, I find it exhausting that tumblr only has two modes whenever my area comes up:

1 incorrectly claiming someone couldn't have been black (Helen of Troy, various Roman emperors)

2 incorrectly claiming someone has to have been black (Dido, Cleopatra, the exact fucking same Roman emperors, the entirety of Rome)

So let's be clear: to the ancient Greeks and Romans, Libya, Egypt, etc above the Sahara were in their backyard, while the Nile gave them an easy trade route to Ethiopia and nearby sub-saharan African countries. But for majority of people, these places were still far enough away to be mythologised. Andd the exact fucking same is true of Europe, but with Britain being the hard to reach you need a boat place.

The difference is that Africa was viewed as civilized and full of noble enemies and trade partnera while North Western Europe was viewed as a primative backwater full of barbarians.

They also were right next to Asia minor, trading through them to Asia major. Alexander invaded India, Iran ("Persia") was working hard to prevent Rome and China from trading directly, etc.

They didn't know about the far north of Europe and Asia, the fsr south of Africa, the Americas, or Austalasia. But they knew, trades, and intermingled with the rest, but at the same time travel was a much longer and harder thing to do (hence why the sea and river routes were more known than the overland).

[cuunos]

hey can everyone do me a favor and put in the tags why they chose their name? even if you don't go by a chosen name irl, you can put why you chose your online name.

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which heart did you get when you liked this post?

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when reblogging, please add the pride tags I've included! if not, anybody liking your reblog will only see regular tumblr hearts :)

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Before June I have to share one of my favorite tiktoks

[heartofaspen]

i love it and hate it when a character in a story is so obviously created to be cool and awesome and then i do think they're cool and awesome. like fuck, yeah, ok, they're fucking epic. swag as hell. you got me you coolbaited me ok? i'm coolbaited.

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Windex isn’t carbonated 

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[killin-the-machine]

The use of the princess bride implies that they’re both windex

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it also implies that op developed immunity to windex

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Happy pride to the op with immunity to windex

[fuckeverythingbecomeapirate]

“Any ideas for the new park sculpture?”

“How about a giant, metallic octopus attacking a rook?”

“Perfect.”

[911official-deactivated20200526]

that’s cool as fuck though

[ilynpilled]

i like when fiction treats love as a more complicated force and not something that is inherently pure or redemptive. portray it as flawed and complex as any other human impulse. give me love as prejudice, love as possessive stasis, love as addiction, love as blindness, etc.

[ilynpilled]

at that, i find it disingenuous to frame it as “if the person hurt you they could not have loved you. that is not love.” just not a productive definition of the word to me

[ilynpilled]

the love was there and it fucked us 🙏

[airlocksandaviariesarchive]

2 genres of fanfiction:

1) put that guy into situations

2) take that guy OUT of situations for the love of GOD let them REST 

[ckret2]

#you put the sad guy in #you take the sad guy out #you put the sad guy in and you shake him all about

[my-dailydreams]