my cousin rachael.

oh what beast has my name on its snaggle-tooth? an eternal slobber for my finishing youth?

[small-axe]

Ok so I'm not going to read Troubled Blood nor see the TV show if and when it comes out because I'm not buying into a transphobic narrative.

But can someone who has read Troubled Blood just let me know if Robin and Cormoran get together or not because I've followed them this far. Spoil away.

[small-axe]

Easter Sunday 🍬🍫🍻 https://www.instagram.com/p/BwhSeKFnM40fzmEO2tj8v5_r1qknudfJkK8Uqk0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yc4os4o5dxja

[small-axe]

[small-axe]

Tarantulas on the lifebuoy - Thomas Lux

For some semitropical reason   when the rains fall   relentlessly they fall into swimming pools, these otherwise   bright and scary arachnids. They can swim a little, but not for long and they can’t climb the ladder out. They usually drown—but   if you want their favor, if you believe there is justice,   a reward for not loving the death of ugly and even dangerous (the eel, hog snake,   rats) creatures, if you believe these things, then   you would leave a lifebuoy or two in your swimming pool at night. And in the morning   you would haul ashore the huddled, hairy survivors and escort them back to the bush, and know, be assured that at least these saved,   as individuals, would not turn up again someday in your hat, drawer, or the tangled underworld of your socks, and that even— when your belief in justice merges with your belief in dreams— they may tell the others in a sign language   four times as subtle and complicated as man’s that you are good,   that you love them, that you would save them again.

[carseatheadrest]

I’m back on my bullshit

[small-axe]

Will Toledo referencing James Joyce is the strength I need to keep going.

[anamorphosis-and-isolate]

― Through a Glass Darkly (1961) “He that loves for real always does right by his loved one.”

[juliterr]

[rainfromheaven]

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.

Carrie Fisher on pursuing dreams despite mental illness [X] (via rainfromheaven)

[probably--right]

I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they’d get more out of life… You meet the right person at the right time and they fulfil a certain something in your life. You fulfil something in theirs. But there’s a time limit to that. Unless you choose to be bloody good company for the rest of your life, do you know what I mean?

Laura Marling (via probably--right)

[prey-to-none]

A blast from the past, Laura Marling in session in 2008 (age 18).  I uploaded “Blackberry Stone” from this session to youtube and it’s been quite popular (in part because of Marcus Mumford with his amusing hair/moustache) but here is the whole performance.  I resisted uploading it in the past because the picture quality isn’t great and I didn’t think Laura would appreciate it (she can’t be proud of the street urchin look she was rocking at that time lol).  Songs: Rebecca Ghosts Blackberry Stone My Manic And I Your Only Doll (Dora) Cross Your Fingers / Ceawled Out of the Sea Alas I Cannot Swim

[poetsorg]

Dylan Thomas, born this day in 1914. Read his work on Poets.org: http://bit.ly/1KbwICj

[distantheartbeats]

Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

[overdose-art]

In Bed | In Bed The Kiss (1892)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 

[small-axe]

Toulouse-Lautrec <3

[etsy]

Mustard meets splatter.

[mysimpsonsblogisgreaterthanyours]

[small-axe]

Me now I've finished uni.

[witchtower-blog]

[kateoplis]

Margaret Atwood

[explore-blog]

Open Culture excavates Franz Kafka’s drawings – a fine addition to the little-known side-talents of famous creators, including Richard Feynman’s sketches, Marilyn Monroe’s poetry, Sylvia Plath’s drawings, and René Magritte’s album art.

Also see Flannery O’Connor’s cartoons, William Faulkner’s Jazz Age drawings, and Hans Christian Andersen’s diary sketches.