Into My Own

"One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom." -Robert Frost

[medievalthymes]

my love language is the same as a crow. if you’re nice to me i’ll bring you useless little trinkets from my travels that made me think of you

[pakeezah-aanchal]

”در نومیدی بسی امید است پایان شب سیه سپید است“ 

dar nomidi basi omid ast pāyān-e šab-e siyah sepid ast

“The darkest hour is just before the dawn.”

“There is much hope in hopelessness, for at the end of the dark night, there is light”

[humorstar]

name these creatures x 

[delphinidin4]

This is Shibam, Yemen

Also called “The Chicago of the Desert.”

Guess when those high-rises were built?

If you guessed the 1970s, you guessed wrong.

Way wrong.

Shibam is an estimated 1,700 years old.

Shibam, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is known for its distinct architecture. The houses of Shibam are all made out of mud brick, and about 500 of them are tower blocks, which rise 5 to 11 stories high, with each floor having one or two rooms. While Shibam has been in existence for an estimated 1,700 years, most of the city’s houses originate from the 16th century. Many, though, have been rebuilt numerous times in the last few centuries.

Shibam is often called “the oldest skyscraper city in the world”. It is one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction. The city has some of the tallest mud buildings in the world, with some of them over 30 m (98 feet) high, thus being early high-rise apartment buildings. In order to protect the buildings from rain and erosion, the walls must be routinely maintained by applying fresh layers of mud.

[placesandpalaces]

The minaret of the Al-Muhdhar Mosque at the nearby city of Tarim is 53 metres (175 ft) high, and recognized as one of the tallest earth structures in the world.

[nizar-qabbanii]

all the Angels i have loved took the spring and left.

محمود درويش 

[hatin]

“When I first saw you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I first talked to you, I was afraid to like you. When I first liked you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I’m afraid to lose you.”

— please don’t leave me (via hatin)

[dulect]

“Maybe it won’t work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.”

— (via myunfathomable-serendipity)

[matthewonart]

Non-Boring Environments that need Fantasy Representation

Tropical Rainforests

Scrubland/Dry Forests. For extra effect make them the sort that burn very often; some native plants never germinate until after a fire, and some animals not only rely on fire to smoke out prey, but may even start them themselves.

Savannas/Tropical Grasslands

Temperate Rainforests. I almost didn’t include this bc New Zealand is covered in them, and that’s where they filmed Lord of the Rings. But tbh, no one really knows about them, so it belongs here

Taiga Forests

Barren Tundra, perfect for some extreme seasonal dichotomy

Polar Ice Sheets

Desert-Grasslands (arguably the same as Scrubland but Australia’s good at adding its own twists)

Barren Desert

If you like Cacti, look at American Deserts like the Sonoran

Salt Flats

Soda Lakes and Alkaline Lakes

Madagascar’s Karst Limestone Formations

Madagascar’s Spiny Forests

Madagascar’s Baobab Forests

Madagascar’s Subhumid Forests (Madagascar is cool as hell ok)

Danxia Landforms

Badlands/Mountainous Deserts

Steppes and Highland Prairies

Flood Basalts

Newly-Formed Islands, still rife with Volcanic activity

Now for Underwater Environments, sure Coral Reefs are cool.

But there are SO MANY other kinds of environments for aquatic settings, it’s unbelievable:

Seaside Cliffs

Archipelagos. Not just Tropical Island chains like Polynesia (Moana anyone?) but also Coldwater Archipelagos like the Aleutians.

Tidal Flats

Bayous/Cypress Swamps

Tropical River Basins, AKA Seasonally Flooded Rainforests

Mangrove Swamps/Deltas/Beaches

Kelp Forests

The Open Ocean

Coastal Seabeds

Rocky Beaches with Tidepools

And there are a LOT more I could name but this post is already obscenely long as is, if you’d like to toss in your own go right ahead, but my point is if you limit yourself to European Deciduous Forests you’re a wimp.

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“I’ve wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life” - Voltaire, Candide (via the-book-diaries)

[gilletteswift89]

Want to know how corrupt the pharmaceutical industry is?

See this?

This is called Afrezza. It’s an inhaler for diabetic insulin. That’s right. An inhaler. That means no more needles. It’s only for fast acting insulin, but it could still vastly improve the life of a lot of diabetics. 

Imagine having to constantly prick yourself with needles to keep yourself alive, and then suddenly there’s a new product that could change the whole way you live your life for the better.

And here’s the thing: it works. It works really really well. People with diabetes that have been lucky enough to have used it think it’s amazing.

But sadly, it’s probably going to end up as a failure because the pharmaceutical company (a French company called Sanofi) that was in charge of marketing it didn’t care enough to actually try. Not only that, but they made it incredibly expensive so hardly anyone could afford it. Most people have never heard of it, and the way things are going, no one else ever will.

Please reblog this to raise awareness of this product and hopefully get another company to market it. It could change so many lives.

[montanamusings]

It would change and save my life. If there’s one thing I hate in the top 5 most in this world. It’s the fucking pharmaceutical, money mongering, heartless industry.

[theopaldreamcave-deactivated201]

[hatin]

I honestly just want to pack my bags and go travel the world and see and explore everything possible i just want to travel the world but i want someone by my side along my journey 

[hafael-archive]

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) dir. Guy Ritchie

[brynwrites]

Summer is ending...

But sirens don’t have to!

To celebrate the last day of summer, anyone who reblogs this post on September 22nd will receive an ebook read for review copy of Our Bloody Pearl! *

What is Our Bloody Pearl?

#ownvoices #diversity #found family

After a year of voiceless captivity, a bloodthirsty siren fights to return home while avoiding the lure of a suspiciously friendly and eccentric pirate captain. 

Read the full blurb on Goodreads.  

What is a read for review copy?

By accepting a read for review copy, you commit to posting a review of at least one sentence on either amazon, goodreads, or another review-based site approved by the author, upon finishing the book. 

If you’re boost this but don’t need a copy, please tag it so I know ^^

* Because the globe is round and time is a lie, this means the actual give away will run from 1:00 UTC+12:00 to 23:59 UTC−12:00. In the spirit of the giveaway though, please try your best to reblog when it is the 22nd in your timezone!

* I have to personally email out every single one of these copies, so if by some bizarre stroke of fate the number of reblogs on this post far exceeds my capacity to send out copies, then I reserve the right to cut off winners once my fingers cease working.

* If you do not either have your ask box open or allow messages from tumblr users who do not follow you, then I’ll have no way to contact you and you will be automatically disqualified.

[amargedom]

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

— Sylvia Plath (via minuty)

[ladylolabitch-deactivated202107]

*forgets I don’t speak Japanese and tries to multitask while watching anime*

[skimmmmmilk]