i am no bird; and no net ensnares me

Emma / 26 / perpetual student

[eymurn]

In your 20s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

[toldi1846]

Wives and Daughters (1999)

[truelovevip-deactivated20190324]

being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.

[jstor]

Feeling lucky? This Ephemera Friday, we come to you with a lottery ad that doubles as a visual puzzle.

This chaotic little broadside is told through pictograms. Instead of long blocks of text, it uses small engraved images (cats, coins, eyes, shoes, trees, jugs, dice) to visually “spell out” its message: take a small risk, buy a ticket, and maybe fortune will smile on you. Or at least that’s the promise.

Image: Catch Fortune While You Can… n.d. Wellcome Collection.

[artistofthefloatingworld]

miscellaneous sculptures by Ruben Raven imitating filet crochet

[fictionadventurer]

Lady Audley's Secret really gives us Robert Audley like, "What if the world's laziest man found something he cared about enough to put in the effort, and it turned out he was relentless about it?"

He's charging through the English countryside, pitilessly pursuing justice with a single-mindededness that baffles and terrifies even him, but he's also doing it wrapped up in a million blankies because it's cold out. Even while relentlessly pursuing a killer, he can't survive without his creature comforts. I'm obsessed with this man.

[muanyeee]

Fable and Truth

[imatmywormrightnow]

I seem to be living a very expensive lifestyle called eating food regularly

[medievalthymes]

how it feels to read 85 pages of a book in one sitting

[dragonsblowingoutbirthdaycandles]

your life is not an optimization problem

[dragonsblowingoutbirthdaycandles]

as in you'll never achieve the perfect daily routine, sleep schedule, coping mechanisms, mannerisms, fashion sense etc. even after years and years of healing and improvement and self-discovery. you will never be so good at life that you manage to utilize every waking moment. its great to be productive and all but sometimes you'll suck ass. sometimes you'll take eight hours to be done with a twenty minute job. you'll prioritize the wrong thing. you'll sleep for 12 hrs just to avoid being awake. you'll relapse. and you'll relapse again. you'll forget to turn in the assignment. you'll order too little food. life is far too large and complex for you to even experience it completely, much less try to make sense of and control it. you can't. please give up on that and be at peace with the hours you lose. they are not separate from your life.

[dustorange]

Never. Surrender.

[thepersonalquotes]

[ralphlanyon]

happy odyssey weekend

[stillspillingink]

can i steal perpetual student from your bio and put it in mine??

Go for it— this makes me feel famous

[iremembersky]

Currently reading Jude the Obscure and this popped into my head.

[jurassicaa]

Men don’t refer to one another as “my dear” anymore and that’s just the beginning of what’s wrong with the world

[butchvirgil]

when is he not