To Read is A Magical Thing

Book opinions nobody asked for and travel stories no one asked about.

[tessmariano]

4•12•2019 | La Giralda | Sevilla, Spain 
#spain #sevilla #traveling #travelphotography #igtravel #traveldiary #beautifuldestinations #lagiralda #travelgram #mytinyatlas (at Giralda)
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[everyoneisrat]

Don’t mail shit? Still want to help the USPS?

Okay so everyone’s like BUY STAMPS but if you’re like me, you send maybe 5 letters a year, if that. You’re sitting there going “Okay, I could buy like… a page of stamps, but my last one is still only half-used… I’m more likely to lose it before I use them all up.”

That’s cool, same.

Here’s an alternative option:

Go to the USPS website, as if you’re going to buy some stamps, right? Browse through the fancy new ones until you find one you like… say this one:

Pretty neat, right?

Instead of buying the stamps that will literally take you years to go through, scroll alllllll the way to the bottom.

What’s that? A tote bag with the same design?! Yup! A set of 5 tote bags even, for your friends too. Wouldn’t that be cool to use for trick-or-treating?

You can also type the name of the stamp design you want into the search bar:

A mug! A rubber stamp set!

Different designs have different gifts! There are even gifts for designs they don’t have in individual sheets any more…

Look at the dragons!

There are so many cool things on the USPS’s website. And yeah, some of them also come with stamps (like the kid’s book) but hey, you’re mostly getting the book!

You can also start a collection with the first day of issue cancellations (usually about $2 each) and other fun things even if you don’t mail letters regularly.

[ghostlywriterr]

Edinburgh, Scotland.  

[madamescarlette]

one of my favorite parts of Persuasion is when Wentworth decides he’s going to pour out his heart into a letter for the love of his life because he can’t wait 5 hours to, you know, actually talk to her in person, and then he a) does the equivalent of handing it to her and running away instantly and b) goes to moodily lean on a column less than 500 ft from her house to deal with his Feelings for a minute. Which I mean, same.

[valuedabovehoardedgold]

“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

— Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and Song of Despair (via books-n-quotes)

[otherwindow]

why is it always a male character going mad avenging his dead wife and never a female character cradling her dying pure of heart husband in her arms then dragging the whole world down with her

[swan2swan]

[javerticade]

personally I’m not surprised at all that Cats (2019) turned out to be a straight-up abomination, I lost all faith in Tom Hooper in 2012 when he cut Grantaire’s verse of Drink With Me but included the Santa sex scene

[tessmariano]

you don’t choose when creativity hits you

[tessmariano]

sometimes you end up writing angst poetry on Christmas

[teslagrams]

Today on my way to lecture I was contemplating what kind of theatre would make for a good first date and my immediate thought was “not Shakespeare.” You, know because productions of Shakespeare are sort of wildcards and not everyone is as much of a nerd as I am. Thirty minutes later I got asked if I wanted to go see Hamlet. I don’t think it’s a date but still...

[christophernolan]

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. - Jane Austen

[leave-her-a-tome]

(source)

Unsplash -  photography, illustration, and art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Stockvault.net - stock photos

freepngimg - icons, pictures and clipart

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Getdrawings - simplistic images and drawing tutorials

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3

[teslagrams]

Can we just appreciate how bro-y that head nod Jo gives is when Laurie is introducing her in the Little Women trailer

Saoirse Ronan is truly a gift.

[pariztexas-deactivated20210721]

Does the young lady know Mr. Darcy? Only a little. Do you not think him a handsome man, miss? Yes. Yes, I dare say he is.

[crowswritetoo]

[trueshredguitar]

have you ever started reading a book and just put it down and thought “i have read better fiction by fifteen-year-olds with microsoft word and a fanfiction.net account”

[kafkasdiariies]

Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Firenze, Italia by Gabriele Colzi

[wordscanbeenough]

seduce me with your book collection