strategic beetle victory

[thecactifindahome]

Worth repeating every so often: I am solaramalgama on reddit and discord, solar-amalgama on bluesky if I ever bother to log in, and mutuals can have my email/phone number if they want 👍 but I will be here unless and until they turn the lights off

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

Hungarian swords, 14th century, at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul. The middle sword is 8ft long

[aziminil]

[tockthewatchdog]

the funniest thing about this is that it does, on some level, make intuitive sense

[nuitarioso]

“Tu me croiras parti mais je reste avec toi.”

[mandhos]

Athrabeth Finrod y Andreth / The Converse of Finrod and Andreth 

“ Of Death and the Children of Eru, and the Marring of Men “

[valentina-poem]

[weather-n-calamity]

Bitch I don’t even know you. And you’re a deer.

[vvarhound]

[the-frightening-ghoul]

ㅤ

[the-frightening-ghoul]

[cluttrbugs]

Evan naps, 2006

[yesornopolls]

Have you ever drank straight pickle brine/juice?

Have you ever drank straight pickle brine/juice?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 15 hours 16 minutes

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

[darnitjack]

Last time this came around I showed my three year old and he said "He's little like me!" and stared for a whole minute (v. Long in toddler time).

[random-brushstrokes]

Otakar Štáfl (Czech, 1884-1945) - Trees in the village

[twinkhole-destroyer]

the weather determines if I’m going to be evil

[pansy2025]

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me

[catasters]

[tapacamino]

[kaijufluffs]

She's being so big and brave.

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[cookingwithroxy]

I want you to understand this. I NEED you to understand this. My mother read me the hobbit as bedtime story, and I started pushing myself to read before pre-school so I could in fact read the hobbit for myself instead of having to wait for bedtime.

I didn't do so right away but jesus wept I PUSHED myself to learn to read SPECIFICALLY so I could read The Hobbit! It is, in fact, a children's story! And children only see page count as 'there is a lot of this fun story to read!'

[hunter-rodrigez]

Like... come on man, 310 pages isn't even what I would've considered a particularly long book as a kid.

[now-for-wrath-now-for-ruin]

......I read LOTR as a 9 or 10 yo dyslexic child. It took me a week or two of non-stop reading to finish each book but I was so obsessed with them because of the films I just powered through. And I learned to read very late, like only couple of years prior reading LOTR. It's wild to me that someone could think it's unheard of for kids to read Hobbit.

[noma-o]

Kemisola (@kemisolakiyesi)  by Noma Osula (@noma.o)

[merriweatherpostpavilion]

There has been an outbreak of kindness spreading in the US. It spreads through unwashed smiles and causes explosive happiness. What i wish the news said right now