the golden hour

this started out as a stardew blog but I don’t know what it is now

[pankendev]

i got burnt too many times at the till realizing i left my money at home, so now i try to keep as many different modes of payment on me as i possibly can. i'm talking cards. i'm talking coins. i'm talking contactless. i'm talking collectibles. i'm talking favors. i'm talking precious minerals. i'm talking gemstones & jewelry. i'm talking scrip. i'm talking endangered species. i'm talking discontinued drugs. i'm talking priceless works of art. i'm talking moon rocks. i'm talking hot trading tips. i'm talking banned weaponry. i'm talking deeds to various plots of land. i'm talking treasure maps. i'm talking lost media. i'm talking fucked-up things in jars. i'm talking historical artifacts. i'm talking sacred relics. i'm talking state secrets. i'm talking passwords. i'm talking cursed statuettes. i'm talking private performances. i'm talking life-changing advice. i'm talking beanie babies. i'm talking first-born sons. i'm talking interesting seashells. i'm talking smooth stones with holes in them. and if all else fails i believe kindness and a smile can get you anything in life; & thievery

[soracities]

hellooo idk if u still want this but i've translated the poem its not my best work honestly but this is as far as i am getting with it so yeah here u go ( i am quite confused on who ended up being the true author so idk who to credit this for lol)

Grievance

My heart is sick, and the sickness is wasting me away

whatever might cure me?

The curse, o the curse Laila, is nothing but the unquenchable

thirst for you, so bring your mouth closer and water me.

They said "Why are you mad with Laila?" so I said "Woe to you all!

Only the insane know the pleasures of life."

They asked, "Do you love her to death?"

I said, "Speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life"

They told me, "Pick any but her, her heart is stone."

I said "I will take no one but Laila,

for if you combine all the universe's beauty

in someone else, and she came calling for me

I would be as deaf as a rock to her summons"

I would say "This beauty is nothing to me."

When our eyes connect is endless happiness

and when hers abandon mine, I weep.

They said, "You've been led astray, religion will guide you back."

and I said "is there another religion to follow than Laila?

Is not what lies under the bends of my ribs her disciple,

together with everything that flows in the folds of my veins.

Isn't my desperate heart an alter for her

and the spilling of my tears in her absence offerings to her?"

They said "Visit the green gardens for they

have flowers of comfort and exquisite aromas"

I said "I can't stand no other fragrance but hers"

and I said " There is no good in the fields of flowers anyway"

They said "Maybe the singing of the birds there

would help ease your lovesick heart"

I said "If it isn't Laila who is singing

then all birds above the fields must be silenced

They said " Then kill yourself, maybe death would extinguish

the eruptions of love within you"

I said "In death, the soul and body are separated

and my soul is Laila and the separation would debilitate me"

O Laila, how I wish I was your clothing

so I would get to encircling your lean body

O how I wish Laila I was your tongue

so I can savour whatever tempts me, or I want

I am the poor to Laila, so if she takes me

I will live for her or the fires of love would consume me

once again i am simply.....!!!!!!! will never be over this not ever not ever and absolutely absolutely memorizing this until it lives in my head and my heart rent-free for the rest of my life 💕💗

[miamaimania]

from 1980

[ordeals]

Julia Soboleva, Sacrificed Beings to the workshop of becoming somebody

[staff]

we fucked up

[liddie-dissociating]

Test One

[liddie-dissociating]

Test Two

[liddie-dissociating]

Test Three

[liddie-dissociating]

Test Four

Reblogged from test three after replying twice on all previous reblogs; every previous post or reblog also includes two tags. Replies, comments, and tags from original post and two interim reblogs are not visible on fourth reblog of this post.

[liddie-dissociating]

Test Five

Views of notes on each of the prior tests (Note, there are four existing posts at this point, each with comments and tags, so test three is a reblog of test two, test four is a reblog of test three; in previous iterations of tumblr all of the tags, replies, and comments on those posts would have been visible in the notes of every one of those reblogs).

Test One:

Test Two:

Test Three:

[liddie-dissociating]

Test Six

Literally none of the reblogs with tags or comments are visible on the blog activity, the only visible activity is the replies and even as the OP of the post I can only see the replies on the individual reblog that was replied to.

This seems to make it impossible to have a conversation with anyone on a post except the person directly replying to your reblog, so instead of being a conversation in the town square kind of feeling, it has more of a "I hope my email finds you well" or passing notes vibe.

Trash.

[ms-demeanor]

This is what I was trying to test/demonstrate.

Thanks, I hate it.

[darkcomedies]

evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting

[darkcomedies]

idk what to tell you except go look at the fishwives

[swiftsnowmane]

— Heather Parry, this is not an essay about Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights"

[what-even-is-thiss]

Where’s the YA protagonist teen girl and her two boyfriends that are supposed to save us from this mess anyways

[what-even-is-thiss]

The dystopia books lied. The teen throuples aren’t coming to save us.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Save me teen dystopia love triangle

[what-even-is-thiss]

Teen dystopia love triangle save me

[yr-bed]

To read War and Peace or The Lord of the Rings plainly is not "work" - you do it for pleasure. And if it cannot be justified as "educational" or as "self-improvement," then, in the Puritan value system, it can only be self-indulgence or escapism. For pleasure is not a value, to the Puritan; on the contrary, it is a sin.

Equally, in the businessman's value system, if an act does not bring in an immediate, tangible profit, it has no justification at all. Thus the only person who has an excuse to read Tolstoy or Tolkien is the English teacher, because he gets paid for it. But our businessman might allow himself to read a best-seller now and then: not because it is a good book, but because it is a best-seller - it is a success, it has made money. To the strangely mystical mind of the money-changer, this justifies its existence; and by reading it he may participate, a little, in the power and manna of its success. If this is not magic, by the way, I don't know what is.

From "Why are Americans Afraid of Dragons?" (1974) by Ursula K. LeGuin

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

It really is!

[butterfly-sapphic]

Why is it croissants are the only ones who can't get ovened without ejaculating

All the other breads hold they nut just fine

[virtualgirladvance]

wish i couldnt read

[amerlcanapparel-deactivated2020]

when she says she doesn’t send nudes

[straighthater]

when guys objectify women and expect them to send nudes

[timelordpillbug]

when someone asks you about your nuclear plans for russia

[hikingnerd]

When Russia sends you nudes

[dr-thackery]

[dismantlerepaired]

[ilovepretzelrods]

[thegingerbalrog]

[onwardwall]

[miss-jaxon-flaxon-waxon]

#what the fuck happened here

[her-eyes-dared-me-with-danger]

This is my favorite post in all of tumblr

[kyloschuyler]

reminder that this post is now illegal in Russia

[tree-of-blue-squirrel]

reblog it, because Russia can´t

[maradaisykat]

Thanks Obama 

[my-sisters-eyeball]

Wtf

[roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it]

When Russia makes this post illegal

[earthnicity]

I HAVE ONLY SEEN THIS IN SCREENSHOTS

[dovahdez]

I will reblog this every goddamn time I find it on my dash

[a-wondering-thought-deactivated]

I have a piece of tumblr history on my blog now

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: atgctactttaatcaaaaattcaTattattatttgaagtcaacatTaaataattgaATCTgtgattaaacttg

Closest match: Bombyx mori BmN4 cell DNA, chromosome 24, sequence Common name: Domestic Silk Moth

(image source)

[willifolts]

When the domestic silk moth sends you nudes

[scp-threats-is-back]

Domestic silk moth is just being friendly

[yoink-a-doink]

Now the moth is banned in Russia

[fantasylover4538]

…well what the fuck is this

[kingofkaumidy2]

Art.

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

[depsidase]

[roycohn]

sorry to tack on but i have a folder full of these images bc i collect ones that make me laugh, MY TIME HAS COME

[senatortedcruz]

[transhuman-priestess]

@zoethesportsblog

[zoesupreme]

a few of my favorites

[zoesupreme]

a new one just dropped

[dappergamelord]

had to add a couple favs from my personal collection

[zenmasterx]

@three-gnomes-in-a-trench-coat

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

NO WAY

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

I’ve been doxxed 😨

[thetetra]

I once worked on a phone campaign to disallow the trees around your crater from being cut down...

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

I am deeply deeply in love with you 💙 Thanks so much for your conservation effort!

It’s the small things we all do together that can make a big difference! 💙💙💙💙 And you’ve done it!!!

[pacificnorthwesterngothic]

People just gotta know what Crater Lake and Wizard Island looks like

[silent-calling]

What in the Skyrim

[jenroses]

been there several times. And yeah, Skyrim feels super duper Oregon in a lot of ways.

[fitzreiley]

We gonna talk about Crater Lake, and Wizard Island and not mention the Old Man of the Lake?

The Old Man of the Lake is a log that floats around the lake. It is somewhat strange in that it floats vertically. It's roughly 30 feet tall, with only about 5 or so feet sticking out above the surface of the water. It was first 'offically' recorded in the early 20th century, though there are oral reports of it as far back as 1896 (and likely earlier still given the cultural importance of Crater Lake to the Klamath tribe of that area.

The Old Man should have rotted away long ago or at the very least become waterlogged and sank into the water fully, but nope. Over a hundred years, and there is this log still in the water just floating.

So y'know how I said the fact that it floats vertically was 'somewhat strange'? Let's get into some actual strange territory regarding the Old Man. It moves. Against the wind. It has been recorded moving in paths that do not make sense, never getting stuck on the shore of Wizard Island, nor the area of shore around the lake. Now that's strange.

So now let's get freaky: The free-floating Old Man posed a hazard to boats since it moves, and only a small portion of it was above water. (though personal boats are no longer allowed on the lake) Anyway, in 1988 a team was using a small submersible to explore the lake. The scientist figured it'd be a good idea to moor the Old Man near the coast of Wizard Island out of their way, for safety. So they tied some rope to it, to move the Old Man. As soon as they did so, the clear blue skies of a warm August day turned dark. The wind kicked up, bad, and it started to rain, then hail, then snow in the span of a few minutes...again in August. Now snow in that area is common, but not in the summer months. It gets super warm in that area in summer (like 70 to 90 degrees on average) So the scientists decided to nope the fuck out of the water, because of this freak storm. They unmoored the Old Man, preparing to get the fuck out of dodge of this summer snowstorm. As soon as the rope loosened and was in the water, as quickly as the storm had come on them, the darkened skies cleared and it was once more a fine sunny summer day.

As a kid, I spent my summers with my family who lives like... 40 some odd miles from Crater Lake National Park so I had this knowledge just kinda buried in my head somewhere.

[bogleech]

I excitedly added a thing about the old man before I checked the notes so now I'm gonna reblog this great story instead but here is the old man!!!

"The Old Man floats vertically through the lake on a calm day"

"THE OLD MAN FLOATS. VERTICALLY. THROUGH THE LAKE ON A CALM DAY"

!!!!!!!!!!

[headspace-hotel]

Finally

Cryptobotany

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶Old Man of the Lake floats! On a calm day!🎵

[pacificnorthwesterngothic]

This post really has everything. But, most importantly, it’s got Crater Lake and Wizard Island appreciation.

[regularlesbian]

[regularlesbian]

this is like scrooge seeing his own grave in a christmas carol

[sage-hendricks]

Love reblogging a picture of Tumblr’s grave on Tumblr

[capitalism-is-a-disease]

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Your favorite Cyrodiil city (Imperial City Excluded)

Anvil

Kvatch

Skingrad

Chorrol

Bruma

Cheydinhal

Bravil

Leyawiin

Voting ended onFeb 18

[elderscrollsconceptart]

The 2.5% picking Kvatch

[theconcealedweapon]

[rosslynpaladin]

Look we have records of Medieval Knights crying out in their sleep, having emotional outbursts or flinching at the sound of clashing metal. We have records of people all through history who were treated badly by people who should have loved them, and having problems knowing who to trust. We have years worth of artists putting their human pain at broken hearts and broken promises into music that makes us cry.

Yes people have been traumatized by awful things for all of history and just like them You didn’t deserve to be hurt either.

[nebylitsa]

“suffering doesn’t make you better, it just makes you suffer” - maus

[shinraalpha]

"Pain doesn't make people; it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential; it's love that saves them." - caduceus clay

[quasi-normalcy]

Where's that post about how Van Gogh didn't make art because he had depression, he made art because he had a brother who loved him and tried his best to support him and keep him alive through his depression.