sunt lacrimæ rerum

our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction

[letterful]

[maxknightley]

being a jack of all trades is dope as fuck honestly. it's like I'm doing crop rotation inside my own brain

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

Albrecht Dürer – Knight on Horseback, 1507

[sivavakkiyar]

childhood story written by William Gaddis, first grade (?)

[crabussy]

I asked my five year old cousin what he would do if there was a scary skeleton and he said "I would pour water on it and then kick it" and I've been losing my shit laughing crying about a wet skeleton for about fifteen minutes straight

[crabussy]

he was so delighted by my fits of giggles that he drew eight wet skeletons for me

[ID: Child's art of eight simply rendered skeletons scribbled over and covered in blue. End ID]

[lizardsfromspace]

Out of control Edwardian youths refuse to clap at production of Peter Pan, force distraught J.M Barrie to pull out rarely seen "Tinkerbell Fucking Dies" ending

[julianova44]

You probably know this but shitpost ruining fun fact for anybody who doesn’t:

When the play first was performed, JM Barrie et al were so concerned this might happen that they instructed the orchestra to drop their instruments and clap at this point, just in case

[lizardsfromspace]

I did not know this and I'm grateful for being informed

[sisaloofafump]

Peter Pan edited by Anne Hiebert Alton (2011)

(sorry to interrupt joke post but) this is true!

Children not clapping did happen too, (and some were even expected to have hissed, which was later written into the 1928 playscript and 1911 novel). But my all time favourite anecdote about it is from Pauline Chase (who played Peter)'s intro to Peter Pan's Post Bag 1909:

Children love to clap their hands at the play because then they feel that they are really part of it, and you can see them holding their hands poised ready to seize an opportunity. Their great chance is when I ask them to clap their hands if they believe in fairies, and so save Tink's life. But they are very wrathful if any one claps who has the reputation of being a cynic, and once there was quite an uproar in the front row of the dress circle because of a girl who clapped. Those about her pulled down her arms angrily. "How dare you clap," they cried, "when you know you don't believe in fairies!" There was one dreadfully hard-hearted little boy who came to the theatre not to clap. That was his object for coming, and he came round "behind" to tell me so in the middle of the play. His teeth were firm set. "I won't clap," he said doggedly; "I'm not going to clap." And when the time came he didn't clap; above the clapping of all the others I could hear him shouting from a box, "Peter, I'm not clapping."

(Tink was revived each time anyway)

[graveyardrabbit]

I really love those posts of people showing their stuffed animals various things and locations, gonna start doing that

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my giant ground sloth the Feather River and the Feather River Fish Hatchery fish ladder

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my cat the location of the last stagecoach hold-up in San Mateo County

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my sockeye salmon The Gates Of Hell

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my humpback whale Methuselah the coast redwood

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my banana slug the grave of Emperor Norton

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my tiger the geographic center of California

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my elephant seal a spirit photograph

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my javalina the 1906 earthquake fence

[neshamama]

steiff felt flying pigeon rattle c.1910

[warmfigure]

chocolate frangipane and vanilla poached pear tart

[warmfigure]

i need the chocolate frangipane recipe so desperatly

the base is essentially this recipe, but i removed 15g each of the sugar and almond flour and added 30g cocoa powder

for the pears, i peeled 3 (ended up only using 1.5) bosc pears and poached them in 4 cups of water, 1 cup of sugar, and roughly a tablespoon of vanilla for around 30 min, then let them cool completely before slicing and fanning them out on top of the assembled tart, and baked it all together for around 50 min at 400f

[2022dirt]

Sometimes apples will have a self portrait of another apple.

[mudvi]

[mangonetics]

Dogs serve as a kind of virtue eater for Americans to pour all of their kindness into without the risk of improving society or being nice to someone with any agency

[kinehora]

[kinehora]

i got some notes back from my editor

[kinehora]

[kinehora]

[kinehora]

[pseudomantis]

This is literally true

[allyourlife]

my fav calvin n hobbes joke and no one ever puts it anywhere

[trashyeggroll]

tumblr is great and all but ya’ll are missing the woman in one of my cat fb groups that has birthed her own tier 1 meme