peril of hope.

max (he/him)

[trench-knife]

hi friends! i am moving to @matchboxbug . this blog will stay up for a little while but i will probably take it down after i archive my materials from it so be sure to refollow me there if you would like to keep in touch <3

[trench-knife]

hi friends! i am moving to @matchboxbug . this blog will stay up for a little while but i will probably take it down after i archive my materials from it so be sure to refollow me there if you would like to keep in touch <3

[trench-knife]

hi friends! i am moving to @matchboxbug . this blog will stay up for a little while but i will probably take it down after i archive my materials from it so be sure to refollow me there if you would like to keep in touch <3

[krasnoarmeyets-deactivated191907]

i bet it feels good as fuck to intend to do something and then actually do it

[trench-knife]

not to be a hater but mid to late june really has some of the most evil weather out there. took a shower 15 minutes ago and already feel like i'm melting

[frankhermann]

actually annoyed by long distance friends again. i want to go for a walk i want to get drinks i want to sit in the grass and write i want to go to the fucking store together

[objetocotidiano]

парень в сером топе, 12.5х8х7 cm.

Sculpture by denlevv

[iskippedthepartaboutlove]

[trench-knife]

backyard is so overgrown that animals can now move about completely concealed. this is swell and all, but sitting outside with a book while something i can't see rustles around and leaves a thrashing trail of grasses in its wake is Not Relaxing

[trench-knife]

somewhere amidst the leaves a bird is dying a terrible death

[kosmogrl]

what they don’t tell you is that the urge to just leave and start over somewhere far away only gets stronger the older you get

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[trench-knife]

backyard is so overgrown that animals can now move about completely concealed. this is swell and all, but sitting outside with a book while something i can't see rustles around and leaves a thrashing trail of grasses in its wake is Not Relaxing

[through-a-historic-lens]

Girl leaning against a wall, Autochrome taken by Gustave Gain in France c 1919

[trench-knife]

one of my worst writing sins is abusing my power to create compound words. i cannot write the sentence "The sun shone as bright as honey that afternoon." no. that's boring. "The sun was honey-bright that afternoon" however? yes. that sentence is dope as fuck. i do not care if "honey-bright" is a word in the english dictionary. i do not care if the sentence is grammatically correct. i will not change. i will not correct my erred ways. the laws of the english language are mine.

[mcgravin]

Not the laws of the English language; the laws of classical epic poetry. What you're doing is making Homeric epithets.

Now put it into dactylic hexameter, and we'll really be getting somewhere.

[theinstagrahame]

Wouldn't that also be a Kenning, as seen in Beowulf?

It's not an ocean, it's a Whale-road.

[mcgravin]

Kennings and epithets are extremely similar, yes!

To my knowledge (and I'm not an expert in this, so someone who has studied it is welcome to correct me), epithets are usually used more like a poetic adjective to describe a noun included in the text, while a kenning straight up replaces the noun with a more poetically described noun.

So "the wine-dark sea" is a classic example of a Homeric epithet, with "wine-dark" describing the sea (but "sea" stays in the text). Whereas, "whale-road" is a whole replacement for "sea".

I think a Norse skald and a ancient Greek poet would get along great.

[the-haiku-bot]

I think a Norse skald

and a ancient Greek poet

would get along great.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[were--ralph]

tumblr is the funniest social media site to go viral on

[were--ralph]

on tiktok people will quit their jobs after going viral once but on here not only can any post get 50k notes, but if it does theres nothing you can do with it. theres no monetization or any transferable skills at all. you just made a funny post and people liked it and thats the start and end of your career

[were--ralph]

you could say "i left the stove on" with no context and it might break containment on here and people start tagging it with ships and kins and theres no way to delete it forever unless staff gets involved. your mistake will never go away but your claim to fame will instantly

[were--ralph]

its like yes im the pineapple werewolf guy but no one outside of here and like 5 posts on reddit will ever know what that sentence means. i could jump on tiktok and no one would know me. no one on youtube or facebook. this is my little corner of the internet and i will die here before i give up that title and when i do know i lost nothing in the process

[were--ralph]

exactly

[loveridden1999]

talking about politics, ai or feminism to people irl will have you feeling like wow you're really going on with your life with your eyes ears brain all shut

[twinkhole-destroyer]

the weather determines if I’m going to be evil