Stuff I Love

(for kpop, see: neomuni) caring cynic, idealistic pessimist, rainbows on black, mostly a mess (icon by André Derain, 1931)

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[animusrox]

No one: Tumblr gif makers: *downloads a 70GB video file just to make one gifset of some blorbo that’ll only get 120 notes*

[theprimememeister]

[blckgirlacid]

I need my weird alone time or I will explode

[thyla]

Stark Trek: The Original Series • 1.18 ‣ The Squire of Gothos ↳ Oh, Mister Spock, you do have one saving grace after all. You’re ill-mannered. The human half of you, no doubt.

[xylocopae]

starting a collection

[two-hearts-beat]

I’m just a little behind you, close enough to take your hand. This old body has given up, just as yours has too. I’ve never forgotten your love and your beauty. But you know that. I don’t have to say any more. Safe travels old friend. See you down the road. Endless love and gratitude.

— Leonard Cohen, in a letter to his partner and muse, Marianne Ihlen, as she was dying of leukemia. He died three months after her.

[greengableslover]

ANNIHILATION (2018) dir. Alex Garland

[two-hearts-beat]

I think what often alienates me somewhat from literature that circles around a morally gray character is that it doesn't match my natural inclination of what to focus on (which would be on the damage done, the people who get hurt, the consequences.. and not the person responsible)

[cannibalchicken]

[icedoatmilkmatcha-deactivated20]

also

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay Ill reblog that!

[aggressivelybicaptainamerica]

Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.

[ruffboi-mags]

The woman who popularized gender reveals wishes she hadn't, afaik.

[fall1ngfeather]

(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)

[p00pym00py]

This whole thread is so beautiful to me that I can explain it

[my-random-fandoms]

[pouncequick]

K-Cup coffee pod creator wishes he'd never thought of them | CBC News

The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products t

[jackironsides]

L. David Mech, who popularised the idea that there were 'alpha' and 'beta' wolves in his 1970 book The Wolf, has spent the rest of his career trying to debunk this. (The original studies were done on captive wolves, and thus didn't simulate an accurate model of wolf pack dynamics.)

Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth?

The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs a

In the wild, researchers have found that most wolf packs are simply families, led by a breeding pair, and bloody duels for supremacy are rare.

“What would be the value of calling a human father the alpha male?” says L. David Mech, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied wolf packs in the wild for decades. “He’s just the father of the family. And that’s exactly the way it is with wolves.”

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by Andres Gamiochipi

[spaceyblob]

The powerful and majestic snorse

[norglomofnit]

@animals-with-fan-art

[spaceyblob]

Update: one of my friends was so captivated by the snorse I made him a sculpture

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you @quandocoeli what imagination!

[a-book-of-creatures]

Book that was good: I liked it 👍

Book that was bad: this sucked 👎

Book that I wanted to like but which failed to live up to my hopes: I am going to write 10,000+ words explaining exactly why this book wronged me

[a-book-of-creatures]

I don’t know why I’m making it exclusive to books. Any other media too. Sometimes I forget that there are things other than books.

[catchymemes]

[musingsofaraven]

Unless you speak whatever the language in this is (maybe Russian? It sounds at least related to Russian), you won’t understand exactly what they’re saying

You will however, understand exactly what they’re saying from the context of the video

And you will get to hear this person’s wonderful laughter

Sound definitely needs to be on

[astriiformes]

To be quite honest with you all I do think that aro/ace-spectrum fans in fandoms where people are desperately inventing crossover ships and humanizing non-human characters in order to have a conventionally attractive guy to ship the main character with, instead of possibly having to enjoy a story with no romance in it, have the right to refer to everyone else as cowards.

[astriiformes]

Sorry you almost had to entertain the idea that people like me exist, I'm sure that was very painful for you.

[cutecipher]

it really is annoying as hell how someone will talk about how poor people can't avoid ethically dubious products because of how being poor works and then someone with a two story house in the suburbs will take that to mean they can order harry potter books through a drone delivery from amazon and if you criticize that you're a bigot

[polkadotmotmot]

Annieo Klass - Daydream no. 5, 2025 - Oil on canvas

[two-hearts-beat]

mid-year book freakout 📚

thank you @sowlmates for tagging me 💖 loved reading through your answers!

Number of books you've read so far: 9

Best book you've read so far in 2026: Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang

Best sequel you've read so far in 2026: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Most anticipated release for the second half of the year: Hollywood, Ending by John Green (I don't normally follow what's announced or what comes out but this one I'm looking forward to)

New release you haven't read yet but want to: I could not tell you a single book title released in 2026 (but on my to-read list I found Is This A Cry For Help by Emily Austin)

Newest fictional crush: I don't really get those, but if I absolutely had to pick someone maybe Thomil from BOBH

Book that made you cry: I cried during various books but more for life reasons than book reasons; but I'll say that Katabasis by R.F. Kuang made my eyes gloss over because baby-Alice at her arrival at university reminded me so much of my younger self (though otherwise we have little in common)

Most beautiful book you've gotten so far this year: a plain secondhand copy of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, the cover of which I quite like

Book that made you happy: I've recently started listening to The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee, which so far is exactly as light a read as I need it

What books do you want to read by the end of the year? whatever floats my boat at the time

How many books are you reading right now? (I added this question myself just to answer it, because I think this is my personal record:) 8

I honestly don't even know which of my moots or dashboard-crossers are bookworms, so I'm just gonna roll the dice here 🧡 @highwarlockkareena @silverysnake @piromantic @featherfur

[entheognosis]

World Infrastructure Map

by Peter Atwood