contains trace amounts of foppery and whim

late 20s · they guys on ships (or dragons) genre enthusiast

[neenarchive]

they're hiring me at the extra virgin olive oil factory as the oathsworn knight who protects the chastity of the olives

[neenarchive]

many dishonourable knaves in the notes of this post

[apricops]

stop stop stop making appeals to some 'natural state of humanity.' war and slavery and xenophobia are in fact some of the most universal human behaviors ever recorded. humans do not have any kind of innate Noble Spirit that is being corrupted. You can just say "war is bad because it hurts people" you can just leave it at that! that should be an effective statement just by itself! shut the fuck up about Essences!

[txttletale]

the term 'toxic yuri' has been driven into the ground. Enough

[txttletale]

every time a fandom buzzword starts being used in marketing copy it should be immediately be retired and humanely put down

[ainawgsd]

On the northwest Belgian coast, there is a little known tradition: shrimp fishing on horseback. The activity consists of what its name describes: fishing shrimp on a horse. In the 15th century, shrimp fishing on horseback was still practised on the North Sea coasts in France, the Netherlands and even the South of England. This activity represented an extra revenue needed for the household. Nowadays there is only one place in which it is still ongoing: Oostduinkerke, a sub-municipality of the municipality of Koksijde.

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[kosmogrl]

learning not to return to places where I miss the past but see no future

[wyrmicelli]

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

[snowown]

[cepheusgalaxy]

My ocs are so awesome and beautiful

Everybody wants to hear about my ocs

I know my oc's lore and can put it coherently into words

My ocs are amazing

I can always give them more Issues and Tribulations

Everybody loves my oc's Issues and Tribulations

My ocs are the most beautiful blorbos on earth

I can make their life worse

[wheelie-sick]

"oh, I live in a desert and-"

"wow that must be so terrible" "deserts are so ugly" "I would never want to live in a wasteland like that" "it's just empty nothingness"

wishing 10,000 exploding hammers upon you

behold New Mexico

[ID 1: tall, snowcapped rocky mountains rising above a plain filled with desert scrub

ID 2: brightly colored banded cliff walls of several mesas climbing their way into mountains

ID 3: a desert prairie

ID 4: colorful hoodoos against a twilight sky

ID 5: white sand dunes as far as the eye can see

ID 6: a collection of hoodoos against a stormy sky at sunset

ID 7: a juniper tree standing with a cliff wall in the background

ID 8: several juniper trees on a rocky landscape]

[wheelie-sick]

this post and all its wonderful additions (look in the notes) is circulating again. these photos and many of the ones added in the notes come from the US Southwest.

right now the trump administration is attacking the public lands in the Southwestern US. most recently (July 2026), in Utah the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments have been cut by over 90% to allow for mining. these lands are sacred to multiple Native nations in the area and contain irreplaceable archeological sites. additionally, the commission of Native representatives who aided in management of these lands has been dissolved leaving Native people without a voice in caring for the remaining land. (read more here)

here in New Mexico, the 10 mile buffer zone surrounding Chaco Canyon preventing oil and gas drilling is under attack. Chaco Canyon contains incredibly old and incredibly fragile archeological sites sacred to Pueblo people. these sites are threatened by mining and drilling. (read more here)

The attack on the Chaco buffer zone is currently in a public comment period open until July 29. PLEASE leave a public comment to save these irreplaceable places.

[cair--paravel]

Page decorations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1899 edition.

[hbmmaster]

namesakes of temperature scales and how real they sound:

Anders Celsius: yeah sure that's the name of a scientist I'll believe that

William "Lord Kelvin" Thompson: there's something really british going on here with that title but I suppose it checks out

Dan Fahrenheit: literally shut up

[english-history-trip]

Only surviving dress known to have belonged to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen to George III, c. 1805.

[orpheuslament]

no one talks about how straight up painful it is to be the bigger person when deep in your soul you just want to be a huge bitch about it

[mybeautifuldarktwistedshane]

I've been writing a fanfic for a while but I started rereading moby dick recently and upon rereading my fic u can tell exactly when I did

[mybeautifuldarktwistedshane]

yeah ok bro

[romanceyourdemons]

i think it’s really funny to get the perfect #aesthetic reading setup (a pot of tea, cute little snacks, lofi music, cat purring in my lap, sweater sleeves halfway over my hands etc) to read like the dirty secret of early modern capitalism: the global reach of the dutch arms trade, warfare and mercenaries in the seventeenth century by kees boterbloem

[historicity-was-already-taken]

(Yoinked this from LinkedIn, genuinely interested in seeing how responses align with demographics) (so far it’s those of us over 35 being indignant but I wanna see how those fully plays out) (it’s cultural and technological history/memory, bruh)

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[bellisima-writes]

I am an old bitch - 20/20.

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[lazy-toad]

Moby Dick is great. It's like if an encyclopedia was a tragedy

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]