Violet Literarian

We are all descendants of the same primordial ancestor, made from the dust of the stars themselves. Everything is connected. Nothing is as it seems.

[requiem-on-water]

Sulfur combusts on contact with air to create stunning blue lava-like rivers of light in the Kawah Ijen crater on the island of Java | Ph: Olivier Grunewald

[mammalianmammals]

Hairless Bat or Naked Bulldog Bat (Cheiromeles torquatus), family Molossidae, found in SE Asia

photographs by Chien C. Lee

[annabelle--cane]

stratt gets to her monthly scheduled half-hour for "feeling things" and lets herself descend into cheeky little bitter envious frenzy over not having the coma resistance gene markers. oh, to not have to face the rest of her life on earth and be locked away helpless while everyone starves, and instead just wake up, work for a single month more, eat the best food available, fix everything with her own two hands, die in satisfied peace, and be remembered with reverence. she's just getting into a proper spiral about how grace has this opportunity but can't even seem to comprehend why this would the most beautiful thing and why, why doesn't he? does he not care? about the world, about me, about himself? what's wrong with him? he has the capacity to care, I've seen it, it's there, but he refuses it. why won't he do this for all of us? if I could just reach into his brain and fix-- and then her alarm goes off and she has to go to her next meeting.

[prideknights]

In honour of disability pride month, we made a disability Pride Knight! Stay proud! ⚔️🌈

[disabledlovingdisabled]

[ID: a digital painting of a knight in full plate armour on the back of a black horse. The horse is rearing to show off the disability pride flag the knight is holding up. /ID]

[accessible-art]

[ID Addition: the knight's visible leg is amputated at the knee and they have crutches mounted on their back. They have a cape that is the progress pride flag. End Addition]

[theunsubtleknife]

[cerviideath]

The Passenger Pigeon Monument (Wyalusing State Park, Wisconsin) By Steve Jones

"Dedicated to the last Wisconsin passenger pigeon shot at Babcock, Sept. 1899. This species became extinct through the avarice and thoughtlessness of man. Erected by the Wisconsin Society For Ornithology"

[molabuddy]

every day i think about how wild vaporeon would live mostly in the water but come to shore to have their pups (eevee), and then would probably groom their pups in a special way to trap air bubbles in their soft fur to make them more bouyant so they can float unaided on the water. and then as soon as the eevee have control of their little legs they're being taught how to swim, so you could come to a lake at a certain time of year ans see a vaporeon swimming around with a tiny soaked eevee paddling along behind it like

[eggyolkplanet]

hey @molabuddy this was such a cute mental image that wanted to try and draw it :D

[molabuddy]

GWUHH THIS IS SO CUTE yes!!!! yess!!!!! baby swimmi !!!!!

[silvermoon424]

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.

[filyahehh]

smartest cat ever!

[tastylemonbread]

friend who went to bed is a type of dead wife

[didderd-reblogs]

[brainscrewz]

tbh if someone just handed me a pressure washer and set me loose in the streets i would go into a trance and just start hosing shit down indiscriminately. it's not a question of how much i could clean, but how long until i get hit by a car and die

[technofinch]

I have GOT to stop spending $30

[funkmclovin]

$30 is the new $5 but $100 is still $100 #Fucked

[mamoru]

sorry to be brave on the internet but I think food labels should list every single ingredient and that there should be harsher penalties for mislabeling and deceptive labeling

[olloollo]

addition from @turtlesandfrogs:

We have these:

[nentuaby]

Yeah, that's exactly what the complaint was about.

[narcissene]

affirmations:

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift

- i CAN do this anymore

[t00thpasteface]

me before i get my paycheck: i'm so excited to spend this on essentials and save the rest wisely

me as soon as that direct deposit hits: you know i've always wanted to learn the theremin

[wuggen]

Heard a car horn today that was tuned to a fifth. Fucked up, kinda delightful

[wuggen]

I want people to understand how jarring this was. Most car horns are either a single tone or two tones somewhere in the neighborhood of a minor third apart:

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Pretty normal rush hour sounds, yeah? But this thing sounded something like this:

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Fucked up! Didn't even realize it was a car horn at first, I didn't know what the fuck it was! It was weird as hell!

[fictionvssleep]

[gremlininho]

looking. at you