Roses In Her Eyes

This is where I keep pretty things.

[virginiawoolfhall]

Absolutely obsessed with this comment underneath an article about the earthquake in Maine this morning. I might get it tattooed.

[littleluciddreamer-blog]

Reblog if you're hoping 2011 will be a fresh start.

[shisasan]

𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟸𝟽, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟼 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: What is left? Never again degrade yourself to the point where you become the battleground of a struggle that goes on with no regard as it were for you, and of which you feel nothing but the terrible blows of the warriors. Rise up, then. Mend your ways, escape officialdom, start seeing what you are instead of calculating what you should become. END ID]

[soracities]

happy "everyone forgets that icarus also flew" monday. i want to throw up !

[soracities]

"anything worth doing is worth doing badly"............."not failing as he fell but just coming to the end of his triumph"......goodnight (it's noon)

[ashstfu]

i feel totally normal about this and the scope of my desire is completely average

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

Happiness Will Come To You.

[12goblins]

when tho

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March

[wizardshark]

reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!

[kirkaut]

so, as I'm sure most people who follow me are aware, I was recently diagnosed with stage IV malignant melanoma. I just began treatment yesterday, but the medical bills are already... insurmountable.

If I know one thing about myself, it's that I have a very hard time asking for help, even when I need it. I don't like feeling like a burden to people. As a result, I've spent a few weeks going back and forth with myself about whether or not to set up a gofundme to help with everything but ultimately felt too weird making one for myself.

Today my sisters took it upon themselves to make one for me, and I've been crying for a while about it.

I still feel very uncomfortable posting this. I'm still uncomfortable asking for help. But I'm going to swallow my pride, given these extraordinary circumstances, and post the link here.

Donations, boosts, reblogs, whatever. Everything helps, and I'm endlessly grateful for any and all of it. Thank you.

Caroline's Cancer Treatment Fund

[gqa1]

Reblog In 5 seconds for good luck

[nullelemental]

​this worked last night lets go for round two

[helloitsbreeisnotonline]

I really need some good luck rn

[alex51324]

I’m not sure whether I want the $100 or the baby goat; I guess I will leave it up to fate.

[al3x-always]

i dont care what i get. luck is luck mates

[virginiawoolfhall]

More Our Flag Means Death S2 spoilers under the cut

Also did anyone else catch that the “I love everything about you” from the trailer was NOT in the message in a bottle?? Does anyone else think that means it could potentially be… WEDDING VOWS??

[virginiawoolfhall]

MASSIVE spoilers for the first 3 eps of Our Flag Means Death S2 under the cut!

Ok so there is so much obviously like how am I supposed to go to sleep after that? But one thing I just want to comment on is Stede’s resilience? His capacity for forgiveness? Like he thinks the love of his life is dead, not just dead but murdered by his own crew and what does he do? He breaks them out. He brings them back to his ship. He recreates as much of his family as he still can.

And I’m not going to be very articulate about this because it’s 3am and I’m one of those people whose nervous system can’t differentiate between excitement and anxiety (which is going to make this week waiting for the next 2 episodes super fun) but there is just something so… hopeful in that? Like it would have been so easy for him to fall directly into despair like Ed did, but instead he said, No, actually, my love is bigger than that. Here is this character whose whole thing has been about creating a new life for himself and the season 1 finale had him doubling down on that after a moment of doubt, and it was so nice that his optimism and commitment to his crew remained even when he thought Ed was lost. Because it’s romantic and all to have another person be your purpose, but it’s ultimately not sustainable—you have to live for something bigger, and that’s what Stede has learned, what he’s bringing to the table.

And it’s such a foil to where Ed is at—how abandoned and hopeless he is, how the loss of Stede caused him to abandon himself and betray everyone he loved. That last scene (GOD that last scene) is, I hope, setting the tone for the rest of the season. Stede is no longer a lighthouse, something to be avoided. He’s become/becoming a beacon.

And also, Ed’s face when he realized someone WAS waiting for him, and it was Stede. Just… 🥹

[eternity-chaos]

Dykes on b/w by Chloe Sherman

[animentality]

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[musdomus]

Good Luck Post do your thing!!!

[sad-sapphic-femme]

Good luck post🙏🏻please

[astraldemise]

IN A WORLD WHERE BEAUTY AND ATTRACTIVENESS HAVE BECOME SO COMMONPLACE AND MUNDANE THE EXCEPTIONAL UGLINESS HAS BECOME DIVINE

[astraldemise]

I SAW AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR A CAR THAT LOOKS LIKE EVERY OTHER CAR AND THEY COMPARED IT TO A UNUSUAL UGLY LITTLE VEHICLE AND ITS STRANGENESS WAS FAR MORE CAPTIVATING THAN THE SLEEK BORING CAR THE AD WAS ACTUALLY FOR

[soracities]

Umberto Eco, On Ugliness

[headspace-hotel]

BEAUTY IS FINITE, UGLINESS IS INFINITE LIKE GOD

[virginiawoolfhall]

Michelle Boisseau

[soracities]

—Maria Michela Sassi, "Can we hope to understand how the Greeks saw their world?" (pub. Aeon) [ID in ALT]

[bunjywunjy]

Do you like poems?

yes! my favorites are The Tiger and the unnamed werewolf fridge poem

[re-peysi]

for context these are the poems

[bunjywunjy]

also I almost forgot but the r/ambien Gives Us The Sleep post takes a completely serious third place in my favorite poems list:

[bunjywunjy]

and COMING IN HOT at NUMBER FOUR on my list, it's Fragment 147! an accidental poem created when the original parchment containing a text by Sappho was used to stop a wine jug more than 2,000 years ago- eventually the wine dissolved most of the parchment, leaving just a few words and BOY do they prove that the Universe has a sense of irony.

[gnossienne]

Hélène Cixous, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (1993)