welcome to the overwhelming question

[main @calf-middle] irish and mad about it

[archivistorage]

Leading the Blind

[archivistorage]

[whatwhatjpg]

the photos from the Artemis II mission, with the moon in the foreground and earth in the background, are making me homesick

[chic-a-gigot]

L'Art et la mode, no. 3, vol. 30, 16 janvier 1909, Paris. Papillon. Robe de tulle brodé et pailleté. Grandes ailes de tulle de deux tons. Le devant et le dos de la robe forment le corps du papillon, en gaze d’or brodée et pailletée. Imp. d'art L. Lafontaine, Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France

[the-venereal-bede-deactivated20]

THE advantage of memorizing poetry is that when somethings happening, maybe even you’re in a situation or a location, you can just go “ok. lady of shallott time” and boom. you reclaimed your mental space and attention for YOU for the next ten minutes

[rosenbraut]

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

[snarklordofthesith]

i know this is humorous but! i learned from one of my college friends (who learned from a therapist) that reciting a poem you have memorized is a great grounding & focusing technique when you’re spiraling into anxiety or panic. i can personally attest that The Tyger has staved off several panic attacks.

so like if said “situation or location” is freaking you out really badly, “lady of shallott time” can help reclaim your mental health too

[ariaste]

Ok everybody share what poems you can recite in case we’re trapped in an elevator.

I’ve got the first 42 lines of The Canterbury Tales in Middle English, the first 10 lines of Beowulf in Old English, the first canto of Tolkien’s Lay of Beren and Luthien, and Sonnet XVI by Pablo Neruda (“I love the handful of the earth you are”). I used to have the Proem of the Kalevala but I’m a bit shaky on it it now and I think i’ve only got the first two sentences. Anda handful of others I half-remember which i could probably do if I were with someone else who half-remembered the same ones and we could prompt each other back and forth.

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hm i suppose you could say season 5 is a walking sim

[whatwhatjpg]

#anyway. shout out to op for letting me get this tattooed on my body

@wretcheddthing still wild to me. three years!

[woolwearer]

hello Terror fandom. have this old man I drew 7 years late

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[perfectday1972]

via theshinysquirrel

[newsflick-blog]

“I’ve really tried to understand the Israelis. I used to work on a farm in Israel. I speak Hebrew. I watch their news. All the time they talk about fear. How they have to run to their bunkers to hide from the rockets. How their children can’t sleep because of the sirens. This is not a good way for them to live. We Palestinians don’t talk about fear, we talk about death. Our rockets scare them; their rockets kill us. We have no bomb shelters, we have no sirens, we have nowhere we can take our children and keep them safe. They are scared. We are dying.”

— Mohammed al-Khoudry a Palestinian farmer in Gaza.

[leona-florianova]

Stephen drying the dishes...

for @s-u-w-i

[discojams]

severance cigs :)

[zevampirex]

The company, silly edition

[deadmenspress]

"'All well.' That seems like another lifetime, does it not, Francis? Can you remember a time when any of us could write such a thing with an easy conscience?"

[rogerdeakinsdp]

Academy Award Winners for Best Cinematography: 2004 — Russell Boyd, ACS, ASC Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Directed by Peter Weir Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

“Master and Commander — gee, that was a hard film to make. There is no easy film, of course, but Master was very demanding physically — because of the water, even though a lot of it was shot in the tank in Mexico that had been built for Titanic. Peter Weir once said to me — and I’ll never forget it — he said, ‘Come on and do a film of mine, and I’ll take you on an adventure.’ And he does!” — Russell Boyd for The American Society of Cinematographers, February 2018

[july-19th-club]

patrick obrien was like "i want to make a tonally-accurate novel series about sea captains in the napoleonic war" and his initial readers were like "this is the closest i, your weird uncle, will ever get to reading jane austen but actually it's pretty damn close" and stephen maturin was like "the navy has tricked me, trained spy, amateur polymath, physician, and revolutionary, into being here, so i am going to be an unapolagetically out of my mind autistic man." and aubrey was like "i'm in a comedy of manners with a sloth!"

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I have not watched the gay firefighter show but I am pretty sure that the Road Safety Authority of Ireland is using one of those lads as a model for their electric scooter safety campaign

[gigamuffin]

master and commander but Jack can't play for shit

[nerdsandbabyteeth]

Burden