naught but fire and starlight

nerdy. 20s. they/she. buff mermaid. terrible gamer. infrequent writer. pre-raphaelite muse. feral beast. the beautiful header artwork is by @hannu-made-this. || fics || edits || meta || ao3 ||

[write-nerdy-to-me]

Do you remember when we first met? I thought I had wandered into a dream.

x

[gacougnol]

Sydney Carter (1880 - 1956)

The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1875

[support]

One legitimately weird thing about Tumblr is that we literally can’t code for shit, many people quit working at Tumblr due to a hostile work environment, and we can’t seem to program a simple blogging website to not flood your RAM.

[monopoison3r]

nearing the 10 year anniversary of banishing editable reblogs

[professionalowl]

it is of course easier to performatively ban children from social media than to do things like "actually challenge and regulate the abusive tactics tech companies use to extract people's data and money via social media" but if we did the second thing we wouldn't have any excuse to force people to use digital ID :(

[robin-buckely]

Hey, Carl? Do we have an expense account?

PROJECT HAIL MARY 2026 — dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

[robin-buckely]

PROJECT HAIL MARY 2026 — dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

[astrotheyge]

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) ORANGE & BLUE

[nimadelolll]

believe in the hail mary.

[jeniferprince]

can we? 🥺

patreon // buy prints here

[24x81]

hockey isn't real. They made it up for that gay sex show

[neighhhh]

happy wet beast wednesday!!!

[infectiouspiss]

i'm da king of da rats

[infectiouspiss]

one of my rats thinks they're a jokester

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[xanaxfarts]

Initiation Well Location: Sintra, Portugal

A pair of wells, called the Initiation Wells, spiral down deep within the earth, like inverted towers. The wells were never used to collect water. Instead, they were part of a mysterious initiation ritual within the Knights of Templar tradition.

[teaboot]

Not to be a drooling socialist cuck, but if a full day's labour can't purchase three square meals, 24 hour's worth of rent and utilities, a fraction of a month's clothing budget, and a reasonable portion to be saved for when you can no longer comfortably work, what the fuck are we doing shit for

[asystolle]

medical assistants clerks at your service Larry & Antoine in THE PITT SEASON 2

[notbecauseofvictories]

The Thing Is

to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

BY ELLEN BASS