[voirlvmer]

“What I want from the river is what I always want: / to be held by a stronger thing that, in the end, chooses mercy.”

— Oliver Baez Bendorf, “Advantages of Being Evergreen” (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2019) (via Last Tambourine)

[dogpuppy]

[morningflares]

The East Palace (favorite shots)

[graciebasie]

I genuinely couldn't tell if gu cheon and Saeng gang were in love or not. And I really like that. More stories need this sort of ambiguity in relationships. Especially straight ones.

My interpretation was that they didn't love each other in the conventional romantic sense. It's more of an "I owe you a part of my soul" type of thing. Because they went through difficult times together and their pasts are somewhat comparable, they got bound together. A spiritual type of affiliation.

[liveasbutterflies]

I should send you out of the palace at once, but I cannot for now. You are the only one I can rely on.

The East Palace (동궁) 2026

[seodongjae]

동궁 / THE EAST PALACE (2026) dir. Choi Jungkyu

[captainjoongki]

what if you were an orphan living with buddhist MONKS and suddenly the literal king of the nation shows up and KIDNAPS you because you can see GHOSTS and says you gotta save my bloodline from a demonic curse and then sends his literal daughter the shunned PRINCESS to watch over you and you literally could not care less but you're a good person so you travel to spirit dimensions to save the royal family while the princess' BELL ties your soul to hers so she can summon you back to reality and save your SOUL from spirit demons and creatures and now you guys are some ghostbuster spirit hunting duo in the span of 4 business days

[kisseism]

"omg you remembered!" of course i did. I have a file on you

[hagiomoto]

A downloaded copy does not automatically represent a lost sale; many people who obtain unauthorized copies would not have purchased the book at its retail price in the first place. Treating every download as a lost sale assumes that every downloader would otherwise have become a paying customer—an assumption that is not supported in every case.

[philomena-famulok]

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©Philomena Famulok

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[hagiomoto]

I don't think this is an appropriate response to an article about South Asian farmers losing their teeth because temperatures are now reaching 45 Celcius.

[hagiomoto]

The average Tumblr blogger has such poor manners that even a pig would be embarrassed to bring them home to its mother.

[bagofdrymice]

When the Heat Steals Your Smile

After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented

okay so i think i found the article op's (and me in my tags) talking about. being exposed to over 40 celsius (120 farenheit or so) for the whole day means youre sweating a LOT (the article says rashid- the farmer at the centre of the text- drinks around 17 liters a Day. humans usually only need 3, so i presume the rest is mostly used for sweat). so much so that the organizm reroutes water from other parts of itself to not die of heatstroke - salivary glands included, which means that 1. they have very little saliva in comparison to a healthy human being 2. what little their bodies DO produce is incredibly acidic, falling to ~5.5 ph from the ideal of 7ph. Teeth dissolve. Quickly. There's a mention of someone losing 8 teeth in two years

im not reading the whole article now (headache -_-), but later on the author of the article says about 30 million people (employed in agriculture) are at risk for extreme dental health problems. 30 million people at risk of not being able to eat solid food. 30 million people at risk of not being able to find work. being able to marry. being able to be part of their community. being able to speak clearly

this is. fucking horrible feels like an understatement, but it is the best i have. this exceptionally, terribly inhumane, and the pakistan goverment's lack of a plan to adress this is embarassing

[yet-another-heathen]

[hagiomoto]

I'm not reading whatever Americans and Europeans say in good faith because you people are dipshits who constantly think people in the Global South as lesser everyday

Shut the fuck up with you "let's all be niceys" fuck you in particular

[nyantara]

what are we grieving and upset about in particular? everyone in a climate lit class knows climate change is real, the point of climate literature is to turn that into art that will get read by other people. truthfully from that perspective it does in fact "fuck severely" to find an article about something visceral and visually cool happening when all you want to have is a cool dystopian premise and get the best grades :)

this kind of voyeurism is not autistic-coded or whatever, its the premise on which much of the art world functions re: other people's lives and the instrumentalising of it. there's awful genocide literature about the holocaust. this attitude just gets magnified and is more common when racism is there to dehumanize the subjects.

btw real life example of you call a bitch racist and suddenly they're autistic accusations.

[bunniehunn]

[cleaningouttherooms]

its wild the degree to which people talk about reading and eating in similar terms - the concept of a "reading diet", of "media consumption", the idea of certain stories as "empty calories" or "fast food" and some as "eating your vegetables", the moralization of both as personal failings, the framing of health with the specter of degeneration if not complied with... the idea that there are things that are sensorily pleasant and that you find yourself craving, and there are things that sustain you, and those are not the same things. the framing of literacy as reading the correct way and taking away the correct meaning from a text. according to nutritional guidelines

[narcissa-black-supermacy]

i thought the “this is the face that launched a thousand ships, although now it would maybe be five-hundred.” line was just an internet joke but apparently that's a line Menelaus actually says in Nolan's Odyssey??

Not only that the language itself sounds straight out of a marvel forcibly funny haha moment, but Menelaus? The Menelaus who all thoughout human history, from Homer, to Sappho, to Euripides, to Virgil, to Shakespeare, to Brooke, to Barth; from Classical vases to Medieval poetry to Reinessance art, has been known as the man whose sword fell from his hands at the sight of his wife after 10 years apart?

"What joy for me to hold my wife" Menelaus?

"He flung the sword away, and kissed her feet" Menelaus?

"I believe all. I understand nothing. I love you" Menelaus?

"I have no fault to find; my wife, he daughter of Zeus and Leda, is mine again, she whom her brothers on their snow-white steeds, whilst torches blazed, made my happy bride, but gods removed her from my home." Menelaus?

The Menelaus who was picked out of the suitors by Helen herself? The Menelaus who couldn't kill a begging Trojan so his brother had to do it for him? The Menelaus who rescued Odysseus and got out Patroclus' body? The Menelaus who volounteered to fight Paris one on one so everybody could go home? Who kept expressing his guilt about himself being the cause of war through every assembly he spoke at in the Iliad? Who after 10 years away at Troy, took his wife through a 7-year long journey at sea back home, where he reinstated her as the queen of Sparta? Who wept like a child in front of Telemachus recalling the war and his brother and all the friends he lost and the only consolation being his wife' gentle hand on his?

You want me to believe that man scarred Helen's face and called her only worth half the ships because of it?

I'm actually physically sick just thinking about it.

[gardenofdelete998]

pillows have stopped having a cold side some time ago

[autoneurotic]

wanted all my horses in one basket, as it were

[blckgirlacid]

Doing weird stretches in your room is so important.

[drtrinitysantos]

the kids are calling them "stone fruits." they start off small—think cherries. then they're hooked and they need a quick fix, they get peaches, maybe some nectarines. it's all they can think about. before you know it, they're trying the really hard stuff—apricots, plums. once they taste a mango there's no going back.