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laughter is only anxiety made audible

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aqua-regia009

Moonlit beauty. Luis Ricardo Falero paintings inspo.
by omnifantasmic

all humanity between the stars only in darkness light

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urgetocreate

Iris Scott, After the Snow Fell, Oil on canvas

winter fell softly stuff of dreams

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nemfrog

“The little dot we live on.” The Book of knowledge. v. 7. 1912.

Internet Archive

all humanity between the stars

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millivedder

And into the woods I go, to lose my mind and find my soul

trees! i miss my forest!

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worshipthesquid

Dragon Study by Lily Seika Jones [source]

[ID: a coloured intricate ink drawing of a green-scaled dragon, its front leg-wings folded down like a pterodactyl’s. whirls of smoke emerge from its nostrils and in one corner is an entwined pair of branches with round red fruit. the drawing is surrounded with a naturalist’s annotations. from the head down these read: “the DRAGON / L. Draco / Range: Common in Europe and Asia, but can be found worldwide / Many breathe fire or toxic fumes / > Keen eyesight / Dragons can have multiple heads, and posess 2-6 legs / Lifespan: unknown / Twisting horns. / dorsal spines / They fear the shade of the peridexion tree. / Dragons Blood: known to posess magical properties but also toxic. / Typically scaled, sometimes with feathers. / Diet: livestock, large mammals, maidens / European dragons in particular are known to have a pair of leathery wings like a bat. / Habitat: caves, mountains, marshes, rivers, abandoned castles / The tail is very long and powerful / Behaviour: Nocturnal, hunts at night. Usually guards treasure underground or in an abandoned castle. > Can be both benevolent and evil. Highly intelligent*. end ID]

chiefest and greatest of calamities the art people do

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an incomplete list of incredibly powerful things

libraford

any group of three or more people speaking in a huddle, at a crossroads.
decorative statues in shopping malls.
a well-executed pun
“Take it back now, y’all”
knowing one’s own limits and still flourishing within them
meals shared with friends, particularly an impromptu potluck.
a sigil taped to the bottom of a supervisor’s desk.
insults, taken as compliments.
unfinished manuscripts, found in long-abandoned journals.
colored glass bottles obtained via scavenging
words overheard in a crowded room without context
scraps of paper containing the fragments of a personal note
pieces of jewelry found discarded on the side of the road
the hour between 10am and 11am on a Saturday.
anything found in a small child’s pants pocket
lists
a piece of receipt paper stuck to the bottom of your foot
‘If you have a structured settlement and you need cash now’
Any statement followed by the phrase “Listen….”
the urge to throw something important (phone, keys, credit card) into a drainage grate.

true things

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allthingslinguistic

Hey, literature folks. Have y'all noticed that people are using kennings again? I mean, sea pancake, danger noodle, sea roomba.

How’s that different from describing the sea as the whale-road or gannet’s bath?

THIS IS SO FUCKING AWESOME. I love kennings.

- Kylo Bean on twitter

achtervulgan315

What’s really cool is that these kennings accomplish nearly the exact opposite of classical kennings. Sea Pancake and Danger Noodle and Sea Roomba function as familiarizers or diminutives—they make the actual thing seem friendlier and more local.

Classic kennings like Whale-Road and Gannet’s Bath function as a way to make the mundane and normal more epic and dramatic and cool…

It’s crazy how the same device, with thousands of years of separation, are used for nearly opposite purposes!

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