Listening To The Same Music I Used To Listen When I Was 14-15 Is Something Else I'm Still Her I'm Nothing

this is not the most relevant of all the criticisms I have but it is the most amusing

Silas Lodge can still be a tumblr sexyman

never give up hope and fear

Silas Lodge could've been a tumblr sexyman and we were robbed and yet we dodged a bullet

There’s so much to unpack here:

Pack of Beakers

Goth Beaker

The Beaker snitching and pointing out the photographer

The Beaker that’s about to unload on the photographer

The terminator strut before the ass whooping and you know he’s moving at speed because of the blur

The ominous feeling that you know this is 3 in the morning

Obsessed forever with the “Two Monks Invent...” series on The Toast by Daniel Mallory Ortberg. It’s one of my internet happy places and I hope it never goes away.

Two Medieval Monks Invent Art

Two Medieval Monks Invent Maps

Two Medieval Monks Invent Some More Art

Two Monks Invent The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Two Monks Illustrate The Old Testament

Two Monks Invent Biblical Art

Two Monks Invent Denominations

Two Monks Invent Dinner Parties

Two Monks Invent Bestiaries

Two Monks Invent Writing

Two Monks Invent Religious Iconography

Two Monks Discover How Tall Women and Horses Are

Two Monks Discuss Alexander the Great

Two Monks Learn How To Draw Hands

Two Monks Invent Renaissance Art

Two Monks Invent Byzantine Art

Two Monks Invent Horses and Armed Warfare

I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

mood: my student after holding her own speculative design workshop

–Beau Taplin

I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

"[...] Seven trees the human fells, ten times seven the storm throws, seven hundred the snow crushes and the avalanches smother, and seven thousand grow, become centennials, age and rot, and it was their only purpose that they lived and bloomed, scattered seeds and died."

Translation from: Waldrausch. Ludwig Ganghofer, 1908.