Tree roots following the pattern of concrete footpaths

-The monastery of George. Cape Fiolent-

To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.

-Pandora-

HEY that's MY emotional support morally ambiguous misunderstood full of trauma touch starved yearning for love drenched in blood responsible for numerous atrocities comfort character who is TRYING & u will TREAT them with RESPECT

i highly recommend for women and girls to be intellectually curious and difficult to shame

Moonlit Scene, Houses at Night, Léon Bonvin, 1864

Lucrezia Borgia by Pinturicchio

Detail from the Disputation of St Catherine of Alexandria

First base is beating the shit out of each other second base is having a civil conversation

i have not booped half of you as well as i would have liked, and i have booped half of you half as well as you deserve.

Frida Kahlo, from a letter written in 1934, featured in "The Letters of Frida Kahlo,"

Şahinbey Millet Camii

Photos by my friend in Turkey.

Me after a long day booping my beloved mutuals.

i love studying. i love writing. i love reading. i love learning languages. i love doing mathematics. i love wandering over some particular sum and trying to come up with formulas to solve it. i love physics. i love biology. i love chemistry. i love history. i love literature. i love learning.

not to achieve the perfect grades ever. but it just amazes me that there's so much to know and learn and write and read about in the universe. my curiosity wouldn't get enough of it.

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Illustration for Cinderella by Elenore Abbott (1875-1935)