this boop thing feels like staff have thrown a ball into the enclosure and everyone is having the time of their lives with it

Horace Champagne (Canadian, b. 1937)

by desertarrowphotography

Samuel Read - An Evil Omen (1878)

i don’t know how to articulate this, but i can’t shake the feeling that boygenius are taylor swift for alt bi white girls

Kate Bush—outtakes from Hounds of Love album cover shoot

the what to expect community is such a depressing place. like i’m on there trying to feel less alone in pregnancy by connecting with other people going through the same life experience as me. but all the posts are like

“how much weight have you gained??”

“i’m 28 weeks pregnant and i work full time with two toddlers and i do all the cooking and cleaning and my husband complained the house isn’t clean enough”

“my family is mad at me because i don’t want them to meet the baby until after 2 weeks have past” comments: “i’d be upset too, stop being selfish they’re just excited to see their grandchild and they’re entitled to that”

“gender disappointment: i just wanted a little girl i can dress up in pretty clothes but i’m having another boy”

“my husband is mad at me because i don’t feel like having sex” comments: “i know but men have needs and if you don’t do it then he’ll go elsewhere”

etc.

like the hetero women are not ok

'fairies dont exist' WRONG❗❗cyerce elegans

Beautiful vintage book spines

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Sydney Mortimer Laurence (American, 1865–1940)

your own. personal. spongebob.

someone who can't breathe air.

someone who's square.

Illustrations from Stories from Hans Christian Andersen by Edmund Dulac (1911)

“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; but that’s where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.”

– Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

girl help they are making me do my job at work

“I’m turning forty in August. Three kids, full time job. All my kids are under the age of seven. The amount of mental energy it takes, you know, juggling all of them and the constant questions about nothing. I mean, mom is busy, please, just give me a second. My husband tells me that it’s just the season we’re in. We’ll get back to it. But I just want it to slow down so I can pause and breathe. Everything just changes so fast, you know? When you’re a little kid, and you turn into a teenager, it’s like: ‘Oh, I’m changing now.’ But you’ve been coached. You’re prepared for it. Then you go from teenager to college. That’s a big change. Then from college into your twenties, still changing. But at some point you kinda feel like I’m an adult, and I’m done. But you just keep going. It’s like oh shit, no, no, I’m going to keep changing. And these aren’t like the earlier changes. These aren’t the ones you get to plan for. Well some of them are, like: ‘We’re moving to a new place.’ Or ‘I’m going to get a new job.’ Those you can be ready for. But as you get older shit starts getting thrown at you that you’re not planning for. Dodgeballs. And you’ve just got to pivot. And all of the sudden you realize, that moment in time, right before the dodgeball, that was the last time you saw the old you. And you didn’t even get to say goodbye.”