nil desperandum

...a ponderous effort to make a simple affair, when rightly understood, a matter of transcendental mystery. -Richard Owen

secretarcticbase:

Crazy-mad-evil-cat-thingee.

secretarcticbase:

Crazy-mad-evil-cat-thingee.

— 1 day ago with 4 notes

jakiiiro:

Photographs taken inside musical instruments making them look like large and spacious rooms.

mierswa kluska.

(via awellwaxedpaperdoorslidesopen)

— 2 days ago with 38599 notes
Amazon:WHAT'S A FANFICTION
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scarygoround:

Alias-themed commission. I loved drawing Victor Garber, what a treat that man is to draw.

scarygoround:

Alias-themed commission. I loved drawing Victor Garber, what a treat that man is to draw.

— 1 week ago with 108 notes

evilsoutherngentleman:

samcat18:

invaderxan:

Take the nerd power back!

Rachel Edidin, editor of Dark Horse Comics staged a revolution to try and usurp the so-called “idiot nerd girl” meme. I find this delightful.

I reblog this every time I see it. Because YES.

Puts assholes in their place. Wins the heart of everyone wonderful.

(via brsis)

— 1 week ago with 10846 notes
beautyandterrordance:

“I wanted to remind people that the lowest types of humanity may have within them the capacity for supreme self-sacrifice. The dwarfed, misshapen beggar of the streets may have the noblest ideals. Most of my roles since The Hunchback of Notre Dame, such as The Phantom of the Opera, He Who Gets Slapped, The Unholy Three, etc., have carried the theme of self-sacrifice or renunciation. These are the stories which I wish to do.” - Lon Chaney

beautyandterrordance:

“I wanted to remind people that the lowest types of humanity may have within them the capacity for supreme self-sacrifice. The dwarfed, misshapen beggar of the streets may have the noblest ideals. Most of my roles since The Hunchback of Notre Dame, such as The Phantom of the Opera, He Who Gets Slapped, The Unholy Three, etc., have carried the theme of self-sacrifice or renunciation. These are the stories which I wish to do.” - Lon Chaney

(via missmorland)

— 2 weeks ago with 243 notes

(Poem #1093Variations on the Word “Sleep”

 I would like to watch you sleeping,
 which may not happen.
 I would like to watch you,
 sleeping. I would like to sleep
 with you, to enter
 your sleep as its smooth dark wave
 slides over my head

 and walk with you through that lucent
 wavering forest of bluegreen leaves
 with its watery sun & three moons
 towards the cave where you must descend,
 towards your worst fear

 I would like to give you the silver
 branch, the small white flower, the one
 word that will protect you
 from the grief at the center
 of your dream, from the grief
 at the center. I would like to follow
 you up the long stairway
 again & become
 the boat that would row you back
 carefully, a flame
 in two cupped hands
 to where your body lies
 beside me, and you enter
 it as easily as breathing in

 I would like to be the air
 that inhabits you for a moment
 only. I would like to be that unnoticed
 & that necessary.

— Margaret Atwood

— 2 weeks ago with 1 note
#Margaret Atwood 

curryuku:

thequeenofpugs:

tardis-blues:

daylate-friend:

what is wrong with pugs.

i mean that in the best way possible.

This is actually really smart of them. They’re so fat and have such little legs that hopping like that is the most efficient way of getting up the stairs. It’s directly comparable to astronauts skipping while on the surface of the moon due to the bloated nature of their suits and the low gravity.

SCREAMS

IM MELTING

(Source: sights-lights-stars-jars, via khaleesi-of-fires)

— 2 weeks ago with 162170 notes
beeseverywhere:

vintagegal:

“The Serenade” by B. Wennerberg, 1914 

WE WERE AT THE BEACH
EVERYBODY HAD MATCHING TOWELS

beeseverywhere:

vintagegal:

“The Serenade” by B. Wennerberg, 1914 

WE WERE AT THE BEACH

EVERYBODY HAD MATCHING TOWELS

(via penthesileas)

— 2 weeks ago with 2502 notes

johnrossbowie:

lastlodge:

I was never restricted. I was never told what to do.

-Ray Harryhausen

 

(via karenhallion)

— 2 weeks ago with 206 notes

watershedplus:

High-speed photographs of ink mixing with water by Alberto Seveso

Via

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— 3 weeks ago with 62549 notes