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““You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”

— Ocean Vuong, from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”

(via lamenade)

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Resentment and Conflict by Inknes

This artist on Instagram // Ko-fi

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Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it everytime.

One For Sorrow, C.Barzak (via perfectquote)

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Bird studies!

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Life magazine, May 3, 1923

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Define Your Grind

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In my memory, it doesn’t end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.

John Green // Paper Towns (via qvotable)

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Even if we could turn back, we’d probably never end up where we started.

(via amargedom)

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Tigers, tigers!

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“Solar System” Quilt, 1876      

Ellen Harding Baker (1847-1886)                    

From Wikipedia: “In 1876, Ellen Harding created the Solar System Quilt to assist her during astronomy lectures. She may be the woman from local newspapers in the winter of 1883–1884, which mentioned that it took seven years for an Iowa woman to embroid the Solar System on a quilt. The quilt has a wool top embellished with wool-fabric applique, wool braid, and wool and silk embroidery. The quilt bears a striking design which resembles illustrations in astronomy books of her period. The quilt shows the sun at the center and the eight planets of our solar system (with indicated orbits around the sun), as well as the asteroid belt. The myriad of stars that exist beyond our solar system are also shown. The Galilean moons of Jupiter, as well as moons of Earth, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus are included, as are Saturn’s rings. A comet with an eccentric orbit is also present - perhaps Halley’s comet which had last been seen in 1835. The quilt is large; it measures 89 x 106 inches (225 cm x 269 cm).

The quilt is currently in possession at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, donated by Patricia Hill McCloy and Kathryn Hill Meardon” (via: wikipedia)

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On the way up…

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Mayflies dancing over the lake, July 2020.

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I have so much of you in my heart.

John Keats (via qvotable)