hey quick PSA but “reading before bed to wind down” only works if you’re normal about books btw. if you aren’t you are going to end up awake at 2:52am after finishing the whole book just trust me on this one
Joan of Arc wearing armour and mounted upon a horse at the head of her troops
by Jules Prater
A cascade of handsaw stars each one different dangling from a brass or sterling solver swan.
Knight who seeks to get injured in combat so she can be tenderly held by her Lady but she keeps absolutely killing it out there and she's too honorable to throw a fight
“The wilderness was not known for letting the foolish return.”
“We don’t have to fall into the same category to be of equal value.”
“A forest floor, the Woodland villagers knew, is a living thing. Vast civilizations lay within the mosaic of dirt: hymenopteran labyrinths, rodential panic rooms, life-giving airways sculpted by the traffic of worms, hopeful spiders’ hunting cabins, crash pads for nomadic beetles, trees shyly locking toes with one another. It was here that you’d find the resourcefulness of rot, the wholeness of fungi.”
“It is difficult for anyone born and raised in human infrastructure to truly internalize the fact that your view of the world is backward.”
“Everybody needed a cup of tea sometimes. Just an hour or two to sit and do something nice, and then they could get back to whatever it was. Find the strength to do both.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built
stamps on algae species. french southern and antarctic lands, issued 1977.