boygoth:

Adrianne Lenker for The New York Times

caveleaf:

bish0ps:

lamignonette:

ariaste:

snarklordofthesith:

museenkuss:

the-venereal-bede:

THE advantage of memorizing poetry is that when somethings happening, maybe even you’re in a situation or a location, you can just go “ok. lady of shallott time” and boom. you reclaimed your mental space and attention for YOU for the next ten minutes

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

i know this is humorous but! i learned from one of my college friends (who learned from a therapist) that reciting a poem you have memorized is a great grounding & focusing technique when you’re spiraling into anxiety or panic. i can personally attest that The Tyger has staved off several panic attacks.

so like if said “situation or location” is freaking you out really badly, “lady of shallott time” can help reclaim your mental health too

Ok everybody share what poems you can recite in case we’re trapped in an elevator.

I’ve got the first 42 lines of The Canterbury Tales in Middle English, the first 10 lines of Beowulf in Old English, the first canto of Tolkien’s Lay of Beren and Luthien, and Sonnet XVI by Pablo Neruda (“I love the handful of the earth you are”). I used to have the Proem of the Kalevala but I’m a bit shaky on it it now and I think i’ve only got the first two sentences. Anda handful of others I half-remember which i could probably do if I were with someone else who half-remembered the same ones and we could prompt each other back and forth.

doveghost:

friendlynoodles:

The Sillies, acrylic on claybord panel, 2022-2025.

there’s a raccoon in there

voynichs:

Exclusive | Librarians under attack from wave of creepy kinksters and fetishists sexually harassing them at work: ‘We do not get paid enough

Sexual harassment is the scarcely known plight of folks in librarianship, a female-dominated field comprised of 89% women. 

New York Post

nypost is by and large a rag but im glad there is finally some place talking about this.

I know SO many people who have been victims of these specific kinds of phone calls and i know its only a matter of time until I am too.

mitchelldraws:

<THE SIBLING HAS GONE ROGUE/FISHING>

deathstars:

It’s shameful…to be this age and still not know yourself.

Stanley Tucci as Cardinal Aldo Bellini in CONCLAVE

wuntrum:

obligatory neck tattoo drawing

aaronstveit:

the raven cycle is hilarious because blue and gansey are living in a coming of age romcom and adam and ronan are living in a supernatural horror film and then when they all hang out it immediately turns into an 80s treasure hunting brotherhood flick. and then they go their separate ways and adam and ronan immediately start battling the horrors again while blue and gansey eat yogurt

hoechloin:

expressions-of-nature:

Karachay-Cherkessia Mountains by Armen Zakharov

lucrezianoin:

one of the best edits i have ever seen by uhbucky on tiktok

theydjarin:

“The hearts of men are easily corrupted.”
Wake Up Dead Man (2025) & Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Bonus for @mykingdomforasong: