You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it’s hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it’s better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can’t write anybody’s book but your own.
Cheryl Strayed (via dejsong)
Yes! This is up there with the Amy Poehler thing about doing things right now, before you’re ready, because great people do things before they are ready.
(via thewomanofkleenex)
roll d12 to determine snowfall severity
Elderly man knitting garments during drive to provide goods to servicemen during the war.
It wasn’t until reading the second issue of The Search that I remembered that the 2x3-foot map of the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe that I drew last year is still available here as a 300 dpi, unflattened, print-quality Photoshop file.
Mending sail on the German four-masted steel barque Magdalene Vinnen.
In 1945, this ship was awarded to the Soviet Union as war compensation and renamed (dun dun dun...) SEDOV. It is now the largest operational tall ship in existence.
Photo by Samuel J. Hood, 1933 or maybe 1935.
...a Christmas story by the author of Pippi Longstocking.
dicksihavestudied submitted to medievalpoc:
I apologize if you already have this, but I think you might want this cat licking its butt as a medieval reaction.
Thomas of Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, France ca. 1290.
Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 320, fol. 72r
I think this just stands on its own, to be honest. I know my day just got a little brighter.
so many great tall ship photos, so few captions :(
mako with mako in the mako on a mako
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