Fish Do Not Have Shoulders

“if you gave me the chance I’d love you until the last star in the universe blinks away”

— let us try by Abby S

Humans Are Weird

So there has been a bit of “what if humans were the weird ones?” going around tumblr at the moment and Earth Day got me thinking. Earth is a wonky place, the axis tilts, the orbit wobbles, and the ground spews molten rock for goodness sakes. What if what makes humans weird is just our capacity to survive? What if all the other life bearing planets are these mild, Mediterranean climates with no seasons, no tectonic plates, and no intense weather? 

What if several species (including humans) land on a world and the humans are all “SCORE! Earth like world! Let’s get exploring before we get out competed!” And the planet starts offing the other aliens right and left, electric storms, hypothermia, tornadoes and the humans are just … there… counting seconds between flashes, having snowball fights, and just surviving. 

Summer haze

“August of another summer, and once again

I drink the sun

and the lilies are spread across the water”

-Mary Oliver, from Felicity, The Pond

The Imitation Game (2014)

Francesco Hayez (Italian, 1791-1882)

Vengeance is Sworn, 1851

Great Lake Aesthetic (requested by livinglikeocean)

‘Cause darling I’m a nightmare dressed like a very gay hobo with stress issues.

not to sound like a victorian woman suffering from hysteria but i do think going to the sea would fix me

Can you believe that there are people who live so close to the ocean that they can just think “hey, I should go to the ocean” and then they just do???

actually i think graduates of a university should have access to the library databases forever and ever amen