Me Reblogging This As A Stone

big fan of these photos I took with a fisher price camera when I was like 8

Liza Sivakova, ‘Anxiety’, Oil on canvas

"May thy riot gear chip and shatter"

Seen inside the occupied Portland State University library, where student protesters are preparing for a police raid

“The things which the child loves remains in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remember those places regardless of time and place.”

— Kahlil Gibran, letter to Nakhli Gibran, 15 March 1908, Kahlil Gibran: A Self Portrait, ed. 7 transl. Anthony R. Ferris (Citadel, 1959)

It seemed to me that I had dreamt about her once, when I was a boy or a teenager: a dream with the scent of orange trees in blossom.

– Agustín Cadena, from “Murillo Park,” Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic (Small Beer Press, 2011)

Children, like adults, were caught up in war fever after hostilities broke out in August 1914. Many wanted to join the Army, including nine-year-old Alfie Knight from Dublin. Alfie wrote this letter to Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener, volunteering as a front-line despatch rider. In a reply sent by his private secretary, Lord Kitchener thanked Alfie for his offer, but explained that he was 'not yet quite old enough to go to the front'. 

Kibong Rhee - The last seduction, 2020

Hi there! I was wondering if you knew of any if’s that were Viking inspired? Or similar to the Exile , or high fantasy? Y’all have provided so many good recommendations - thank you very much and have a great day!

Hi there! Here are interactive fictions that are Viking inspired or set in the Viking age. If anyone has any further suggestions, please feel free to send us a message and we’ll add them to the list, thank you!

Choice of the Viking by Declan Taggart

Diaspora by @diasporatheblog

Hidden World by @hidden-world-if

Norteigr by @norteigr-if

The Lost Kingdom by @thelostkingdom-if

there is soooo much beauty in being a good person