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The Secret Garden 🌹

Mary finds the door to the secret garden with the help of the little robin!

Based on the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Everyone is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed… well almost everyone…

Another fairy with some squirrels!

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One thing that pisses me off is people seeing fish in aquariums (the establishments, not home aquariums) and being like “It’s so sad because the ocean is so big and the tank is so small and they’ll never know freedom blah blah blah-“ I’m not talking about sharks and marine mammals here but the majority of fish are not at all bothered by being in an aquarium instead of the open ocean. Like, I personally would love to be a little clown fish in one of those big reef tanks. Fed regularly. Whole team of people monitoring my health and well-being. No predators. Medicated if I show signs of illness. Aquarium fish have cushy gigs in comparison to their wild companions.

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If there was a way to run SUPER MEGA AD BLOCKER on this website I fucking would

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“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

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The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.

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It’s such a curious thing to know yourself so intimately- and yet know nothing about how the people around you perceive you in their minds.

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The inexplicable urge to want people to know everything about me while also not wanting to burden anyone is a god awful paradox that I wish to remove myself from.

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Saw this on Pinterest and thought I’d share it again because I think this is important.

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european folklore | creatures ii

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do you have any favourite quotes about the sea or lighthouses?

some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea / what this means is that I don’t know / desire other than the need / to be shattered & rebuilt— 

— Ocean Vuong, from “My Father Writes From Prison”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

I close my eyes. I only hear the ocean.

— Reinaldo Arenas, Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba

— Adonis, from “Candlelight”, Selected Poems

— Pablo Neruda, from “Here I Love You”, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

(…) the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.

— Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to Theo van Gogh, November, 1876

— Mary Oliver, from “Swimming, One Day in August”, Red Bird

— Lorna Knowles Blake, from “Sketches of Lorca”

— Derrick Brown, from “Le Monde Du Silence”, Strange Light

And I saw the abyss embrace our days, the abyss through whose cracks I heard the sounds of the nearby sea,

— Adonis, from “Candlelight”, Selected Poems

Then, as if breathing, the sea swelled beneath us. If you must know anything, know that the hardest task is to live only once.

— Ocean Vuong, from “Immigrant Haibun”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

— Saddiq Dzukogi, from “A Pond of Alcohol”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910

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How do you kill a God?

Aphrodite laughs, head tossed back with stars in her hair, ‘We are immortal. We are ageless. We will never die.’ 

How do you kill a God?

Hera sighs, ‘You rob them of love and loyalty. They will be alone and unhappy, and eternity will seem like a punishment, but it is not death.’ 

How do you kill a God?

Zeus declares, rather confidently, ‘You deny them their power. Poseidon nods his head in agreement. ‘They will be weak and defeated, perhaps even chopped up into pieces, but it is not death.’ 

How do you kill a God?

Apollo closes his eyes. ‘You strip them of their senses. Their eyes, and they cease to see. Their ears, and they are rendered silent. They will be in the dark, conscious and cut off for millennium, but it is not death.’

How do you kill a God?

Hades whispers, though still his voice carries, ‘With another God. An immortal for an immortal. Era for an Era. A celestial being to strip another’s soul. He pauses, the rest are silent. ‘A God for a God.’

L.H.Z // How do you kill a God?

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Dark Academia Things I Would Love To Do But Can't Because Uni Sucks (:

Sit out on the terrace in the morning, drinking coffee and journaling as I start my day off slowly and mindfully

Sketching with my windows open, my records playing gently in the background while a breeze enters my room

Lighting candles for when I do my work, a warm cup of tea at the ready

Lighting candles for when I'm taking a long, hot bath

Lighting candles

Early morning walks in the mist of my neighbourhood

Practising my Latin and Irish, sketching out their beautiful words with my fountain pen and parchment

Curling beside my fireplace, reading for hours on end...

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books to educate yourself about racism

As protests against injustice in legal system, discrimination, police brutality spread through the US, it is necessary to educate yourself about these issues. 

Here are just a few book recommendations (there are so much more out there), include both non-fiction and fiction about racism and challenges that black people face throughout their lifetimes. 

Thank you so much for more recs. Below are some more amazing book recommendations from the comments:

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates

Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated by Richard Rothstein

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Policing the Black Man by Angela Davis

At The Hands of Persons Unknown by Philip Dray

Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

What Set Me Free by Bryan Banks 

Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams 

Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas 

Beloved by Toni Morrison 

The short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace By Jeff Hobbs

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin 

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

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I have no idea why but this little face :D makes me so happy.

:D :D :D