#i am providence

[hplovecraftmuseum]

One of Lovecraft's most famous quotes, at least amongst his dedicated fans is: " I am Providence, and Providence is myself -together indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!" This was a quote from a letter to James Ferdinand Morton, long-time friend of H. P. Lovecraft's and one of the few people who spent considerable time with him in person. The letter was posted in May 16, 1926. Now one might wonder what and where the "ice-clad peak of Durfee" might exist? Well, Lovecraft was a master of hyperbole. Nearly every statement he ever made has be considered against his habit of resorting to "poetic licence", artfull exaggeration, dry Yankee humor, sardonic sarcasm and just plain boyish fun! Durfee Hill is a wooded park in the town of Glocester, RI consisting of an area of 1176 acres. The actual "Hill" hardly rises to anything like those in the Appalachian range. Visitors are warned on many sites to avoid visiting the place in the fall because it in infested with hunters at that time! Well, Durfee Hill at 801 feet at its peak wouldn't cast much of a shadow - except in the highly active imagination of H. P. Lovecraft! In fact since the whole area hovers at around 600 feet about sea level the peak can't be particularly imposing. Pictured below top rt. Is a painting by Nicholas Roerich. To the left is a contemporary poster depicting HPL'S AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. To the right below is a photo taken by your curator of the gates of Brown University. To the left of course is Lovecraft himself as a young man. Here he wears the dead-pan expression common to the majority of his portraits. (Exhibit 523)

[muffinlance]

My baby daughter got her adorable puffin-print dress absolutely CAKED in mud crawling around the yard and my first thought was "oh no her beautiful dress"

And my second thought was "oh huh it really WOULD be easy to unconsciously steer her away from playing in the dirt. Unlike my son, whose outfits are usually some kind of solid dark easily washed pants plus a shirt that doesn't trail in the dirt like a dress does."

Anyway something something gender roles start getting shoved on kids from literal birth, but with a little time to think about things, YOU TOO can let your children of any gender absolutely destroy their clothes in the dirt pit they're digging in your garden

[fremulon]

forget Resting Bitch Face, I have Resting Competent Face. People see me and think ah yes she can point me to the nearest train station. Fellow grocery shoppers ask if I know what kind of butter they should buy. If a strange man speaks to me on the street it is literally always an inquiry and never a catcall. Once someone randomly asked me what an equinox was and after I told her she nodded and said "you seemed like you'd know." why am I assigned oracle at random interaction

[pastadoughie]

[cappadocius]

Reblog for a bigger sample size.

Say in the tags what you voted for and if you live in or outside of the US

[kelkilou]

I didn't take part in Summer Vees Week, and all the art was super cute - but whenever I saw the group drawn at an earth-like beach this is honestly all I could think about-

[northgazaupdates]

The UN has made the claim that they distribute food in Gaza twice a week. They have made similar claims several times, explaining that hunger is still an issue because they are only able to distribute food two times a week.

However, some on the ground in north Gaza say this statement is dishonest. When the UN makes these statements, it implies that it is servicing the entire Gaza Strip. They are not. Due to Israeli blockade, absolutely no aid of any kind has reached northern Gaza in about two months.

People in northern Gaza are starving to death because there is no food, none. Some report having to make bread out of animal feed, eat cardboard, and drink seawater and dirty puddles. What little food can be scrounged up is not enough to support anyone’s nutritional needs, let alone those of 800,000 people.

If people in the central and southern regions are still starving, even with the UN and partners brining in food twice a week, imagine the state of people in the north. If even adults in the north are reporting severe hunger pains, imagine what children are experiencing.

The point of this post is not *necessarily* to lambast the UN, although there is plenty of reason to do so. Rather, it is to address one source of misunderstanding which is impeding some people’s ability to grasp the full breadth of the catastrophe in the north.

[egophiliac]

But … how the staff swear? We Need to know that too…(of you want of course … love your art and your Amazing humor!!!)

(thank you! :D)

Trein: said 'damn' once when he was sixteen, still lays awake at night in embarrassment about his deplorable lapse in manners.

Vargas: swears like an old-timey carnival strongman. lots of "poppycock" and "what the devil" and an occasional "deuces!" (this makes classes very confusing for poor Deuce)

Crowley: doesn't intentionally swear, but every once in a while he'll, like...put together a presentation on the new staff policies or something that builds up to an acronym which, by complete coincidence, spells out something shockingly depraved.

it happens often enough that you'd think he's doing it on purpose, except. it's Crowley.

Sam: swears in the text, gets away with it because the character reading is always something else

(this is very specific to the Japanese version and probably too meta but I made myself laugh with it, I...I'm sorry)

[courfee]

the complimentary james to this regulus

[shaniacsboogara]

liking dnd is so funny because yeah you play the actual game sometimes but mostly you just think about the game and watch other people play the game and slowly go insane thinking about how much you wish you could play the game and hoping that buying more shiny rocks will fix everything

[hplovecraftmuseum]

One might assume that H. P. Lovecraft's proclamation " I am Providence." was stated with a certain measure of bravado? Actually Lovecraft often referred to himself as, "A non-entity", in letters to friends. Whatever arrogance may have existed in the man died when his marriage failed. Providence was a part of his very identity, the place of his lost but ever treasured childhood. With the death of his parents and grandfather, the loss of his home at 454 Angell Street, the disappearance of his beloved cat, and the numerous rejections by any legitimate major publishing house of his fiction, his failure to graduate high school or attend college, Lovecraft was left with little else but memories. There were his aunts of course, but they were facing the same financial ruin as he. Providence the city, was his only link to anything meaningful. There were the streets he had explored as a boy, the architecture of the city he loved, the accents of the strangers passing by as he climbed the steep sidewalks of College Hill. HPL was the last of the Lovecraft's in America-possibly in the world? In his own time, as his letters to friends attest, he truely felt like a failure, a non-entity. Surely in life he could not have guessed that one day his name would ever be so revered and reviled too as it is today! (Exhibit 222)

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

[antisocialxconstruct]

if you were trapped in a time loop how many repetitions do you think it would take for you to willingly kill another person, knowing there would be no consequences

[quincybf]

2x02/2x07

(inspo)

[squeakadeeks]

hello cookierun nation here are all of the cookie cosplays i humbly offer to ye that ive done so far. love those lil dudes

[teaboot]

I really do believe that God put me on this earth to find hiding spots in airports