#natural imagery

[inkliinng]

'𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓, 𝑹𝒖𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏,' 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅.

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒊𝒅-𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈.

'𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒂 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔,' 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅.

'𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒖𝒑. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏'𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒍𝒆𝒇𝒕. 𝑺𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒈𝒊𝒏.'

This book and its charming little subversions of plot. Its playful refusal to be pigeon-holed into any classification. Its absolutely unpredictable nature. I'm shaking my head as I write this. It's not extraordinary or monumental by any means. It's just a piece of pure defiant whimsy. It reminded me at times of the novels of P.G. Wodehouse, that air of general chaos and tragic hilarity, the ability to sandwich genuine sorrow between comedy.

There was frequent flitting from subject to event to memory, past and present, and even locations. There was equally frequent hopscotching between genres. This novella is part memoir (how true we cannot say), part nature writing, part gothic fiction (murderous kings and little boys, forbidding mysterious nuns, ghosts of cherubic little girls, need I say more?), part murder mystery and intrigue, part romantic drama with a side of adultery (or was it the other way round?), and a huge dollop of comedy throughout. Readers may enjoy the book or absolutely hate it- because there is not even the pretence of a plot. All that does justice to it's title is the fact that the narrator inevitably always returns to the lodestone that is the Maharani from his ramblings into other topics and territories.

The only constant throughout apart from the queen was the comedic timing, and as if the author realized this, he quite surprised me with the mood of the ending. This isn't a book that has grown dear to me in the reading of it, but it definitely was a good time and a laugh- most of the time.

Music: Aap Ki Aankhon Mei Kuch- Kishore Kumar

[kimiko24]

Night Hunt & Night Hunt 2 (via John Brosio)

[lost-wits]

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[slushyseals]

What'cha thinkin' about?

[unrememberedrooms]

statues i found on the grounds of a retreat house | 11/9/23

[sp3cialgirl]

[grainelevator]

Earth fractals from above

[a-dream-seeking-light]

Impact crater on Mars

In the southern highlands of Mars, CaSSIS spotted ancient and eroded craters filled with sediment. This is the case of this relatively old, 15 km diameter crater in Tyrrhena Terra, showing its age in its flattened rim – younger craters have sharper, more defined rims – and the degraded ejecta blanket.

There is a central uplift section to the crater, as well as many smaller craters, which also suggests an advanced age.

Beautiful dark dunes appear in contrast with wind-blown, pinkish ripples winding their way around the terrain.

Like most CaSSIS imagery, the colours in this image are stretched to highlight the diversity of surface composition.

CREDIT ESA/TGO/CaSSIS

[strawberry-s0ap]

falin x marcille (dungeon meshi) stimboard for anon!

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[beatriceportinari]

Oyster, origami, one square of paper. Loosely modelled on the black-lip pearl oyster.

[kimiko24]

Let's forge our own fate

[qui-gg]

Payjay Boat 2

[psalmlover]

angels in nature 🪽

[cryptic-science]

SACRED

pigeons are like angels to me.

[total time: 17 hours 58 minutes]

[cappymightwrite]

Can anyone reccommend any good Jonsa vids that don't really feature/reference the R*msay s5 storyline, please? Or at least keep it to a minimum? But crucially, I just find the wedding and aftermath etc. very upsetting, and it's why I'll never write show canon!

I'm just trying to reimmerse myself in the Jonsa mindset atm because... I've suddenly had a burst of writing inspiration! I was really struggling with the starting point scene of chapter 3 of My Maid of Stone, the scene that, in my writing process, everything else unfolds from... but... I think I've finally found it. So thank you for the lovely response to my last post — I think it contributed!

Anyway, though I'd like to branch out, my go-to Jonsa vids are:

So if anyone has any good recs, I'd love to hear them!

Cappy x

[luffys-basement]

germa siblings before The hairgel