every life is a pile of good things and bad things

(I've run this poll twice before, expanding it significantly for the second run. With about a year passed since that second run, I thought it was time to add another couple hundred names to the list and have another go.)

Ottoman cape and vest, 1890s. Whitaker Auctions.

We really are never going to stop stripping this land bare

if bringing in corporations to mine raw materials from the appalachian mountains was good for the community, appalachia would be known for how happy, healthy, and wealthy the people are.

"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."

(ʘ‿ʘ)ノ✿ “hold my flower”

SCARED

Both of these tags are right. I love when a cat will just put up with your silly human games. They love you and know you love them and are just happy with you.

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817–1900), "The Ninth Wave" (details), 1850

the tower

source

we’re really at that point in the year where no one cares about anything huh

I’m going to miss the Honors Advisor from my university.

This is definitely my favorite email i’ve recieved from a professor, with the subject line “back at it”.

one of my all-time favorite emails