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california mountain ranges by wilson davis ellis, american c. 1940s-50s.

James Ward

M104, Sombrero Galaxy

Khaled Marwan | The Muse

look at my super heros dawgggggg we goin to die 😫🤯🤣

A rolling wave. Painting details from: Arabesques, by Daniel Adel.

— by Gustave Doré

by Jane Robinson

Girls Dancing Around An Obelisk (Hubert Robert, 1798)

— by Guido Philipp

Examples of a Brocken Spectre, a phenomenon where a person’s giant shadow appears magnified onto clouds miles away. The shadow from the sun behind the person creates a halo, giving it an angelic appearance. This mostly occurs on any misty mountainsides or cloud banks, and can even be seen from aeroplanes.

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

the first link broke, here you go

'The Bridge of Sighs'. Gustave Doré. 1870.

spoke deeply to me.