disce quasi semper victurus, vive quasi cras morit

What are some things that turn on?

“I touch you, I am created in you somewhere as a complex filament of light”

“““You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.””

mediterranean cats are really living the dream

laying around in the sun near the sea all day, doing nothing but cuddling and sleeping

and occasionally dealing with romantic drama:

The saiga antelope is not a particularly well-known endangered species, but they are nonetheless important to their local ecosystem. This is an amazing comeback for them, particularly after the terrible die-offs they faced in 2015.