holy shit, the internet

Gustave Doré - "Loch Lomond" (1875)

Reference: “Quiller Wheel” by Stephen Quiller (👈link)

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.

black bears ʕ-ᴥ-ʔ

Connor Storrie on For All Mankind For All Mankind, S05E08

(AO3)

Eurasian bullfinch/domherre. Värmland, Sweden (28 April 2018).

The Martian (2015) dir. Ridley Scott // Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

‘This… stuff’? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select… I don’t know… that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise. It’s not lapis. It’s actually cerulean. And you’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent… wasn’t it who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff. The Devil Wears Prada (2006) dir. David Frankel

sergei + untranslatable russian words

I OWN YOU. SO HANG ON AND ENJOY THE RIDE.

An Armchair with low back, designed for the Billiards and Smoking Rooms, Argyle Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1898-99

14x01 Stranger In A Strange Land