Do You Ever See Someone And Think Thousands Of Poems Must Have Been Written About You

Nicolás de Tolentino (detail) by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, 1601.

Not to be gay on main.... But all I want is to live in a small medieval town. I'm the town baker. My bakery is my home and I'm always wearing an apron and covered in flour.

Nextdoor is a forge, and I am very close with the blacksmith that works there. Every morning I bring him a freshly baked loaf of bread. As I hand it to him our hands touch briefly. His hands are rough, yet they're so careful and gentle with everything he touches. I secretly want him to be that gentle with me.

One day, he walks into my bakery, he's still sweaty from the intense heat of the forge. In his hands is a small dagger in it's sheath. He hands it to me and tells me it's to protect myself if needed.

I take the dagger out of it's sheath. It's beautifully made. There are intricate designs engraved into the metal. It's so much more complicated than anything else yeah blacksmith has ever made. It must've been so time consuming to make.

I look up at him and with just one look I understand why he's giving it to me. With one look we both understand that we love each other. He leans in and kisses me. It's so soft and sweet, and gentle.

He comes by every day to get a loaf of bread and kiss me. We keep our relationship a secret. And everyone wonders why neither of us have found wives. But we know exactly why. And we're completely content with being secret lovers.

Is that really too much to ask?

Palazzo Medici Riccardi: Courtyard

Via Camillo Cavour, Florence

The Javan Stingaree (Urolophus javanicus) has become the first species of marine fish declared extinct in modern times. The IUCN has declared the Javan Stingaree extincted after an assessment led by an international team of scientists.

Stingaree are round rays native to the western Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, with 21 species know to science. The Java Stingaree was known only from a single specimen collected in 1862 from a fish market in Jakarta, Indonesia. In the present, the habitat where this species was known to occur, is heavily industrialised, with extensive, long-term habitat loss and degradation. Researchers carried out new ecological models to understand current distribution and tendency to find out the specie is virtually extinct, likely by the intensive and unregulated fishing, and habitat loss.

Photo credit: Edda Aßel, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.

More at IUCN

Dark academic media because it’s autumn

Films

• Harry Potter: boarding school, magic, cozy

• Dead Poet Society: boarding school, forlorn, rich

• Twilight: bitter, terrible, autumn-y (mock it loudly whilst watching to make it worth while)

• Good Will Hunting: deep, cerebral, engaging

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream: classic, dreamy

• The Spiderwick Chronicles: monsters, childhood

• The Black Cauldron: disney classic, creepy, fun

• Kill Your Darlings: Murder, university, morality

• Hocus Pocus: witchy, nostalgic, light-hearted

• Coraline: trippy, weird, childlike, buzzing

• The Corpse Bride: drab, gentle, strange

• Dorian Gray: rich, ben barnes, terrible mentors

• Sleepy Hollow: grim, ghostly, casually haunting

• Crimson Peak: creepy, strange, dim, opulent

Shows

• The Queen’s Gambit: intelligent, new, riveting

• Peaky Blinders: dark, illegal 1910s shenanigans

• Sherlock Holmes (BBC): cerebral, mystery, witty

• Gilmore Girls: nostalgic, private school, literature

• Criminal Minds: mystery, crime, casual viewing

• Sabrina the Teenage Witch: nostalgic, light, witchy

• Scooby Doo Where Are You?: cozy, mystery, kids

• The Haunting of Bly Manor: dark, creepy, engaging

Books and short stories

• The Secret History: university, murder, morality

• Jane Eyre: classic, ghostly, romanticism

• Frankenstein: classic, gothic, sci-fi, morality

• Dracula: classic, gothic, horror

• Stalking Jack the Ripper: gothic, horror, victorian

• Sherlock Holmes: classic, mystery, cozy

• Ninth House: horror, necromancy, morality

• The Yellow Wallpaper: psychologically haunting, short story, morality

• Murder on the Orient Express: classic, mystery, whodunit

• Harry Potter: cozy, magic, boarding school

• The Night Circus: whimsical, magic, romance

• A Deadly Education: boarding school, magic, horror

• Rebecca: psychological, morality, relationships

• Crime and Punishment: classic, heavy, morality

• War and Peace: classic, opulent, heavy

Podcasts

• Spirits (Multitude): drunk mythology

• The Bright Sessions: audio drama surrounding fictional therapy sessions with magically gifted individuals

• Critical Role: DnD with famous voice actors

• Welcome to Nightvale: paranormal small town audio drama told in the style of an evening radio show

• Crime Junkie: true crime

• TEDTalksDaily: short TEDTalks posted each day about a wide variety of topics

• Potterless: grown man reads the Harry Potter series for the first time

Songs

• Master & a Hound - Gregory Alan Isakov: soft, indie, bittersweet

• I Know Places - Lykke Li: heavy, indie, sad

• Since I Saw Vienna - Wilbur: soft, indie, sad

• Cherry Wine - Hozier: bittersweet, cozy, indie

• To Be Alone - Hozier: heavier, entrancing, indie

• Who Will Carry You - Adam Jones & K.S. Rhoads: hopeful, soft, sad

• Scotland - The Lumineers: self-sufficient, indie, bittersweet

• Falling Water - Peter Oren: heavy, sad, deep

• The Night We Met - Lord Huron: soft, kind, nostalgic

• Ms - alt-J: soft, surrounding, nostalgic, dreamlike

• Oh My Dear - The Head and the Heart: soft, lulling, gentle

• Blood Bank - Bon Iver: soft, bittersweet, snowy

• September Song - Agnes Obel: soft, instrumental

• Gnossienne no.4 - Erik Satie: spooky, instrumental

• Golden - Riley Baron: light, rich, juvenile

• Murder Song - AURORA: eloquent, upset, fairylike

• Ella - Myrkur: nordic, elemental, raw

• If I Had a Heart - Fever Ray: dark, roaming, sure

• Who’s With Us - Current Swell: sad, lonely, soft

• Sleep on the Floor - The Lumineers: textured, lazy

• Helvegen - Wardruna: nordic, echoing, thunderous

• Jenny of Oldstones - Ginny Di: old, soft, sweeping

• Nothing Arrived - Villagers: so, so sad…with honey

great-grandmother Olga’s blouse on a rain-swept autumnal morning.

ig: rosenaufsuden

Human brain: Love takes time. You’re not going to meet the perfect person for you randomly tomorrow. And even if you did, it would take time for love to develop. You need to be patient. It’ll be worth it when you finally find your perfect someone.

Monkey brain, repeatedly slamming fist on table: I want a boyfriend, NOW! I want affection, NOW! I want cuddles and kisses and cute fluffy moments, rIgHt FuCkInG nOw!

idea for all my peeps stuck between the Dark Academia and Cottage Core aesthetic:

Dark Cottage Core

- dark earthy colours, flowy clothes

- lots of books about botany, bugs, and poisons

- making wine out of grapes and dandelions you grew yourself

- hiking boots

- having no pets but you always leave snacks outside for the birds and deer, eventually a stray cat wanders in and makes itself at home

- old manors covered in overgrown vines

- elf ears + fangs

- pressed flowers between old dictionaries

- hanging flowers from the rafters

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