lin·gua·phile

I am having one of those days where I feel like entropy is out to get me, personally, but it is 1am and I have no tears or pain or tiredness left to give so instead of succumbing to despair I am going to pop another painkiller to combat the ongoing migraine-caliber sinus headache, bust out the Emergency Tea even though it’s caffeinated and I don’t have any more milk, fix my auto-save settings so that I don’t lose any more work to my computer’s inexplicable need to shut itself down periodically and without my direction, and KICK ENTROPY IN THE FACE.

“Fairest and Fallen, one more time, greetings and defiance!”

luxheroica:

dragonsroar:

kyrioib:

ossydarling:

crateshya:

sailinginstars:

heyheyitsmarissa:

illcallibrateyourbutt:

happinisutokyu:

real anime hair

this guy has an entire youtube channel dedicated to his hair

im not even kidding

WHAT IF HE COSPLAYED LEGOLAS FROM LORD OF THE RINGS?

MARISSA OMG YES LEGOLASSSSSSSS

LOLI

LOLI LOOK IT’S A BLONDE CANTATA

OH MY GOD

I KNEW IT WAS POSSIBLE.

CFJPOIWMJFWPOIJCMFPWOIJMVCL

magnificent locks

Obviously Roshaun

First thought: ROSHAUN, I FOUND YOU!

Second thought: Shit, this is obviously an impostor-Roshaun, the real Roshaun would never wear such plebeian footwear.

(Source: gudrunensslinspromnight)

dduane:

stressface:

The Fukang Pallasite.  Pallasites are a type of iron meteorite, quite rare, made out of large olivine crystals in an iron-nickel matrix. Olivine is a a magnesium iron silicate quite common in our planet’s subsurface, but which weathers fast when exposed to the surface. An anonymous finder recovered a 1003 kg specimen near Fukang, China in 2000.  These extra-terrestrial gemstones mirror the stellar beauty of the cosmos. The Fukang Pallasite is a specimen that clearly out shines all meteorites of its class.  See more photos here.

Oooo, SPARKLIES.  :)

Is it bad that my first thought on seeing this image was “ooooh WELLAKH!”?

mooncactus:

pyralspite:

Who remembers

Motherfucking Scholastic

Book

Orders

And then the magical travelling romani circus of scholastic would randomly show up and you’d never care to buy any books but they had AWESOME gadgets and toys for sale

at the motherfucking BOOK FAIR

“you’d never care to buy any books”

…wait was I the only one who spent at least 15 bucks a year on books

they were dirt cheap I WASN’T LETTING THAT GET AWAY

(it was the highlight of my year)

Oh man. I got my first copies of So You Want to Be a Wizard, Deep Wizardry, and High Wizardry through the Troll version of these book orders. My parents’ philosophy when I was growing up was that reading and owning books mattered and I am so glad, because without these silly elementary school book fairs (and the big Borders that opened five minutes away from home when I was ten, and is now gone and I wonder what all the other suburban kids do for books), I would not have found the books that have literally shaped and changed my life for the last 12+ years.

miladygrinch:

bookofstars:

galaxyspeaking:

Okay so, after seeing episode 1 and 2, I’m already drowned into Legend of Korra. Can’t wait for the next episode, duuuh !

I just had a revelation. I was talking to MJ about this my incoming Avatar/Idiot problem and I have discovered A THING. You know? Mako is a bit of a Jerk. That is no revelation, but he is also EXACTLY THE KIND OF JERK that I am predisposed to like, or at least sympathise with, before most people do. AND THEN, that is when I had my revelation: MORE THAN ANYONE, Mako reminds me of FITZWILLIAM DARCY. Fitzwilliam Darcy, who is a doof and doesn’t know how to normal friendly social interaction, but is BFFS with someone who is, who is loved by ladies. Who disdains frivolous fun, who cares way way way too much about his younger sibling’s wellbeing and who totally loses sleep over someone who is “not bad” (hrrrmp).

Sorry. I apologise for my premature ridiculousness but I just find this ENDLESSLY HILARIOUS.

Yessss to all of this. I just really enjoy introverted, socially awkward doofuses who are like, “omg a party what I don’t know what to do at parties, DANCING PRO-BENDING NO WHAT I DON’T WANT TO PRO-BEND WITH YOU! HOW DO YOU EMOTION. brb hiding behind my high collar points ridiculous scarf.”

Ugh literally the minute Mako stepped onscreen my desires to remain moderate and on the sidelines with regards to shipping were destroyed by the power of his combined arrogance, awkwardness, and muscles.

Also I am glad I am not the only one who suddenly realized that this is the Elizabeth and Darcy story/problem all over again (see also the Dairine and Roshaun problem!) because seriously the second that he said “You’re the Avatar and I’m an idiot” I went “oh god is your name Fitzwilliam or something?!” And Bolin as Bingley is definitely a characterization I can get behind. 

(via elviella)

jtotheizzoe:

The New Moon in the Old Moon’s Arms

We’re four days past this month’s “new moon”, the period of darkness just before the first sliver of the sun’s reflection peeks around the formerly waning disk.

This image out of Iran was taken just prior to the new moon on March 20, and shows how much ambient light is still present on the lunar surface. We are prevented from seeing this “Earthshine” from most places on Earth, but next time you look up at a crescent (maybe tonight?), try and find it.

(via APOD)

“What they saw was part of a disk four times the size of the moon as seen from Earth; and it seemed even bigger because of the Moon’s foreshortened horizon.  It was not the full Earth so familiar from pictures, but a waning crescent, streaked with cloud swirls and burning with a fierce green-blue radiance—a light with a depth, like the fire held in the heart of an opal.  That light banished the idea that blue and green were “cool” colors; one could have warmed one’s hands at that crescent.  The blackness to which it shaded was ever so faintly touched with silver—a disk more hinted at than seen; the new Earth in the old Earth’s arms.” —Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane

…so I get that not everything in the world is actually a Young Wizards reference, but does this mean that Diane Duane and the title of this photograph are actually referencing some other older source which I have simply not run across, or that they’ve come to this phrase independently?

And yes, I can probably quote that DW passage verbatim, which is why it was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the original post.

John Green (via drizzleandahurricane)

This is eerily similar to the way I have previously described my emotions about Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series.

(via luxheroica)

kellymariataylor:

Day 87

The problem is how few adults take the time to engage with children’s stories nowadays. I sometimes think that if we didn’t grow out of our childhood reading, the world might actually be a better place because of it.

(via the-eyre-affair)

rustingroses:

moraniarty:

T h e  R e i c h e n b a c h  F a l l

this is beautiful.

Amazing. Just…amazing

This is beautiful. It also reminds me of this awesome art of the Lone Power that I saw a few years back and that has stuck with me. And as a result, suddenly Benedict Cumberbatch is my Lone Power dreamcast actor. Huh.

Out drinking with friends after final performance of the play I got roped into working on at the last minute, on my way home remembered I needed milk for tomorrow morning’s tea, went to 24-hr market and bought milk, fumbled with receipt outside due to cold and lingering tipsiness. Receipt went flying away in the wind.

First thought? “Nooooooo, I can’t be a litterer! I just increased entropy right there!”