glorianas:

Am I to be Austrian or the Dauphine of France?

You must be both

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nubbsgalore:

temperature inversion – created when fog formed from the heavy, colder air of melting snow becomes trapped by a lid of warmer air – over the czech republic (x)

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falseredstart:

sitta-pusilla:

asgardian–angels:

@falseredstart @sitta-pusilla any idea what kind (generally) of bird made these tracks? I was at a park near a large body of water. Lots of gulls, geese… Saw some gull tracks though, looked nothing like this. Judging by the comparison to my shoes, the tracks were a few inches long each. Heading towards the water it seems. I’m in New Hampshire, btw. Photo was taken in the seacoast region.

-Thanks for any info!!

Hopefully @falseredstart (or anyone else better than me with tracks) can tell you, because I can’t. Definitely not one of the gulls, geese, or ducks since as you already said it’s anisodactyl.

You say the tracks were a few inches long with a long stride. Would you say the tracks could be ~6 inches with an ~8 inch stride? Or smaller than that? That would let us know whether we’re looking at a wading bird like a heron or egret…or one of the many many smaller possibilities that also have anisodactyl feet. At least I can say it doesn’t look like a Great Blue Heron track. They have that funky outer toe.

These are very cute feet! Alas, I am not a bird track expert either. From your size estimate and their spacing, I’d guess they belong to a crow strolling along the shore. 

My first guess was also a wading bird like a heron, but their legs are so long– so the distance between each track would be much longer than the tracks themselves.

Let’s also summon @snailkites to weigh in.

Agree on the crow ID. I see American Crow tracks a lot, and this is what they look like.

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jaynaneeya:

Happy Birthday, Mary Kate Wiles!

Thank you for contributing such a crucial aspect to the Poe Party plot!

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I assume you’re unhappy about this post:

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I don’t get as many anonymous asks these days as I used to; I wonder sometimes why that is. Even when I got more of them I rarely got this kind. It’s possible you came to my post via a search engine results page, and wanted to give me a piece of your mind without going to the trouble of entering more fully into Tumblrdom by creating an account; I know that happens. But if you *are* an active Tumblr user choosing this means of responding to the post then maybe this is an intentional, rather than an accidental, example of the “anon hate” genre. The distinction probably shouldn’t matter to me. But I’m a little curious which it was.

I guess part of the curiosity comes from my wondering how likely it is you’ll see this response. You went to the trouble of sharing your thoughts, so it seems like you might be inclined to check to see if I replied. But I think the chances of that will be lower if this is a case of drive-by criticism from someone not into the whole Tumblr thing.

Mostly, though, I think my curiosity comes from wanting to properly categorize your ask, to better understand it as a phenomenon.

It’s a thing I do.

I know at times I take it to an unusual degree. I did that in the post in question, what with all that speculation about the personal relationships between long-dead people based on such flimsy evidence: a few paintings, a passage from a book that might not have hewn to a very high standard of scholarship, a scrap of a letter.

When I wrote that post three years ago I didn’t anticipate it making anyone upset. I wasn’t consciously trying to be annoying. But I obviously was, at least in your case.

Looking back at the post now, trying to see where I rubbed you the wrong way, I wonder if it was the bit about Louise at the end that went too far. At least for me, that’s the bit that feels the most unkind, that I’d probably take out, or at least soften, if I could go back and rewrite the post today. If that’s the part of the post that made you upset I apologize for provoking that feeling. I’ll try to do better in the future.

You don’t say that that part bothered you specifically, so maybe I’m off-base about that. The things you do criticize – writing something akin to “trashy” romance, and “ripping off” others’ photographs – aren’t actually things I’m prepared to apologize for, at least at this point. I’m not a good enough writer to write romance novels, but I know enough about the genre to know that it includes works that mean a lot to some people, and doesn’t cause those who denigrate it as trash any visible harm that I can see. Likewise with my use of the images of the five Sargent paintings atop the post, I don’t think my action in posting the small versions of them and linking to larger versions elsewhere injured any legitimate rights holders. If you’re willing to explain in more detail what you think I did wrong there I’m certainly willing to listen.

If I had to guess I’d say you might be a descendant of the Burckhardts, or a friend of such a descendent, and view it as unseemly and rude that I’d do all that speculating about people I have no personal knowledge of, especially speculation that doesn’t paint them in the best light. Which, if that’s the case; yeah. That’s a fair point. My only defense, I guess, would be to say that the Burckhardts sat for those portraits, that they and their heirs made those paintings available for people to look at and respond to, and that such looking and responding in a sense is the whole point of art like that.

It’s equally true, though, that in making my post I was inviting your own looking and responding, and that you had every bit as much right to proclaim my post rubbish as I had to make it in the first place. So thank you for taking the trouble to read and respond to it.

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“One constituent, holding a sign showing her support for Merrick Garland — former president Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, who was blocked by Republicans last year — asked whether Republicans would really blow up the filibuster to get Gorsuch through. “They can, but by all rights, 60 votes ought to be the standard,” Whitehouse said. “When he doesn’t get 60 votes, that’s going to give Mitch McConnell a tough choice. He’ll have to either change the candidate or change the rules. And it’s not going to be easy for him to change the rules, because a lot of people in his caucus will push back. We have to have the vote, show this guy can’t get 60, and see where it goes from there. In the crucible of the Senate, sometimes good things can emerge.” Over a few rounds of questions, Whitehouse raised the possibility that Gorsuch would be blocked and Republicans would start over with a more moderate nominee. In a short interview after the speech, Whitehouse said he was confident that more than 40 Democrats would hang together. “If four, or five, or two, or no Democrats want to support him, the result is the same: not 60,” Whitehouse said. “This is a problem [Republicans] should have seen when they picked a nominee off of a list from special-interest groups.” Asked about the possibility that the filibuster would be “nuked,” ripping it away from Democrats in future fights, Whitehouse chuckled. “To my mind, there’s no reason to lose a fight in order to save yourself for a later fight,” he said. “You just face the same fight later, plus you’ve already lost.””

– Gorsuch may fall short of votes needed for smooth Supreme Court confirmation – The Washington Post
(via dendroica)

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Freedom Fighter, Bowery Electric (2000)

We hold these things to be true
Like a flock of sparrows flying over you
We plot and we plan
Burning oil like the world won’t end
Like the world won’t end

Another day, another world war
Find out walking through the grocery store
Watching bombs through the TV eye
Light it up like the Fourth of July
Like the Fourth of July

God’s on both sides
But I don’t break it when the bombs start flying
I know it’s just a symbol to you
You, you come on like a freedom fighter
You come on like a freedom fighter

Another gift from a far off friend
Coming at you from over the sand
That’s what the bellicose do
We try to reach the human in you
The human in you

God’s on both sides
Thank God we make them try
Don’t wake when the camera’s on you
You, you’ll go out like a freedom fighter
You’re gone like a freedom fighter

You’ll go out like a freedom fighter
You’ll go out like a freedom fighter
You’ll go out like a freedom fighter

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arealcharmingprincess:

Remember who you are.
Nobody.
The Queen of England.

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lasylphidedubolchoi:

“…Then the Wilis turn on Albrecht, sentencing him to death as well. He pleads to Myrtha for his life, but she coldly refuses. Giselle’s pleas are also dismissed and Albrecht is forced to dance until sunrise. However, the power of Giselle’s love counters the Wilis’ magic and spares his life.”

Ivan Vasiliev, Anastasia Goryacheva and others in Bolshoi’s Giselle

Photos by Ekaterina Vladimirova

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spoutziki-art:

The end of the ball by Rogelio de Egusquiza (detail)

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sarahviehmann:

mojavejourneys:

fancyladssnacks:

reddragonsbreath:

barrett-the-babe:

caiusmartiuscoriolanus:

incestiel:

almostdiedthreetimes:

feasibleweasel:

autonomousartisan:

demoniccupcake:

the-guy-below-me-sucks:

doctorfeelbad:

couragemadnessfriendshiplove:

world-shaker:

Want to collaborate on a Google Doc with Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Dickinson, Dickens and Poe? 

Click here. Start typing. Enjoy the hilarity. 

Ninja Update: Wanna see something fun? Mention Shakespeare in a sentence and see what happens. 

Poe kept writing distinctly into my sentences so I wrote ”Edgar, you’re not funny” aND HE BLATANTLY DELETED THE NOT I AM SO DONE WITH THIS ASDFKJL

OH GOD IF YOU TYPE “EDGAR ALLAN POE” POE ADDS A :( AFTER HIS NAME PRECIOUS BABY

Oh my God so I typed ‘Shakespeare’ and Shakespeare butted in and wrote ‘The lovely and handsome Shakespeare’ but Poe burst in saying ‘The dreadful and lonely Shakespeare’.

aND FYODOR DOSTOYVESKY ADDED ‘ I do not wish to make myself a laughing-stock before these idle listeners.”

I’M DONE.

 

Look what they did to All Star by Smash Mouth

“Somebody once hushedly told me the world is going to roll me. I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed. She was looking kind of glocky with her finger and her thumb in the shape of a “L” on her forehead. Well, the years start voraciously coming and they don’t stop coming; fed to the rules and I hit the ground running. It didn’t make sense absolutely to live for fun. Thy brain gets smart but your head gets dumb. So much to do, so much to behold. So what’s wrong with taking the back busy thoroughfares? In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. You’ll never know if thou don’t go. “You’ll never shine if you don’t glow”, he growled incoherently. Hey presently, you’re an All Star. Get your game on; go play. Hey now, you’re a Rock Star. Get the show on; get laid. As well as all that glitters is gold, only shooting stars break the mold. ~All Star by Smash Estuary of opinion…”

Imagine putting your research paper in here and letting them go at it.

OH MY GOD I WAS WRITING AND EDGAR WOULDN’T STOP FIXING THINGS SO I WROTE “Edgar shut up I’m trying to write” and he changed it to “Edgar shut up I’m meagerly attempting to write” THIS FUCKING ASSHOLE

I typed in “Hello” and Shakesphere erased it and wrote “Begone with this rubbish.”

HOW R00d

I typed “party in the Usa” and Poe changed party to “ill-fated gathering”

I just used it to yell at Dickens about Tale of Two Cities, I am happy now

I typed in ‘hello other writers’ and Edgar Allen Poe changed it to ‘Hello secondary writers’

After I had been writing for a while Edgar suddenly deleted my last sentence and wrote “THE END.” rude son of a bitch

I have to try this.

Rebageled again but to add if the link above doesn’t work, try this one instead.

This is so funny, omg. I put in the first few paragraphs of my book, and Poe keeps adding all these adverbs. Dickens adds excessive descriptions of the characters, and Shakespeare is just throwing in random Early Modern English.

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joey5304:

Learning to paint flowers.  Way too much fun.

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fifthdayprairie:

I’m researching & drawing my way through the history of the first prairie restoration, the Curtis Prairie at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum in Madison, WI. More to come! ✨💛🌾💛✨

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And splashdown. A little early for wildflowers up here, but lots of snow for Rory to play in.

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And splashdown. A little early for wildflowers up here, but lots of snow for Rory to play in.

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And splashdown. A little early for wildflowers up here, but lots of snow for Rory to play in.

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There were several different types of yellow flowers along the road between Mojave and Lone Pine, but we require refueling so we’ve put the science mission on hold.

Next stop: Coppertop Barbecue in Big Pine.

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lady-arryn:

Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

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Poppies along CA-138, 2017-03-26

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Poppies along CA-138, 2017-03-26

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