I Love The Use Of Light In These Paintings, They're Beautifully Atmospheric.

Good information to know for story tellers.

the land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

These are beautiful. If you've never watched critical role, it's never too late to start.

The Mighty Nein

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These are beautiful, I recognized the first from Exandria Reborn but I'm trying to place where the 3rd (with the oxycotl) is from.

Art by Zuzanna Wuzyk

Gorgeous, have you ever seen a piece of artwork you wish you could walk into? This is one of those for me.

Uncharted Heaven by Lorenzo Lanfranconi

Good words to live by; beautifully said.

A Virgo once told me I can be as sad as I want just make sure I’m still doing things and that has changed the way I view everything. I’m like it’s fine that I’m sad right now but let me go be sad at hot yoga and be sad while I’m taking my vitamins and be sad while I’m learning ceramics and while I’m completing my tasks. This might sound like depressing but for me it’s so elevating. Bc I know in like, December for example I will be able to look at how much I’ve expanded myself n it won’t matter that I was sad in August because sadness doesn’t stick. It’s what u do that shapes your life. And I kept doing things. And I shaped my life

Loved this book as a kid.

Book of the Day

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl

Science fiction and fantasy isn’t just a white people thing! I’ve talked about some of these books before, but here’s a new slide show entirely for SFF authors of color. Also, I was only doing one book per author. Lots of these authors have multiple books. And like it says at the end, there’s even more SFF books by authors of color but fitting everything in one post would be an impossible task.

Also, could you please not rec white authors on this post? Even if they’ve written a book starring a person of color. I want this post to be focused around the work of authors of color. 

Links to more info about the books beneath the cut. 

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The perfect poem for spring

Blessed Full Moon

It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes And roofs of villages, on woodland crests And their aerial neighborhoods of nests Deserted, on the curtained window-panes Of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes And harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests! Gone are the birds that were our summer guests, With the last sheaves return the laboring wains! All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind, As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves; The song-birds leave us at the summer’s close, Only the empty nests are left behind, And pipings of the quail among the sheaves. - Longfellow

This is so cool! I had know idea that Opal could do this.

I thought those massive slabs of opal were like, an opalized ribcage or some kind of organ at first glance

oh man i mean its possible ! opal is interesting in that its formed by silica deposits thatre carried into cracks and openings of other things by water, that then evaporate over time into different forms of this

 and what That means is that entire bodies of organic matter can eventually be replaced by opal if they meet the right conditions, including bone ! australia especially has HUGE deposits of opalized fossils, like this dinosaur tooth

or this cleoniceras shell

or all these pinecones, even

or an entire damn pliosaur skeleton - finding something in this condition though is REALLY unlikely, to the point where if you wanna snag a genuine opalized dinosaur tooth its gonna cost you a uhhhh not insignificant amount

Beautifully illustrated and written story comic. I would love to see this in full graphic novel format or as a written novella. It's such a cool concept.