This Shade Of Blue >>>

*crushes my emotions with my bare hands* as I was saying,

huge shoutout to trees and also rain

“There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other — by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

I suppose it’s a testament to Tolkien’s economy of language that the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy – interminable preamble and endless appendices and all – has a smaller total page count than the individual books of your average modern doorstopper fantasy series, yet manages to pack in such a high density of worldbuilding detail that reading it feels like it takes about a thousand years.

Skeleton Commission by milirine

tumblr is a MORNING app. it should be enjoyed while eating breakfast, drinking your cup of tea or coffee, letting your meds kick in... sometimes I go on here at night but in my heart I know it’s wrong.

Bambi (1942) – Little April Shower

Frederick Judd Waugh.

the tenderness that comes into peoples voices when they read to little kids