Victorian ingenuity: a mahogany "reading station" crafted by Charles Hindley & Co. circa 1890. It features a double wing-back seat with an arm divider, each seat equipped with an adjustable reading stand, various compartments, drawers, and bookshelves.
Photos courtesy of Butchoff Antiques
the thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itself
ALT
Hey.
This is one of the reasons why you should be kind to older people.
This happens more and more, harder and harder, and dealing with it that often is pretty rough.
Let them tell their stories.
This is one of the
reasons why you should be kind
to older people.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
god I just. love ruthlessness as a character trait so much. sexy sexy sexy
this one. absolutely in love with this definition. give me a character who thinks like this and I’ll love them to pieces
Katherine Applegate is fucking hardcore, man.
This would be the K.A. Applegate who wrote Animorphs, so, um, yeah, "hardcore" would absolutely be a fair assessment.
/understatement of the century
Janusz Grabiański (Polish, 1929-1976, b. Szamotuły, Poland, d. Warsaw, Poland) - Illustration, Mixed Media
in french we don't say "i'm mentally ill" we say "je voue mes nuits à l'assassymphonie" and i think that's beautiful