Three Loved Houses

soundingonlyatnightasyousleep:

[Image description: A screencap from John Darnielle’s tumblr of him answering an ask. It reads:

blueblotts asked: Dol you know are there any John Darnielle fanfictions?

In the reply, he answers:

There are many, but unlike much other fanfic, they are almost entirely sexless. The governing trope of John Darnielle fanfic is called “slay or pose?” and involves the protagonist going on a quest to find me to ask me a question. The question is usually about a band, but sometimes it’s about an author, or a movie, or, occasionally, a type of food. There’ll be all sorts of adventures and setbacks, some of these run into the hundreds of pages, but eventually they’ll find me either in a cave somewhere or hiding underneath some empty cardboard boxes behind a grocery store, and they’ll say, for example: “JD! Long have I sought thee! ___________, slay or pose?” and then I’ll answer, like if they say “Merce Rodoreda” then obviously I say “slay!” but if they say “dipping french fries into soft-serve” then I will have to say “pose!” but anyway that’s the end whichever way it falls out from there. On occasion the protagonist will, prior to finding my hidden cave, get romantically involved with somebody, hence the “almost entirely” qualifier above. On those occasions the amatory side-quest is almost unspeakably explicit.]

Okay so can we talk about this

Y E S.  Because this is basically amazing.

(Also I think I’m going to think of my girlfriend and I as an Amatory Side-Quest from here on out.)

mothernaturenetwork:

If Hoyoung Lee’s concept printer becomes reality, you’ll never throw away another pencil stub or buy another ink cartridge. The pencil printer separates the wood from pencils and uses the lead to print documents. There’s even a built-in eraser component that allows you to remove text from a page and reuse the paper, so you’ll be saving money and trees.

See more of bizarre green inventions.

I just keep thinking about all my documents being smudgy, and it makes me want to cry.

(via lettersfromtitan)

metalonmetalblog:

Death and Soap Bubbles, stucco relief, 18th century.

Holy Sepulcher Chapel, Michelsberg Cloister, Bamberg

I think I want this on a shirt. 

(via lettersfromtitan)

cleolinda:

(via Estate Jewelry: The Horror | The Hairpin)

“Bats flutter against a backdrop of the moon and stars in this eerily pretty French Art Nouveau necklace. Set in 18k gold with enamel, the moon and stars are comprised of diamonds, while the bats are hinged to add movement to the piece. Another smaller bat decorates the clasp. Circa 1900.”

All of the jewelry in this article is amazing.

(via lettersfromtitan)