How Can Lawyers Argue Without Crying 

this morning NASA abandoned their mars rover Opportunity (aka Oppy) because it (she) got hit by a storm on Mars and it knocked her camera and wheels out and her last words to the team were “my battery is low and it is getting cold”. I know she’s a machine but I’m devastated. Oppy is the one who discovered water on Mars. RIP oppy ily space baby

cosmic art x | x

La Jeune Martyre (The Young Martyr) by Paul Delaroche, 1855. Featured in Rino Stefano Tagliafierro’s Beauty. |x|

Bookish Asks

1. What are you currently reading/what is the last book you read?

2. Second hand or brand new?

3. What is your current recommendation for anyone looking for something to read?

4. Go to genre on a rainy night?

5. The book you can finish and then immediately start again without hesitation?

6. Approximately how long does it take you to finish a book?

7. Favorite series when you were a kid.

8. What’s your favorite “elusive” series? (i.e., the series that most people haven’t heard of)

9. If you had to be shoved into a book only armed with what you know about the universe and nothing else, which book would you choose?

10. Your favorite book that you read for school and ended up loving?

11. What’s your least favorite book that you’ve ever read?

12. A book you want to see made into a TV show/movie (or, if its already been adapted but you didn’t like it, what you’d do differently)

13. What character would you play in a movie adaption of your current favorite book?

14. What kind of character are you? (The protag, the quirky sidekick, the tech geek, etc)

15. Have you ever started reading a book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving? What was it?

16. Old book smell or new book feel?

17. What is the oldest book you own?

18. Last book you purchased and why?

19. What kind of book genre are you living in right now?

20. What’s your favorite position/place to read in?

21. Beverage of choice when reading?

22. Music or no music while reading? Classical, ambient noise, or pop?

23. Have you ever read anything by an independent/self published author? If so, would you recommend it?

24. Bookmarks, creased edges, memorization, or random scraps of things?

25. Audio book or physical book?

The Conference of the Birds, Persian Manuscript, circa 1600; Safavid Iran (Isfahan)

When trips to Mars become possible, we should put Golden Tickets in Mars bars.

Jing Zhiyong’s paintings

dark academia but in 2020 and gen z

- staying up late in the dark reading wikipedia articles on obscure topics on your phone

- researching random things that caught your interest instead of paying attention to your zoom classes/ doing homework

- reading during zoom classes

- checking daily if your local library reopened

- notes app poetry at 4 am

- reading by candlelight at night just because lamps are too bright and you might get caught by your parents

- waking up early to watch the sunrise before online school

- developing a coffee addiction over quarantine

- wearing dramatic coats and button ups etc to just go to the supermarket

still from lorde’s perfect places music video

Salvador Dalí Tarot Deck Artworks