Photograph of a blank wall on the side of a housing block. The wall is about 3 stories high.

A bumper sticker reading I (unicode replacement symbol) Unicode

screenshot of a photo of a cat napping inside an accordion file, below which tumblr user @coolcatgroup writes "An important document" and @unclefeather writes "I want him on my desk by tomorrow morning"

In their "Sunday Best," Vietnamese women await the weekly audience with Pope Leo XIV. Their hats are unusual, to me, I have never seen this style, large, flying saucer shaped with bright, primary colors, to match the colors in the more traditional dresses, they are wearing so well. Their loveliness is the reason for this post.

Smith Rock State Park Oregon

A winding river curves through a dramatic rocky canyon with towering cliffs and sparse pine trees under a partly cloudy sky.

Photo shows an image of a medium small brown short-haired dog with her ears flapping in the wind as she gets all the smells on her way to the Rainbow Bridge.

woman taking out a floppy and pushing towards the camera if she were loading it into a computer

cropped phone pic: a translucent white plastic chicken sits within a recess of a bright red company logo, with a blonde wood grain panel behind it.

square phone pic: a closeup of a light blue shirt and royal blue hoodie, folded so their logos are adjacent. the light blue shirt has the cursive MLKSHK logo, and the royal blue has the MLTSHP deelux logo.

Ribs on a tray

A storefront window with white vinyl signage reading Harmonies Pizza & Ice Cream.

Photo of a speckled shape, roughly hexagonal, in the upper atmosphere of Saturn

A screencap from the 1966 Batman show; a red-faced Adam West, in Batman cowl, pokes his head up through a hole in some foliage.

The cover of a comic book. "Meet Jason Blood as the DEMON", the last in big red letters. A giant draconian monster is bearing down on Etrigan and Jason Blood, who are frantically tugging on chains at its feet. "If you lived a former life... then you may become a victom of the Reincarnators!"

photoshopped image: the infamous shot from "twin peaks" in which the villainous entity BOB creeps over the couch in the living room toward the camera, except it has been overlaid with fake titles and prices in the style of an IKEA catalog. in white text, the overlays include "GLÖDLAMPA lamp $15", "KONSTFULL vase $4.30", "BEKVÄM couch $315", and "KAFFE table $119", as well as the blue and yellow IKEA logo in the bottom right corner.

A smiling man sits in the rear seat of a long blue tandem kayak, a small black terrier between his knees.

Sunbathing thylacines

A screenshot of a poem, entitled "Sputtering Flame," in simple white text on a dark background.

The poem reads:

Your wondrous spark set me alight.
A candle, burning against the darkness
Never so alive, never so full of warmth and purpose:
To illuminate your every move
And keep the monsters at bay.
You would dance in my light,
And with every flicker of my flame, the playful shadows would dance along with you.

You inspired me to burn brighter
Though neither of us seemed to notice
The wax melting
Dripping
Pooling on the tablecloth
In globs of color
Because, misshapen though I became,
I felt the warm joy of being able to watch you thrive.

As I began to sputter, rather than tend my flame
You grew upset at the fading light
And the long unflattering shadows it cast upon you.
The wax gathered at your feet now
Cold, hardened, no longer malleable
And you grew cold as well.

Reduced to ash and ember
Still I smolder
Though I can no longer brighten your smile,
No longer warm your skin,
No longer keep your demons from you.