#into the uncertain

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about.

from Children of Dune by Frank Herbert 

#dune #dune book #dune fandom #children of dune #frank herbert #abandon certainty #into the unknown #into the uncertain #the unknown #unknown #the uncertain #uncertain #that's life #command #commandment #what life's all about

[alexis-royce]

It drives me a little spinny when I see people posting “Why Aziraphale doesn’t just keep his books at home if he doesn’t want to sell them” because it seems to me to so clearly be a riff on real life antiquarian bookshops?

I worked in a used and rare book shop for five years, and have frequented them since I was young, and Aziraphale is like, a type of guy who just exists. An older fellow who refuses to keep his books in any sort of order, neglects to write prices in, opens at wildly varying hours, and by all accounts does not seem to want to be in business at all. The answer I found, by the end, was because many of them were doing it as a sort of retirement hobby. They made enough money to keep the lights on and to buy new rare books to look at.

I swear to you: nobody in the book business would bat an eye at Aziraphale. Especially if his shop had been there for generations. They would assume that the occasional loose encyclopedia plate sale would be enough to make rent, or that Mr. Fell had business and land holdings elsewhere.

And I assume that though he doesn’t want to sell them, he would LOVE a curious browser. Antiquarian vendors often adore it when you ask how to find a rare book, because the thrill of the hunt is often better than actually owning the volume. Anyone can have a private library, but owning a quaint little bookshop is a saucy way to brag and chat with other book lovers, and you can’t put that on your shelf at home.

#Good Omens #aziraphale #Anyway go visit Redux Books in Grand Rapids MI #The owner and his family are absolutely lovely #When I came out of the closet every one of them made a point to stop by my desk and inform me in no uncertain terms #That my job was safe and they would keep me safe if I was ever in trouble

[superchat]

right before this weeks episode i saw a noticeably higher uptick in horny kobeni on my twitter, from artists posting thicc kobeni to kobeni cosplayers showing their ass with some caption like "sloppy WHAT devil??"

Kobeni stock reaches all time high before immediately collapsing. millions are left in shambles marking the event as one of the most devastating "is actually a failgirl and not a fetish" moments in history

#Market analyzers are left stunned and speechless #The future of makima stock is uncertain due to anime-onlys not knowing the depths of her evil nature

[ghostdrinkssoup]

“could he daily feel a stab of hunger for you and find nourishment at the very sight of you?” is such a romantic line because despite cannibalism sustaining the illusion that hannibal can control everything and determine outcomes and reverse time, loving will has changed him so drastically that instead of consuming will, will consumes him. and hannibal hungers for him, yearns and aches for him, but is content to just exist near him. to stay in his orbit somehow, if only will allows it. hannibal, who needs to cannibalise others to stay in power, finds nourishment just by looking at will. he loves him so profoundly that he could be imprisoned forever and still it would be better than knowing he might never see will again. it sates him more than eating the pigs beneath him. in will, he finds religion

#no wonder will broke him out of prison #if he was uncertain before he wasn’t after hearing that #and for some reason people tend to edit that line out so that bedelia just answers yes?? #like I know it’s because it’s a roundabout way of saying he’s in love with you #and vague enough to be debatable #EXCEPT IT ISN’T #IT’S SO MUCH MORE ROMANTIC THAN SIMPLY SAYING YES #CONSIDER THE IMPLICATIONS #losing my goddamn MIND #nbc hannibal #hannibal #will graham #hannigram #hannibal meta #ghost speaks

[kvothes]

richard siken posted this coloring worksheet today and i think it has some pretty good questions for engaging with poetry. and also deep sea fish :)

#uncertain if he made this himself or if it is from elsewhere #i will attemp to find #richard siken #poetry #mine #edit he made this himself :) i love him wtf

[isolabellz]

the aftermath

#satosugu #stsg #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #gojo satoru #getou suguru #jjk manga #this is like post manga where they both come back and now they both have to deal with being alive #and everything is uncertain and the wounds have yet to heal but at least they are together #they finally get to decide what it means to be together and have the rest of their lives ahead of them

[10zitten10]

Do you like to use the Mushroom Cloud as a fun Barbieheimer meme? If you do, it's fine so long as you know what the cloud caused and what it symbolizes. If you don't know the circumstances of the mushroom cloud, please search ''Hiroshima Nagasaki atomic bomb people (with your safe search off)' on Google Images. *The images are very disturbing. Please DO NOT try it if you are sensitive to extremely disturbing images.

I'm Japanese. In Japan, unfortunately, many people have never seen the old pictures of the real effects of the mushroom cloud. We learn about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (both are cities in Japan) in primary school or junior high, when we are about 10-14 years old. Many adults think it's too risky to show children the pictures because it shows human bodies, which look like human charcoal. Living people got severe burns on their faces, their backs, and their whole bodies looked like melting wax (additionally, most of the people in the pictures are citizens, not soldiers. There are many kids, babies, and old people, of course.) Even though it happened in our land, many people (including me, I'm ashamed to say though) don't feel it was an actual event because it seems very unreal and it happened almost 80 years ago. Fortunately, I had a chance to learn about the atomic bombing and see several pictures of it. Now I know what happened in 1945. I think some people here/outside of Japan realize it as well.

I don't blame people born outside of Japan who have never known/learned about the effects of the atomic bombing. I want to ask you to learn and understand what happened under that iconic mushroom cloud before you make a meme with it. If you think 'So what?' after that, I will have nothing more to say to you.

I've not seen Barbie or Oppenheimer because they are not released here yet. But I feel they are both very interesting. I'm looking forward to watching them. I wish I could have fun watching them without any distractions before going to the theatres.

Don't get me wrong. I know that during World War II the Japanese government did tons of terrible things to people outside and inside of Japan. I just want people to know that atomic bombing is a very serious issue, and using the images of the mushroom cloud as a meme/design is like using a symbol of the Nazi/KKK as a fun meme. It's not fun. Atomic bombing should never happen anywhere in the world.

#I'm NOT saying it to make Japanese people 'victims' of the memes #I'm afraid that people get used to making jokes about it #or forget how horrible nuclear weapons are #the atomic bomb in 1945 killed 129000-226000 people in total #at least 88% of those were civilians #the total number is uncertain #because in many cases there were no remains to be found

[dailybotany]

In honor of a bunch of my friends being served iris rhizomes instead of daylily bulbs at a skills event and puking their guts out all night, here is a friendly reminder about wild edibles:

Do not eat any wild edibles that are at all new to you or you are even a little uncertain about without double and triple checking the ID with a trusted, professional resource. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT feed wild edibles to anyone else that you haven't repeatedly IDed and eaten yourself with no problems.

#there is very little space to be uncertain with wild edibles ESPECIALLY when you are sharing them #(also anyone who makes THAT particular mistake needs to go back to the drawing board & learn how to look at plants because how do you even- #wild edibles #foraging #plantblr #thank god it wasnt a more dangerous mistake and all that happened was 50% of the group throwing up for a night #raincoats speaks

[colorful-horses]

Pony reroot

#now i style her hair and paint her cutiemark #id like to repaint her eye color. uncertain if it should be blue or green #+ the yellow heart on her hoof might change colors too. decisions decisions #maybe ill paint her hoof heart green and keep her eye color blue. hmmm #but before all thatttt #time to glue her head back on ..... and give her little pigtail braids

[ruporas]

chapter 90 vash

#vash the stampede #trigun #trigun maximum #trimax spoilers #trigun spoilers #i forget how the blacklist stuff works on tumblr again... uncertain whether it matters or not for it to be in the caption itself #anyway my mind was reflecting again on the later chapters of trigun :lying down: i'm not sure how to collect my thoughts #but i think all the time about vash's “if i shoot him now she'll die” line in ch 15 #and considering vash haven't had long at all to grieve after ch 64... aughh... augh.... mourning both of them in ch 91 #vash's emotional state after 64 is really so. It's devastating watching him bc he's still being all smiley around his friends and allies #but when he's alone - charging the bullets and during those first two battles - he's just so quiet #and all of that kept emotion just breaks like a dam in 90... all of that to say.. legato is really incredible dgmks #ruporas art

[k25ff]

A warning to new Tumblr Users

If you have a profile picture that is a winsome lady wearing insufficient clothing for the time of year, and have no posts or bio, I am probably going to report your blog for being spam and block you.

I apologise to all you bikini-loving ladies out there, but my blog is beset by an influx of robotic floozies, which is surely a thing you’re hearing from many people (or not, since you’re new to Tumblr).

This technically also applies to default profile pictures, but then I don’t get to say “influx of robotic floozies“, and where’s the fun in that?

#tumblr #tumblr and bots that have uncertain purposes #surely someone's trying to make money with these but HOW

[atdawn]

To live in this world you must be able to do three things.

In Blackwater Woods, Mary Oliver

#merlin #bbc merlin #merlinedits #merlingifs #merthur #ee #gifs #so uncertain about these it took me ages omg 😔 #m #the colors don't match but i will not be talking about that #405 #107 #513

[natp20]

this is going to hurt later, isn't it

#critical role #the legend of vox machina #tlovm #tlovm season 2 #tlovm spoilers #this is going to be devastating in an uncertain number of episodes mark my words #if titmouse doesn't parallel this with a bard's lament i'm going to eat this fucking blog #oh my GOD the fact that GROG is turned AWAY FROM HIM???? #the ONLY ONE TURNED AWAY FROM HIM #the cracks are there and he keeps plastering them over hoping nobody will notice #scanlan shorthalt #vox machina #my screenshots

[ratcandy]

putting my entomology lessons to good use

#also sozo is now my beautiful Spouse my wonderful Partner as oppsoed to wife because the trans hc makes too much sense to me #in my brain. #and i don't know if (and bear with me here) sozo un-shroomed would be as comfortable ??????????with wife????// #i don't think he cared either way while Shroomed but un-shroomed. I am uncertain. I dunno. I am rotating him #maybe my midn will change on this in an instant. these are all split second headcanons based on my Knowledges. #ok normal again #clamart #cotl #cult of the lamb #cotl sozo #cotl lamb #cotl narinder #uh does this need a uh #cotl spoilers #<- for unshroomed Sozo? maybe #sozo

[guardian-angle22]

Tarlos Wedding Celebration Event [Week 14] -> favorite kiss(es)-> Comfort Kisses

#911 lone star #911lsedit #tarlos #tarlosedit #tarlosweddingcelebration #tk strand #carlos reyes #I was very uncertain if I could include the first one in the 'kiss' category #but I did a Poll of the People (aka a few mutuals) to find out if they thought a neck kiss was occurring and I was told YES #shout out to those mutuals I hit up with that random question out of the blue. y'all are the real mvps #I just love the way they comfort each other #the bottom two are by far my favorite comfort kiss moments in this #they're so soft with each other in those moments #my gifs

[picory]

on all levels except physical this is me. also i didn't mean to write booby with a triple-o but oooh well

#turnaboutart #hey. long time no see! #think i'll be slowly coming back here #hope everyone's doing well in these uncertain times