Perseus Cluster of Galaxies
NGC 1275 (the large galaxy at the left) - it accretes matter as entire galaxies fall into the supermassive black hole at its center
This cluster has over a thousand galaxies
Perseus Cluster of Galaxies
NGC 1275 (the large galaxy at the left) - it accretes matter as entire galaxies fall into the supermassive black hole at its center
This cluster has over a thousand galaxies
The Planets: 11”x17” Vintage Inspired Modern Art Prints
by Christian Peterson of The Geekerie
(Source: wakeupandbefree)
(Source: danmaru)
(Source: slack-wise)
Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
Is to be on a cruise with my friends. Be out in the middle of no where out in the ocean in the middle of the still night with shining stars and calm waters. Sitting around the outside deck with a cool breeze, a few candles, and copious amounts of drink and pizza slices all around as we all lie and stare up in the skies and talk about things that only friends talk about. This is what I want this very moment.
somebody sponsor this man’s vision
knob-billed duck
(photo by halex)
my new therapy audiobook is intense.
i
my brothers are home but they won’t help make food, so i had to cut the strawberries. now my fingers smell like strawberries.
ii
i remember when i was twelve reading this article in girls life, which was the magazine equivalent of a training bra, with lipsmackers ads and “helpful” diet tips and fashion spreads with clothes from old navy and limited2. the article was about “secrets” to getting boys to like you. 100 tips on how to find a guy or something. one of the tips was something like: “Scientific research shows that men prefer the smell of vanilla over all other scents.” i remember thinking how cool it was that you could do science to get boys. me and my friends went to the mall and bought cheap lotions and body sprays from bath & body works. warm vanilla sugar. we all smelled the same for months.
iii
growing up i had a friend who had a really cool older sister, k. k had a crush on a boy in her grade that always wore axe body spray, so she bought a bottle of the kind he wore and sprayed it on her clothes so she could smell “him” whenever she wanted to. i had a crush on k, so i tried to buy a bottle of axe at wal*mart but my mom wouldn’t let me. she said that boys wear that. she thought i was crazy.
iv
once when i was really young i had a crush on an older teenage boy and i snuck into his bedroom when no one was looking and smelled his comforter. i also put on the chapstick next to his bed. it smelled like strawberries, too.
v
the first thing i do when i borrow someone’s clothes is smell them, particularly the area nearest to the wrist. in class i wear my boyfriend’s hoodie and i’ll pretend to yawn but really i’ll be smelling the sleeve, smelling him on me, consuming his scent in secret.
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and i wonder why girls are supposed to smell like strawberries and vanilla and all things edible, wrap themselves in boy smells and wear them close to their body, but men smell like musk and sex and sweat and salt and the sea, moss and vetvier and leather. men smell like energy being used, like the earth growing. women smell like that which is consumed. men smell like power and women smell like what is broken down into fuel to give power.
an au where i’m cool and have social skills
It’s really weird that people care so much about what other people do with marriage
They don’t want gays to get married, they don’t want people to marry more than one person
Why do they care
What happens to your marriage when two guys marry each other
Is it like “dang my wife and I had a great thing going but then those guys got married and now we fight all the time”
Is that what they think is going to happen
Why is The Sanctity of Marriage ruined when someone does something to it that you don’t like
What if you’re eating scrambled eggs for breakfast one day and someone somewhere in the world makes a fried egg
Money Currency Sculptures by Kristi Malakoff.