words for the signs

babyhelios:

check sun & moon 

aries: if passion is gasoline i poured and poured and poured & it took one careless match to burn it all away. i was alive and now i have, am, nothing & i am alone in coming to terms with that.

taurus: all that i ever wanted was security & nothing i did was enough to make me feel stable. i let my house turn to ruin trying to keep it from changing, but it continued to decay & rot & my control vanished.

gemini: it might have been my fault for seeing everything as a competition & it was definitely my fault that i tried so hard to win. my cutthroat manner left the breeze trembling & instead of burning all my bridges shattered.

cancer: stay, i told them. each & every one of them i told and my expectations turned to grief turned to despair until my loss was a tidal wave that consumed me. my heart shuddered & cried & suffocated.

leo: you tell me what i need is attention. you do not know how i can crave and loathe something at once. it is like a volcano, rock & lava, both melting and boiling and destructive. you do not understand that the eruption hurts only me.

virgo: maybe if i had bent to your will you would have stayed, but you have not seen iron like me. your skin is made of porcelain, & i am sorry that my harsh words break you. but better your skin to be broken than your heart.

libra: the disenchantment of my good nature is a fortress nobody can penetrate. i please the masses & watch them knock, once, twice, three times and leave me alone. i painted such a pretty face on the walls, & people only ever want my smiles.

scorpio: snake, they call me. scorpion. as though my purpose is so sting, to bite, to poison. they do not realize i do not attack unprovoked. that my distance & my isolation is not to hurt them, but to protect me. 

sagittarius: if there was somebody who could keep up with me, for once i might stay. but they never can, and never do, and i can’t be blamed for leaving. campfires don’t burn for long, no matter how fond of them you are. you move on & start another burning elsewhere.

capricorn: mountains cannot be moved and the same can be said for me. i am a constant, reliable, certain in my solitude. someone asks me why i am so serious & i answer because somebody has to be.

aquarius: all i want is understanding, but i know better than to expect something so rare. i’ve been told nobod will understand if i don’t try to express myself honestly, but i’m too scared to face my real feelings.

pisces: dreaming is inescapable & it makes you too happy. it is a fishbowl, you see out and people are distorted to your perspective & you think that is normal. you get surprised when someone yanks you out of the water & they are not who they thought you were. wake up.

wetwareproblem:

copperbadge:

memprime:

podcasts-8-my-heart:

talkingcinemalight:

peppylilspitfuck:

icykitty:

strawberry-jambouree:

cherrymilkshake:

milkydolenz:

fscottfitzgerld:

1977punk:

i was gonna make a joke about how the massachusetts candle probably smells like a drug deal in the dunkin donuts parking lot but then i checked and it legitimately smells like dunkin coffee i’m done 

and i was going to make a joke about how the illinois candle just smells like cornfields and wheat fields but then i too checked and it literally does

me: what does the maine one smell like… snow? lighthouses?

website: fresh Maine blueberries,

me, looking down at my clothes stained beyond recognition from hours spent blueberry raking: *whispers* of course……

Maryland smells like old bay and salt

This is accurate

The website is https://homesickcandles.com

checked arizona just for shits and giggles and it smells like SAND goodnight

Washington is Cherries, coffee, and rain. Accurate.

You have no idea how pleased I was to see that there are two California candles. One for North and one for South. Oh and they seem to also have special ones for Los Angeles and San Francisco!

That’s about right for Indiana.

@copperbadge There is an Illinois candle AND a Chicago candle!

I appreciate that the Chicago candle smells like the chocolate factory that makes downtown smell like chocolate sometimes, but let’s be real, it should smell like pee and corruption. 

I’m having trouble finding the Existential Dread candle.

Connecticut smells like an apple orchard

vintagerpg:

Meet
the rust monster, a critter that is the terror of metal-wearing adventurers
everywhere.

Like
the bulette and the owl bear (examples of which seem to be fairly rare), the
rust monster didn’t spring forth from the imagination of Gary Gygax, but rather
from a bag of plastic dinosaurs manufactured in Hong Kong. Apparently, these
bags were filled out with some fanciful critters in addition to the real world
thunder lizards, which lead to collectors calling them Chinasaurs.

The
rust monster is a common one and it is still out there (I got one in a bag of
dinos not more than ten years ago). It is…uh…certainly a distinct creature, a
bit like a lobster or a cockroach. You can see elements of dinosaurs in the
design – the propeller-like tail perhaps inspired by a stegosaurus, or the
plated abdomen perhaps drawn from an ankylosaur. Maybe it was just a fever
dream of a trilobite. Regardless, it is a delightfully doofy looking thing that
inspired an iconic monster. Disappoint thing? The antennas on the toy don’t
cause metal to rust. I want a refund.

There
are plenty of other Chinasaurs out there from the same period that I am
surprised haven’t found their way into a monster manual. There’s still time, I
suppose…

Symbols on Tombstones (M – W)

conclamatio-mortis:

Menorah – The emblem of Judaism

Morning Glory – Beginning of Life

Oak, Oak Leaves or Acorns – Power, authority and victory, maturity, ripe old age

Open Book/Bible – Deceased teacher, minister, etc

Palm Branch – Signifies victory and rejoicing

Palm Leaves – Happiness

Pick – Death

Poppy – Death, sleep

Portals – Passageway to eternal journey

Rake and Spade -An emblem that represents a gardner

Rings – If they are together, it is a promise of lifelong fidelity If they are broken, it means that the family has been broken up after the persons death

Rod or Staff – Comfort to the bereaved

Rose(s) – Many different types of stone roses twine the tombs of UK cemeteries, each rose with its own hidden message. If it is fully bloomed, the person died the prime of life, Brevity of earthly existence. Here are just a few and their meanings. 

Burgundy Rose: Simplicity and beauty

China Rose: Grace or beauty ever fresh

Dog Rose: Pleasure and pain

Moss Rose: Melancholy

Musk Rose: The capriciousness of life

Provence Rose: All-consuming life

White Rose: Virginity. Full of buds – Secrecy

Wreath of Roses: Beauty and virtue rewarded

Yellow Rose: Infidelity

Rosemary – Remembrance

Sheaf of Wheat – Ripe for harvest, divine harvest, time

Shells – Pilgrimage of life

Stars & Stripes Around Eagle – Eternal vigilance, liberty

Thistle – Remembrance; a person of Scottish decent

Tombs – Mortality

Torch Inverted – Life extinct

Tree – Trees symbolize life, and include a sprouting tree (for life everlasting), a tree trunk (for the brevity of life), and a Weeping Willow tree (perpetual mourning, grief and loss)

Tree Stump with Ivy – Head of Family; Immortality

Trumpeters – Heralds of the Resurrection

Urn – Immortality; If there is a flame in the urn, it represents undying remembrance If it is decorated with a wreath, is symbolizes mourning

Urn with Wreath or Crepe – Mourning

Urn with Blaze – Undying Friendship

Wedge and Level – An emblem that represents a Mason

Weeping Willow – Emblem of Sorrow

Wheat – A good afterlife

Willows – Earthly sorrow

Winged Effigies – Flight of the Soul

Wreath – Victory

biomedicalephemera:

American Crow – Corvus brachyrhynchos

Both the American crow and the common raven (Corvus corax) are widespread, highly adaptable, and have loud and distinctive calls. Their conspicuous and ubiquitous nature made them two of the most commonly identified species in cemeteries, graveyards, and other areas associated with death and despair.

Unfortunately, the specter of death seems to have caught up to the crows – since 1999, the population of crows has dropped by over 45%, thanks to West Nile Virus. Despite the adaptability of the birds, they’re very susceptible to many avian diseases. As such, they’re considered a bioindicator (or sentinel) species – when they start dying in larger numbers, it indicates the presence of WNV or another avian disease in the area, and other birds will probably start dying soon.

The living animals of the world. C. J. Cornish, 1902.