Little Optimist

Hello! I’m an illustrator and I love stories and this is my place to put all the things I love :) art tumblr: @littleoptimistart

[alittleoptimistic]

when making tortillas, you may say to yourself, “this is thin enough, surely i have rolled this out more than sufficiently.” No! A lie! It needs to be thinner. Always thinner

[alittleoptimistic]

vampire influencer whose whole thing is normal but everything seems to float bc they’re invisible to cameras and its never talked about but the comments are always arguing about whether its video editing, ai, strings (?)

[feralratbitesu]

can i be honest tho i kinda hate makeup bc i love licking my lips and rubbing my hands on my face like a cat or a fly annd i also love wiping my eyes like a sleepy infant all the time so basically i cant do it

[cutecipher]

science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.

[cutecipher]

scientists on this post: yuuuup 👍

people who aren't scientists: um actually ☝️

[monster2001]

[manhcester]

fruit edition

are you a strawberry or raspberry person? a lemon or lime person? a mango or peach person? a pear or apple person?

[alittleoptimistic]

I love the way people kiss in old movies why don’t they do it like that anymore

[alittleoptimistic]

This this! The yearning, the way he presses his cheek on hers!

[alittleoptimistic]

I love the way people kiss in old movies why don’t they do it like that anymore

[json-derulo]

having the Aviation Accident Investigations Autism™️ has actually done wonders for the way I process and respond to my own fuck-ups

[json-derulo]

And I don't just mean "oh, my little work mistake is actually nothing compared to a fiery crash that kills people," either. The reason commercial flight is so many orders of magnitude safer than any other form of transportation is because after every accident and incident, an independent regulatory body investigated it with the express goal of figuring out exactly what happened, why, and how to prevent the same thing from ever happening again—not to root out which person deserved the blame or the liability.

It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.

[json-derulo]

Because it’s never just one person’s fault. And even when it is, it still isn’t. 

The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely. 

Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?

[chamomile-teabag]

WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me

[mossy-cobble]

crazy how i find myself thinking i've got a handle on it all finally and then i see the ways that other people tangle their lives together so easily and live so easily together with their friends and i feel like that girl at the top of the stairs painting by norman rockwell

[mossy-cobble]

i'll always be here

[fabrickind]

oobh i got plany off bobbin thread

[apolladay]

Sexiest tree?

Oak

Willow

Coconut

Pine

Spruce

Palm

Apple

Sequoia

Baobab

Magnolia

Birch

Maple

Voting ended onMay 13

[yanderepuck]

So with Joann going under and as a Fashion/Costume Designer and a cosplayer I need a place to get fabric and notions, and I know many others feel lost as well

So I made a short simple list of online fabric stores as well as notions .

Please share with anyone you would like. If you have recommendations of things to add please let me know.

Fabric sources

There's only a few right now of ones I know and have used

I may add a few niche ones like Silk Baron but I am mainly adding ones with many options and maybe add a niche section later

More places with trims would be nice, or even patterns, historical, cosplay, or everyday.

[maureen-corpse]

One thing they don’t tell you about sewing is that it is actually ironing

[lantaniel]

how do you do, fellow Creatives™

[theboxfort]

Peace and love