Enemy of the State

22 | Andromeda | She/Him

[wenchyfloozymoo]

[water---damage]

Dr. Gachey with foxglove, 1890

[dovewithscales]

Some of Van Gogh’s best work was done during a period of his life that he spent in a hospital being treated for his mental health problems. I could be wrong but I think Starry Night was among those.

This is consistently the case. Creators tend to do their best work when they are in a healthy place and receiving proper treatment and not being self destructive in their efforts to cope. Go figure.

All our experiences, good and bad, inform what we create, but suffering is not the price of great art. Suffering is what prevents artists from completing great art.

[redshoesnblueskies]

(I bring to mind this @tkingfisher / Ursula Verson quote about once a week <3)

[pillowspace]

There are many people who don’t share this sentiment, but I have an appreciation for when a fanfic is so separated from canon that it could’ve easily been its own original novel, and yet the author was only ever going to put that much energy into it if their favourite characters got to be there

[pillowspace]

I think there’s a difference between “the author stripped the media of everything it had to replace it with something easy” and “the author thought up a concept they really really like and are bestowing it upon the character like a medal”

[scenerwiththegreenery]

it's the opposite of sanding off the serial numbers. like you really invented a brand-new AU just to put your blorbos in. you built an entire world just for them to play in. it's like rat park but for blorbos. i love you so much i invented whole new situations just for you. beautiful

[crowgifts]

[danimals666]

Gale and Halsin silly doodles (I saw a tiktok and immediately thought of Halsin)

Now,, Bear in mind.

[esp3ria]

Nature's gift

[purpledngnoodle]

Best cover girl is best~ More variants are up on P@30n!

[everyteenager4free1]

[beastliness]

happy 10 year anniversary to the puppet master that cursed my dick

[wynsvre]

snoopy as gregor samsa

[mx-dorkboy]

Anyway adults saying “I don’t know isn’t an answer” is part of the reason I learned to lie and bluff so well.

[mx-dorkboy]

Really though, what was that about? I don’t know is a valid answer. It communicates very clearly that the child cannot answer your question, and therefore maybe needs more help understanding the question/situation. Why do you try and push them to give an answer they don’t have? That stresses them out and it makes them feel like they’re being punished for not knowing something.

[logically-asexual]

i thought i was the only one with an “i don’t know” problem because my parents made it seem it was the strangest and also most horrible thing in the world. i genuinely didn’t know and they got angry and that only blocked my thoughts more which meant i didn’t know the answer to anything else.

[kitvalkyrie]

THIS ^^^

[nyxwoven]

Also “I don’t know” is a commonly used sentence for children with ADHD/Autism. We DON’T know why we can’t do our homework. We DON’T know why we can’t eat certain foods sometimes. We DON’T know why we forgot to do a chore. It’s really distressing when you genuinely don’t know and people think you’re just lying or indifferent

[pacificnorthwestcore]

(Source) August 2nd, 2026.

The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Wildfire Recovery Fund

[rongzhi]

An interaction from VR Chat

English added by me :)

[sleebyfrogs]

Happy first Nantong Tuesday of pride month to one of my favourite videos of all time! To celebrate, you can now cross stitch your own front-facing nantong VRsire for free. Here's mine.

[boybeetles]

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

[boybeetles]

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

[yetanothergreyjedi]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

[headspace-hotel]

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

[tonysaintborgi]

my mutuals are doing this to me

[problematic-woman-lover]

[wrigglewormz]

Quite frankly yall need to be projecting more on the doms. Make the DOM have guilty sexual fantasies !!! Maybe the DOM is shamefully staring at the ceiling after waking up from a dream!!! Yall are cowards. Do none of you have any appreciation for the noble dom identity crisis. Do none of you have any respect for guilty sadists with control issues and who desperately want autonomy for once in their damn lives and who just want to Keep someone, for once, who want to be allowed to Want and Take . Do NONE of yall have any respect for sadists realizing with horror how badly they want to hurt the person they would do anything to protect and take care of and make smile? Cowards, all of you.

[the-lemon-light]

An Analysis of Patrick Page’s Cane Use as Hades in the Hadestown Proshot as a Cane User

First of all, the cane. It was sick as hell with its snarling dog head. I say it’s a dog head because the meanest dog you’ll ever meet is the one that howls inside your head. But it was too short for him. It might have fit when he wasn’t wearing a thick medical boot and a heeled snakeskin boot. But as we saw him onstage? It was too short. That would lead to insufficient support and possibly damage to your shoulder if you used it in everyday life. Also, it didn’t seem to have a rubber tip on the bottom, which would make it really uncomfortable to use, in my opinion. The rubber absorbs the shock of impact.

He DID, however, seem to use the cane accurately (when he used it). It was on the correct side, the rhythm was right. The rhythm is a hard thing to learn, so he probably practiced with it or has some experience walking with a cane.

BUT HERE IS WHERE MY TAKE IS HOT

I don’t think Patrick Page needed that cane. At least not full-time. I think it was likely a prop or just extra support— but if he needed it, I feel that they would have sized it accurately. However: Hades did need it.

Hades is almost never without his cane. While he’s being menacing, there it is. It could also function as a class indicator— the show is set sometime in the past, and canes were carried by the upper class for a long time. But he uses that cane for support.

Until, that is, he dances with Persephone. He starts off stationary, letting her dance around him. But gradually, he starts to pick it up. He does the little side-to-side moment completely unsupported, and eventually tosses the cane to a Fate so he can dance with Persephone unencumbered.

Because his wife is home and they’re in love and she functions as the support he was searching for with his cane. From there, he uses the cane less.

I don’t recall exactly how the cane featured during His Kiss, The Riot and as Persephone leaves him again, but it comes back and he leans on it again by the end of the show.

Hades needs his cane.

[kindof-amess]

Thinking about the Hadestown proshot and Orpheus being introduced wiping down a table with his back to the audience. Hermes has to call out to him again to get him to take his opening bow, and for the show to start, Orpheus has to turn around.

[hello-eeveev]

a crude summary of one of my favorite musicals