rainy, with occasional sunshine

30+, she/her, Russian, enraged and tired at the same time

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

Hate to be Old on main but more uquizzes need an “i have no idea who these people are” option for questions like ‘pick an artist’ like please kids i literally haven’t been up to date on whats Popular on the radio since 2014

[sabriel-writes]

Murderbot, absolute monarch of haterism. It gets friends for the first time in its life and immediately designates one Mortal Enemy [if anyone touches him they're dead]. It runs away, meets another intelligent bot, and immediately gives it a nickname that starts with Asshole. It goes to Preservation and starts one-sided beef with a hauler bot for no fucking reason. IT'S ENRICHMENT

[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?

[solanaceaae]

a rushed Indian anthy piece

[redstonedust]

the way the internet talks about japan is fascinating i never see any other country get equally treated as both a beautiful cultured utopia and an evil imperialist hellhole. you ever just wanna be like hey guys i think japan might be a country. a normal country with good and bad aspects. has anyone thought of this. could be huge.

[wuggen]

Everyone say thank you sanitation workers we owe you our lives sanitation workers

[userlesbian]

Dan and Phil and Ben

[torpublishinggroup]

Favorite Murderbot Quote Poll

What is your favorite Murderbot quote?

“I was having an emotion, and I hate that.”

 “I received your request but decided to ignore you.”

“I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop.”

“As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.”

“‘No hugging,’ I warned her. It was in our contract.”

“It had been such a stupid question, I had forgotten not to have an expression.”

“I love you, armor, and I’m never leaving you again.”

“I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break.”

“Ugh, emotions.”

“I am tired of the whole concept of humans right now.”

Voting ended onMay 26

 Yours is not here? Tell us what your favorite is in the tags.

[mostlyghostie]

A slightly redrawn and edited version of the Dream Library stack (version 3 if you’re counting).

Since I first drew this, my first wish has come true with the final Book of Dust novel having come out (not what I expected, but I liked it)! Which would you most want if you could pick one?

(Currently part of a half price print sale on my shop!)

Shop

[sapphireswimming]

If you ever feel like you’ve had an unproductive day writing, please know that one time novelist/playwright/essayist Dorothy L Sayers wrote a letter to Bun (her literary agent) that said “herewith the striking results of today’s literary labours” followed by two pages of rabbit sketches.

[sapphireswimming]

(via @smokeandsong) #the question is are they out there somewhere and can i get one tattooed

I am fairly certain that this letter was never published (alas!) but if you are ever able to make your way to @thewadecenter in the American Midwest, you can see the originals!

I can’t photograph or scan the pages without getting in trouble with copyright and security and stuff, but herewith my meticulously accurate (if rearranged) sketches (real size to a 9x11 sheet of paper):

[ymutate]

Layla Khani (Iranian/British, born 1972)

"Poppy Fields", 2025.

Linocut Print, 38 × 38 cm.

[abuu2go]

(via 「思わず二度見する不思議さ…」タトゥー風の足を持つ猫:らばQ)

[sollertias]

Saint Cecilia by John William Waterhouse, 1895 (detail)

[sleepy-bebby]

[wymanthewalrus]

God I am sick and tired of people uwu-washing indigenous American history.

Did the Inca have exquisite building techniques, efficient messengers, and quality waterworks? Yes. They were also an expansionist empire built on violent conquest and the splitting up and relocating of conquered peoples.

Did the Aztecs have a gorgeous capital city built at the heart of a lake, with floating farms and towering temples honoring their fascinating pantheon? Yes. Guess what tho. They were also a violent expansionist empire who practiced ritual sacrifice of prisoners of war.

The Iroquois confederacy had one of the most unique representative political systems I’ve ever heard of, with women taking a forefront in most local government matters too. But their internal peace allowed them to redirect violence to their neighbors, as so often happens with tribal confederations, and they eventually violently conquered the Ohio valley and destroyed or displaced dozens of other indigenous groups.

Even my beloved Cahokia has the graves of sacrifice victims amidst its ruins.

A society should not need to be (and fundamentally cannot be) squeaky clean unproblematically stannable in order to be worth studying and remembering, and pretending that they were is no less disinformative than the European accounts painting them as godless savages.

[fangoriousfae]

[marzipanandminutiae]

also not all of them had better sanitation and/or medical knowledge than Europeans of the same era. the Europeans were also human beings with human intelligence and observation skills! the American indigenous people also lacked modern technology and health advancements!

they don't have to have invented Purell and wifi millennia early- and the Europeans don't have to have been wading through human feces in their streets -for violent colonialism to be wrong

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP handmade a set of willow-leaf curtains, hanging a piece of spring right by the window. The swallows are also hand-cut. They spin around when the wind blows in. (cr 星河理想+)

[edinburgh-by-the-sea]

green feathers catching the light