Amatour artist, homegrown thinker and tea drinker

🇵🇱🇪🇺millenial 🧡💛🤍🩵💙 / my SFW-art blog: @batri-arts / my NSFW-art blog: @co-ma-piernik / ao3: pre_tender / deviantart: batri

[batri-jopa]

Wisława Szymborska

There Are Those Who

There are those who conduct life more precisely. They keep order within and around them. A way for everything, and a right answer.

They guess straight off who’s with who, who’s got who, to what end, in what direction.

They set their stamp on single truths, toss unnecessary facts into the shredder and unfamiliar persons into previously designated files.

They think as long as it takes, not a second more, since doubt lies lurking behind that second.

And when they’re dismissed from existence, they leave their place of work through the appropriately marked exit.

Sometimes I envy them – it passes, luckily.

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Wisława Szymborska

Są tacy, którzy

Są tacy, którzy sprawniej wykonują życie. Mają w sobie i wokół siebie porządek. Na wszystko sposób i słuszną odpowiedź.

Odgadują od razu kto kogo, kto z kim, w jakim celu, którędy.

Przybijają pieczątki do jedynych prawd, wrzucają do niszczarek fakty niepotrzebne, a osoby nieznane do z góry przeznaczonych im segregatorów.

Myślą tyle, co warto, ani chwilę dłużej, bo za tą chwilą czai się wątpliwość.

A kiedy z bytu dostaną zwolnienie, opuszczają placówkę wskazanymi drzwiami.

Czasami im zazdroszczę - na szczęście to mija.

[teathattast]

[naamahdarling]

Fuck you I was expecting comedy and now I'm crying?!

This is beautiful.

[dorian-g-r-ay]

I can't believe it've been 30 years (I wasn't even born)

[yokohma]

[jareckiworld]

Joanna Karpowicz — "Evening" Anubis Series (acrylic, canvas, 2024)

[luisonte]

Que ioputa

[wizardshark]

Oh you're gonna wanna unmute this one

[pawism]

hey~

[noviraine]

Omg look, it's Nomad!

The first OC of my current roster, whom I haven't drawn in years at this point D:

I've been meaning to do a slight redesign of him, and here's a first test of that! Mostly his fur is darker, and his fashion is different - I like it so far! 🥰

[woman-becomer]

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

[luxe-pauvre]

Some studies have suggested that reading fiction can increase empathy. But a perhaps even more surprising finding comes from researchers who discovered a short-term decrease in the need for “cognitive closure” in the minds of readers of fiction. In brief, the researchers write, those with a high need for cognitive closure “need to reach a quick conclusion in decision-making and an aversion to ambiguity and confusion,” and thus, when confronted with confusing circumstances, tend to seize on fast explanations and hang on to them. That generally means they’re more susceptible to things like conspiracy theories and poor information, and they become less rational in their thinking. Reading fiction, though, studies have found, tends to retrain the brain to stay open, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to sort through information more carefully.

Alissa Wilkinson, How to fall back in love with reading

[zipofcloud]

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog

[suzuresha]

[sennamaticart]

Narcissus' Mirror

[pedrogferreira]

Homecoming

watercolor on paper

Follow me on Instagram and X

[vlindervin7]

All I can think abt is that one quote that basically just describes that you can’t be your true self in your native language bc there’s too much emotional attachment, but that second languages allow speakers to be truly free with their words

[vlindervin7]

“Some things could only be written in a foreign language; they are not lost in translation, but conceived by it. Foreign verbs of motion could be the only ways of transporting the ashes of familial memory. After all, a foreign language is like art—an alternative reality, a potential world. »

- Svetlana Boym, “Estrangement as a Lifestyle: Shklovsky and Brodsky”

“Bilinguals overwhelmingly report that they feel like different people in different languages. It is often assumed that the mother tongue is the language of the true self. (…) But, it first languages are reservoirs of emotion, second languages can be rivers undammed, freeing their speakers to ride different currents.”

- Love in Translation by Lauren Collins from the New Yorker, August 8 & 15, 2016

[effyeffa]

when ilya kaminski said in an interview “even the shape of my face changed when i began to live inside the english language”

[extra-vertebrae]

A collection of elephant studies from a bit ago.