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About updated June 2025

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dragon-in-a-fez

"you don't know what you have until you lose it" works for things that suck too btw. sometimes you need to experience life without something for a while to realise oh damn that was some bullshit

whatkindofnameisella

ursula k le guin affirmations for your day:

it is our differences which make us dearer to one another

it is never too late to start loving

the enemy is not the foreigner, but the ones who tell you to hate the foreigner

everyone should have food, shelter, and work

everything is a yin and yang metaphor if you try hard enough

sci-fi is important

hortensius-deactivated20240909

the novelty of having pets really does never wear off i’ve had my cat for ten years and i still look at him strolling around like can you believe this. a cat. is everyone seeing this. he’s alive he has bones and all. unbelievable

tenderlovingmuse

wishing you a safe return back to yourself

#deconversion tag

random-brushstrokes

Thorvald Erichsen - Wooded Landscape (1900)

butterflypeaflowertea

trees are very 🥺 because sometimes i’ll stand under the shade of a tree and look up at it and it’ll sway its branches about in the wind and i’m like oh my God i’m alive and YOU’RE alive. we are alive together and made up of the same starry stuff and standing right next to each other in this moment on this earth. do u feel it when i reach out and press my hand to your trunk? can you hear me? i think you’re so neat. and then the sunlight filters through its leaves just so and that lovely green color leaves me dazzled. it’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing

classicalcanvas

Weeping Willow (1919) by Claude Monet

stuckinapril

when James Baldwin said I can’t be a pessimist because I’m alive

stuckinapril

when James Baldwin said to be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive.

fwipfwoparoni

This is from a 1963 interview with Kenneth Bancroft Clark, which I recommend watching here.

thorsbaratitty-blog

“Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.” - Eartha Kitt

#this gifset reminded me that Thursdays Child is still on my to read pile

hawkpartys

Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) observation by eleggua

happy pride

abwwia

Claire Sherman, American, b. 1981

Wildflowers, 2025

Oil on canvas

30 × 26 in | 76.2 × 66 cm

Claire Sherman (born 1981, Oberlin, Ohio) is an American painter currently living and working in New York City. Her work is in the collection of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, Kansas), the Margulies Collection (Miami), and other noteworthy public and private collections. She has had solo exhibitions in New York's DC Moore Gallery and DCKT Contemporary, Amsterdam's Galerie Hof & Huyser, London's Houldsworth Gallery, and Chicago's Kavi Gupta Gallery. Via W