a box of staple wires

for dinner.

[messofthejess]

There is a time for any fledgling artist where one's taste exceeds one's abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.

Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

[gridmaster5000-deactivated20241]

you disagreed w me in an intellectually honest way. we're friends now.

[anxeious]

[spiribia]

it's actually sick you get tired of eating the same food over and over when some animals they just eat grass all day mind you. just another pointless challenge mechanic added in by big universe to get you to go to the grocery store

[fframbuaz-deactivated20250820]

[prokopetz]

If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

[boxofstaplewires]

Sometimes, I think there’s something missing. Like I had something lovely, and it’s gone... And I kinda look to the side, like something should be there, but it’s not… Some nights, I lie in bed thinking “What have I lost?”

- Donna Noble

[anyskin]

Incredible colorised footage from 1929 of construction workers on the Chrysler Building in New York.

[saurs4thtry]

I’m just impressed that it has audio

[theresistance2]

If you wanted solid, definitive proof that the past did, in fact, happen, here it is.

[thatorigamiguy-deactivated20220]

I’m surprised the structure was able to support the weight of every set of BRASS FUCKING BALLS on all of those construction workers. Pre-safety gear/OCEA was wilding man.

[that-catholic-shinobi]

The Chrysler Building had zero fatalities during construction. But the osha violations hurt my soul

[the-mighty-birdy-deactivated202]

TERRIFYING

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

Many of these men were Mohawk Native Americans! The Mohawk had a reputation as ironworkers and worked on most of the big interwar-era construction projects in NYC, also including the Empire State Building and the George Washington Bridge.

[53rdcenturyhero]

Leather soled shoes…

[boxofstaplewires]

Shout out to Steinbeck for making me cry while getting a foot spa.

[twoloversandabeachcomber]

Jean Paul Sartre and his cat, named Nothing

[moderndaymystic]

“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”

— T.S. Eliot

[deep-dark-fears]

Hi folks, it’s been a while. Here’s a fear submitted by Achintha to deepdarkfears.com/submit - thank you! Looking for a holiday gift for the friendly weirdos in your life? You can find original artwork in my Etsy store! CLICK HERE to check ‘em out. Thanks!

[sibyllebair]

[dovewithscales]

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“My memories don’t feel as though they’ve been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.”

— Yōko Ogawa, from The Memory Police, transl. Stephen Snyder (Pantheon, 2019)

[narutwitter]

[narutwitter]