god bless the daylight

maybe everything that falls down eventually rises. brella. 30-something. a writer. they/them.

[mothids]

figured i would post this here too….. Love this dialogue so much. Top 1 transgender protagonists

[brella]

where all will be forgiven in an instant…

[discourseoflove]

“The role of the artist is exactly the same role, I think, as the role of the lover. If you love somebody, you honor at least two necessities at once. One of them is to recognize something very dangerous, or very difficult. Many people cannot recognize it at all, that you may also be loved; love is like a mirror. In any case, if you do love somebody, you honor the necessity endlessly, and being at the mercy of that love, you try to correct the person whom you love. Now, that’s a two-way street. You’ve also got to be corrected. As I said, the people produce the artist, and it’s true. The artist also produces the people. And that’s a very violent and terrifying act of love. The role of the artist and the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see. Insofar as that is true, in that effort, I become conscious of the things that I don’t see. And I will not see without you, and vice versa, you will not see without me. No one wants to see more than he sees. You have to be driven to see what you see. The only way you can get through it is to accept that two-way street which I call love. You can call it a poem, you can call it whatever you like. That’s how people grow up. An artist is here not to give you answers but to ask you questions.”

— James Baldwin, “The Black Scholar Interviews James Baldwin,” Conversations with James Baldwin (edited by Fred L. Standley and Louis H. Pratt)

[strawberry-macchiato]

Day 93

[hawberries]

started drawing haikyuu shipchibis and forgot to stop

[hawberries]

more shipchibis! i am excercising my free will!! (part 1)

[derangedrhythms]

And how horribly easy it is to be hurt. I am being hurt all day, & hurt by the tiniest & most subtle things. So on goes the everyday armour, and the self, even the wounded self, is hidden from so many.

Dylan Thomas, The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas; Pamela Hansford Johnson, March 1934

[kastyzemnaya]

My first post on this platform hehe

[burins]

thinking fondly of this meme I made for a coworker years and years ago

[burins]

this is going around again and the tags are full of people talking about printing it out to put in their breakroom or cubicle or sending it to their coworkers, which fills me with great joy. vast diversity of professions represented also. zoos. labs. summer camps. restaurants. garden centers. libraries. schools. many reports from the brave warriors of assorted retail. a truth universally acknowledged: if there is a sign a customer will not read it <3 and they don't read emails either <3

[nest-deactivated20181209]

at my job we have to go through a training program that teaches us the library of congress classification system, and when i was first being trained my boss started to boot it up and she gave me a really anxious and guilty look and said “listen, i’m really sorry in advance, there’s nothing i can do about this, just…. just try to get through it” and i was like lol what’s she talking about and then the program loaded and i was greeted with a deliriously funny-looking photoshopped wizard with glowing eyes pointing at some intro message like “AH YES, JUST AS THE PROPHECY FORETOLD… APPRENTICE, YOU COME AT A TIME OF MOST DIRE NEED… YOU MUST LEARN OUR WAYS” and my boss just looked at me helplessly and was like “i’m so sorry. it’s like two hours long.”

thankfully it wasn’t an elaborate fever dream and i have found screenshots

[trans-axolotl]

Image description: [Screenshots of the library of congress wizard training game. The first image has a wizard standing in a lake. The second image has a wizard standing in front of a bookshelf.]

[general-sleepy]

[ID: Text on first image: “Greetings! I am a Knowledge Keeper. Some call me a Librarian. Your presence here was foretold to me and you have arrived just in time. Though I have trained many before you, I am always happy to have a new apprentice.” (Continue button)

Text on second image: “As you see, our need is great. All must be put in order and maintained. It is time to begin your lessons—listen closely. Please click Continue.”

(Note that the wizard in question is just about the most stereotypical bearded, robed, pointy-hatted old man wizard you can imagine, carrying a wooden staff). END ID]

[redstonedust]

thinking "everyone can tell im bad at this" as i stand completely motionless doing nothing in public

[drpepperwhoree]

remember that pride is still a protest

[wardengrill]

Mindhunter Episode 2

[weepingwidar]

Audrey Bialke (American, 1991) - Who, If I Cried Out, Would Hear Me (2022)

[that-one-idiot-11]

whenever I tell a story I feel like Uncle Colm from Derry Girls

[rthwrms]

HOW TO START (2026)

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image transcriptions under the cut

How to Start by rthwrms

for the times when you really truly want to do something, but find resistance or that starting feels impossible

most helpful action to get into a task is: look at it options include: review what you've already done open the tab on screen blur your eyes at first if that helps fullscreen the image browse or skim relevant texts let your gaze move around how it will JUST...LOOK!!!

Your brain has resistance towards starting the particular project in the way that you've previously conceived of it. Instead of fighting that resistance, try to change your approach to starting your work. Ie, start with colored pencils on a piece you were doing in gouache, include a new stitch in a crochet piece, Step one: identify the process Step two: identify places where something new can be included Step three: brainstorm new options to fill these spots Step four: select one or more options and try your piece from this new angle

encourage yourself by asking questions start with: "What am I actually trying to do right now?" then try: "What would this look like if it were more fun?" "How would I do it if anything was possible?"

divide into discrete tasks make the closest or shiniest one literally as small & specific as freaking possible

image text: I BELIEVE IN YOU screenshot text: The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W.B. Yeats (via billowy)

there is a window now there is a door

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