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small human living a peaceful positive life / I reblog stuff I like: nature, mountains, cats & chickens, outdoorsy sport, interior design, travel content, art, plants & gardening, fashion, politics & food / I love to connect with all you lovely people😊

[spiderbasil]

like im okay with being medium attractive and having a moderately clean house. instagram reels just bounce off of me like water off a ducks back

[hacked-wtsdz]

I love that Tumblr is actually a community. Your blog will be quite poor and boring if you only post your own stuff. Most of our blogs contain countless reblogs and discussions with other people on the website. This is communication and appreciation of each other’s creativity, thoughts, sketches and etc. It’s one thing to mindlessly like tons of photos a day like TikTok and Instagram offer you, and another to reblog and add hashtags and some comments about how the post made you feel or what you think you could add to a joke, a headcanon, an au, a story, an art… It makes this hellsite feel genuine.

[fromthemotionpicture]

[allhailthe70shousewife]

[met-gala-tournament]

Round 3 - 2022 (In America: An Anthology of Fashion / Gilded Glamour) - Match 19 of 25

Lizzo (Thom Browne), left

“I wanted to take something that was a reference to a formal black tie event.” (x)

vs. Nicola Coughlan (Richard Quinn), right

"The look – comprising an embroidered and feathered pink and black ball gown with matching cape – takes inspiration from the fabrications of lavish 19th-century style with its silhouette, exposed cups and use of duchess satin. ... “We wanted to embody the theme through shape and textile without being too literal.”" (x)

Whose outfit was better?

Lizzo

Nicola Coughlan

Remaining time: 2 days 20 hours

[foeofcolor]

Only day you can rb this

[foeofcolor]

This post is like a fucking rosetta stone I've had the same theme song tagged in at least 6 languages so far

[daysleftofsecondterm]

962 days left

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[ultrareginarules]

Fuck jake tapper, and fuck the trump crime family. Maga oligarchs buying up all the media so they can control the narrative, but truth is still truth no matter what.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[calabria-mediterranea]

Strongoli, Calabria, Italy

Photos by @calabretta.alfonso

Follow us on Instagram, @calabria_mediterranea

[wandering-italy]

Cosenza, Calabria

[kapjabeavilag]

[anak1n]

no rest for me and im not even that wicked ?

[andrew-garfielld]

ANOK YAI for The Met Gala (2021-2026)

[roycohn]

if you are a left-leaning person in a political debate/argument with someone (a normal person - not an avowed fascist but someone who is being polite and open to hearing you out), there are a few questions you need to get comfortable and reliable about asking yourself:

am i treating the other person like it's their first day in the real world and need to be taught what to think, or am i doing the basic decent thing and assuming they have put some amount of thought into their existing beliefs with which i must contend and out-reason?

am i advocating for something, or am i just trying to make this other person feel small or stupid?

in the process of this discussion, have i actually made the case that what i'm advocating for will improve the other person's life in a material way?

and if the answer to some or all of these is "no," what you are doing is venting, preaching, or otherwise not helping to make a persuasive case for your beliefs. as we get closer to the midterms in november, it's going to be important to convince and persuade people to support various issues, and the first thing to do is not enter into those conversations with the attitude that all americans are temporarily embarrassed socialists who just need to be lectured about their own moral turpitude until they agree with me. contrary to popular belief within a not-insignificant subset of the internet, persuasion is not capitulation, it's just politics. if people don't see you as someone who genuinely has their best interests at heart, they will eye you and everything you're espousing with suspicion at best and outright anger at worst. and hostility and grandstanding doesn't convince anyone who isn't already on your side! so once again, i really gotta urge people to try to be thoughtful about the language and rhetoric they use to communicate their platforms to others. use accessible language to advocate for policies in a way that meets folks where they're at and assumes their best intentions. most importantly, again, don't treat people like they're stupid - treat them like you're trying to help them. because ultimately, you are.

(i've made this point before and gotten called everything but a child of god for it, but all i can say is i helped raise over $30 million last year at work that went to unambiguously good programs and causes, so i do know what i'm talking about in terms of persuasive communication. i would like democrats to win a majority this election season, and i think we can do this if we behave like serious people. and if you're not american, i especially don't want to hear from you in the notes. this is a triage election, not a pie-in-the-sky one.)

[museiums]

ekaterina zacharova

[theambitiouswoman]

Toxic ambition vs Healthy ambition

1. Why you’re doing it

Toxic: To prove yourself

Healthy: To grow yourself

2. How you feel

Toxic: Never enough

Healthy: Proud + peaceful

3. Your pace

Toxic: Rush, rush, rush

Healthy: Steady + balanced

4. Self talk

Toxic: “I’m behind”

Healthy: “I’m on my path”

5. Rest

Toxic: Feels guilty resting

Healthy: Knows rest is power

6. Failure

Toxic: Takes it personal

Healthy: Learns and moves on

7. Comparison

Toxic: Always comparing

Healthy: Focused on self

8. Relationships

Toxic: Uses or neglects people

Healthy: Builds real connections

9. Boundaries

Toxic: Says yes to everything

Healthy: Protects time + energy

10. Success

Toxic: Never satisfied

Healthy: Celebrates wins

11. Identity

Toxic: “I am my success”

Healthy: “I am more than this”

12. Energy

Toxic: Burnt out

Healthy: Energized

[felysha]

Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who was murdered on the first day of Pride month as well as Indigenous History Month. He died protecting his trans husband. Homophobia and racism aren’t marks of the past, and this is a heart breaking reminder of that.

Praying for a safe journey back to the spirit world, Uncle ❤️‍🩹🦅

[felysha]

Today is the anniversary of the death of Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Parks and Rec). Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who died protecting his transgender husband, on the first day of Pride month. Today we remember him and how he protected his family.