[letterful]

[riverwindphotography]

A Flow of Sunlight

(c) gif by riverwindphotography, July 2025

[crysaacbaby]

[joytri]

[flowercrownimpala]

i wonder if actors ever get their scripts and are like

well this is fucking stupid

[daenerys-targaryen-moved]

[plavoptice]

[image description: photos of the cast of Game of Thrones at the season 8 table read, in various stages of grief]

[woomylord-deactivated20240930]

posts that are made funnier by the image description

[laora-ryn]

Saw this license plate today and I'm still ugly laughing about it

[ilikethemwings]

[earthvideos]

[placetoburystrangers]

1 bass girl is worth 100,000 guitar men. always remember this

[chimesthewind]

They’re just doing it for attention!

Yes? And? 

Look, I understand the innate frustration when someone you know does something drastic as a cry for attention. You’ve shut down your emotions, you’ve sucked it up like a big kid and moved on, you’ve shoved down trauma so you don’t inconvenience others, so why the hell can’t they? 

The process of acknowledging and accepting your emotions is difficult. It makes sense that you feel that way, and it’s okay to feel that way. But when someone is reaching out for help, in any way they know how, you need to recognize that your frustration is your problem, not some universal justice that this other person is just failing to recognize. 

If someone hurts themselves in such a way that you can see the scars, if someone makes a mountain out of a molehill, if someone acts like they have PTSD over something you don’t think merits it, and they are crying out for attention - good. They are asking for help in the only way they know how. It’s not the healthiest way to ask, but for a lot of people it’s the only way. 

You sit in agonizing silence and suck it up and wish someone would notice and do nothing about it, so you don’t get the help you need. They do something drastic and then get the help you think YOU deserve - not because they deserve it more than you, but because they are showing their heart on their sleeve. So what if it’s overdramatic? Attention is a valid need. 

[soft-lovely]

Artemis — lady of wild things, huntress, protectress of animals, guardian of the young.

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

[headspace-hotel]

"Where has all the genuine self-expression gone? Now what used to be authentic subculture is turned into a performance of Aesthetic!" so many posts exclaim, usually concluding that the problem is Capitalism.

I don't disagree entirely, but. The problem is that y'all are so deathly fucking afraid of things Cringe, Weird, and Uncool that anything unmarketable, subversive, or oddball enough to be "genuine subculture" is gross and unacceptable to you.

[headspace-hotel]

People wish to see "genuine self expression" that is not a performance or a commodity.

Very well then. I assume you're appreciating and celebrating the dress, style and behavior of somewhat shabby, weird outcasts who firmly refuse to make themselves palatable to you?

I think some of you are forgetting what "subculture" means. If it makes everybody around you think you are cool and look nice, that's missing the point a little bit. That's just...culture!

[headspace-hotel]

When people express themselves in a way that is not a performance to appeal to others...

...it is actually very likely that they will...not appeal to you.

"Why can't people be unapologetically themselves, in a way that is of course never "cringy" or too weird or too ugly or uncool? Why can't we have self-expression without performance, in a way that is not boring to me and that doesn't weird me out?"

Do you see the problem?

[headspace-hotel]

There are still robust, thriving subcultures full of unique fashion and artistic expression...

"Ah, but you see, that one is personally unappealing to me!"

That's the Point, you fools!

[headspace-hotel]

I see how people talk about non-binary youths with hair dyed in funny colors. But there is such a young person of indeterminate gender I see sometimes on my college campus with "Trans Liberation Now!" and a bunch of other symbols and slogans hand-painted on their jacket, and they are a million times more "Punk" than anyone with simply piercings and spiky chokers

[headspace-hotel]

I was thinking about the incredibly cruel phenomenon of taking photos of strangers without consent and uploading them to websites so others can mock them, in the vein of "People of Walmart" and other such things, and when looking it up, I was disturbed to see how many of them are just 1) a fat person is in public (wow!) or 2) a (perceived) man is being obviously gender non-conforming 

they are just existing. probably at a more advanced level than you.

[tcssathompson]

“Think of someone you want to touch whom you cannot touch, someone forbidden. Think of a room where there is nothing except the two of you: still, you cannot touch them. Think of the heat between two hands about to touch, the language that exists in that silence.”

— Chelsea Hodson, from Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays; “A Simple Woman,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[stars-bean]

“The time of hot chocolaty mornings and toasty marshmallow evenings.”

Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) dir. Karl Geurs

[chimesthewind]

How do I explain to my cleanliness-is-close-to-godliness mother that the reason I have random cardboard boxes and paper sacks lying around my floor is because the Cat has taken A Liking to it? 

[stardustemotions-deactivated202]

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is, "I know this feeling. I was here before"

— Don DeLillo, White Noise

[klassicstudent]

August rain:

the best of summer gone, a new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

- Sylvia Plath