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Just floating around in the void. Reblogging art at @eyeballapproved

[parkayquarts]

im glad we're mostly out of the "girls are so soft uwu" era. it was really hard for me to go through as a girl with a segmented carapace covered in hundreds of tiny barbs

[abyssalaquarist00]

pick up that non-fiction book

[abyssalaquarist00]

not all of us can live in fantasy 100% the time like i see some people on here do and it's refreshing to learn something new. its been philosophy, essays, and history for me and i feel much more at home on planet Earth for it knowing that people have been struggling and wishing similarly for millenia.

its not that fiction doesnt have its place, its important and healthy to exercise the imagination, but non-fiction can do so much to boost and supplement that. if not for yourself, for your art or for the people you're around

[abyssalaquarist00]

"representation matters!" but you wont read or engage with non-fiction works about any demographic outside your own

[abyssalaquarist00]

this version of the post doesnt seem to be getting much traction but this is arguably the most important reason why we should be reading nonfiction in addition to fiction

[creative-anchorage]

Tags by @platinumpaladin:

#Non-fiction is like a palette cleanser for me #I always go to non-fiction whenever I’m in a slump. Nine times out of ten it will snap me right out of it

[cogumellow]

long winds, high plains // wyoming, usa // 2015 // ©

[fictionadventurer]

People pretend that seeing the bad things in life is the smarter, more clear-eyed position, but really, people who refuse to notice the good things are just as blind as the people who refuse to notice the bad things, plus they're more miserable.

[apilgrimpassingby]

[apenitentialprayer]

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. Yes is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.

Stephen Colbert

[creative-anchorage]

Tags by @freenarnian: #this! stop intellectualizing cynicism #people really out there thinking their own bad attitude and negative feelings/assumptions make them smarter better people #actually it just makes them terrible company #not to mention unhelpful and annoying #at which point they start interpreting other people's negative reaction to them as confirmation bias that the world is bad and against them

Tags by @kai-cheesecake: #noticing positive things increases our capacity to handle the bad things too #it has the power to calm our nervous systems and decrease stress hormones #it's a lot harder to notice the positive bc of our survival mechanisms #that's why it takes intentional practice and persistence

[mysterypuppys]

U literally cannot save your mother like it cant be done

[woodsdyke]

i went a different way home through the valley today, on a road i haven't taken before, and. um. so. who's this.

[woodsdyke]

belfast feed store and supplies of burlington washington i love your commitment to creating big weird art but man this was kinda challenging to stumble upon unwittingly

[sentimentalslut]

trying to explain to tumblr that the Middle Class in not their enemy

[sentimentalslut]

saw someone say that someone complaining about only having 7k in savings makes them contemplate “doing something bad”

you know that 7k covers like. one hospital visit WITH insurance, right?

[sentimentalslut]

“people who make six figures shouldn’t be allowed to complain —“ most people who make six figures are, these days, solidly middle class. where i live, a combined household income of $110k is *lower middle class*.

“people who can afford homes —“ are typically 400-600k in debt for them. also if “can own your own home” is your threshold for the rich you are contemplating eating, i think you are genuinely stupid

“boohoo your investments dropped, stop complaining rich boy” idk how to tell you this but. most of us have a retirement account. you should probably open one

[dirt-mann]

[creative-anchorage]

Tags by @flightofthefaeriedragon:

#i don't understand anger at people having things that all people should have #suffering isn't righteous #that's religious nonsense #no one should be suffering #that's the point

[baklavasudarajako]

A quick lil Rocky doodle :3

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

No matter how shitty it might feel in the moment, most of the time when someone comes to you to communicate a boundary or a need or a negative feeling about something you did, it is actually a compliment. They are telling you BECAUSE they care about you and want it to work between you and because they trust you to care to do better. If they didn't care about you, they'd just avoid you. That uncomfortable convo is in fact a declaration of love and trust. Or at least intention of friendship. If they didn't like you, they'd just try to avoid you whenever possible. They wouldn't care to have The Talk (which is often scary and uncomfortable for them also). So try to treat their trust with care, even if it really upsets you to learn that you've accidentally hurt them

[eroscestlavie]

Dude. Have some self respect

[eroscestlavie]

Bro he called his gargoyle in to menace me

[epiphainie]

people get so mad when you tell them that their lowbrow entertainment they enjoy is actually lowbrow

[epiphainie]

everyone wants their self-indulgent romantasy to be considered high literature and whatever new mainstream pop boy/girl to be treated as the next beethoven and their gay fluff show on streaming apps to be revolutionary art changing the world and like, they're not. and that's okay. i'm literally watching the stupidest show right now and it's fine. it doesn't have to be more.

[epiphainie]

there's also the argument of how pop culture used to be the trickle down from high culture for the longest time but now it's an ouroboros eating itself as access and willingness to engage with high culture have been systematically destroyed and diminished through the last decades so your popcorn flick moviemaker now only gets inspiration from other popcorn flicks when their foreparents used to actually read literally and see art of all kinds and your pop musicians used to listen to all sorts of new and old music rather than just their contemporaries/competition and maybe this absence of any sort of culture outside of our easy algorithms is why everyone's so defensive of what they passively consume and so attached to it as a part of their identity but that's a discussion for another day

[lurks-no-more]

Yeah. Read broadly, watch movies and shows outside your usual interest range, listen to music from artists you don't recognize. The more varied and diverse your inputs, the more material your mind has for its own creativity! Feed your head!

[anatomizer]

Totally second this addition, and love the neutrality. There exists a growing penchant to classify art or media as something it isn't simply because it's enjoyed. I think a lot can be lost in that.

Obviously, there is the media ouroboros that OP described. One of my pet examples of this is the psychological thriller vs. horror genre tag. Horror is an umbrella that includes thrillers, but psychological thriller is treated as elevated and different. Something separated from the implications of horror (read: free from the genre's history of taboo, cultural critiques, and minority artists/performers).

Beyond the bigger picture, there is the personal loss in both refusing to see art for what it is, and in refusing to engage in art across quality, kind, and class. There are the troubles with engaging with nothing but hyper-palatable and pop media, from trending music, BookTok titles, to even fanfiction. Conversely, engaging with nothing but the erudite and elevated isn't a solution, either. At best, it will isolate you. At worst, the fixation on the preexisting bounds of culture, taste, and worth is classic to conservatism.

A breadth of experiences and curiousity about media is healthy. And I will disagree with OP on this: despite all attempts to make people more complacent, we still live in an age with an unthinkable amount of media accessibility. In front of you is a device that likely can access the Internet Archive, Wikipedia, museums with digitized archives of their collections, AO3, torrents, and more. This very website is full of art that creators are eager to share. There are still libraries, and maker's markets, and zine exchanges. All of it can be as profound as you want it to be, regardless of its class or quality. You just have to have the curiosity to engage.

[castledock]

hey guys you know a work can have challenging & disturbing & weird themes without it actually being a kink that the writers have, right? I know we all like to use that “the author’s barely disguised fetish” meme but i truly need y’all to understand that some things are just recurring themes & motifs in a body of work without it being sexual for the writers or anyone involved in the creation of art. It’s important to me that y’all know this.

[random-brushstrokes]

Geoffrey Holt - Grille and Mission-House Window (Interior), ca. 1940

[gaydiation-poisoning]

It would kill half the 19-25 year olds online to realize "I can't help it I have trauma" is one of THE quintessential abuser excuses

[gaydiation-poisoning]

Like there is a difference between "My trauma creates impulsive urges and has changed my instinctive reactions to be irrational, I need to relearn shit." vs "I'm traumatized so I Can't Help It and you're not allowed to expect better of me"

[fittingoutjane]

Ug. THIS was my ex-fiance's deal. Every time he did something wrong, it was all about citing his mental health for excuses, not explanations. He'd never, like, acknowledge that his irrational actions had real consequences for other people, or look for ways to improve his behavior.

Try saying, "Yeah, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that. I'm working on stuff, and I'll try not to do it again." And then actually not do it again! Try to repair the damage if you can.

[creative-anchorage]

Tag by @lhazaar: #19-25 is generous. there are many people in their late 20s and 30s and beyond who still have not learned this

[nitewrighter]

Ozempic scares the shit out of me. You're telling me there's a drug that takes away both the craving side of hunger and targets the brain's rewards center for eating. You're telling me it takes the joy out of eating and it turns you into a skeleton. Why did we turn The Curse of the Black Pearl into a drug. What the fuck.

[nitewrighter]

I actually want to thank the diabetics coming on this post like "actually it genuinely is a great treatment for diabetes and it hasn't affected my mood or my enjoyment of food. The real issue is it's getting abused as a weight loss drug which also makes it scarce and more expensive for those who can genuinely benefit from it." Kind of reminds me of the time my brother got permission from our family psychiatrist to try my ADHD medication and his reaction to it was "what the fuck are you on. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ON. WHY DO I FEEL LIKE CRYING. YOU'RE ON THIS EVERY DAY!?!"

Body chemistry! It makes a big difference in how your body processes a drug! What can be genuinely helpful for some folks is The Curse of the Black Pearl for others!

[stars-mars13]

When I was on Ozempic for weight loss (about a year and a half) I felt nauseous even thinking about food, had continuous acid reflux, would constantly need to use the restroom even if I had barely ate or drank anything, had horrible headaches, and had horrible stomach cramps constantly. It got so bad that I got nauseous just thinking about taking a shot, actually taking one was worse cuz I felt like I'd throw up each time. I think it genuinely subconsciously scarred me and I'm so glad that my healthcare doesnt cover it anymore because my pulminoligist would just lower the dose when I complained instead of taking me off of it. Medicine specifically meant for one thing that also has a side effect of another thing SHOULD NOT be used exclusively for that side effect.

[lornrocks]

Incidentally, a lot of folks using ozempic and similar GLP-1s are actually complaining that the medication seems to be making them lose interest in…well, everything. Bc the mechanism of the drug that takes away the serotonin you might get from food can’t just target that part so you start losing interest in everything and anything bc nothing makes you happy anymore. Some folks are using it to help them quit smoking or stop gambling, but a lot of folks are stopping it bc they report they don’t even have any feelings for their family anymore.

[kaijuno]

I mean

[hircine-scholar]

Girl help I got sucked into the Ryan Gosling cinematic universe and now I’m realizing he’s a genuinely good actor whose performances got overshadowed by people’s sexual perception of him as opposed to his actual talent

[creative-anchorage]

Tags by @notyournightsky:

#lol yeah he’s genuinely such a good actor #besides his performances i really enjoy how all his characters look different #like that is not ryan gosling on your screen. the character is on your screen #the more movies i watch of his the more impressed i am at how he genuinely looks like someone new