YOU KNOW ONCE I START I CANNOT HELP MYSELF

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[beardedmrbean]

[requiem-on-water]

Sulfur combusts on contact with air to create stunning blue lava-like rivers of light in the Kawah Ijen crater on the island of Java | Ph: Olivier Grunewald

[desmolbean404]

QUIZ TIME!! Take this quiz, then come back and answer the poll!

100 REAL or FAKE Pokemon

100 Different 'Pokemon' will be shown to you. Choose if you think they are FAKE or REAL. Goal is to get a high score so you can brag to ever

What Was Your Score?

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20%-40%

40%-50%

50%-60%

60%-70%

70%-80%

80%-99%

100%! (You're one smart cookie!)

Remaining time: 4 days 12 hours

[paleozoiccatboyblood]

[wyrm-town]

[pastabaguette]

more of these. i've got lots saved that i've been meaning to do for a while.

[pseudosoviet-deactivated2025060]

[l-a-l-o-u]

My advice to every artist (and honestly, everyone, but it’s especially relevant if you want to make art yourself) is to learn to appreciate everything other people make. Especially things you don’t like! Look at weird, ugly, bad art, with clashing colors and weird proportions and botched perspective and tropey subjects. Look at things made by amateurs an hobbyists and children, with shaky lines and incomprehensible detail. Look at everything you might find cringe or unpleasant - look at furries and gore and fetish porn and all the niche fandom crossovers. Look at art from cultures you don’t know well, look at things made hundreds of years ago, look at paintings from art movements you don’t know or don’t like at the museum. Look at photography and sculptures and fashion shows and murals on buildings and the design of everyday objects like chairs or lampposts or cars. Look at animation and comics and advertising, even the design on your cereal box.

And each time you look, try to find one thing you can appreciate about it. It’s fine if you don’t enjoy the art, but try to find something in it that has value, something you can respect about it, something that moves the world. It can be mastery of a technique, it can be the emotion conveyed, the thought it provoked, it can be color choice, composition, originality, or it can simply be the act of creation itself. Even in art that makes you uncomfortable, art that you find disgusting or bland or vile or ugly or just lame. You need to learn to see it. It’s ALWAYS there. Really look for it. Because you can learn from every single one of these things. Ask yourself why the artist made this, why they made it in this way. Wonder what someone other than you might see that you don’t see, if it has a meaning you just can’t grasp.

You will learn about the value of art, what it means to create, what it means to be human. If you can appreciate those things, it’ll reflect in how you make your own art. Not only will it deepen your relationship to art as a whole, but it’ll allow you to jump past the initial instinct to look away and give you the opportunity to notice techniques and patterns that you maybe wouldn’t have thought to use otherwise! You can learn from the masters, but you can also learn from everyone else. Learn to see the soul in art! I promise it’s worth it.

[l-a-l-o-u]

Great tags on this one so far, you guys GET IT!!

[diarydiarydiaryblank]

vent for tonight.

i wish i could feel empty. i feel so many things inside my mind and inside my soul. i am surrounded by chaos everyday. no matter where i go, in my real life, in my online life. i run in circles, trying to escape, trying to reach something i can't reach.

everything is trying to tell me how i can fix this, how i can make my life better. my household doesn't allow me to get better. the progress i make means something, but it's impossible to ignore everything that crushes me. i know people live in abusive households; homes that are infinitely worse than what i experience. but i don't care. i wish i could put people into my world, live my life, so anyone could genuinely understand what i have to live with nearly every single day. i am tired of comparing myself to other abuse victims. i'm tired of living like this. the internet was my escape, but i've realized it's another prison. i don't know what to do.

i wish i could watch a video or listen to someone that tells me how i can live a better life. how i can fix it. it's just not how it works. it's just advice, not a problem-solver. it's algorithms trying to get me to watch as many things as possible, instead of actually getting up and doing something i needed to get done. and it doesn't change the family that i have.

i don't know what my plan is tonight. i need to sleep in around an hour. don't want to be around my friends, don't think they want to be around me. i think i'll smoke some weed since my little brother is going to bed. life sucks. get over it. get over it. get over it.

[brightgoat]

Polly calls Nil, “Nilly-Willy,” when she does something stupid

[ot3]

looking for animal references on image searches has always kind of sucked but it's much worse after AI image generation technology has begun to actually past muster, which is why i always just go straight to inaturalist. can't recommend this highly enough. you get to both find out about niche species you've never even heard of and also see some really good photographs like this one

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[thundergrace]

If you live in Detroit, it is strongly recommended that you don't breathe.

[missanniewhimsy]

As someone in WI, this whole region is awful so please be careful friends! (7/16/2026)

[nyantara]

Please put on your N95s. The same ones used for covid will filter particulate pollution. I lived in a city with yearly winter pollution levels like this. If you can pay for it, you might as well get an indoor air filter to sleep in.

[omegaverse]

I am the protector of my shut-in soldiers, my virgin vagabonds, my hikki heroes, my unwell warriors, my shy, shy samurai...... i will fight for you. And i will kill anyone for any random reason

[omegaverse]

Even if they didnt do nything wrong and theyre a baby or old

[diarydiarydiaryblank]

I LOVE AMERICA YAY AMERICA YA I LOVE AMERICA YAAAY GOD BLESS THE U.S.

[targetedknowledge]

[animusbell]

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

[animusbell]

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

[jukashi]

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

[animusbell]

You are so right actually

[twwizzlerr]

texas toast tuesday #26