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the shrine to all the the things I'm enjoying at any given moment!

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she don't like windows when they're closed...

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ryland grace, cognition assessment <3

this movie has changed me as a person and i'm being very lowkey about it

[lotusspocuss]

I have finally turned my pleinair painting into a cute little artbook that you can download (for free) on my vgen. it includes all the paintings over posted throughout April as well as a couple unseen ones and some progress breakdowns of how I painted my favourite ones.

Quiet Moments Artbook - PleinAir 2026 by lotusspocuss (@lotusspocuss)

Quiet Moments Artbook - PleinAir 2026 by lotusspocuss (@lotusspocuss)

[grendel-menz]

Ramadan Mubarak.

What should be a time for the people in Palestine to spend joyfully with their families is still a nightmare. Resources like food, water, and medicine are still scarce and bombs are still falling on children in tents.

If you have the means, please consider donating to my friend Hamza during his and his family’s time of need. They have had such a rough go of life, and could use the help, especially during the holiday. If you can’t donate please consider reblogging — everything is helpful!!

FUNDRAISER

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I made a fun little stupid thing from real and actual hollanov cookies that one of my friends made, she's insane, I love her

these hockey boys have bewitched me

[thethiefandtheairbender]

The Good Place (2016-2020)

[insomniac-arrest]

brah

[postilionstruckbylightning]

The Good Place’s take on morality is so important to me. It never suggests that being good is easy or straightforward - quite the opposite - but it says, over and over again, that we need to try because we’re all people and we all matter.

[mugenmcfugen]

have I yelled enough by this point that Good Place is one of the best shows of past decade period

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so.... how's everyone doing...?

[scutesketch]

YOUR ART ON TUMBLR IS BEING USED TO TRAIN AI!

The setting that prevents your work being used to train AI models is turned off by default! I had no idea about this until now! Artists, go to your settings, click “visibility”, and turn on this setting! Protect your work!

[italofobia]

pick a season:

summer

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Voting ended onMar 28, 2025

please don't scroll past this post without reading about @ahmedgazza3 's campaign:

Help Ahmed Complete his University Education

My name is Ahmed, I’m a 20 years old guy from gaza studying computer engineering, my family is made up of eight people, my mom, dad, three b

imagine being only 20 years old, at the start of your adult life, but before you can make your dreams come true your city is bombarded and your family is forced to evacuate and now lives in a tent. this is what Ahmed has had to face, and now that Gaza is under siege again in the holy month of Ramadan he and his family are in danger once more.

we can't allow this to continue.

please donate what you can and support this campaign by sharing it, which costs you nothing!

(campaign vetted by association)

[featherspiral]

🎉✨️happy 10th anniversary to PEAK 🎉🎊

+ closer on the two halves bc its a pretty long canvas. I wasn't originally going to make a piece and then decided last minute because I mean. come on I gotta!!! Not only is the game itself 10 years old but this also marks 10 years I've been a fan of it :) shoutout to asriel dreemurr for being my absolute goat when I was in middle school

[luo-art]

My favorite unreliable narrator 🫶

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a scene from @lighthouseshepard's wonderful fic "to be loved by you," which was one of the first i read in the fandom :) happy (slightly belated) birthday, cas!

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BOOOM SHAKALAKAAAAAA

YES GAWD YES GAAAAAAWWWWWD

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god, i gotta get back on my malevolent fanart grind.....

[afrikani]

Africa | South Africa | June 16 - Youth Day.

Commemorating the day in 1976 when more than 10,000 black high school students in Soweto, South Africa, marched out of school, protesting the government mandate that they study in Afrikaans, the language of the apartheid regime. Sam Nzima poses [in 2011] with his iconic photo of Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old shot by police during the student uprising. [Photo credit: Denis Farrell/AP]

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me, if anyone cares at all

[lotusspocuss]

You inspired me to final,y update mine lol

[kaleidoscopic-quiddity]

i know i shouldnt be suprised but sinners being out for less than a week and already tumblr is fandomifying and 'poor wet pathetic cat'-ifying the main white man villain of the movie is so... disapointing??? like did the fucking point of the movie really go over your heads that badly or are you just willingly ignorant and stupid?

AND BEFORE ANYONE STARTS; im not saying you cant like remmick, he's a very interesting character, a great villain, and jack o'connell gave a great performance playing him, nor do i care if you think hes sexy, I think hes sexy

but i think to come out of a movie where vampires serve as a metaphor for how black american communities have the life sucked out of them by white people via cultural appropriation (remmick wanting to use sammie's gift to summon his own ancestors) and forced assimilation (all the turned vampires singing and dancing along with remmick's irish folk song and dance juxtaposed with the blend of cultures during sammie's song in the juke joint) and for your main take away to be 'aww the main villain is just a misunderstood sadboy' or 'idc abt the atrocities he looked sexy doing them (when the atrocities in question were racism)' then youre just being so disengenuous and antithetical to the whole point of the film?

and dont come at me with the 'let people enjoy things' bullshit, sinners is a movie FUNDAMENTALLY about racism and racial dynamics in the united states, and i do think focusing on your little y/n x [whiteboy of the month] fics and 'hes so babygirl' posts do actually stunt your own critical engagement with the message this movie was trying to convey to its audience

i think its also a disservice to remmick's character; the moral nuance that comes to light when you consider his position as an irish immigrant to the US, a victim of the colonialist british empire just like the black main cast (although in a very different way) and how, whilst his desire to reclaim his ancestry and heritage is understandable and even relatable, his pursuit of sammie and willingness to kill literally everyone else at the juke joint is allegorical for how, regardless of their own marginalisation, white people will prey upon and steal from black culture(s) and destroy/disenfranchise black communities to serve their own interests, and the movie is NOT subtle about this either, delta slim literally lays it out for us "white folks like the blues just fine, they just don't like the people who make them"

idk im yelling into the void here, the ppl im complaining about are never going to give a shit about racism or even just critically engaging with art when theres a new cute whiteboy to write fluff and angst about, but its just soooo annoying to see, yet again, how fandom spaces, which SHOULD be about uplifing and celebrating art in all its diversity and complexity, once again is nothing more than people ignoring anything that actually makes them have to confront reality and filing off the serial numbers to slot characters into pre-determined fanon molds so they can pump out incorrect quotes and coffee shop AUs en masse until the media iliterate heat death of the universe

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me, if anyone cares at all