the pleasure & the agony's all mine

Miche in the Midwest photoblog

[firstlovel8spring]

🌾 Miche

> she/they & married to my wife

> living somewhere along the mississippi river, usa

> nature freak at heart & tumblr user since ‘09

> tags: me talking, get to know me, etc

> I follow from @earthrestless

> 🐢🪷🌿🌳🍉🐛📚🪲🧃

[peachiyyy]

the feeling that reblogging beautiful images brings is inexplicable…

[69shrimp]

why dont you make like a tree and feel the breeze and the sun and the changing of the seasons. and Grow

[openmindpsych]

i love mental compulsions

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[orpheusilver]

HOW TO HUG LONG DISTANCE

[orpheusilver]

HOW TO EMAIL HUGS

[orpheusilver]

10000 KILOMETER HUG TECHNIQUES

[firstethicalpisces]

girl nothing is ever gonna be all the way together just enjoy the bits and pieces #yourfragments

[kosmogrl]

[autisticadvocacy]

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[queerstudiesnatural]

to the people who read my Recent White Women Media post and immediately went BuT wHy ArE wE onLy TaLkiNg NeGaTiVeLy aBoUt wOmEn. first of all, thank you for proving my point that it's practically impossible to criticise anything made by women without being called a misogynist. but secondly, the point wasn't that everything ever created needs to be perfect and irreproachable every time without fail. the point is that refusing to engage with criticism and accept constructive feedback, especially about things like (inadvertent or not) racism, or oversimplistic social dynamics, should not be brushed away with a "but i'm just a girl". anti-intellectualism (in the literal sense of refusing to think about things) isn't suddenly justified when women do it. we are living through a particularly racist time in (recent) history. we are at the height of exploitative capitalism and low effort content creation. fast consumerism has permeated the art world. and i think artists have a duty to think carefully about what they present to their public. movies and music and books are only interesting because they are created by living people with unique perspectives and ideas. whether they are good or bad is at least in part subjective, but if the creators only care about making a quick buck and not about the art itself, then i have to ask, What Is The Point? art is no longer art when it doesn't care about being art. it's a product. and i think white women have discovered that they can create whatever will garner attention and make them money, and then weaponise their womanhood to protect themselves from criticism. taylor swift advertising a full introspective and retrospective body of work then releasing the worst album of her career, at the same time as emerald fennell releasing the worst adaptation of notoriously complex literary classic wuthering heights ever made, and colleen hoover books claiming to address serious topics of domestic abuse being presented in their movie versions as girly flowery fun--none of that is coincidental. it's a pattern. one of wealthy capitalist white women wearing an artist disguise to promote extremely superficial and thoughtless products. i would use the word slop here because i find it particularly evocative, but since some of you seem to dislike it, i can replace it with "low-quality cash-grabs made with no effort and no integrity".

and no, of course it's not just women. the point is that being a women doesn't exempt you from having to meet certain standards. especially if you like to call yourself an artist. make art, then.

[patrickvaughnstump]

the way i used to just buy tickets to see shows even if they weren’t my fave or i didn’t know many songs but simply because it was a show to see and i had time!! it was an artist doing live music, i love watching live music, and back then it was affordable enough that you could just do that? i have been so fortunate to see so many bands and artists i would have never seen otherwise because the ticket was like $25 WITH FEES AND TAXES to sit on the lawn so why wouldn’t i go??? and i sound ancient but this time for me was mid 2000’s to the mid 2010’s. now every goddamn show STARTS at $100-200 (IF YOURE LUCKY) for an album that hasn’t even been released yet and if you don’t win the monopoly of ticketmaster queuing then you’re going to be fighting over resale that then starts at $400-$600 for a nosebleed or lawn ticket like. i feel awful for the younger folks right now who will never get to experience concerts as a right of passage or experience live shows in this more casual way because now instead it’s a luxury fucking purchase most adults can’t even swing for their favorite artists let alone the smaller artist you haven’t listened to yet. pricing the average person out of being able to experience live fucking music is one of the saddest progressions i’ve seen happen in real time and i want to publicly execute the ticketmaster ceo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[carolsturka]

you have to be in a certain specific mood to listen to classic rock because sometimes a guy is playing his guitar and you're just like shut the fuck up man

[charl0ttan]

u gotta keep bothering people until you find the ones that love it

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you’ll achieve the most you can if you go at your own pace

[tired-stressed-trying-my-best]

[theprofessional-amateur]

Well played Merriam-Webster.

“There is artificial intelligence, and there is actual intelligence” 🎤🫳

[theprofessional-amateur]

[tedcruzisthezodiackiller]

[ironmaidenhead]

things haven't been fergalicious in a real long time

[stackslip]

we're moving to an internet where children would be banned from reaching out for help and friendship online but abusive parents can post their children's every second online to humiliate and expose them for money with no pushback

[loveridden1999]