your life is your own

Aoife: she/her, adult, possibly a cryptid of some sort

[bh-l]

natsume yuujinchou shichi: episode 01 [ for @eiichiro ]

[vanessagillings]

Apothecaries -- another piece from my solo show at Nucleus Portland. Prints and originals available here

[ileolai]

Remember when Ursula K. Le Guin called JK Rowling a nasty basic bitch back in like, 2004? We should have listened

[legok9]

“This last is the situation, as I see it, between my A Wizard of Earthsea and J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter. I didn’t originate the idea of a school for wizards — if anybody did it was T.H.White, though he did it in single throwaway line and didn’t develop it. I was the first to do that. Years later, Rowling took the idea and developed it along other lines. She didn’t plagiarize. She didn’t copy anything. Her book, in fact, could hardly be more different from mine, in style, spirit, everything. The only thing that rankles me is her apparent reluctance to admit that she ever learned anything from other writers. When ignorant critics praised her wonderful originality in inventing the idea of a wizards’ school, and some of them even seemed to believe that she had invented fantasy, she let them do so. This, I think, was ungenerous, and in the long run unwise.“

[ileolai]

i found the specific quote i was thinking of x

Q: Nicholas Lezard has written ‘Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.’ What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I’d like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling’s writing style

UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a “school novel”, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.

damn gurl :’]

[vanessagillings]

That feeling when you've got chores to do but you've just got to know how this story ends. 📚

Part of my solo show currently on display at Gallery Nucleus

[xanaxfarts]

Lake Reschen is an artificial lake in Italy that is famous for the steeple of a submerged 14th-century church. The steeple hints at what lies beneath the surface: namely, Curon, an Italian village that was flooded by the government in 1950 to create the artificial lake

[kiera--b]

did the dinosaurs look at the meteor and thought "how pretty"?

[oceanrain567]

i've been rewatching natsume's book of friends and its so important to me that natsume has two friends groups that let him be himself in different ways.

he has his classmates that allows him to be a normal kid who will occasionally point out something that isnt there, but they dont make a big deal out of not being able to see it. and every time he points something out, they always ask "where?"

then he has tanuma and taki where he can act accordingly in response to youkai. they notice when he sees something, and they ask him about it, trying to understand just what it is that he's seeing. they let him not have to worry about looking weird or seeming strange.

anyway this is just something that makes me really happy :)

[oceanrain567]

i am NOT letting you hide this god tier take in the tags

[kiera--b]

always the better healer

[die-rosastrasse]

Various stars & moon details from my gouache paintings 🌙✨

[andatsea]

Fairytales.

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[friend-crow]

True and sincere answer to all of the people who ask, "I have just seen X animal, what does this mean?":

Rejoice, my friend, for this is a most auspicious sign! You have received one of the greatest blessings known to human kind: you live in a world full of creatures! Take comfort and enjoy this divine blessing.

[friend-crow]

#yeah but one time i saw 5 robins in a circle and thats gotta mean something

Oh shit, you saw the robin circle? That's not good.

[quiltedbunny]

Lili (Brown Bunny) and Mimi (White Rabbit) from Aranzi Aronzo

[kitchen-light]

“Not all writing is cursed, but surely all of it is haunted. Literature is a catacomb of past readers, past writers, past books. Traces of those who are responsible for creation linger among the words on a page; Shakespeare can’t hear us, but we can still hear him (and don’t ghosts wander through those estate houses upon the moors unaware that they’ve died?). […] Of all of the forms of expression that humanity has worked with—painting, music, sculpture—literature is the eeriest. Poetry and fiction are both incantation and conjuration, the spinning of specters and the invoking of ghosts; it is very literally listening to somebody who isn’t there, and might not have been for a long while. All writing is occult, because it’s the creation of something from ether, and magic is simply a way of acknowledging that—a linguistic practice, an attitude, a critical method more than a body of spells. We should be disquieted by literature; we should be unnerved.”

— Ed Simon, from his essay “Who’s There?: Every Story Is a Ghost Story”, published in The Millions, August 18, 2021

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

postcard c1910

I shall pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore I can do, or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now, let me not defer it or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

[swarnpert]

kinda sick of all those posts that are like "my ancestors were surviving starvation and the plague meanwhile i get nervous ordering food at restaurants". as if jauffrey the woodworker didn't fumble his conversation with the fine maiden running the fruit stand and then tripped on a pebble as he left in a hurry

[cafeinevitable-deactivated20220]

Over The Waves by Setsuko Matsushima

art quilt

[cameoappearance]

Scrolls past this, goes “QUILT?!?!?”, scrolls back up to gawk more thoroughly

[hoolia-art]

Fresh Buns