sky-blue pink

monica | 27 | she/her (queer as fuck) change ain't so sudden/it just hides as it's comin'/ current obsessions: friends at the table, fountain pens, other things probably???

[maureen2musings]

212._.film

[annarcana]

[creature-adjacent]

Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me

They don't wanna eat their pollinators :(

[questionablepastries]

[seymour-butz-stuff]

[comparativetarot]

Four of Swords. Art by Jesse Lonergan, from The Unveiled Tarot.

[nephritebabie]

the cycle of life

[recursivewitch]

I've never read Homestuck but there's a type of media that I call "a Homestuck" and I think it's a useful categorization. The main criteria are:

long enough that the time investment is a serious barrier to entry

irrevocably changes your personality

brings something genuinely unique to the table. there is no real substitute for reading/playing/watching it in its entirety

Fate/Stay Night is a Homestuck. Worm is a Homestuck. When They Cry is a Homestuck.

Undertale has cultural impact similar to a Homestuck at first glance, but the fact that it's a pretty short and accessible game means that you don't get the particular mix of sunk cost fallacy and an intimate experience with a piece of media that results in you needing to connect with others who have already put in the time investment. You can buy your friends Undertale and expect them to play it if they're not too busy; telling a friend to read Homestuck is giving them a quest that, if accepted, will spark an odyssey. to read someone's Homestuck is an act of love without true equivalent.

[noodelzmop]

[girldraki]

[larkandkatydid]

One thing I’ve become a real extremist about is little girl’s clothing and hair styles because if your kid can’t get her hair wet, hang upside down, climb over a fence or run full out in the outfit/hair she is currently wearing then why not? And the answer better be both extremely fucking good and describe something temporary.

[poodletrain]

Hope you don't mind a story that also made me extremist about this issue.

Took my friends daughter (2.5yrs) to the park. Dressed her in practical clothing that's ok to get stained, brought an extra change of clothing. She sat in the mud at the water bank and played with rocks and mud. A little girl came over, couldn't be more than 3yrs. She was looking longingly at my friend's daughter. She has her hair in a perfect style and she's wearing a pretty dress with white socks and dressy shoes. The parents say "Sweetie don't go into the mud, you'll get your dress dirty" and pull her away, while giving me a judgmental look as they see the kid in my charge covered in mud and throwing rocks into the water. It felt really weird, like we saw eachother as aliens with completely different ideas on how to raise children. When my friends daughter was done playing, changed her into clean clothing and went back home. She had a lot of fun at the park and a day full of nature and play. The other little girl kept her dress clean.

[blackmosscupcakes]

When my daughter was getting close to school age, I remember walking past her future school with my mum and noting that all the little boys were wearing the uniform trousers and all the little girls were wearing skirts. And I mentioned that I hoped the uniform policy allowed for girls to wear trousers. My mum asked why, and I outlined several reasons, including "because kids fall over when they're running and playing, and skinned knees are more likely if she's only allowed to wear skirts."

And my mum said "well, maybe in that case she'd learn to be more careful."

Aaaaand I think my resulting reaction of horror at the idea of forcing 50% of children to play more carefully due to clothing requirements made her realise exactly what she'd just said.

(The uniform policy does indeed allow her to wear trousers. She's now 10 and still prefers them)

[detailedart]

Rise and collapse of a wave. Details of paintings by Michael Zeno Diemer (1867-1939)

[lollytea]

Heinz Doofenshmirtz is the character of all time. I'm almost inclined to ask "What's his fucking PROBLEM???" but he thoroughly explains his problem in every episode

[oncce-againn]

Oh! The intimacy of adopting each other’s vocabulary.

[cosmonautroger]

[kave-elott-ne-szolj-hozzam]

washing machine

[givingdirt]

[catgirl-kaiju]

wanna go to the ontologically evil park and sit on the inherently unethical bench and feed the essentially malicious pigeons with me?

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

No, that's too hardcore for me. I'll just go to the flawed but sympathetic park, and feed morally ambiguous pigeons from the acceptable for their time and circumstances bench

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Wait a second. Why are you here too? We weren't talking about the same place the whole time, were we?

[catgirl-kaiju]

we both look at the sign for the park and it says "Unalloyed Good Park"

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Indulge me for a second. And imagine what it must be like to be this woman.

You are racing in an extremely obscure sport across the harshest conditions on the planet, in places that are currently experiencingthe coldest winter on record. This is your first race, your rookie year at 48 years old. You carry your culture on your back and every member of your team is in a hand beaded jacket considered artwork in its own right. You are menaced by a wild animal, and you your firearm jams so you ask the animal for mercy in your native tongue. It works. An honest to god billionaire has got himself a place in this race, and the race organizers made him more or less his own category. Every single peice of reporting about you and your racing includes a reference to your daughter's Instagram following.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

‘That was my last resort’: Iditarod rookie recounts frantic bison encounter on trail

Fairbanks rookie Jody Potts-Joseph had quite a terrifying experience on the trail Tuesday shortly after leaving the Rohn checkpoint when her

[clowncarpool]

cheese sits on the toilet while we take showers, and i like to stand on my tip toes and draw his silhouette in the steam from a high angle, then stand back to see how warped it is from his actual shape

oil and acrylic on masonite