[moving stones and happiness]

🌱 || He/Him || 29 mostly runs on queue

[omtai]

love the word “rapscallion”. like not only are you a rascal but you’re also kind of spring onion about it too

[weirdlandtv]

Cartoon by John O'Brien for NEW YORKER magazine, 1991.

[rylandgraces]

Can I be honest. The way we keep going from Monday to Tuesday to Wednesday to Thursday to Friday to Saturday to Sunday back to Monday is deeply troubling

[evilnicegirl]

if i could give advice to me as a teenager i would say be 25

[evilnicegirl]

i would say theres honestly nothing you can do

[usernameofrassilon]

don't die wondering

[riotdyke-rising]

It's funny that "trans men will sometimes feel the societal pressure to fill the role of masculinity by leaning on misogyny and must be very aware to not do that" used to be kind of a common opinion back when I was helping run that GSA in college, and nowadays it's somehow taboo to bring up.

[emilinqa]

"Cardassian Settler Colonialism and the Bajoran Struggle for Decolonization" in A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine by David K. Seitz

[girlmostlikely]

Life is quite literally all about enjoying amazing food and seeing little silly films. Releasing as much art from your mind into the real world as possible. Building community in spite of individualism. Passing along kindness to strangers. Finishing off the day with a delectable ice cream or a novelty beverage of some kind. Oh and ignoring your notifications.

[yearofillness]

"Carly Rae Jepsen Loves You Back", from They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, by Hanif Abdurraqib

[whatkindofnameisella]

ursula k le guin affirmations for your day:

it is our differences which make us dearer to one another

it is never too late to start loving

the enemy is not the foreigner, but the ones who tell you to hate the foreigner

everyone should have food, shelter, and work

everything is a yin and yang metaphor if you try hard enough

sci-fi is important

[elisecairo]

[katherynefromphilly]

As someone who was alive when Bob Ross (and William Alexander before him — that’s where the approach is from) was on PBS, I can 100% testify that you can paint along with him.

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

Give it a try.

[parkchanwoohoo]

Watching Bound yesterday for our movie night group and thinking about the rise in what I can only broadly describe as obsessive fixations on prescriptive "correct" sexuality esp its depictions in art, and my partner and I started joking about someone watching a movie like this and going "You know what would make things better? If the entire film dragged to a screeching halt so that the two characters could outline which sex acts they consent to, a guide on how to use a dental dam, and a reminder to the audience on how to say No when they feel uncomfortable during a sexual encounter"

[eatsleepandsing]

another great ship dynamic is "characters who are deeply traumatized and haunted by nightmares are finally able to get a peaceful night of sleep in each other's arms"

[foxglovedforest]

[sapphling]

hey dude, idk how much you remember from the party last night but- yeah, everyone saw your want. yeah no it was pretty late and winding down so it was quiet enough that every single person there saw it throbbing and twitching in your chest and so wet with hunger it was glistening under the kitchen light. they said it looked like it was reaching for something

[vashti-lives]

It occurred to me today that you can use Miyazaki films as a really quick way to explain the difference between urban/modern fantasy and magical realism.

Kiki’s Delivery Service: takes place in the regular world— albeit at some nebulous point in time— but also magic is real and witches are a thing. Witches exist in this world because it’s fun and we like them. It’s fantasy elements in a familiar setting— essentially urban or modern fantasy.

Porco Rosso: takes place in an extremely specific place and time and contains exactly one fantastical element— Marco’s pig head— which is never given an explanation and is never questioned as a biological impossibility. It’s clearly a metaphor and commentary on a real world issue but it’s also very much literal. This dude 100% has a pig head. No other mentions of magic are made. This is magical realism.

This story brought to you by the fact that I’ve never seen a fanfic on ao3 tagged magical realism that wasn’t actually modern fantasy.

[neiljostenpussyindulgence]

I love gay people theres a guy in my neighborhood who named his one singular dog “simon and garfunkel”