So it goes

"You might as well live.” - Dorothy Parker

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[silvernevermind]

small town diner waitress voice: Omelas? Oh, oh no, easy mistake, you're in oh - MAY - las right now, with an A. Plenty' people get the name mixed up. Nope, no utopia here, just our small little town. *face gets really grim* We do still.. Okay well we do still have a kid that we... I mean it isn't working but- well- You know. It- It's fine. I'm sure it'll start working soon.

[goslinggf]

"girl dinner" "boy kibble" can y'all just eat a meal gender neutrally

[goslinggf]

gender neutrients

[pmamtraveller]

Departure of the Winged Ship by Vladimir Kush

[urgetocreate]

John Michael Carter (American b,1950), Summer Reading, 1986, Oil on linen

[homunculus-argument]

"I learned a lot from making this" is artist talk for "making this sucked ass and I'm not entirely happy with the result."

[ghoul-about-town]

man I overdid my undercut. my ass is going to the office tomorrow looking like erling haaland

[depsidase]

[asparklethatisblue]

children of any species are very good at being annoying and very cute while doing that

a sphinx child based on this post

[ruderubicante]

A Love for Ignorance

[sotrias-labyrinth-deactivated20]

I feel like ODD being an official disorder in the DSM should be the thing that makes everyone go “hm” about how psychology is practiced

[txttletale]

[looking a child directly in the eye] i diagnose you with Shitty Bitch Syndrome. this makes it legal to do medieval german tortures to you by the way

[cringepics]

cmon man

[black--stars]

also you would be surprised at which group gets disproportionately diagnosed with this disorder. did you guess black people. because its black people

[ghoul-about-town]

Pathologising people for not putting up with your bullshit? Say it ain't so. Anyway,

Drapetomania was a proposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Americans fleeing captivity. This hypothesis was based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to escape.

(from Wikipedia)

[szymon]

Didier Faustino

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[mumblingsage]

Bad criticism is not the end of the world. As far as I know, no one ever died of a bad review. Take a deep breath and accept whatever comes. ... Put out a lot of work. Let people take their best shot at it. Then make even more work and keep putting it out there. The more criticism you take, the more you realize it can't hurt you. ... Sometimes when people hate something about your work, it's fun to push that element even further. To make something they'll hate even more. ... If you have work that is too sensitive or too close to you to expose to criticism, keep it hidden. But if you spend your life avoiding vulnerability, you and your work will never truly connect with other people. ... You have to remember that your work is something you do, not who you are. Keep close to your family, friends, and the people who love you for you, not just the work.

-Austin Kleon's advice on handling bad reviews, from Show Your Work

[leloupdebout]

[thirdity]

“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

[plumslices]

Dawn and Twilight bed by Emile Galle