one thousand cicadas

24yo androgyne, they/them

[grillcheeser]

about: me (i'm real again)

things i like:

- reading and writing and my beautiful ocs from my brain

- vintage plates

- horror, monster design especially and also the ttrpg monster of the week

- SWORDFIGHTING

- video games (my favs are outer wilds, red dead redemption 2, night in the woods, skyrim, borderlands2, and pathologic)

- lighthouses

- beetles!! and cicadas. they make me happy

- stomping around outside. i like the woods

- FRUITS (blueberries are the best)

- baking

[thelostcanyon]

Heavy surf pounding the resistant basalt shoreline, Depoe Bay, Lincoln County, Oregon.

[clawmarks]

Ames' book of flourishes - Ames, Daniel, T. - 1890 - via Internet Archive

[nostalgicfun]

Looking through a Toyfare magazine from 2004 and found what might be my favorite ad ever

[maidenmocha]

New scarlet hollow trait just dropped

[uncertainlys]

i hope everything works out in the end because i am so so scared

[inlandwest]

[stephanisoejono]

happy new year -------------_--------------------

[calamity-aims]

[pnglove]

[ilovetodrinkwater]

Simon and gar phone call

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[1five1two]

Karin Hosono. 2025.

[nessochist]

Kandy G. Lopez R ² - Roscoe and Reggie 2024 Yarn and acrylic paint on hook mesh

Orlando Museum of Art’s 2025 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art

[gaydiation-poisoning]

It would kill half the 19-25 year olds online to realize "I can't help it I have trauma" is one of THE quintessential abuser excuses

[gaydiation-poisoning]

Like there is a difference between "My trauma creates impulsive urges and has changed my instinctive reactions to be irrational, I need to relearn shit." vs "I'm traumatized so I Can't Help It and you're not allowed to expect better of me"

[pjackk]

Hello,

Please feel free to include me in your banquet/feast.

Lets stay in touch about this suject.

P. Jack

[pagewoman]

Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

By Jim Richardson

[pmamtraveller]

Dorota Sroka

[an-ruraiocht]

there's a lot of talk about reading comprehension and one thing i think is the biggest barrier to people on this site getting better at it is simply... rushing. rushing to share something you haven't understood, rushing to have an opinion without taking the time to think about it, rushing to declare that you don't understand something

take these tags, on somebody else's post (condolences pip)

the thing is. this is what i would call an inside thought. nobody would have known you didn't get it if you didn't tell them that. if you recognised that it was important but didn't have the headspace to process it, you can reblog without commentary for others, or to come back to later. or you can save it somewhere and wait until you DO have the capacity to read it over a few more times, ponder it, consider what it might mean, figure out how to understand it, and THEN reblog it

but no. rushing to reblog while it is still opaque. rushing to admit to ignorance rather than spend the time to achieve understanding. perhaps hoping that somebody will break it down for you more simply, though to my mind it was quite simply phrased in the first place. never stopping to take the time first

comprehension is not always instant! sometimes it takes a bit of time for something to percolate after you read it; sometimes you need to read it a few times; sometimes you realise you don't have the context for it and either go and get the context or accept that it's not for you right now

please just simply slow down. you don't always have to respond to everything within a second or two. it is okay if it is not an instantaneous understanding. we all need to get more comfortable with thinking more slowly and more deeply and more carefully, and not letting our instant split second responses drive us all the time, because they are a barrier to genuine reflection