I don't feel so sure about this

"A gift. To have offered it is to show that it must have value for the giver, also." -Judith Guest, Ordinary People

[pmamtraveller]

Unheld by Lina Poluna

[lilithsplace]

Untitled (rain drops), 2017 - Paul Manes (b. 1948) oil on canvas  |  source:

[holespoles]

Tove Jansson (1914–2001) Moominland Midwinter

[charnel-grounds]

Bernard Buffet (1928–1999), “Vanité”

oil on canvas, 1953 — source

[masquerade-of-mephistopheles]

[pointnclick]

"we live in an uncaring universe." sorry the special planet full of beauty and animals and food literally growing out of the ground isnt good enough for you. i guess

[swordshapedleaves]

as if we aren't the part of the universe that cares 🙄

[hammercarexplosion]

Artist

[mightyoctopus]

[ID: A surgical mask with red text printed on it. “It is recommended to care about disabled people but it is not mandatory.” /end ID]

[tomoleary]

Laurent Gapaillard

[draconym]

Saint George sketchbook doodle with digital color

[dominiqueramseyart]

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

fairytales which tell you to be both kind and clever fairytales that say to be kind is to be clever and to be clever is to be kind fairytales that say the cleverest thing you can ever do is choose kindness and that cruelty or thoughtlessness are always foolish but not kindness never kindness

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

you bring oil for the gate and food for the dog and clean out the oven and bake bread in it and the oven will hide you and the dog will not betray you and the gate will stay open for you and close on your pursuers, to be clever is just to know that if you are good in a world made of rules, goodness will be returned to you.

[tokoweka]

In [fairy tales], power is rarely the right tool for survival anyway. Rather the powerless thrive on alliances, often in the form of reciprocated acts of kindness —from beehives that were not raided, birds that were not killed but set free or fed, old women who were saluted with respect. Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis.

— Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

[anonbeadraws]

playing with values and gradients and skies, love some deep texture

[ocxzone]

there is a part of you that wants to devour (2022)

[descendinight]

‘‘ I am unclean ’’ from Nosferatu 草图

[acorviart]

rat king

[venustapolis]

Saint in Prayer (Joaquín Sorolla, 1888)

[remanence-of-love]