Ramblings and Wanderings

Welcome! I post inspirational and happy things. I post about equality and love. And I post about Glee, MCU, Stargate, The West Wing, and many other fandoms. ~ Who am I? Dreamer, writer, student, volunteer, toiler, advocate, and optimist. You can call me Jay. ~ What will your verse be? Be the change that you want to see in the world. Peace and hugs to you all. And love, love, love. :o)

[chibird]

[Notice: flashing images!] I wandered around San Francisco’s Chinatown this past week with tiny horse silhouettes to make this labor of love stopmotion. 🐎🏮 Happy Lunar New Year and Year of the Horse everyone! 🥰🧧 May the new year bring you lots of happiness and fortune. ❤️

Some behind-the-scenes: - Some aunties saw me taking photos and invited me to their Chinese New Year celebration next weekend. 😆 - I tried not to get in the way of any stalls or customers, so I didn’t take many photos inside the various markets or bakeries (although I did get a pineapple bun and tangerines while I stopped by)! - I texted Cuddly Potatoes to see if she had time to help me cut out horses on her die-cut machine, and she immediately said yes. ❤️ - I used tape on my phone screen to line up the paper in the same spot every time! I can finally remove it now! 🤣

It’s not like my usual comics, but this time, I just wanted to make art for art’s sake! ¨̮ ♡ I used to make stopmotions a lot years ago, and it was really satisfying to see this one come together. I hope you enjoy!

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

New Year 2024 Busan, South Korea

[chibird]

Happy lunar new year everyone! I started off the year scared of drawing dragons, and now I kind of want to draw more noodle buddies. 😆

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[vpandav]

2022-02-22 22:22 !!!!!!

[montereybayaquarium]

Happy Shrimp Week, Tumblr!!!

WE SHRIMPLY LOVE YOU—so much so that we made you these Shrimp Week Valentine's day cards to share with *your* very shrimportant person!!

We also made some templates to add your own shrimp art to—can’t wait to sea what you come up with!

[chibird]

Happy Lunar New Year!! I hope you have whatever kind of year you want- exciting and adventurous, relaxing and restful, or anywhere in between. ❤ Thank you all for sticking with me while I took a small vacation from posting- I probably haven’t taken such a long break from posting new art in years! 

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[lizclimo]

happy lunar new year! wishing you health, happiness & prosperity 

[samcaarter]

SG-1 + pop culture references

[webofgoodnews]

Newspaper Deliveryman Has Made 500 Grocery Runs for Seniors Amid Coronavirus

[donnajosh]

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I hope you’re having a happy pride month

[claudiablacks]

Ladies Meme » {two/ten} women of colour » B’Elanna Torres It may be the warriors who get the glory. But it’s the engineers who build societies.

[sweetoothgirl]

Maple Apple Ricotta Cake

[samcaarter]

#yes Sam #yes she does #and he’s walking right next to you #you can tell him ‘’hi’’ #or kiss him senseless #it’s up to you

[nevver]

The alphabet fades away

[madlori]

Would you like to read a book in which this happens?

It’s one of my all-time favorite books.  It’s called Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn.  He describes it as an “progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable.”

It is written in the form of letters between the citizens of the fictional island of Nollop, an independent nation off the coast of South Carolina and home of Nevin Nollop, who invented the phrase “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.”  That phrase is written in tiles over a statue of Nollop in their town square, and when one night a storm causes one of the tiles to fall, the council decides that it’s a sign from Nollop that they are no longer allowed to use that letter, in speech or writing, on pain of progressive punishments including public beating and up to banishment.

Then another tile falls.  Then another.

The citizens, who are all very attached to their words and writing, mount a campaign to come up with a phrase that uses all 26 letters but is shorter than Nollop’s, thus proving that he was not divine and negating all the edicts.

Because the novel is told in the form of letters the citizens write, and this is the genius part…the author must also stop using the letters as they fall.  So the book gradually stops using letters until at one point I think they’re down to just five.

The resolution literally made me get up and dance around the room.

It’s clever, creative, and a not-really-veiled-at-all parable about monotheistic oligarchy.  It’s not a long book, you can read it in an afternoon.

GO READ IT RIGHT NOW.

[havecourage-andbekind]

WOW I want to read that book

[braingospinny]

Very rarely is there a book that I must read at any cost This is now one of them

[hamstergal]

Note: locate book

[the-hogfather]

I actually bought this book because of this post and let me tell you, it was a fucking great decision. Besides having a brilliant concept, it’s also so well written that in the beginning you don’t even notice when another letter is removed. There was one part I had to re-read because I couldn’t believe that there wasn’t a single ’d’ in the last five pages. Seriously, this book is fantastic

[titaniae-deactivated20220510]

“I know you don’t hold me in much esteem…”

[mymodernmet]

Interview: Inspiring Photo Project Shines a Light on Babies With Medical Conditions

[jaylie12]

When photographer Angela Forker’s grandson was born a few years ago, she found a new focus: newborn photography. Though this speciality “started off as a fun little hobby,” it has since grown into a successful business, with Baby ImaginArt at the heart of it. This ongoing project builds wonderfully whimsical scenes around infants, transporting them to a delightfully creative world through the magic of photography... (read more)

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