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blodwyrm

snapshot from one of Oscar’s memorial paintings i did last year!

bbrothertedd

notgreatbob

''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

callmezeemonic

You did the best you could with all you had and knew. That was then. Here is now

somewordsarebiggerthanothers

curingourhearts

Be yourself, it holds so much positive effects for everyone around you. I couldn't tell you how many times someone being themselves made my life so much easier, made me feel so much more relaxed and who knows how many people have the same with you!

girls4losers

i gotta remember this

exhaled-spirals

“A common saying among the Aztecs was that ‘the earth (tlalticpac) is slippery, slick’. Elsewhere, the meaning is clarified: ‘Perhaps at one time, one was of good life; later, he fell into some wrong, as if he had slipped in the mud.’ The Aztecs held, in short, that it’s unrealistic to think that anyone can lead a perfectly good life, one in which you never slip up. A better goal, then, is to try to lead a rooted life, which they called neltiliztli: literally, rootedness. In this kind of life, one is able to manage the mistakes and slip-ups well, rather than avoid them altogether. […] What does it take to live a rooted life? [T]he fundamental insight behind the social dimension of Aztec ethics [is that] wisdom in human affairs consists in the recognition that the best that we can do is to learn to stand with the help of others, to alter our circumstances for the better, and to clasp hands so that we can pull ourselves back up when we fall. While Plato and Aristotle were concerned with character-centred virtue ethics, the Aztec approach is perhaps better described as socially-centred virtue ethics.”

— Sebastian Purcell, “Life on the slippery Earth” in Aeon Magazine (via exhaled-spirals)

melonramune

2025-07-06

ruinedchildhood

thisisalovestry

file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

insomniparty

unpardonablesins

the orange, wendy cope

greenjudy

weird cultural shift detected

Fam, be careful with your time online. I highly recommend sinking some time and energy into offline pursuits.

Try: knitting or crochet; gentle movement, stretching, walking if you can; playing a musical instrument, whether it's piano or penny whistle; and especially reading.

I do not mean performative BookTok reading that we do for likes because our neurotransmitters have been nerfed by modern life.

I mean actual reading that we do for ourselves alone.

If reading is hard, if attention or energy or memory are operating at a deficit, I get it. Nevertheless, please try. If you notice you're skipping across big chunks of text like a river stone, if you can't finish a paragraph, slow down, pronounce the words out loud. Stop sometimes and ask yourself what you just read. Explain the story or article or poem to your blorbo or your cat or a stuffed animal.

If your head feels scrambled up, no judgment. We may have incredibly intractable neurochemical reasons that this is hard. Just tell the blorbo, "That's hilarious, I don't remember any of what I just read. Let's read it again, together."

(Please don't ask A.I. to do this for you. Please. It's your right to read and think about it your own way. A.I. doesn't actually understand anything. Please don't assume it will guide you safely through this next weird phase of our human culture.)

If reading longform, offline, makes you feel bored or anxious, be gentle and patient with yourself. Start with stories you remember well, reliable sources of well-being. But please know you will need to put some backbone into it in the long run.

I think we are going to need to rebuild our ability to think, to process experience. This will be an unsupported activity. In fact, most of the really powerful cultural forces are making it very hard for us to notice, feel, perceive, or think clearly.

Not sure what, but something's happened quite recently that is making this situation much worse, some kind of tipping point.

Please read something every day.

Your friend, greenjudy

suppermariobroth

The world maps from Yoshi’s Island, plus the connecting map introduced in Super Mario Advance 3.

unravelingwhy

my fave writing reminder

honestly, this phrase has been on my mind more times than i can count. i've kidnapped it, taken it as a hostage with no ransom money because i need it to live permanently in my head.

marlynnofmany

Long live the mantra of the rough draft!

It doesn't have to be GOOD.

It just has to BE.

siegecraft

i know it's hard. but i so firmly believe the strongest antidote to loneliness is reaching out first. and continuing to reach out. again and again and again. excise any scrap of shame you hold about being the person who texts first or pitches the plan or asks to get lunch. everyone is tired and busy and struggling. and afraid of feeling unwanted and unimportant. don't let the people you love feel that way. reach out first. don't be a ghost in your own life.