Samuli Heimonen, “Yhteinen Historia” (Shared History)
acrylic & oil on canvas, 2009
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Samuli Heimonen, “Yhteinen Historia” (Shared History)
acrylic & oil on canvas, 2009
source
Rex is believed to have been the dog of John E. Stow, one of the city’s longest-practicing fruit merchants until his death in 1884. For years, people have gathered sticks and fallen branches to place at the loyal dog’s resting place. Situated under a tree with plenty of sticks around, visitors often leave a stick across Rex’s paws as a tribute. Someone even left a picture of their own dog there, perhaps a beloved pet who had passed away, as if to say, “Rex, look after my little one.”
Today's Doonesbury cartoon.
This is why the ridiculous tiktok and youtube banned terms lists bothered me so, then hear kids using euphamisms instead even irl. JUST USE THE WORDS.
Scanning the QR Code feels kinda harrowing
Current List:
- abortion
- accessibility
- Accessible
- activism
- activists
- advocacy
- advocate
- advocates
- affirmative action
- affirmative action programs
- affirming care
- affordable home
- affordable housing
- agricultural water
- agrivoltaics
- air pollution
- all-inclusive
- allyship
- alternative energy
- anti-racism
- antiracist
- asexual
- assigned at birth
- assigned female at birth
- assigned male at birth
- at risk
- autism
- aviation fuel
Thank you for this list, the website just shows 404 error for me
@i-add-sources
Sorry if this is overstepping or you already did this one ^^;
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The website linked through qr-code appears to no longer be online.
For example: my post on the removal of the words "bisexual" and "transgender" from the stonewall national monument page
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows ma
^ March 7, 2025 article by nyt about 'flagged' and removed words. Includes less words than previous reblog, but time has passed since then.
Somewhere after Jan 15, 2025, the entire reproductiverights.gov website went offline.
The reblogged list is from pen.org/banned-words-list, updated May 28, 2025
While not all these words are fully banned, they are still 'to be used less' or used to flag material for 'further review'.
I therefore consider it right to say this is true
Art nouveau flower shop, Brussels
Sculptured Web by anncarringtonart
"This Cat Was Special" Aight, I’ve been heavily debating integrating some of my art from my other account here to kind of idk… consolidate my soul? Idk. I’m hella nervous about posting this here but it’s my second favorite piece ever and I want more people to see it. This took MONTHS to make so I literally can’t afford to make this kind of stuff often. If you wanna see more of this idk, let me know or buy a print.
you cannot headcanon your way out of overt thematic structures on which the entire narrative is built
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my favorite genre of bird picture
You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?
So it was with this desktop greenhouse.
I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.
I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.
I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.
I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…
Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.
I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.
This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.
I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.
Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.
In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…
I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.
Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.
Sometimes victory belongs to mercy and looks like failure
had to share this brilliant discussion - source: X
At the most important moment in modern fantasy, the hero fails. Not quietly. Not ambiguously. He stands at the edge of the world, feels the full weight of evil loosen its grip, and chooses it anyway.
At the edge of Mount Doom, with the fate of the world balanced on a single will, Frodo Baggins does not throw the Ring into the fire. He claims it. The moment every heroic narrative has trained us to expect as triumph becomes instead a confession of failure. Tolkien does not flinch. He lets the hero break.
And yet the world is saved.
This is not a plot twist. It is a moral thesis. The destruction of the Ring happens not because Frodo earns victory, but because mercy extended long before the ending finally comes due. The quest resolves because of a chain reaction of restraint. The decisive force is not discipline, not optimization, not grit. It is pity.
This is where Tolkien quietly dismantles the moral machinery of hustle culture decades before we had language for it. We live inside a story that teaches us effort converts cleanly into outcome. That endurance guarantees reward. That suffering is a down payment on success. Tolkien offers a colder and far more honest truth. Sometimes you do everything right and still cannot finish the job.
Scholars have long noted that Frodo’s failure is not a betrayal of his character but the completion of it. The Ring is not a fair test of willpower. As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote plainly in his letters, the will is not infinite. Power erodes agency. The closer one comes to absolute domination, the less freedom remains. Frodo is not weak at the Crack of Doom. He is human at the end of an inhuman burden.
By the time he reaches the Fire, Frodo has endured starvation, sleep deprivation, repeated physical injury, and sustained psychological terror. Modern neuroscience would describe this as cumulative trauma. Tolkien simply wrote it as reality. Expecting one last burst of perfect moral clarity from a nervous system already wrecked by suffering is not heroism. It is wishful thinking disguised as virtue.
The quest only succeeds because of Gollum. And even that rescue is not redemption in the sentimental sense. Gollum does not transform into goodness. He falls into the fire because of what he already is. The deeper truth is that Gollum is alive at all only because he was spared when mercy looked foolish. First by Bilbo. Then by Gandalf. Then most dangerously by Frodo himself.
The Ring is destroyed not because Frodo conquers it, but because Frodo once chose not to destroy someone else.
This is a devastating inversion of the moral economy most of us were raised to believe in. We are taught to look for visible proof that goodness works. Tolkien gives us an older logic. Moral victories are often retroactive. The most transformative decisions rarely announce themselves as such. They look inefficient. They look naive. They often look like failure.
In the medieval moral tradition that shaped Tolkien, mercy was not sentimental. It was strategic in a way power could never be. Mercy refused to close the future. It kept outcomes unresolved. It preserved the possibility that evil might one day undo itself. Tolkien does not sanctify Gollum. He allows evil to collapse under its own gravity because mercy refuses to force a premature ending.
This alone would be enough to unsettle the reader. But Tolkien goes further. He denies us the fantasy that salvation heals everything.
After the Ring is destroyed, Tolkien insists on the Scouring of the Shire. Home is violated. The saved world is not the same world. The victory does not restore innocence. Frodo returns permanently wounded. He cannot sleep without pain. He cannot fully enter the peace he helped secure.
The modern myth is that collapse will be redeemed by recognition. Tolkien refuses that lie.
We want the hero to stand at the end and receive the moral reward. Tolkien lets his hero sit down and admit he is finished. Frodo does not recover because recovery would falsify the cost.
This is why The Lord of the Rings remains psychologically modern beneath its ancient scaffolding. The story already understands what burnout culture would take another century to articulate. Some burdens cannot be survived without damage. Some systems demand more than one conscience can sustain. Sometimes the bravest outcome is not conquest but survival long enough to make mercy matter.
We live in an age that worships visible dominance. We measure virtue through performance. We reward leaders who claim they can bend chaos through sheer will. Tolkien issues a quiet warning instead. When power becomes the proof of goodness, goodness collapses.
Frodo fails because no one was ever meant to pass that final test.
The world is not saved by the flawless execution of the righteous. It is saved by the accumulated weight of restraint. By choices made without assurance of payoff. By mercy that looked wasted at the time. By patience that looked irrational. By hands that refused the easy kill and kept the future open instead.
The modern fantasy is not Middle-earth. The modern fantasy is that effort always guarantees justice.
Tolkien tells a harder truth. Sometimes the most important moral decisions you will ever make will feel powerless when you make them. Sometimes the victory will not belong to your endurance at all. It will belong to mercy that looked like weakness years earlier.
Frodo does not win.
Mercy does.
And it does not feel triumphant.
Periodic "Where else am I?" links post:
I'm now on Pillowfort, getting the hang of things over there and hoping to take advantage of the NSFW tags and communities.
I'm on BlueSky, which is where I mostly keep abreast of politics, news, and commentary.
If you follow me on Tumblr, I'm more than fine with you following me in either of those places.
I also have a revamped and revived author newsletter, which I use to get in touch with interested readers, sharing publication news and occasional updates. My to-do list includes putting together a short ebook to send as a gift to all of my newsletter subscribers, if that prompts your interest.
I also have my editor website, where I share various tips and tricks for revision that I've discovered over the years. I'm actively taking on new clients this November, will probably love your manuscript if you're from Tumblr, and offer a free short sample edit to any interested writer. (My rates are negotiable.)
there is still time. there is still time. until your bones are in the fucking ground there is still time.
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How to talk to doctors
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I've always felt a bit guilty about exaggerating my symptoms. But if I don't act out my anxiety with shaking hands etc, they assume it's not there. It IS there I just get really quiet and freeze up, making me seem stoic, which is not helpful.
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I'd argue that 'goofing' should be something active. Not just laughing at a TV comedy, but doing or saying something silly to make yourself or someone else laugh.