Who knows what

A blog for science, books, artwork, anime, and anything else that strikes my fancy. Icon by Earthsong9405

[lady-potato-ninja]

My first illustration for my typesetting of the amazing fic I wish you were my husband 🤭

I went out of my comfort zone with this one but I'm glad I persevered and got it done !

[slothful-rabbit]

I laughed so fucking hard at this

[paint-lady]

[valtsv]

today i learned that there are cave paintings of bats and i think you all deserve to see them

[iamgoingtobeatyouwithhammers]

@teaboot

[schinkennudel]

Don't mind me I just made the MOST ADORABLE snowbaz charm

[heatherwitch]

My resolution last year was to do one thing before bed that would make my morning feel easier, and that’s become a daily habit that I’m carrying into this new year.

Some nights even filling up the kettle and setting an empty mug out for my morning tea felt hard. But I was always thankful for it in the morning.

Other nights, one thing would lead to another, and I’d wake up in a clean house with everything ready to go.

And, on a rare few nights, the one thing that I could do to make my morning easier was going straight to bed and allowing myself to rest.

What stayed the same each day is that I would take a moment to think of what I could do for my future self and do it, even after a hard day. And I would wake up knowing that I had done my best and any effort—no matter how small—was a kindness to myself.

[one-bite-is-undercover]

I’ve been doing a lot of “a treat for future me” moments lately.

[heatherwitch]

That’s a great way to look at it, and I love this artist! (Anna-Laura: instagram / website)

[this-too-too-sullied-flesh]

[abeautifulblog]

I NEED MY GAY ROMCOM OUT OF THIS, STAT.

[artsyleninade]

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[itspileofgoodthings]

one of many (many) reasons I love Austen so much is she makes goodness and virtue seem as sexy as they actually are.

[lydiahosek]

#there is not this false dichotomy of good and safe (but boring) and bad and dangerous (but attractive) #when you strip things down to their essence #bad behavior and un-virtuous behavior. literally vicious behavior #is #so #unsexy #and goodness is so attractive!

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm going down a rabbit hole looking through this Thai cattery that breeds for white back-stripes

[red-eye-radio]

So I thought y'all would like this too This great white comes to the jersey shore every year and this year they named her and have been tracking her hella so this is Mary Lee and she decided to show herself under this rainbow for pride month A true gay icon

[victoryyodel]

#This is the representation I’ve been looking for

[yuumei-art]

Portrait of a Sunflower

Paint the reality you want to see. Paint the dead flowers back to life.

[depsidase]

[littlestpersimmon]

we are much alike

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[etakeh]

As Theodore Sturgeon said, ask the next question.

[velvetcloak]

[ribblemcscribble]

Imagine Shen Qingqiu gets a face full of pollen that lowers his inhibitions and now he can’t stop the severe cuteness aggression he gets when he sees his husband

Softly biting Luo Binghe’s cheeks, kissing his forehead, snuggling his face into a tight hug while nuzzling the top of his head

Luo Binghe had never felt more alive. Although, this quickly nosedives as soon as he pinches Liu Qingge’s cheeks, exclaiming how funny his shidi is at times

[nikoisme]

scrapped painting,, thought i might as well post it