the non watermelon one

kishi's main blog! thank you for stopping by the grand trashpile. artblog: kishi-san current skin: inuyasha

[voiceofnature]

Amazingly surreal Las Pozas in the rainforest by Xilitla in the Mexico mountains. Created by Edward James in the 40′s, it includes more than 80 acres of natural waterfalls and pools interlaced with towering surrealist sculptures and buildings. The many trails throughout the garden site are composed of steps, ramps, bridges and narrow, winding walkways that traverse the valley walls. It was supposed to be a “Garden of Eden” containing a huge variety of plants and animals. 

[jahoctopus]

illustration from Svendt Grundtvig’s Danish Fairy Tales

by Drew van Heusen

[neil-gaiman]

Dear Mr. Gaiman- Any advice for a teenage writer who wants to write adult characters? Or just about things I have no experience with in general?

Observe Adults. Know that each and every one of them is faking it. At no point was any adult actually given an instruction manual on how to do adulthood. Inside each of them is someone exactly like you.

Now you can write them.

[kovir]

“Alright, I’m sorry! It was a joke! Honestly, just a joke!”

[the-mighty-birdy-deactivated202]

Hey!!!! Animation for adults doesn’t need to be full of tits and gore and shock humor!!!!! Be creative you hacks!!!!!!!!

[4threset]

“In time you shall follow~”

Lakshmi from ffxiv.Shadowbringers is dropping literally in 40 mintues and im losing my mind with my team on discord.

[athena-ishnuala]

-The Darkest Night-

In the meanwhile, Elantia is sitting alone in the unknown corner of Ishgard in the snow for the whole night. She couldn’t go back to the Fortemps manor, or anywhere. Her body is numb and frozen, but all she feels is burning. Everything burns…Guilt, anger, hate, vengeance, even sadness. “How odd…” She murmurs to herself, “I thought sadness must be icy-cold. …but NO. It burns… like HELL.”

[athena-ishnuala]

YES this one finally got unlocked~ no longer flagged inappropriate. 

[yluminary]

kimetsu no yaibas, for SMASH! this year!

[scribblesandfeathers]

Adding small moments of existence to your writing 

What I’m talking about is proof of life outside your characters in your world. Not in the sense of ‘talking to the cashier at the checkout’, but things like:

Graffiti etched into a desk your character sits in during an exam

Realising that someone has come along and arranged the cans on the shelf so the labels say something stupid

Dirty vans that have ‘wash me’ written in the dried mud

A coin that has been stuck into a piece of gum on a handrail

Little things that show the world still goes on despite whatever is happening to the characters. 

This helps make the world a world, not just a setting. There are other people with other lives doing stupid, funny, dangerous, things that in no way impact the protagonist. You don’t have to dwell on them, they can only be mentioned briefly in passing during the set up of a scene, but it will help create life within the background of the story and give the characters a chance to briefly think about something other than themselves/their situation.

[missusruin]

old style study feat. alice in wonderland

[missusruin]

Some of the ideation sketches/paintings for the ruinfolk dolls.

[t-stray]

The Devil’s due

© Yana Toboso

[hydro-homies]

I regret to inform you

[castelnou]

portone del melograno (1907)

casa bellia (torino, italia)

[edarow]

蟲

[acecroft]

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

I have been waiting all of my life for a .gif set of this scene. This struck me so hard when I was younger.

[housewaifutoaster]

Seriously. I didn’t quite understand as a kid because I too thought she was still so beautiful.

It’s so sad how cruel and shallow this world can be, and the horrible psychological damage they can inflict on people who had so much confidence and still possess potential for greatness.

[marauders4evr]

Yet another example of how amazing this show was.

[jbk405]

What makes this even more powerful is that Paige Monroe (Calendar Girl) is voiced by Sela Ward, a real-life model and actress who was infamously turned out of the Hollywood system for being ‘too old’.  In 1995, even though she was a three years younger than Pierce Brosnan (then-Bond), she was turned down for a role in James Bond because "What we really want is Sela, but Sela ten years ago”.  In response she made a documentary, The Changing Face of Beauty, about American obsession with youth and its effect on women.  Then this episode came afterwards.

This wasn’t just a general message episode, this was a specific attack on the sexist Hollywod system by somebody who had been one of its victims.

[4threset]

“corvids”