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Some of my favorite posts on r/BenignExperience from the past week

Thanks to the tumblr post that made me aware of this subreddit. It makes me smile.

Part two, part three, part four

This whole project was heavily inspired by the work of Lina Shamoon/ Mirrors by Lina (website here, check out her very cool and much higher quality work). My spin on things is definitely not made as well as her stuff, but I'm still loving the effect.

accessible-art

[VD: A video of an installation project. A corner of a house is shown, with green walls and two windows and lots of plants. In the center is a multitude of differently colored disco balls, around the size of an orange on average, hanged from the ceiling with thin gold chains, arranged to look like the solar system. The installation is spinnable, and as the disco balls hang between the windows, they reflect the golden light streaming in, creating colorful little lights everywhere. An emotional piano piece plays in the background. End VD]

hellenhighwater

Thank you!

#Art #diy

oldpaintings

The Pool by Jessie Arms Botke (American, 1883--1971)

#art

billpottsismygf

Ah yes, the famous proverb. See no evil, hear no evil, smell no evil.

#dropout #game changer

tiredadventurer

#dropout #game changer

tiredadventurer

#game changer #dropout

processes

minimalist pencil sketches of cats by Shou Xin (手訫)

substack

#cats #art

makingtrouble

It's my cat's birthday (anniversary of me getting him) so I told him the story of his life while petting him real good

Highlights include:

For your first two years (when you were small) you lived in a foster home with people who raised you into a very polite young man. Two is like you plus me, that's what two is.

Some people adopted you before me and they called you Timmy (which is a stupid name) and they returned your ass almost immediately because you were so annoying at that age.

Like think about how annoying you are right now at seven years old, but way worse.

I'm better than them though, I don't call you Timmy and I wore earplugs to bed for three years because you love to scream at bedtime. Earplugs are like when I roll over and go back to sleep even when you are yelling so so so loud.

I got you at a time in my life when I was really sick (being sick is like when I'm up late because I'm throwing up and you are a very handsome good boy who sits with me) and they had to put me asleep for a procedure. A procedure is like what happened to you when they put you asleep and took your balls away.

Now you've lived with me for five years. Five is like the number of toe beans on one of your feet. When I clip your nails five is when we're halfway done. But we're hopefully not even halfway done with how long we get to be together. I'm gonna have to figure out new ways to help you count.

makingtrouble

Actually I've decided this is a poem

#cats #serendipity

freakoutgirl

Oh sure Cordelia can drive her car through the school library but when I, Buffy, burn down the gym--

#btvs

mervynbunter

You said something in “Smith” which I hope I grasped, and there was a feeling almost of recognition. An odd feeling of grief overcame me when I read it. I cannot explain my feelings any clearer. It was like hearing a piece of music from way back, except that it was nearer poetry by Graves’ definition. Thank you very much for writing it.

Terry Pratchett, in a letter to J. R. R. Tolkien, 22 November 1967

Thank you very much for your letter. The first one that I have received with regard to Smith of Wootton Major. You evidently feel about the story very much as I do myself. I can hardly say more.

J. R. R. Tolkien, in reply to Pratchett’s letter, 24 November 1967

thesetwoutes

This is the first I've ever seen this and it makes me wonder if it's why Pratchett was always so conscientious about responding to letters from kids.

vaspider

If you were wondering: in November 1967, Terry Pratchett was 19 years old.

rock-n-roll-fantasy

And he did in fact say on at least one occasion that it was this that pushed him to always engage with his own fans in the same kind and conscientious manner.

#terry pratchett #discworld

dearausten

thinking about how genius it was to give the name ‘persuasion’ to a novel where every character is constantly trying to persuade each other, in a time when society would try to persuade people to follow the rules & where one’s personal wishes had to be left behind in order to fulfill the expectations that social norms had set for everyone; but mostly, a novel where the characters are constantly trying to persuade themselves of what they should feel in contrast to what they really feel.

but yeah jane austen totally wrote EXCLUSIVELY about romance.

#persuasion #jane austen

knightofleo

herpsandbirds

Common eider

phynoma

This needs to be immortalized because it's what made me turn on the sound. And they were right

#animals

soranatus

SINNERS By comic artist, Rombutan

#sinners #fanart

annabelle--cane

right so reportedly we got the karaoke scene in the movie because ryan gosling overheard sandra hüller singing to herself in some downtime on set and approached the directors to say "if we have her here and don't ask her to sing in the movie then we're insane," so the scene was hastily planned and recorded during the last day they had with that set; stratt grew up singing in an east german youth choir because hüller did, too. a fun meta textual wrinkle this adds is that gosling is also a singer but grace doesn't take a turn with the mic, so you can read the scene not just as stratt saying "I am a full human being, I just can't be for this project, you get to see it for two minutes before I turn it off again" but additionally "you could be doing this exact same thing but you aren't even willing to give us two minutes." his doomed work friend the trained choral singer, his fated bestie the being who communicates only through song, his world-saving probes named for the most famous musicians ever, his choir-based soundtrack underpinning all his actions, and his unwillingness to sing himself.

#phm

elkian

It's been said before, but I love how every Discworld character is a hero of their own story and a roadblock/antagonist/annoying twit in everyone elses. William de Worde is a great example (he's a bit soggy even in his own story but so are most Disc protags): he's fighting for truth and justice, dismantling evil political plots... and in the Moist and Vimes books he is the most annoying man alive. Vimes is a very strange man when you're not in his head. Granny Weatherwax can be inscrutable and overbearing when you're not in hers. Etc. Etc. Etc.

#discworld

trench-knife

one of my worst writing sins is abusing my power to create compound words. i cannot write the sentence "The sun shone as bright as honey that afternoon." no. that's boring. "The sun was honey-bright that afternoon" however? yes. that sentence is dope as fuck. i do not care if "honey-bright" is a word in the english dictionary. i do not care if the sentence is grammatically correct. i will not change. i will not correct my erred ways. the laws of the english language are mine.

portland-sunshine

Not a sin at all!

This is what's called a poetic epithet, and it happens all the time in writing. Consider, for example, Homer and his wine-dark sea, or Shakespeare and his death-mark'd love.

If you were then to start using them instead of the word they're describing, you'd be making a kenning. For example, if instead of describing the sun as honey-bright, you said "the honey-drop in the sky". Kennings are best known from Norse writings, like "the path of serpents" for gold, or "Grímnir's lip-streams" for poetry itself.

So you're not sinning, you're participating in an ancient literary tradition!