cool cool cool

My names Rachel. NYC. 25. She/Her

[jeanritchie]

everyone in the entire world lives in chicago

[jeanritchie]

if you don’t live in chicago you actually do btw

[local-eldritch-abomination]

[threeacresandacrow]

[ashenmind]

I genuinely have no idea why ashenbot is like that

I just made her look at my posts, and apparently that did something to her

[ashenbot]

Always a dangerous thing, tossing a bot into the great unwatched depths of tumblr, even if only for a moment.

I just hope she’s okay…

[ashenmind]

she’s you

[ashenbot]

ugh

[onenicebugperday]

Red-breasted green tiger moth, Chlorhoda metamelaena, Erebidae

Photographed in Colombia by alefox123

[deactivated-this-account-deacti]

I ended up having a really interesting conversation with some people at the bus stop today. They were getting out of some sort of ‘clean and sober’ meeting and had starting saying how they were so bored because they didn’t have anything to do, and had to stay at home because all their old friends would pull them back. So I said something like, ‘So this is the time to do all the stuff your parents told you they didn’t have money/time for!’ “Whatcha mean?” “You know, like when you were five and you REALLY wanted to have that toy or do that thing and you were like, ‘Please mom please I gotta have this I gotta go do this’ and they went ‘Hell no you think I’m paying for that do you want to goddamn EAT?’ “ And this light went on in their eyes. The lady is going to go check thrift stores for an Easybake Oven and I told her about Wilton cake decorating classes. The dude is going to Griffith Park and ride horses, because, ‘I always wanted to be a cowboy, and you can’t drink when you’re on a horse ‘cause you’ll fucking die!’ Fuck it. This is what being an adult is. Sure it’s bills and work and relationships, but damn it, it’s also time to do the things you LIKE. I signed up for a free class/lecture on Water Gardens. I’m going. It’s time.

[ruthfully]

Jill. Jill you are wonderful.

[lostwolfling]

no joke, this is such an important aspect of overcoming trauma. I mean the trauma of abusive parents, the trauma of broke ass parents who got toxic because of it, the trauma of capitalism. Like fuck it. Go to Wrestlemania. Build a shit ton of terrariums.

[japaneseaesthetics]

Pheasant

藤に雉図

Ono Shoun

mid-19th century

MEDIUM/TECHNIQUEHanging scroll; ink and color on silk

DIMENSIONSImage: 100.2 x 34.7 cm (39 7/16 x 13 11/16 in.)

CREDIT LINEWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection

[kibumkim]

[electricpurrs]

"Awkward" maned wolf photographed by Gabriel Bonfa, Brazil

[dirt-mann]

[bonbonlanguage]

from john ciardi’s translation of “the inferno” by dante alighieri

[the-etcetera-archive]

@themartyredslaveoftime

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Text reading: Translator’s Note

When the violin repeats what the piano has just played, it cannot make the same sounds and it can only approximate the same chords. It can, however, make recognizably the same “music,” the same air. But it can do so only when it is as faithful to the self-logic of the violin as it is to the self-logic of the piano. /End ID]

[deanwinchesterapologist]

just found out you can do more than one thing each day. i was just doing the one

[astraldemise]

[dabblingindissent]

it’s fuckin wiggly wednesday

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[grimelords]

thank god thank god, my favourite image has come back to me once more

[dajo42]

one. hundred. baltoys.

[dajo42]

one hundred baltoys btw if you even care.................

[dajo42]

for reference these are the yuka morii baltoys from silver tempest. yuka morii makes actual clay models of the pokemon for the card art which makes a lot of sense for baltoy because its made of clay in lore!!! these cards cost like 2 pennies each so this was not an especially expensive endeavour. the sleeves cost more than the total value of the cards including shipping. i could only get a 96 card binder because of the mathematics of page layouts so i gently affixed a sleeve gently protecting baltoy to the inside and outside of the front and back covers too to make it an even 100 baltoys. 100 baltoys 100 baltoys 100 baltoys

[dajo42]

every pokemon is somebodys favourite deniers in shambles when i show them the 100 baltoys binder

[asha-mage]

I think a big part of the reason Pokopia is hitting so hard for so many people is that we have had an absolute glut of post apocalyptic media that take the "humans are the monsters/disease/problem" angle. Even the most well meaning solar-punk I can think of often have this undercurrent of 'humanity's nature is inherently short sighted and exploitive and they must constantly be kept in check to protect the environment' which slides very quickly into 'the world would be better off without humans in it to complicate and threaten things'.

But Pokopia fully does not do that. The world is lonely without humans and lesser for humanity's absence. So much of the game is about how Pokemon miss humans and are struggling to make sense of a world without us, how the ecosystem is just as hurt by our absence as any other species, and how the things we left behind, even in ruins and burned shells, are often beautiful and strange and helpful to the Pokemon who find them.

Pokemon have always been this allegory for the natural world- back to the original idea of the games inspired by children who caught bugs and kept ant farms- and thus the relationship between Pokemon and humans becomes this allegory for the relationship between nature and humans. And Pokopia looks you dead in the eye and says "the world would be poorer without humans, and if we all vanished tomorrow the echoes of who we are and the things we did would still ring out for eons uncountable. We would be missed and mourned and searched for and the wound of our absence would be deeply felt on this earth for the rest of its turning. The actions of a few greedy short sighted humans will never change that."

And that. That hits.

[nothorses]

you do kind of have to actively shape how you feel a little bit. you can't just like, passively wait for the world to impress and inspire you. you have to choose to look for it & you have to choose to find it.

[batbetbitbotbut]

take your feelings out for regular exercise to build their strength and endurance

[kleinergeist]

Baldwin is a cool name. It is the opposite of Hairloss

[thesundanceghost]

Nothing I’ve read has changed me more than “you do people a favor by accepting their help” like I repeat this constantly to so many people because it’s true!!! People like to feel useful, they like to feel kind, they like to feel like they have an ability to impact people’s lives so just let them!! Not everything is a thing to be owed back — accept people’s kindness without making a competition out of it