work in progress.

[soracities]

the way ivan aivazovsky looks at the sea…i think…i think that’s what love looks like.

[soracities]

love is surrounding yourself with people who see you this clearly

[ataehone]

Still the freakiest fact about him is that despite being as tall as a person or more, he banged out these beauties in a day or two at most (and smaller ones ina matter of hours). The longest he spent on a painting, at age 81, to make his largest ever painting, was TEN DAYS:

It is 2.9×4.3 meters large. That’s 9'4"×14'1" for people in other measurement systems. It’s HUGE. There are artists out there that spend years on paintings much smaller than this. He was not one of them.

He also didn’t only paint the sea, but he MOSTLY painted the sea. Very few people could draw light filtering through waves the way this guy did and apparently it was tied into his layering technique that allowed him to paint so goddamn fast.

He is obviously my most favorite painter ever.

[soracities]

!!!

[incidentalcomics]

Clouds

[stinkyhat-deactivated20231213]

BBQ

blease be quiet

[sophiamcdougall]

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman

Spoiler: they made a pact never to argue and took self-imposed time-outs when they lapsed. One broke his leg and they cared for him so well it healed perfectly. They planted a vegetable garden and kept their spirits up singing along to a guitar they fashioned from driftwood and a coconut shell. (Article is weirdly focused on the white guy who rescued them, though.)

[fullyfunctionalminiaturebeehive]

The thing is that Golding wouldn’t be surprised, because he didn’t intend Lord of the Flies to reflect upon human nature. He wrote it to reflect upon the nature of upper-class English schoolboys, specifically in response to a very saccharine story by another author where upper-class English schoolboys form a eutopia. He’d be mortified at the way schools teach it, and validated that the kids in this article did not, in fact, degenerate into evil little shits.

[espanolbot2]

Seen a lot of hot takes on Twitter saying that the book is racist and that it’s a comment on colonialism or something, when like the above commenter says it was based on Golding’s own experience with how shitty public school-taught British schoolboys were/are.

[therobotmonster]

If Lord of the Flies was summed up in a headline it would be “Commentary on Assholes mistaken for Commentary on Humanity”

[an-android-in-a-tutu]

I think that’s the fate of every such commentary, because it’s the nature of assholes to look at a commentary on the nature of assholes and go “Behold! The nature of man!”

[humorrelated]

real followers knows that today is my birthday!

[showinghumor]

happy birthday!!

[humorrelated]

actually it was a test to the real followers, my birthday is in june 13th and I’m so sad with you all

[freshmoviequotes]

Knives Out (2019)

[july-19th-club]

me reading back my own writing

[memewhore]

[buglite]

hi just wondering if i were an otter and you were an otter and we were sleeping would you hold my paw so we wouldn't drift away from each other. just wondering

[babyanimalgifs]

[twitterlols]

[vikingfighter-deactivated201909]

When someone uses an abbreviation and I have to look it up

[thebestoftumbling]

[twloha]

[paperback-mummy-blog]

I really love this and I know exactly why but I can’t explain it.

[in-thislight]

Because it’s just another indication that we, as Human Beings, are one.

[priestessamy]

It’s also just like… a very human thing to do, to measure everyone’s heights in a way that makes it so significant

[juyeooon]

tiddies? Out

third eye? Open

they were? Roommates

hotel? Trivago

[ashleymacleanblog]

your life will go on sometimes differently but it will always go on

trust that things will be okay   (via anxietyproblem)

[twitblr]

WEEWOO WEEWOO WEEWOO

[rubyfruitnb]

Lets get real about the plethora of articles abt whether straight women belong in gay bars. First of all, there’s not like..a bouncer outside of every gay bar checking your ID to see if you’re straight or cis and then throwing you to the curb lmao. So if you feel the need to write an article arguing that you belong in a gay bar then you are not arguing for the right to enter a gay bar, to buy drinks there, to go dancing, to watch a drag show. You can do those things without anyone paying you any mind. What you are criticizing isn’t that you face any actual discrimination in LGBT spaces but that these spaces were never built to cater you. The cishet experience is being so used to a world built around you that people who experience homophobia & transphobia building their own spaces feels like a slight. You aren’t entitled to feeling like you belong in a space that was built for us to hide from people like you. Write a new think piece. 

[loismacgiver-deactivated2018061]

another thing is that when you, as a straight woman, walk into a gay bar? you can’t start bitching and whining about the gross ugly dykes who ask you to dance or try to buy you drinks. it’s a gay bar. it’s for us. it’s not for you to gawk at us like it’s a fucking petting zoo, and in a space for men to meet men and women to meet women, don’t be surprised if a woman tries to interact with you romantically. that’s the whole fucking point of a gay bar.