Confessions of a bookaholic artist

It is what it is and I am who I am, just don't ask me to pack a suitcase

[important-animal-images]

[timidsketch]

It's still so strange to me how apparently taboo it is to like a post on someone's Instagram from a month ago when there are posts still circulating on Tumblr from 1550 BCE

[funnytwittertweets]

[d0llz-s0up]

Back on my bullshit

[ballwizard]

every time i eat one of these fucking things my soul goes away and i become a mafia boss smoking a fat fucking cigar pondering the next sap on my hit list

[passionpeachy-deactivated202312]

saw the most whimsical ass tree in my life and I had to draw his face

[anxietyproblem]

[glumshoe]

I used to wear a chainmail shirt to elementary school. The teachers never knew what to do about it because there was no section in our dress code forbidding medieval armor.

[docincredible]

… Where does an elementary school child get access to an actual shirt of chainmail sized properly for them?

[glumshoe]

Growing up as a historical reenactor meant that my parents are friends with lots of people who make chainmail. My godsister received a real rapier in fourth or fifth grade, so our unsupervised outdoor playtime was… formative.

[mangonetics]

[jumpingjacktrash]

my little brother used to MAKE chainmail in middle school. i mean, IN school. at his desk.

teachers objected. my parents went to bat for him. “it helps him focus.” some teachers insisted it was noisy, in which case he was allowed to make origami instead, but for the most part he continued to make chain mail.

he gave me a roman short sword for christmas when i was 14. i think he’s given me a total of 5 swords over my lifetime and like 9 pieces of armor. he just has always loved metal. of course he joined the SCA the moment he heard about it.

since my thing was textiles, i reciprocated by sewing, knitting, weaving, and embroidering pieces for his reenactment costumes. when we got our dad into reenactment, i helped him put together his persona as well. now, we’re welsh on mom’s side, and from all over the silk road on dad’s side. so my brother went with a welsh persona, and that was pretty easy, because patterns from the british isles are well researched and easy to find, and a lot of SCA folks are into that. but dad and i decided to be silk road traders, and that was HARD. it took us years to put together historically accurate costumes. i cut up a lot of used kimonos from ragstock, i tell you what.

and you know what my dang brother did? he learned to make mongolian arrowheads in a weekend. three goddamn days and he was like “here have a dozen, i dun wanna learn fletching so you do the rest.”

anyhow he grew up to be a master machinist and is now making cutting edge medical devices out of memory metal for stabilizing shattered hand bones, so i guess the moral of the story is, chainmail on school children is a good sign probably?

[naramdil]

i hate when girls feel dumb for trying to see the best in people and then end up hurt or disappointed like no!! it’s those people that were dumb for misleading you. they took advantage of your kindness and generosity, and they’ll rot for it 

[mask-knife-is-buggys-wife]

Repeat this everyday you are not in the wrong for seeing the good in the world

[caspercryptid]

I love memetic communication when it gets to the point of being incomprehensible because can you imagine showing someone this picture

And asking them what Greek god it represents

[book--wyrm]

#my favourite part is the people in the notes being like ‘the god of children’s hospitals’ to be contrary#because the ball is Red#bc like. do. do they know what one of Apollo’s areas of Being The God Of This Thing are?#healing and diseases#also he’s like#the god of Youths#so like.yeah.#Apollo IS the god of children’s hospitals actually Via @mothmammoth​

[nudityandnerdery]

[seperis]

I’ve never really had the opportunity to watch the process of a meme being born, growing up, converging with other memes, acquiring random facts during puberty like a really bad breakout, and slowly becoming an ubermeme on my tumblr roll and I’d like to thank everyone on this hellsite for the fact I perfectly understood this and worse, am not even horrified by that deeply unsettling fact.

Some people go to Hell and spend all their time trying to get out to somewhere sane.

We settle in and decorate.

[apollos-boyfriend]

tumblr users: hey we don't want twitter users migrating here :/

tumblr: don't worry i got you *fuckign crashes*

[apollos-boyfriend]

[unmooredonasundayevening]

writing tip: don’t tell us your character’s backstory. don’t tell us what your character is thinking. don’t tell us what your character is doing. don’t tell us anything. the reader should simply look at a blank page and be suddenly overcome with emotion.

[clinticalthinkr]

Good tip. I know a lot of writers who cry uncontrollably when they see a blank page, so I’m sure that feeling will translate directly to the reader.

[kai-teaa]

tumblrs cardinal sin is being tumblr

[mumblesplash]

[renthebarbarian]

Musk running Twitter be like

[ceevee5]

[quasi-normalcy]

I fear a fresh wave of the plague

[unbotheredmuse]

[cipheramnesia]

Girl, help they are making me do tasks before the scheduled event.

[quasi-normalcy]

My conference is in 9 hours; do I have time to bathe?

[forepop]

my dad, trying to explain the concept of money to me: say you have a sandwich, and i need your sandwich. but i don't have anything to give you. you're not just gonna give it to me.

me: i would just give it to you.

my dad: