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Art journal themes

1. Retro Journal- Kick it old school. 2. Body Parts- Each page focuses on one part of the human anatomy. 3. Empowerment- Quotes that give you mental strength. 4. Cards- Design a journal around your own version of cards: post cards, game         cards, holiday cards, get well cards, sympathy cards, invitations, etc. 5. Brand X- Side-by-side- their logos vs your version of a logo for the same product. 6. Secret Hoarder- No need to clutter the house, do it in your journal. 7. Poetry in Motion- Use poetry to inspire your designs. 8. My Super Heroes- Mash up some crazy characters and give them outrageous names like Capt. Umbrella or Washer Woman or The Bulk. 9. My Obsessions- Things you obsess over, worry about, or have to have. 10. In My World- Create an imaginary world on each page. 11. Pissy Missy- Things that tick you off. Let it all out. Art is cheap therapy. 12. Life vs Art- Side-by-side layout of a photo and then your rendering of the photo 13. My Spin on It- How you would have designed it, worded it, framed it, dressed it. 14. Positive Affirmations- Only positive words to remind yourself of the good. 15. A Pocket Full- On each page use a different type of pocket to hold whatever. 16. Black and Blue- Only use the colors black and blue to journal things that hurt. 17.Question and Answer- Side-by-side layout. Ex: (on left page)why do birds sing? (on right page) because they are free to fly! 18. Doodley Do- Only doodles allowed. period. Draw on each page with only one color. 19. Things I Own- Journal about where you got things from or why you bought it. 20. Sans Words- pictures only. 21. Bucket List- Things you want to do before you die. Be sure to have a box on every page so you can put a big red check mark in it as you complete each item! 22. Attitude of Gratitude- Things you are thankful for. Remember the small things. 23. If I Ruled the World- Rules you would make if you were the queen. 24. Song Lyrics- Use the title or a line or two. Or make each page a line from the same song. Songs you loved at different times in your life and why. 25. Movie Lines- Journal your favorite movie lines and create pages for them.

[silverandgoldpoetry-blog]

A Smile

Sometimes a smile Is all you need, To find flowers From life’s weeds.

~GMR~

[photochoco]

Jackpot

[photochoco]

This is getting kind of ridiculous.

There are two five leaves in there somewhere 

[photochoco]

I lost count

[humunanunga]

This is the lucky clover bouquet. Reblog for seven days of good luck!

[buttnekkidblackgirl]

Y’all laugh but I actually end up doing pretty well once I go to work

[massachusetts-redhead]

Only cause my driving test is tonight

[culturenlifestyle]

Whimsical Trompe L’oeil Street Art by David Zinn

Michigan illustrator David Zinn is known for the composition of his quirky site-specific illustrations, which playfully integrate adorable animal figures into the cracks, hidden treasures and abandoned sidewalks of the playground and street. Since 1987, Zinn has been composing whimsical chalk or charcoal work which take us into daily adventures.

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[boy-so-pale]

[dragonimpala67-deactivated20181]

Great Balls of Fucking Fire!

(Title because everyone titles their shit ‘humans are weird’ and telling these posts apart is a pain in the ass!) So, saw a post about aliens not being all that great with human swearing. (Wish I’d saved the damn post!) And my first thought was ‘Ah, yes, good! Go with that! That is awesome!” They pointed out that aliens wouldn’t understand swearing such as “Fuck!” or “Asshole!”. I thought “Motherfucker” would be another great one to add to the list. But what about the more um…inventive swears? For example (these are all ones that I use or have heard used):

Human: “Jesus Christ on a crutch!”

Alien: “Where? And how was your deity hurt? For that matter, how did your deity board the ship?”

Human: “Well fuck me sideways!”

Alien: “I do not think that is anatomically possible for either of us…”

Human: “I’ve met some pricks in my time, but you fine sir are the fucking cactus!”

Alien: “Fucking…cactus? Why would you wish to engage in coitus with a dessert plant? Wouldn’t it hurt?!”

Human: “Son of a biscuit eating bull dog!”

Alien: ?????

(Damnit, now I’m on a roll.) But consider some of these other things. What about human name calling? Like, the original post touched on that a bit with the ‘asshole’ comment. But again, what about the more inventive name calling? Children call each other ‘meanie’, ‘poopoo head’, and ‘meanie head’. Those would be confusing enough. Now picture an alien having to deal with adult name calling. Some of my friends have been known to use the following:

Twat waffle

Cunt biscuit

Shitlet

Douchebag

Ass goblin

Fuckwit

Ass clown

Captain Obvious (and their partner, Sergeant Sarcasm)

Butt Munch

Fucktard

Dick face

Shit nibbler (or nibblet)

Cheeky dickwaffle

Pecker head

Dingleberry

Can you picture an alien reacting to THOSE? And what about colloquialisms? What about those stupid sayings that don’t entirely make sense, but we use them anyway? Like, check out some of these beauties, and just imagine the alien’s glorious confusion over some of these:

 Human: “I am dragging so much ass that I am wiping out the tracks behind me!”

Alien: “Human you can’t leave tracks on a spaceship, nor is you posterior currently touching the ground.”

Human: (doesn’t trust some space pirate) “You can shake his hand, but you’ll have to count your fingers afterward.”

Alien: Promptly hides human’s hands, he didn’t know that that space pirate was a finger stealer! Or that finger stealers were a thing! Are their own tentacles close enough to count? Should they be worried? Don’t worry, I will protect your fingers my human!

Human: “We better dock soon, because I’ve got to pee like a motherfucker/ racehorse/ mother racehorse (that last is my families fusion of the two. Dont ask).

Alien: ???? (doesn’t compute) ?????

Human: “I’m so hungry I could eat a (insert large animal or item of choice. Such as ‘Spaceship’)!”

Alien: Races off to warn captain that they need to up the human’s food intake before it eats the ship right out from under them!!!!

Human: “He’s slicker than owl shit!” 

Alien: ?????

Human: “I’m busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest!”

Alien: Gets migraine trying to picture how a human with one leg could kick anything, much less as a competitor.

Human: “Stop running around like a chicken with your head cut off! Your hair is not on fire!”

Alien: Freezes mid-step to stare at human. “W-what?”

Just picture all of these guys!

[massachusetts-redhead]

The post they are talking about is me!!!

https://massachusetts-redhead.tumblr.com/post/158678057964/humans-are-weird-swearing - that is the origonal post

[prokopetz]

That thing about how cats think humans are big kittens is a myth, y’know.

It’s basically born of false assumptions; folks were trying to explain how a naturally solitary animal could form such complex social bonds with humans, and the explanation they settled on is “it’s a displaced parent/child bond”.

The trouble is, cats aren’t naturally solitary. We just assumed they were based on observations of European wildcats - but housecats aren’t descended from European wildcats. They’re descended from African wildcats, which are known to hunt in bonded pairs and family groupings, and that social tendency is even stronger in their domesticated relatives. The natural social unit of the housecat is a colony: a loose affiliation of cats centred around a shared territory held by alliance of dominant females, who raise all of the colony’s kittens communally.

It’s often remarked that dogs understand that humans are different, while cats just think humans are big, clumsy cats, and that’s totally true - but they regard us as adult colonymates, not as kittens, and all of their social behaviour toward us makes a lot more sense through that lens.

The like to cuddle because communal grooming is how cats bond with colonymates - it establishes a shared scent-identity for the colony and helps clean spots that they can’t easily reach on their own.

They bring us dead animals because cats transport surplus kills back to the colony’s shared territory for consumption by pregnant, nursing, or sick colonymates who can’t easily hunt on their own. Indeed, that’s why they kill so much more than they individually need - it’s not for fun, but to generate enough surplus kills to sustain the colony’s non-hunting members.

They’re okay with us messing with their kittens because communal parenting is the norm in a colony setting, and us being colonymates in their minds automatically makes us co-parents.

It’s even why many cats are so much more tolerant toward very small children, as long as those children are related to one of their regular humans: they can tell the difference between human adults and human “kittens”, and your kittens are their kittens.

Basically, you’re going to have a much easier time getting a handle on why your cat does why your cat does if you remember that the natural mode of social organisation for cats is not as isolated solitary hunters, but as a big communal catpile - and for that purpose, you count as a cat.

[chibird]

Having bad days doesn’t mean your whole life is bad. There are still good days and all the days in between!

[happyness-is-a-journey]

Just remember that your current situation is not your final destination! 😄

[pamartyes]

She Grows

[massachusetts-redhead]

Humans Are Weird: Swearing

To add to the humans are weird/space orcs thread, how about certain weird linguistic stuff, like the way we swear...?

Human: “Fuck” Alien: “I am not particularly inclined to follow that command.”

Human: “What an asshole” Alien: “I am sensing that emulating a hole in ones ass is not a good thing.”

[dxactivatxdusxr]

A group of rough looking boys walked past me today and all I heard of their conversation was “he’s got that anxiety disorder bro so I went with him so he’d be more comfortable” and it made me realise the world isn’t all that bad

[fitzefitcher]

#this is team skull

[its-just-a-phage]

The pet store I worked at had a pen with rabbits near the front door. On every side of the pen were huge signs saying “You can pet me, but don’t pick me up!” One day two absolutely huge guys came in and one immediately reaches into the pen to grab a rabbit. Before i could say anything his friend grabbed his arm and asked him “did you see the sign?” He said “yeah! it says that you can pick them up but don’t pet them!” Then he went quiet for a moment and softly said “I didn’t read it right did I?” And his friend just puts his arm on his shoulder and said “its ok, i know you’ve got that thing where words get mixed up. Let just pet these cute lil shits” And I still haven’t gotten over that interaction.

[yallmightt]

I was walking my dog through Boston bc he likes the likes car rides. He’s a little thing tbh we call him short and long. So this huge scary man with a full beard approaches me like “hey can my buddy and I pet your dog? He gets nervous around dogs but your’s is so small I think it’s a good place to start.” Ofc I was like “yes he’s very friendly!” So this guy brings his equally big friend over and they sit on the floor while this man looks terrified of my tiny dog so big man number one asks “can I pick him up?” And i say yes so he picks him up and puts him on man number two’s lap and man number two is abt to freak out and his friend straight up just goes “hey man, it’s okay just relax I’d never let anything hurt you. He’s a good boy.” I’ll never forget it ever bc I know that man looked at me (5'3 , glasses, probably wearing a sweater vest) and my dog (kinda goofy looking little thing) and was like ‘ah yes the two least intimidating living things I’ve seen in Boston all day he’ll feel relaxed around them’ and went out of his way to help his friend. It makes me so happy

[mintycoolnessisrelevant]

A good post, pure.

[raven-lunatic]

A biker in his 30s once walked into the bookstore I worked at. He had piercings, tattoos, and bruises, everywhere, was ripped and stout, and looked like he could take down anyone, anywhere. He put his worn helmet on the counter, looked at me, and said, “Do y’all carry Percy Jackson?” I replied, “Of course! I love those books. Percy is my favorite.” His face lit up like a Christmas tree, and he replied, “Oh, no–it’s Annabeth or BUST.” And for the next few minutes we talked about Greek myths, and I swear we both made each other’s day. 

[spicychaiji]

I moved from sydney city to the bush when I was 5 and my brother was 1. My mum bought a big property, put a caravan on it and planned to build. When we moved there was nothing on the property and we were going through one of Australia’s worst droughts. I remember one of the first days we were there mum  realised caravans don’t have running water and we had to buy water, this was tough considering we were likely not going to have a proper house for four years. Mum was also a single mum with an acting job she left in Sydney so paying for water put another weight on us. Anyway, on a super hot day, we ran out of water and it was scary, mum was using the last of it to make some lunch when we hear a huge four wheel drive come through the bush. It’s not unusual to hear cars because we were right next to the dirt road, but it was unusual to hear them come off the road through the bush considering we had a driveway. Mum panicked and assumed she may have to defend herself and her kids as she is a woman alone in the bush - we’ve all heard the stories. The car pulls up and three huge men with beards an 1 tooth between the lot of them look down at us huddled behind mum.

“It’s a hot one today”

“it is..”

“you just bought the property?”

“Yeah..”

Then they leave. Mum is in a mild panic for the rest of the afternoon, she is worried they have plans to come back later and do who knows what, she calls friends from Sydney, she collects all the knives, she freaks out, understandably. Later on we hear the four wheel drive come back the other way through the bush and this time mum puts us inside and says lock the door. The car stops and in the back of the ute are litres and litres of water, in huge tanks from the shops.

The men get out and unload all the water, set it up at the sink, pour a glass for my brother and I and ask mum of there’s anything else we need. They proceed to have cups of tea and welcome mum to the area. These old toothless men havent all lasted the test of time but we still see one of them all the time, and they have helped out countless families in the area.

[massachusetts-redhead]

Humans Are Space Orcs: Braces

I have been reading a lot of these so here it is,

Just imagine an alien when they find out about braces.

“Do you mean to tell me that you strap metal to your young and slowly move their bones, without pain killers, over long periods of time? The bones that they use to eat? Then make them wear more metal in their mouths for the rest of their life, all for a standard of beauty?”

Nah dude, some do it for medical reasons. I knew someone who had three teeth stuck in the roof of their mouth so they put braces on them and fixed that right up”

“I don’t think I understand”

“They had to do it, because they had already pulled out their baby teeth so they would have had gaps or out of order teeth. Or get infected.

“But how did braces on the outside of their teeth affect the teeth that were *stuck*”

They first had to cut through the bone to get to them and then they stuck brackets on them. But after that, they just dragged the teeth into place.”

“Through the bone?”

"Yup”

"And it worked?”

"Yup”

*horrified aliens* “I thought you said you care about your young”

"We do”

*even more Horrified aliens*

*off to the side* “didn’t the human say they cared about us”

[culturenlifestyle]

The First Vertical Forest In Asia Will Produce Over 132 Pounds of Oxygen Daily & Will Be Home to  Over 3,000 Plants

These amazing vertical forests located in n Nanjing, China will produce around It’s a good job that these vertical forests in Nanjing, China are going to produce 132 pounds (60kg) of oxygen daily. Called Nanjing Towers, they will be Asia’s first vertical forests.

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The World’s First Color-Changing Hair Dye That Reacts To Your Surroundings

[thelovejournals]

culturenlifestyle:

Called FIRE, this amazing hair color is the first in the world. It changes according to the temperature of its surroundings. In a cold setting, you’ll get stunning raven hair and in a warm environment, your hair will literally turn fire red.

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[massachusetts-redhead]

That is so cool!

[andallshallbewell]

[inspiringbeautifulminds]

How do I make this happen?

[massachusetts-redhead]

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