Mossy

26 | voi/void or they/he | AuDHD just your local weirdo neighborhood enby with too much time on his hands

[estchiyu]

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

[numbpill]

random new blinkies i found!!

[yo-gummy-sharks]

Flower fairy fashion 1/2

[abnormoinfo]

new ebbits! new site!

[poison-liker]

this is probably my favourite comic of all time jsyk

[sonic-gems-collection]

can someone explain this to me?

[shadeddaxion]

Sure thing! For convenience I’ll refer to the guy with his arms in his pockets as SG (shorter guy) and the one on the computer as TG (taller guy).

In the first panel, SG sees TG playing on the computer and is disappointed. SG puts a lot of value in the idea of “making things,” specifically “art,” and thinks TG is just wasting their time

So he asks them if they wouldn’t rather be “making something” instead of just playing games and listening to music, implying that TG isn’t doing anything worthwhile or creative with their time

But TG replies that “interpreting is generative,” meaning that even if they spend their time just doing fun stuff, the mere act of enjoying something is creating an experience and an interpretation. Talking about something, dancing to music or sharing a piece of art with your friends IS “making something,” and each of those can be worthwhile and artistic.

SG leaves, complaining he “can’t be an auteur of [interpretation].” Auteur is a movie term that refers to a filmmaker with artistic control and vision enough to be considered essentially the singular creator of the resulting work of art. Turns out, SG doesn’t just want to “make things,” he wants to make things he and others see as “important.” He wants to make art not for the sake of art, but for the sake of being recognized and praised for his art.

This comic really speaks to elitism within the artistic community, the idea that art needs to meet certain standards to be considered art. SG’s viewpoint is really traditionalist, that art need to be “approved” and validated in order to be considered “really art;” while TG recognizes that art can be as little as just talking about what you love.

TLDR: Art is for everyone, not just some sort of social “artistic elite.”

[abnormoinfo]

ooh i love the explanation

[trickstertime]

Rebloging for that in depth and not even a little snarky explanation. 10/10

[buriedpentacles]

My Tarot readings improved drastically onced I started seeing tarot as a story and conversation, rather than an interview or questions and answers.

Spreads can be super helpful, but I highly reccomend that anyone wanting to improve their tarot readings to do regular free-form readings. Talk to your cards, make the reading a conversation, look to the imagery and find the narrative hidden in the cards.

[777rare]

[aesethewitch]

The questions I ask myself, roughly in this order, to interpret any* tarot spread:

How did the cards appear? Because I shuffle for jumpers, it matters whether cards pop from the deck together. They form pairs (or groups) which have stronger connections to each other than other cards in the spread.

What types of cards are on the field? Majors? Minors? All numerical cards? Court cards? What suits? What numbers? This is where I consider the raw, memorized meaning of individual cards and the archetypes they represent.

Are there obvious patterns or cadences in the order? Think like poetry, ABAB or AABB, but with the types of cards. In a hand of five, it's interesting if the order is Major-Minor-Major-Minor-Major. Or maybe the cards are in a descending numerical order, Nine-Eight-Seven-Six-Five. Or, perhaps Nine-Eight-Six-Five-Four -- the jump in the pattern matters.

Are there repeating numbers or suits? Repetition strengthens the significance of a number's or suit's meaning.

Are there repeating motifs in the card art? Again, repetition strengthens the significance. This includes colors, background details, people, animals, and so forth.

Where are figures in the art looking? Are they looking at other cards? At each other? Away from each other? The direction of figures' attention directs where that card's focus might be.

Is there a cohesion or flow in the spread, or is it interrupted and disorganized? Some spreads flow smoothly left to right, while others show disruption and a lack of coherency. This question looks a the spread as a whole again after all other questions have been asked to consider all elements together.

Does it make sense? Do the cards answer the question being asked? How do they apply? Is there something missing? Is there a deeper meaning to delve into? Do I need clarifiers? Do I need to try again with new cards? Can I explain these cards to the querent and have them understand my meaning?

And then I write out my analysis! There's obviously more to it than this, with a ton of nuance at every step, and I could probably write a whole essay about any individual part of this... and I probably still will, honestly. (And I started to, then decided to just write up a little list instead, lmao.)

*May not work for some tarot spreads, depending on the style.

[pustostanie-deactivated20240513]

I think the place we've gone wrong in society is when change became something to be ashamed of.

Why fight for rights by saying we are 'born this way' or 'like that forever'?

We deserve to live, and it shouldn't matter if gender is learned because it doesn't change that gender identity should be respected.

it shouldn't matter if sexuality is born from trauma, or is innate for a person, it's okay anyways.

we are the way we are, regardless of how we came to be.

If we don't start trying to change the mindset of truth being unchanging and stone solid, then every time we have to fight for rights, we're gonna have to repeat same shit.

Like that we're not changing the world but instead cutting ourselves to fit the societys mold of acceptable.

Trying to make ourselves marketable.

Our world shouldn't be a place where identity is valid only when it can be priced and sold.

[mossberry-forest]

I don't care how traditionally masculine that person looks. It's rude to assume they're a cis guy wearing a skirt because they're into sissification.

[mossberry-forest]

I'm not saying I trust demons more than cops, I'm just saying that no one's ever told me not to let a demon in the house.

[starlightshadowsworld]

As always, the Irish speak nothing but facts.

How many more innocent civilians have to be killed by Israel before you condemn that for it?

That is a genocide.

That this is a crime on all accounts.

And deserves to be punished to the full extent off the law.

[brendering]

This plea to do something and not stand idly by reminded me of what Elie Weisel said in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 1986. He warned the international audience about the danger of inaction and detachment. Weisel (a famous Holocaust survivor and author) mentioned Palestinian oppression specifically in this speech, stating that "human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere [...] that principle applies in my life also, to the Palestinians".

In discussing genocide and indifference, Weisel said:

This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent? [...] And then I explained to him how naive we were, that the world did know and remain silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must–at that moment–become the center of the universe.  And action is the only remedy to indifference: the most insidious danger of all. Isn’t this the meaning of Alfred Nobel’s legacy? Wasn’t his fear of war a shield against war? [...] There is much to be done, there is much that can be done. One person–a Raoul Wallenberg, an Albert Schweitzer–one person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death.

Video and transcript of Weisel's speech: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/acceptance-speech/

Here are a few ways to take action for some English-speaking countries. I encourage you to Google petitions, politicians' contact info, etc. if your country isn't here:

🌎 INTERNATIONAL

1. Sign the Petition to the UNSC Join this petition of 630 nonprofits who are calling on the UN Security Council and all world leaders to condemn Israel's actions and act to save lives. 2. Find Your Local Protest This site is updated daily with global protest locations, links, and info 3. Donate This site has a list of trusted organizations. You can search for your country's branch if you'd like your donation to be tax deductible. 4. BDS: Boycott and Support BDS is a Palestinian-led movement that calls for equality via Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions. Select your country to find out what orgs near you have been highlighted by BDS, and which companies BDS is boycotting.

🇺🇸 USA

1. Sign The Petition Ask Joe Biden to publicly call for an immediate ceasefire. 2. Email Congress This 30-second form allows you to find your representatives with a single click and demand a ceasefire (the US sends Israel billions in aid and has more power than any other country to stop Israel). It automatically fills in a general email message that can be customized as much as you want. 3. Call Your Rep Select your state to find your Senators, and call them to ask for a ceasefire. If you want to leave a message instead of talking to a staffer, you can call late at night. I recommend doing the email first to find your Reps if you don't know yours. Here's a call script from the bottom of the CeasefireToday page:

4. Call Your Senator Enter your zip code and this page will give you the email and phone numbers of your Senators. You can contact them and tell them you want a ceasefire. 5. CeasefireToday.com is a hub for great resources for US folx to contact politicians, donate, volunteer, etc. It also lists which Representatives have already called for a ceasefire.

🇬🇧 UK

1. Sign the Gov Petition Ask Parliament to call for an immediate ceasefire. 2. WriteYourMP This form will find your MP for you and email them on your behalf to call for a ceasefire. It supplies a general email that can be edited as much as you want.

🇨🇦 CANADA

1. Sign the Gov Petitions (1 and 2) Petition Trudeau to call for an immediate ceasefire. 2. Sign the Change.Org Petition Call for an immediate ceasefire and the establishment of a humanitarian corridor. 3. Email Leaders and Your MP Enter your address and this will send an email on your behalf to your local MP, Trudeau, and to party leaders all at once. It fills in a general email that you can edit as much as you want. 4. Call Your MP Fill in your address in this tool and click "Make the Call". It will automatically patch you through to your MP based on your address so you can tell them to push for a ceasefire. This tool will also display suggested talking points on-screen to help you.

🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA

1. Email Your Federal Reps This tool will send an email on your behalf to your local MP, Senators, Foreign Minister, and the Greens spokesperson for Foreign Affairs. It auto-fills a general email message that you can customize as much as you'd like. 2. Sign the Change.Org Petition Demand that Australia retract support of Israel, and "sanction Israel in order to fulfil its duty to the international community and Palestinian civilians, as outlined by the UN". 3. Call Your Senators and Members Search by post code to find your politicians, and give them a call. If you need ideas on what to say, I recommend looking at the email message from the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network or Refugee Council of Australia's letter to the Prime Minister.

[nativenews]

[sayruq]

You can read the letter here.

[booksinmythorax]

"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

[spitblaze]

Beginning to think some of you don’t actually know what a crackship is

[spitblaze]

A crackship is not looking at two characters who interact a lot and have an established dynamic and going 'haha what if they kissed that'd be so funny'. No no. A crackship is like. 'Main character/shopkeep who only has two lines'. It's 'big bad/that exact same shopkeep'. It's 'Frodo Baggins/Shadow the Hedgehog'. If it does not boggle the mind it's not really a crackship.

[freshwaterraven]

[theanishimori]

You know the saying, "Whatever floats your boat"? Well a crackship isn't even that. It's what will drag your soul to the bottom of Davy Jones' locker and make onlookers cover their eyes in horror.

[perenial]

love reading late 90s/early 2000s scholarship on the potential of the internet. "hey we shouldn't let venture capitalists get in on this" And Then They Did

[perenial]

this was published in 2001

[mossberry-forest]

The more you read about this shit, the scarier it gets

[googiekitsch-deactivated2024071]

my advice for not going insane? try to do something every weekend. go to events, you’ll love events. and not like just hang out with ur friends or go clubbing , no, make a day out of going to some local market by yourself or attend some strange convention event you’ve never heard of. i cannot stress the importance of doing random events on a friday night or saturday or a sunday at r pm for mentally ill people especially if you’re depressed and have been searching for an anchor 2 tether yourself to. attend some events now

[thedisablednaturalist]

Used to do this a lot before I became physically disabled.

My mental health has definitely suffered.

This is why making all events accessible is important. We deserve to go places too, even if they are niche or strange. Our mental health matters as much as non-physically-disabled people's does.