Comfort is a Mystery

Autumn | 20-something | she/her I make art and suffer from the love of sinking ships | this blog contains triggering/sensitive material

[murderthehypotenuse]

So, I’m finally watching Solo and... ...while I do not like every Star Wars movie ever made, every Star Wars movie before Solo actually felt like a Star Wars movie to me. This is something else. I don’t know what. But I do not like it.

[murderthehypotenuse]

“So you think that you can tell what is heaven from what is hell?”

Hi @hanyouonikage! I’m your Secret Santa for @inusecretsanta! Always love me some good Narkik :) :) 

Enjoy!

[whitepeopletwitter]

[kikyov]

Consider yourself lucky.

@inusecretsanta​​ present for @murderthehypotenuse​  ♥

[matereya]

My entry piece for the @loturabigbang event! I’m so excited to finally share this with you! :D I was paired up with pumpkinbash @theshipden for the prompt of an arranged marriage AU, starting with Lotor and Allura growing up together. It’s not based directly on a specific scene, but rather how I interpreted their relationship and their reunion from her fic, so sorry if it’s not that accurate 😥 (also, I wanted to give them alternate outfits and dramatic/flowy cape/dress).

I hope you like it and that I didn’t screw up! I really enjoyed making it and kudos to everyone who participated and for the amazing robyn @skywclkrs who runs the event! ♥

[no-chill-at-all]

[lannamichaels]

the eternal winter friday mood

[cyber-yeezuss]

I wanna be 14 again and ruin my life differently… I have new ideas

[cheekygeekymonkey]

[biszumletzten]

VAN EYCK

[thestraggletag]

I lost it at the end.

[thestraggletag]

Okay, I had to check out the Van Eyck thing. I was a bit in denial because, come on, every single person can’t look like President Putin!

There are no words to describe how wrong I was.

[drgaellon]

@copperbadge

[copperbadge]

The Van Eyck Putin research is the best addition to this post I’ve ever seen. 

[bisexualpolar]

this is my favorite line in the history of ahs

[knifing]

“You see a lot, Doctor. But are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself? What about it? Why don’t you - why don’t you look at yourself and write down what you see? Or maybe you’re afraid to. ”

[eenuttings]

california? you mean the place in the red hot chili peppers songs? you know that’s not real right?

[homoidiotic]

having a locket with someone’s hair in it is perfect and hits all my points: romantic, dramatic, strange, kinda gross

[softheartedbutch]

it worries me so much that there’s been this (mostly unintentional) culture built up around coming out, to where young lgbt kids are putting themselves in danger at school and at home because they don’t want to “live a lie.” i just want to say, i came out when i was 15 and it created a lot of difficulties in my life that i could have avoided by waiting until i was older. it isolated me socially, it exposed me to homophobia from my parents, my family, my teachers, and my classmates at the most important developmental stages of my own confidence and sense of self… closeted people are not living a lie. closeted people are surviving. don’t let anyone pressure you to come out before you’re ready. don’t put yourself at risk when you don’t have to.

[carnivalseb]

Historically, the importance of coming out was put forward by Harvey Milk as a tactic for normalization through representation; if your librarian, your postal worker and seven of the people in your local sports fanclub are all gay & you’ve been friends for years with no disasters, the rhetoric of queers as a monstrous unknown Other collapses. The thing is, Milk was mainly talking to other adults who had their own means of survival; their own incomes, their own houses. Yes, homophobia has been used & is being used to eject people from their apartments & that is monstrous, & yes there are vulnerabilities which can cause you terrible harm as an adult, but when you are so much more vulnerable, your job is surviving. The closet is a survival tactic, & that’s all it’s ever been. It is not your job right now to be on the front lines of queer representation. Ellen DeGeneres & Laverne Cox are taking care of that so that you can be safe, & we’re going to need you to still be with us in ten years, ok? You can find people who are safe to be fully open with, and you deserve to be able to do that but you do not owe the intimate details of the way you fall in love to people who would not treat you with basic human dignity. People who will put you in danger have no right to your privacy, and no right to honesty from you, if that’s the way you want to frame it.

[chavisory]

Also, you don’t owe this information to anyone. Even if you’re not in danger. Even if you just don’t feel ready, or just don’t want to.

Nobody is entitled to this information and if you don’t know what you want to do with it yet, you don’t have to do anything.

[gamgee]

i think rob zombie was really speaking for all of us when he stressed how important it is to dig through the ditches and burn through the witches and slam in the back of one’s dragula

[lhazaar]

look…………….. write as much shitty fic as you want. nobody can stop you. you’re learning constantly and it’s better to write hackneyed implausible ridiculousness than it is to not write at all out of fear of fucking up. you’re good

[darkandstormyslash]

There was an experiment a professor did. I think it was pottery students. He did an experiment of “quality” vs “quantity”. One half of the class he told; you have to make as many pots as possible. Good pots, bad pots, shitty pots, whatever. The more pots you make, the higher your grade.

The other half of the class were told, “you can make only one pot”. But that pot had to be perfect. The quality had to be high; the highest quality pot would get the best mark.

But when it came to the grading, they noticed something weird.

All the best quality pots were in the ‘quantity’ group.

The guys who were literally churning out pots, trying to make as many as possible, not concentrating on the quality. But every pot they made, made them better at making pots. By the end of the month (I think it was a month) - they had some pretty awesome pots coming out, because they enjoying finding all the ways and all the things they could do to make all their pots. Where as the ‘quality’ guys had spent their time reading up on pots, and technique, and researching and planning; which was all great but they’d had no further practice at actually making pots.

The best way to get really good at something, the only way to be really good at something, is to make lots of shitty attempts at that thing several of which will fail. If all you create are perfect things then you won’t improve, because how can you improve on perfect?

tl:dr MAKE YOUR SHITTY POTS.

[grenade-maid]

One of the most vile tricks ever pulled, is the way that even the mildest left-leaning ideals are made out to be a political imposition trying to force people to act or think a certain way, while even the hardest right-wing ideologies are construed as mere beliefs, matters of opinion that we must respect. 

[whenas-in-silks]

Person: I’ve never read House of Leaves. Is it good?

Me: Let me put it this way. How do you feel about developing a paralyzing fear of your own house?

Person:

Me: is good u should read