i too am green, cuddly, and learning french

jasmina. 27. Black. disabled.

[muzzyinminaland]

Progress is progress no matter how small.

[rebelculture]

[elucubrare]

i wish my brain were not full of gludge. i would like to be using it & because of the gludge i cannot do that.

[seaweed-official]

reblog if you're pro sexualization for pervert purposes in art

[petaltexturedskies]

Bring me the sunset in a cup reckon the morning’s flagon’s up and say how many dew, tell me how far the morning leaps — tell me what time the weawer sleeps who spun the breadths of blue! Write me how many notes there be in the new robin’s extasy among astonished boughs — how many trips the tortoise makes — how many cups the bee partakes, the debauchee of dews! Also, who laid the rainbow’s piers, also, who leads the docile spheres by withes of supple blue? Whose fingers string the stalactite — who count the wampum of the night to see that none is due? Who built this little alban house and shut the window down so close my spirit cannot see? Who’ll let me out some gala day with implements to fly away passing pomposity?

Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems

[maviyenot]

[winter-pear]

i really think consuming things intentionally is the number one prevention for brainrot

[winter-pear]

i think everyone’s lives are so grueling and taxing and all of the changes necessary to prevent that are very systemic

so social media as an autopilot is a pretty normal response but honestly any form of entertainment that ISNT social media is way better for you.

and i think if you just make that act intentional in some small way you are way less likely to experience spiritual decay. phones are really a prison in that way

[thegardenofbae]

𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 ✨

[thombalan]

Follow my artist’s journal on Patreon for free. 💙

[boundwithpurple]

i hate moralizing in fiction but deeply value moral seriousness. very different things for me. the former exists in abundance and the latter is in short supply.

[boundwithpurple]

moralizing - having decided a moral lesson in advance and the fiction merely becomes the vehicle of lecturing the audience, and its goal to ensure their mastery of this lesson. no questions need be asked, because all answers are assumed known. moral seriousness - records a sincere grappling with difficult questions, taking opposing views seriously (which can arrive at condemnation - but first there must be an argument, rather than dismissal of them out of hand from a stance of superiority) inviting interlocutors to do so as well. can arrive at a very firm and clear and strident moral message, even, and often preferably! but the humility and curiosity of an accounting of the struggle, both on part of characters and the author, is very key to me, for what fiction can do, what it has uniquely to offer.

[polarity-disturbed]

Being able to draw older people as attractive without reducing or erasing the visual signs of aging, and in fact showing that they're attractive because of those signs, is an artistic skill that should be valued so much more. Honestly, it should earn you an immediate fortune because holy fuck is it a rare commodity. There are so many artists who seem to think attractiveness and aging exist in opposition to each other, so they smooth every wrinkle, erase every crease, and de-age the character until they're basically thirty with silver hair. But when an artist can look at crow's feet, smile lines, weathered skin, deep-set wrinkles, and all the little traces of a life well lived and say, "No, that's what makes them beautiful," that's a level of artistic observation and care I wish we celebrated more often.

[naggingatlas]

and fat btw

[sabertoothwalrus]

and balding btw

[genderkoolaid]

in order to not succumb to sex negative conservatism you have to accept that people will get off to things that are upsetting to you. and you cannot assume anything about what they have or have not experienced, what they do or do not believe, and how they act based solely on what gets them off. even if it's extremely confusing and disturbing to you. there are people who have only ever had heterosexual vanilla sex in missionary with the lights off, who actively contribute to more real world harm than your average fetish artist. kink is not a reliable source of information on someone's moral standing. it just feels good to think that way.

[saltshroud]

the traitor

[natequarter]

not only are most people completely unaware of the devastation of indigenous languages in the americas, most people are completely unaware of the devastation of indigenous languages in europe. never mind occitan, they don't know about basque! it's wild! bleak! existentially horrifying!!!

[natequarter]

the last few centuries of french history involved, amongst other things, a concerted effort to establish "french" as a legitimate country and cultural identity, and crucially as a language, which sounds like an absurd statement if you know nothing about the languages of france. french is a language, yes; it exists and existed in the late eighteenth century. but it was limited primarily to the north of france and was certainly not spoken or even understood across the country. other languages within france were banned and french was enforced following the french revolution and even to this day other languages indigenous to france have very little legal protection and are not recognised as official languages.

that's just one country in europe. one. and many people straight up have no idea about any of this!

[natequarter]

did you know france has celtic languages? breton is the only celtic language spoken outside of the british isles. did you know france has germanic languages? alsatian, for example, is spoken in the east of france, unsurprisingly in alsace. it's not even the only french germanic language. did you know france has a number of languages and dialects known as langues d'oïl closely related to french? norman and picard, for example, are spoken in the north of france. did you know that france has gallo-romance languages? franco-provençal (which has a number of dialects) is spoken in the east of france, as well as parts of switzerland and italy. did you know that france has a language most closely related to catalan, the langues d'oc? occitan is spoken in the south of france and has a rich literary history. did you know france is home to basque, or rather euskara, a language isolate which predates indo-european languages? romani dialects! corsican! so much more than just french! there are even extinct jewish dialects of occitan! extinct langues d'oïl like angevin! so much linguistic diversity and all anyone talks about is french.

[kelcipher]

[philosophybits]

“I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

[eelizabit]

Ok girlies time for our prescription 1-2 hour walk, imagine we r all in line like Madeline

[eelizabit]

in an old website on the internet all covered in vines, lived some lovely little mutuals in two straight lines..