People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via maxkirin)
Iâve been having bad days and drawing this helped me remember things.
I hope it helps you, too.
Well at least its not bees
admit it, american gods could've had a much better ending right?
Absolutely. For that matter, everything Iâve written could have had a much better ending. Also a more gripping beginning. And the middles, donât get me started on the middles. Or the characters, if you can call them characters.
And letâs not get into the sentences.Â
Iâm a sucker for long Little Prince-ish philosophical debates; and this oneâs a matter close to my heart this time, so I didnât really make this a joke.Â
Iâve seen so many people at that point in their life when doing anything, even going out, becomes too tedious. Youâre just⊠tired, and lethargic. The world feels sluggish, and youâre stuck feeling like youâre going nowhere.
Itâs happened to me, and I want you to know⊠Youâre not alone. And youâll get to somewhere soon. I truly, truly believe that.Â
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âŠAlso my Latias is called Celine dâEON. HehehehhâŠ
I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product. Especially nowadays, itâs so easy to have a library of two thousand CDs, books and records. So many things. Weâre used to having all of these finished works of art in our life that seem to arise out of nothing. I think that so much of the creative process is a fragmentary one, and then itâs about just allowing your intuition to put it together for you. Itâs funny how you create something and you think youâre going in a million different directions, and then the thing you end up with is the thing that you wanted to create your whole life, but youâre just as surprised by it as anybody else.
Jeff Mangum (x)
Wow, Iâve never seen it articulated before, but this is so true of me. I mean, I definitely remember spending hundreds of hours on Four Corners, and all the novels I have in my drawer, but with Four Corners in particular I still go âHey, wait, where did that come from??â
(via pennypaperbrain)
You are very young, Dolores, and very strong, and very angry. You must learn now, that the important lesson â as long as you have your health â is that the divide is not between the servants and the served, between the leisured and the workers, but between those who are interested in the world and its multiplicity of forms and forces, and those who merely subsist, worrying or yawning.
A. S. Byatt, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (via nautics)
A more detailed explanation of the Cornell Method can be found here
Zodiac Expression of Nerves
â Aries: Hyperactivity, headaches, impulsivity, recklessness, hostility, frustration, confrontation, restlessness, rapid speech, over thinking, displays of vulnerability and need for reassurance, inability to complete minor tasks
â Taurus: Reservation; they will dissociate into their own worlds and be untouchable, binge eating, compulsivity (cleaning, organizing, hand washing), silence; anxiety will come in waves for Taurus and be sustained for a long period, sore throat, 'blank' mindedness
â Gemini: Giggling, restlessness, rapid speech, talkativeness, tremors, hyperactivity, distractibility, racing thoughts, insomnia, inability to stay focused on and complete even minor tasks, loud and more talkative inner monologue, chest/lung discomfort
â Cancer: Teariness, catastrophized thinking, imagination worst case scenarios, inability to stop distressing thoughts and inner monologue, drifting off/inability to focus, food cravings, isolation but co-current feelings of neediness and reassurance, stomach cramps and nausea
â Leo: Frustration, hostility, catastrophizing (imagining and living worst case scenarios) martyrdom, impulsivity, binge eating/drinking, they tend to go out of their way to help and do things for other people/keep busy in service, back pain, somatic troubles
â Virgo: Digestive upset, restlessness, repetitive movements (hair twirling, counting) tremor, rapid thinking, withdrawal into isolated 'bubble', compulsive tasks (cleaning, organizing), need to keep busy and distracted may pace back and forth
â Libra: Unusual quietness, increased needs for re assurance, stomach upset, restlessness, distractibility, insomnia, negative inner monologue, catastrophized imagination, repetitive hand motions, inability to explain themselves or say they are unwell
â Scorpio: Increased need for control, hostility, violent frustration (wall kicking, throwing objects), irrationality, increased obsessiveness - they may spend hours and hours focused on one task almost manically, rejection of others though frustration they are not 'there', flashbacks
â Sagittarius: Increased vocal volume, higher impulsivity, hostility, hyperactivity - they are liable to go out running or try to repress it physically, substance use, rapid thoughts, recklessness, giggling, distractible, back pain
â Capricorn: Tension, overwhelming feelings of butterflies and nerves inside especially in their stomachs although they remain composed externally. Over thinking and inability to distract themselves from worst case scenario, hostility, isolation, tendency to take on more work shifts or responsibilities
â Aquarius: Talkativeness, rapid speech, over thinking, restlessness, insomnia, confusion; Aquarians will feel anxious or nervous yet have little insight into why they feel this way or what is causing it, their minds and emotional responses are not connected, back pain
â Pisces: Teariness, catastrophized thinking, inability to distract or change thought patterns, flashbacks, hysteria, chest discomfort, digestive upset/nausea, irrationality, distressing inner monologue, substance use, increased need for assurance
I never believe these things but holy SHIT mine's accurate. (Cancer)
When I was little, my favorite color was green. So, when watching Lion King, I was like, "Hell yeah Scar, nice aesthetic!"
After a while, I learned that green was the color of everything evil in Disney and stopped watching their movies.
Titus Kaphar
For his current exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery, Kaphar presents a painting show titled âDrawing the Blinds,â along with an extension of his 2011 Jerome Project titled âAsphalt and Chalk.â The former maintainâs Kapharâs practice of bringing history into the present, and traditional artwork into the contemporary conversation.
Many of the works allude to the historical absence of African Americans and women from the verbal and visual canons. In âBehind the Myth of Benevolenceâ a portrait of a silver-haired man is peeled back like a fallen drape, revealing behind it a nude depiction of a black woman, gazing at the viewer. In âStripes,â a similarly stuffy portrait of a white man is cut into strips, many of which are nailed to the surrounding wall, exposing the wooden frame beneath. The image is both mischievous and violent, a ghostly hoax and a work of sadism.
Look at all of these potential wives and husbands I will only pick the most powerful one.
Sounds like somebody's been playing Fire Emblem
Do you think buying books from barnes and noble is better than from amazon?
This is gong to sound overly aggressive, but itâs not just what I think, itâs  literally just the truth. Amazon is the worst place you can buy books and literally anyone who works in publishing will tell you the same thing.Â
I get this question like once a week and Iâve talked a lot about it before, but to summarize, hereâs why Amazon is bad for publishing:
Amazon sometimes sells books cheaper. They can do this because theyâre actually undercutting the publisherâs price and losing money. You know how they manage to do this? They sell a million other products that arenât books and can afford to take a hit. What happens is people get brainwashed into thinking âItâs always going to be cheaper on Amazon,â (not the case) and congratulations theyâve just bought your loyalty.Â
This is shitty because publishers and retailers who pretty much only sell books canât possibly compete with this business model. It also cuts how much money from those sales is going to the author, and trust me, unless you are a bestselling author, you are not making enough money that thatâs not going to hurt you.Â
The bulk of Amazonâs book sales come from two categories: romance/erotica and westerns. Seriously. In fifty yearsâ time, if Amazon is the only book retailer around because theyâve put everyone else out of business, what do you think theyâre going to publish? Romance and westerns. So if you want to have some quality literature available to you when youâre old and retired and have a lot of time to read, do yourself a favor and stop buying books from Amazon.Â
Amazonâs business model is incredibly shady. If theyâre having a dispute with a publisher (usually about their questionable price cutting) they pull bullshit tricks like removing the âbuyâ button on that publisherâs books or telling customers shipping will be delayed for three weeks. (If you donât believe me, Google the Amazon/Hachette dispute and educate yourself. It got so bad that hundreds of bestselling authors bought out a full page ad in the New York TimesâDo you have any idea how expensive it is to do that? This is a big dealâto call Amazon out on their bullshit. Read it here.)
Amazon is slowly buying up other book retailers becauseâguess whatâthey love the monopoly theyâre creating in the online book market. And theyâre super sneaky about it. Did you know Amazon owns Book Depository? You canât find that information anywhere on BDâs website, because a lot of people think theyâre getting around Amazon by buying there, but itâs true.Â
The bottom line is, unlike B&N and other book retailers, Amazon is NOT RUN BY PEOPLE WHO LOVE BOOKS. Which means, frankly, that they donât give a shit if theyâre wrecking the industry for dedicated readers.Â
So, there you have it. Iâm tired of talking about this but I will do it with my dying breath because itâs fucking important and I love my books and I hope to still be reading them when Iâm old and gray. And if you think this is some sort of elitist, sentimental idea that only rich people can afford to have, allow me to correct you. I am fucking broke. I have less than $500 in my bank account and a $300 rent check due on the first. After living expenses I have maybe $20 a month of spending money and I still donât buy books from Amazon because Amazon is the fucking Antichrist as far as books are concerned.Â
Iâm probably going to get a load of flack for this post but I donât give a shit. Bring it on.Â
This is a jar full of major charactersÂ
Actually it is a jar full of chocolate covered raisins on top of a dirty TV tray. But pretend the raisins are interesting and well rounded fictional characters with significant roles in their stories.Â
Weâre sharing these raisins at a party for Western Storytelling, so we get out two bowls.Â
Then we start filling the bowls. And at first we only fill the one on the left.Â
This doesnât last forever though. Eventually we do start putting raisins in the bowl on the right. But for every raisin we put in the bowl on the right, we just keep adding to the bowl on the left.Â
And the thing about these bowls is, they donât ever reset. We donât get to empty them and start over. While we might lose some raisins to lost records or the stories becoming unpopular, but we never get to just restart. So even when we start putting raisins in the bowl on the right, weâre still way behind from the bowl on the left.Â
And time goes on and the bowl on the left gets raisins much faster than the bowl on the right.Â
Until these are the bowls.Â
Now you get to move and distribute more raisins. You can add raisins or take away raisins entirely, or you can move them from one bowl to the other.Â
This is the bowl on the left. I might have changed the number of raisins from one picture to the next. Can you tell me, did I add or remove raisins? How many? Did I leave the number the same?
You canât tell for certain, can you? Adding or removing a raisin over here doesnât seem to make much of a change to this bowl.Â
This is the bowl on the right. I might have changed the number of raisins from one picture to the next. Can you tell me, did I add or remove raisins? How many? Did I leave the number the same?
When there are so few raisins to start, any change made is really easy to spot, and makes a really significant difference.Â
This is why it is bad, even despicable, to take a character who was originally a character of color and make them white. But why it can be positive to take a character who was originally white and make them a character of color.
The white characters bowl is already so full that any change in number is almost meaningless (and is bound to be undone in mere minutes anyway, with the amount of new story creation going on), while the characters of color bowl changes hugely with each addition or subtraction, and any subtraction is a major loss.Â
This is also something to take in consideration when creating new characters. When you create a white character you have already, by the context of the larger culture, created a character with at least one feature that is not going to make a difference to the narratives at large. But every time you create a new character of color, you are changing something in our world.Â
I mean, imagine your party guests arrive
Oh my god they are adorable!
And they see their bowls
But before you hand them out you look right into the little black girlsâs eyes and take two of her seven raisins and put them in the little white girlâs bowl.
I think sheâd be totally justified in crying or leaving and yelling at you. Because how could you do that to a little girl? You were already giving the white girl so much more, and her so little, why would you do that? How could you justify yourself?
But on the other hand if you took two raisins from the white girlâs bowl and moved them over to the black girlâs bowl and the white girl looked at her bowl still full to the brim and decided your moving those raisins was unfair and she stomped and cried and yelled, well then she is a spoiled and entitled brat.Â
And if you are adding new raisins, it seems more important to add them to the bowl on the right. I mean, even if we added the both bowls at the same speed from now on (and we donât) it would still take a long time before the numbers got big enough to make the difference weâve already established insignificant.Â
And thatâs the difference between whitewashing POC characters and making previously white characters POC. And thatâs why every time a characterâs race is ambiguous and we make them white, weâve lost an opportunity.
*goes off to eat her chocolate covered raisins, which are no longer metaphors just snacks*
Works with more than just characters in stories