zimowe notatki o wrażeniach z lata

śniła mi się zima, ja biegłom w szeregu za procesyją pod niebem, po śniegu. Wtem weszło słońce - lato - śnieg nie spłynął Lecz jak ptak biały dwa skrzydła rozwinął I skacząc leciał; niebo się odkryło. artwork in avatar by theyellowmistress

[layersofnature]

An easy ball

Oh, to be able to understand each other.

[coolblackgirlshit]

Marley Fenton as Orpheus in Hadestown

[radicallymaxton]

"What's so bad about being with me?"

[layersofnature]

No, but the progression it took from "its fun being with you" to this:

[weepingwidar]

Ben Sledsens (Belgian, 1991) - Night Fishing (2022-2023)

[derschleierfallt]

little baby bird

[selachii-dragon]

I love how Kemutai Hanashi, despite saying connections can easily break, also insists on the possibility of them being repaired just as easily. You just need to reach out. Not think, but say out loud "let's hang out", "we should meet again", "you're important to me, still".

Arita and Takeda meet again after a whole year apart and start eating together again. Ririko hasn't been close with her uncle lately, but she chooses to get to know his new loved ones. Kabashima and Arita hadn't seen each other for years, but Arita says "I want to remain friends", and Kabashima invites him to go out sometime...

It's such a simple, yet comforting thought... Things are rarely lost completely, you just need to take one step in their direction.

[aromantic-diaries]

I have tested it and yes, you can do that platonically. Anything you can think of that is considered romantic is actually possible in a platonic context. Yes, even that. And that too. Like I cannot stress this enough, there is no act of affection and intimacy that takes you from being friends to being lovers. No exceptions. The only difference between friendship and romance is what the people involved decide to call whatever it is that they have going on. And like. Romantic attraction I guess, but that's not a thing I experience

[futuretrain]

a lot of people are forgetting or not even picking up on the fact that being from the imperial core is a foundational part of Grace's character

[nibi-nix]

I think sometimes how book Stratt destroyed her home with her own hands when she nuked Antarctica and he just. didn't notice

[saintelart]

[redpepperwv]

sketch

[briannyssey]

some people read an awful lot, but don't read very well. deep reading is itself a skill. being able to untangle the threads of theme, subtext, characterization, narrative style, and more are all things that it takes time and intentional engagement to learn.

if you've ever watched a movie with your film buff friend and chatted about it afterwards, that friend might have pulled hours more of conversation out of the same 90 minutes of screentime, and wondered how the fuck they did that - it's not raw intelligence, it's a skill that's been honed. And I learned a lot about film from talking to friends who knew about film, and reading critique by film scholars

literature works exactly the same. so if you want to get more out of your reading, there are things you can do to train that. Find a book or short story you think you've got a pretty good grasp on, preferably from a widely read & respected author like Ursula K Le Guin or Ray Bradbury (if you're new at this don't swing for the Toni Morrison or the Samuel Beckett yet unless you feel very comfortable with the complexity of the text - the point is to develop a complicated new skill on good foundations). Then go to JSTOR, create a free account, and look up criticism on the story you've chosen. Find something that looks readable to you and at least somewhat interesting. Read that article, and look at what that writer got out of the same story you've read that you didn't get. Do you see the critic's points? Did they teach you something about the text? Go reread that story and see if the criticism has changed how you read it. Are you seeing more? Are you thinking about the implications of a line that you hadn't noticed before? Does the story feel richer now?

there are other more involved ways of finding criticism. Learning to use academic databases, going to your local library to do interlibrary loans, finding critical voices you appreciate; these are all useful subskills. Literacy isn't just being able to read words, it's being able to read words in context and think about what they tell you about the text, the author, or the time and culture in which the text was produced. Literacy is the skill of being able to look at the world with open eyes and think clearly about how its parts are connected. It'll change your life

[mich-vanadis]

In a world full of "Rocky hates Stratt" I am "Rocky thinks Stratt is brave for giving up the one person who understood her most"

[kira-kui-n]

"get him pregnant" well thats not my thing but to each their own

"get her pregnant" *takes up my sword and shield* i wont let you do that to her. ......................

[dragon-in-a-fez]

actually I think you should be normal about ordinary citizens of authoritarian countries and yes that applies even to that country you're thinking of right now

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"but they support [dictator] and [violent action]!" okay is it possible that a combination of propaganda, election rigging, and authoritarian crackdowns on dissent could lead a population to look like it supports something most people would find distasteful under more reasonable circumstances

[igmaiguanna]

yes but also

if your country is being actively attacked every day, you don't owe your aggressor grace

you don't have to think about their struggles, you have to survive and insure the survival of your family

and don't let anyone tell you you're a bad person for refusing to empathize with the very people trying to kill you

you can deal with moral dilemmas later, you can rethink all of this later, for now you have a permission to hate if it makes survival easier

you don't have to care about hurting their feelings

[inthedarktrees]

Dancers backstage between shows at Ciro’s Club on Orange Street, London

Bert Hardy, “Cabaret Time in London,” Picture Post, February 3, 1950

[sakamotokaori]

ashley wagner, black swan ☆ 2012 us nationals