your hands will be too small to catch the pain you want to heal

believe me, i've tried ★ MS psych | she/her | 30s surly and crying <3 ★ call me envy

[notesofarichlycolorednight]

sometimes i really need to remind myself that social media is the pinhole and i am the god looking thru it thinking i know everything about the world from just this view

[two-thirtyy]

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

[taykoutmccleod]

reblog if its friday and you made it

[trixic-frankenman-deactivated20]

[polygon-wave]

RESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM (2026) dev. Capcom

[here-by-chance]

im obsessed

[the-real-seebs]

oh, of course. because he died for our sins.

[astrolattes]

thinking about the (english-translated) lyrics to pō atarau, the māori folk song that plays when the hail mary and the blip-a separate.

farewell, / but return again / to your loved one, / weeping here

[qi-mera]

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

[jadenebula]

[catchymemes]

[waterloggedgarden]

someone could probably say something pretty about fossils, constellations, and stars in the sky

[karl-von-moor-official]

poem inspired by this rock and also by @two-bees-poetry

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

lie to me

[bewbin]

EVERYOBODY GET DOWN HES TAKING A CREATIVE LIBERTY

[bluemandycat]

my sister’s bf referred to eating cheese as “mousing out” and i’m so utterly charmed by that. can we all agree to adopt that into language.

[insomniac-arrest]

the road OUT of hell is also paved with good intentions. That’s just kind of the main road we’ve got

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

People think hell can afford TWO roads? In this economy? You're taking the Good Intentions Highway both directions, mate.

[maxinevee]

Bloom 🌸

[pawthorn]

Really hate that most people don’t understand the difference between “self-expression” and “artistic-expression.”

I say this as someone who sells pottery, and many people who see my art assume I am using art as an outlet to “express myself.”

I am not.

I use art to challenge myself. A lot of what I do is the equivalent of doing a hard sudoko or a half marathon, answering the question of “can I do this?”

I use art to question things and explore ideas. Finding physical synthesis between concepts and working out a design to its end state.

I use art to make money. I make some things just because I suspect they’ll sell well, and I keep making them when they do.

This idea that an artist is “putting themselves out there” every time they create is not only stupid, but harmful, and it kills critique and analysis.

Yes every creative work is influenced by its creator, but the most preliminary step of analysis is to define the purpose of a work of art (functional, narrative, entertainment, persuasive, decorative, ceremonial, etc.) and a vanishingly small percentage of that is self-expression. Even then, it’s generally tied to the self’s relationship with something else—perception, society, etc.

It’s very tiresome to have people assume they know you because they like (or dislike) your art, to make assumptions about who you are and how you approach the world. It’s nothing new— people called the Impressionists insane and the Fauvists degenerate. And now people are expected to hand out their identities and traumas to prove they have the right to explore certain subjects.

But to actually understand art, you have to contextualize it beyond assuming it’s just what the artist felt like making at the moment and it’s somehow coming from their deepest soul, or you’ll badly misinterpret most art you come across.

[chinesewednesday]

[luidilovins]

my couchsona

[notesofarichlycolorednight]

got some compliments on my jinu cosplay glasses and my cherry pie slice purse by my boss and coworkers and it was surprisingly validating

and my boss also said i was dressed all fancy, that was nice

[guooey]

Hermann Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches (1920)

[sunflower-cane]

Hypervigilance can cause fatigue guys. PTSD can cause fatigue, anxiety and depression can cause fatigue, Bipolar can cause fatigue, any and all mental illnesses can.

Please understand if youre mentally ill and physically or emotionally fatigued, that is not you being lazy! It is your body and brain being tired of fighting your illness! You are tired because youve been fighting.

This struggle you are going through is real, please do not let yourself or anyone invalidate you further by saying youre lazy.