[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

[abowlofpetuniasandawhale]

honestly the worst thing about adhd for me is that a new hobby or hyperfixation is one of the greatest sources of joy, but its always haunted by the knowledge that it won’t last and i don’t get to decide or even know how long. I can’t count on being interested in anything long term.

it feels like theres a clock ticking above my head and i cant see how much longer i get to enjoy something. i can’t start big projects for fear of never finishing them. i have to hold myself back from anything that requires long-term commitments or consistency because i can’t rely on future-me to follow through.*

when i pace myself and try to casually keep up with something after the hyperfixation ends it just isn’t the same, the joy is gone. when i say fuck it and just let myself run, i end up trying to cram years of a hobby into weeks or months. i bite off way more than i can chew, burn out spectacularly, and spend the next month feeling guilty every time i look at the pile of expensive, unused materials that i sat down one day and never picked back up.

Theres a toll that years of it takes on your self-trust, it compromises your ability to make decisions without second guessing the most basic things. “What will I want?” and “what will I like?” aren’t any less opaque at six months from now than six years. I can’t count on what I want. In a way, I can’t count on myself and there’s a grief that comes along with that.

i see so much about dealing with adhd shame, but i dont think i’ve heard more than one person express the grief that comes with losing something you really love, not because it leaves you, but because your body simply decides without your permission to stop loving it.

[normal-horoscopes]

[magicbeardpowers]

*googles*

yeah this is funny

[normal-horoscopes]

ALSO HI CHINESE TUMBLR NICE TO SEE YOU

[bi-astolfo]

To explain:

In Chinese mythology there were ten suns that would cross the sky one by one. When they showed up all at once one day, scorching the earth, King Yao asked Hou Yi to deal with them. He tried to reason with the suns then threaten them with his bow but eventually had to shoot them down. Only one remains because someone stole his last arrow.

Apollo, of course, is a Greek god associated with the sun. Hence the awkwardness between them.

What I like about this is that Apollo is an archer as well, which makes me think this was at some get together of legendary archers.

[lesboevils]

idk im really tired of 15-17 year olds who have never interacted with the gay community irl and spend too much time on tiktok trying to act like the authority on all that is lgbt+ 

[lesboevils]

  mean this in the kindest possible way. if you are too young and unsafe to go to your gay community center or pride here’s some ways you can connect to gay history.

the oral history project from act up

the lesbian herstory archives

the transgender archives of the university of victoria

the digital transgender archives

glbt historical society (digital)

lgbtq digital collaboratory

[lesboevils]

since it was suggested in the tags

anything that moves

the bisexual manifesto

[lesboevils]

the Samuel Proctor oral history project

a masterpost of lesile feinberg’s works by @genderoutlaws

more to come

[lesboevils]

the queer zine archive

the dyke march compilation 

paris is burning 

how to survive a plague

united in anger: a history of ACT UP

one archives

new york public library lgbtq archives

[whitepeopletwitter]

Story of my life

[beautifuldarkmind]

I’m jealous of those who can function like a normal human being. They don’t have anxiety holding them back from everything, they don’t struggle to get out of bed or have to put on an act that everything is fine when its not. They don’t struggle to hold friendships and relationships… they don’t feel sad for no fucking reason everyday. Those that can hold jobs and work towards their dreams, the ones who have self esteem and see the beauty in themselves. Those that know what its like to feel safe and secure, not insecure and fearful of it all. 

[rainie-is-seasonchange]

Maruyama senmaida rice terraces.

Kumano, Japan.

[butterflyinthewell]

To any suicidal followers I may have: This is a sign to not kill yourself. You are loved and the world is special because you are in it. Keep holding on.

Reblog this when it’s on your dash. You will save someone’s life.

[bobacupcake]

Omg omg can u make the snom soft bodies?? I wanna see em plop n jiggle

here they come! here they come!

[bobacupcake]

someone asked for more

[bobacupcake]

someone asked for more

[bobacupcake]

[buttercupmelodies-deactivated20]

Snom

[malewifenat]

What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?

.. i’m palestinian

[captainlordauditor]

same energy

[princesskuragina]

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

[definitely-not-lordenglish]

[catradoraism]

[star-cats]

[justpeachit]

[uwu-rose]

[lgbtpopcult]

Ride or die on Netflix is a Japanese lesbian movie which is a rare breed and it comes with its own set of problems. It is clearly made from the male perspective, the male gaze is strong especially during scenes of sexual violence and exploitation. It is a film that shows violence against women very blatantly. It shows needless violence and sexual violence against women in a gratuitous way and it seems to aim more to exploit it for an audience that enjoys it rather than to criticize it.

It also includes stereotypes hurtful to the wlw community that go unchallenged by the film. An obvious example is that of the lesbian protagonist saying that she lost her virginity because she had sex with the man she killed. This is a 29 year old woman that has been having sex with women. The regressive idea that she was a virgin because she hadn't had sex with a man is just an example of how these ideas (that still exist in all cultures) go unchallenged in Japanese cinema. Regressive ideas about sex are recurring and even ruin the women's sex scene with talk about one of them wishing she was a man so she could put something in the other because her fingers aren't enough and other such silliness that older American pieces of entertainment used to regularly engage in as well. These are ideas prevalent in Japanese queer cinema because it is so rare to have gay movies little progress has been made and these ideas have not been criticized.

We see one trope after the other, depicting the existence of lgbt people as a tragic one.

The film has very few good moments, somewhere in there exists a love story between two tortured women trying to escape the chains of the homophobic, patriarchal society they live in. It's too bad the film itself endorces many aspects of their oppression.

Conclusion: 🤮

[filmnoirsbian]

Obviously there are many things to dislike about adulthood but as someone who grew up in an abusive household for whom adulthood offered the only chance at an escape, it's incredibly important to me that i romanticize adulthood whenever possible because i know there are kids and teenagers like me out there who are seeing nothing but complaints about rent and taxes and the loneliness of living on your own and i know they're going to internalize all of that and assume it means that adulthood won't offer them the freedom and safety they've been dreaming of. So while i never want to minimize the difficulties of being an adult, i also want to highlight how incredibly nice it can be to finally have ownership of your life and your body and your time and money and food and everything else in a way that you never had before. You can choose when you wake up! You can choose what you have for breakfast! You can choose when to go to sleep or if you want to (inadvisably) stay up all night watching tv in the living room! In the living room! You can choose what to watch! These are little things, but they are worth taking pleasure in, and they are worth looking forward to.

[stitch-n-time]

Oh. Man. I'm in my 40s now, but can STILL remember the first apartment I lived in alone. The first week, I had nothing. NOTHING. I slept on the floor wrapped up in curtains, until a friend came to visit and was like "welp. This ain't keepin' on" and gave me a folding bed and a couple of blankets. There were part of it that were just... not fun. You know what I did, though? I made cookies. Because I wanted them, and nobody could keep me from using the kitchen. I got a cat, because nobody could tell me "no". I took long, hot bubble baths because the bathroom - and the bathtub - were MINE and nobody else's. I turned MY music up and danced around MY living room all day (but was aware of the family with children downstairs, so shut down the one person party before it got too late). I bought a cast-off couch for cheap and had friends help me bring it in, and sat on MY couch and sewed. And crocheted. And started to teach myself to knit. The only one there to tell me "no" was the kitten, and she loved playing with the yarn. There were things about it that were exceptionally hard. I was a pregnant single waitress truly struggling to pay bills and put food on the table. But that's not what stuck. What stayed with me, and what was important, was those little things that made being an adult worthwhile.

[cwicseolfor]

You will get out and you will get free and it still rains, sometimes, but you get to decide whether to stay in or put up your umbrella or just let it pour down your face while you stomp puddles. You get to choose. It's not paradise, but it is, in the end, yours, which is such a relief. And all the things they say about the best of life being free - that's true. You will have happiness of your own making.

[dahyun]

yes, i am mina (for anon💕)

[overwhelminglyqueeraf]

God is a woman and her name is Myoui Mina

[gay-shit-girlgroups-do]

Michaeng discovering they’re the mafia

[redpomegranate]

love is sweet poison: atticus / the wicked king - holly black / love slowly kills - adrian borda / fresco / romeo & juliet act 5 scene 3 - william shakespeare / the death of sophonisba - giambattista pittoni / seerat / the aeneid - virgil

[killingyves]

[beyond live - TWICE : world in a day] moving poster full ver.