confused soul

[somnolentsuggestions]

eat a fruit that you like. take a little walk and pay attention to the trees. dance to music alone in ur room. it’s the small things that will heal you

[mattjabbar-deactivated20240609]

“City in Paint” illustration series.

In many of my previous projects, I searched for pleasant, exciting, and nostalgic Japanese cityscape fragments. I then painted them as best as possible to make them look even more appealing. I tried to bend the reality I saw to do my artistic bidding, as is often done by animation background artists. Next, in the “Tokyo at Night” book, I explored and portrayed Tokyo’s night side, trying to uncover the truth about it. When painting those illustrations, I realized that I could make even quite desolate, grimy back streets seem appealing. This was a problem. Even though the final pictures looked “cool,” I wouldn’t say I like the original places, really, and would not want to live in a city like that at all.

So, together with Kana, we started thinking about how a more pleasant to live in city would look like. I tried to imagine everyday scenes from such a place without making them look too nostalgic and unobtainable. It’s not the “rose-colored” past or a world from an animated movie that will never come to be. I’m tried to paint a city that could exist in Japan even now.

I decided to paint digitally this time to convey more of the atmosphere of each place. I wanted to capture the temperature, the smell of the air, the play of the light, or the weather. For this, having the flexibility of digital tools helped a lot.

To fuel this creative attempt, I was using a lot of elements from the many reference photos I took in Japan during ten years of living here. Having a library like this allowed me to make the paintings more believable.

Technical details:

Painting: Procreate, Art Studio Pro apps on 2020 iPad Pro 12.9 inch

Editing: Photoshop

Brushes: Download my Procreate 5x brushes beta on Patreon.

[thoughtkick]

“Scars on your body show that you have lived; scars on your heart show that you have loved.”

— Nina Dul

[crescentwords]

“𝓌𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝑔𝑜 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓈𝓉𝓎𝓁𝑒”

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next up on my @taylorswift song series we have THE MOST ICONIC SONG EVER MADE.... STYLE! this song was a cultural reset and redefined the pop music industry! journaling while being in quarantine has been the only thing getting me through these months. i’m hoping to do more song aesthetics by taylor. i love you @taylorswift 🥺

[popsunner]

Listen, I’m part of the generation that uses humor to cope, I love all the memes about 2020 just as much as you guys do. I laugh at the “we got the real roaring 20′s”, “we wanted 2020 to be a movie but we got the wrong genre”, “we really thought 2020 would be our year” sardonic tweets.

But to the people like me, who really thought 2020 would be their year?

Love, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry you walked into this year with a smile and hope, and that smile immediately fell, and that hope was immediately crushed

I’m sorry that every day there’s something else, I’m sorry that you’re scared, I’m sorry that you’re angry, I’m sorry that you’re tired.

And I know, I know that you’re having a hard time hoping again. Trust me, I know.

But this year, Adam Castillejo became the second person to be cured of HIV

This year, James Patterson art up a fund to help Indie bookstores

This year, scientists finally managed to record the narwhal 

This year, White Storks have hatched the first wild chicks in 600 years

This year, the worlds largest open-air gallery was opened with paintings by individuals with learning disabilities

This year, an eleven year old skateboarder landed the worlds first 1080 degree turn

This year, scientists mapped the entire surface of the moon for the first time ever

This year, Sweden and Austria closed their last coal plants

This year, White Tailed Eagles are spotted flying over England for the first time in 240 years

This year, NASA launched astronauts to a US space station for the first time since 2011

To all the people like me, who thought 2020 was their year: We’re here. We’re alive. The world will grow. The world will heal. Maybe 2020 isn’t our year of stress free fun and memories, but it can be our year to learn and stand up and fight, so that next year? We get everything we hoped for.

Don’t give up, don’t leave. There’s a world waiting for you.

[mrchandlerbings]

[paraplyaralia]

Receiving this today made my week a little better. 🐝🌿

[jericosilvers]

[floralwaterwitch]

I’m still so grateful for this beautiful rose quartz heart I was gifted, I also made some crystal infused water for rituals & witchery ✨

Instagram: angelinnapit

[artystay]

Breakfast and doodles

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If you’ve been following my account for a while, you have probably seen me mention ecofascism before, but for those of you who haven’t, I’m going to address it a bit more in detail, given the increase in narratives lately regarding covid-19, and because I think it’s partly my responsibility as someone who is majoring in environmental science to do so.

Arguments I’ve seen lately:

Humans are a “virus”/”plague”/etc and the pandemic is the earth’s immune system “curing” itself of us

Humans are all evil and the pandemic is our punishment

Earth would be better off without any humans

All of these statements have some things in common whether they’re from a religious or non-religious perspective: 

They homogenize humans as if we’re all equally responsible for environmental degradation, which is patently false (1 - 2 - 3)

They are anti-Indigenous and erase the fact that Indigenous communities have lived sustainably for centuries prior to settler colonialism (1 - 2 - 3)

They likewise erase the work done and sacrifices made by humans for environmental protection and efforts to repair the damage done by others (1 - 2 - 3)

They presuppose that humans are separate from nature, and that we don’t belong as part of the entirety of the earth’s ecosystem, which is also a myth propagated by Western-European idealism and settler colonialism (1 - 2 - 3)

These arguments are therefore not only unscientific, but also reinforce certain ideologies which suggest:

That certain members of the population are expendable (elders, people who are disabled, people with chronic illnesses, poor people, homeless people, migrants, refugees, etc.)

That despite the fact the BIPOC make up the majority of those who are below the poverty line and are at most risk to dying from infectious diseases as well as our exposure to environmental racism, that whatever befalls us is still deserved

That oppressed peoples must “sacrifice” our wellbeing for the earth by any means necessary, despite the fact that human and environmental welfare aren’t mutually exclusive (they are interconnected)

I urge anyone who falls in line with this type of thinking to please read the articles linked above and spend some time contemplating your internal motivations for these beliefs; are you truly concerned about the environment or are you merely angry and feel the need to project that anger by misplacing blame rather than finding solutions? There is a difference between genuine care for the environment versus using the rhetoric of environmentalism to justify an underlying problem of misanthropy. Remember that you cannot address unhealthy coping mechanisms for your emotions by adopting politics which only serve to enable them. 

I want to emphasize, however, that it’s perfectly fine to feel anger at the state of things. But instead of allowing your motivations to be controlled by it, learn to use it to your advantage by showing solidarity with others who feel the same way and are also searching for solutions. A movement will never succeed if we give in to misanthropy and individualism.

[01libra]

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[galina]

Do you keep a commonplace book? It’s not entirely a journal or a scrapbook – it’s more a carefully curated notebook compiled of texts copied from anywhere and everywhere. It can contain anything as long as it affects the compiler. I’ve had this one since I was 16, it is reserved for my most favourite lines from poems, books, songs, films, etc.

[soracities]

Charles Wright, “Body and Soul II”, A Short History of the Shadow: Poems

[Text ID: “April, and anything’s possible.”]

[knlfeparty]

girls don’t want boys girls want pretty hardcover editions of literary classics

[patrooocle]

Korean Vocab: 얼굴, 신체, 기관 (Face, Body, Organs)

얼굴

어휘

머리 head/머리카락 hair

이마 forehead

눈썹 eyebrows

눈동자 pupils

눈 eye

쌍커플 eyelid

코 nose/콧구멍 nostril

입 mouth/입술 lips

뺨 cheek

이 teeth/잇몸 gums

턱 chin

귀 ear/귓불 earlobe

혀 tongue

여드름 acne

털 hair (on the body)/턱수염 beard

주근깨 freckles

점 mole, birthmark

표현

얼굴을 씻다/세수하다 to wash one's face

손을 닦다/손을 씻다 to wash one's hands

이를 닦다/양치질하다 to brush one's teeth

입안을 헹구다 to rinse one's mouth

머리를 감다 to wash one's hair/머리를 헹구다 to rinse one's hair/머리를 말리다 to dry one's hair/머리를 빗다 to brush one's hair/ 머리를 묶다 to tie one's hair

코를 풀다 to blow one's nose

입을 벌리다 to open one's mouth/입을 다물다 to close one's mouth

고개를 숙이다 to bow/lower one's head/to raise one's head

신체

어휘

목 neck/목구멍 throat

손 hand/손가락 fingers/손목 wrist/손등 back of one's hand/손바닥 palm of one's hand/손톱 nails (엄지 thumb, 검지 index finger, 중지 middle finger, 약지 ring finger, 새끼손가락 little finger)

등 back

발 foot/발톱 nails/발꿈치 heel/발바닥 sole/발목 ankle/발등 top of the foot/발가락 toes

어깨 shoulders

엉덩이 ass

가슴 chest

허리 waist

팔 arms/팔꿈치 elbow

다리 legs

허벅지 thigh

무릎 knee

종아리 calf

겨드랑이 armpits

배 stomach/배꼽 belly button

피부 skin

내부 기관

어휘

뼈 bones

동맥 arteries

정맥 veins

뇌 brain

심장 heart

허파 (폐) lungs

간 liver

쓸개 gall bladder

위 stomach

장 intestines

신장 kidney

방광 bladder