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[theinwardlight]

From Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark

[altcomics]

John McLachlan

[mojoflower]

“But [Tumblr’s] value, of course, is more than just what it isn’t, and what it points away from. Despite all the drama and discourse lurking in its corners, it’s easy to make your own Tumblr life as simple and as happy as you want it to be. There are no algorithmic threats lurking around every corner, no onslaught of promoted posts from politicians or influencers. More than anything else, Tumblr in 2020 is a self-sustaining ecosystem. It’s a semi-sealed and increasingly fertile terrarium, a nigh-impossible perpetual-motion machine of a platform going productively psychotic in its isolation.”

— @areyougonnabe, “The Ever-Mutating Life of Tumblr Dot Com” 

[fox-in-the-library]

Let’s be honest, going productively psychotic in isolation is this year’s mood.

[octoberbastards]

[uovoc]

At its core, Tumblr has always been a platform for artists, and remains so to this day. For those who earn a living through their visual art, it can be frustrating when their Tumblr-based audience fails to provide them with levels of direct engagement conducive to promotion and monetization. 

But for those who value creativity without the pressures of “hustle culture,” and wish to avoid the current-events performative outrage that has crept in, kudzu-like, and swallowed up almost every single other area of open expression online, Tumblr remains ideal.  

The corollary of that, of course, being that those who appreciate that creativity without necessarily needing or wanting to express it themselves can also find happy homes on Tumblr, as spectators to a healthy culture of simply liking things. 

[distantbird]

“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.” -Anthony Bourdain (June 25th 1956-June 8th 2018)

[gnossienne]

Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief (يـومـيـات الـحـزن الـعـادي), 1973

[carla-enjoys]

juuso westerlund

[ar0kal]

[fantasydumpster]

Rubi Lebovitch

[bright-eyed]

another random epiphany i had on my drive home from the store was that things that are the most obvious often feel the most profound. i was looking at the sunset through my window. i was like “this is beautiful and it changes all the time so every sunset is a little different and also beautiful.” which led me to think “if you look at the earth from space, the clouds are never pink or blue or yellow or orange, they are just white and grey all the time. in space perhaps the sunsets are not very different or very beautiful.” which led me to think “the sunsets are only beautiful because i am so small.” which led me to think “so many things are only beautiful because i am so small, or if not only then they are at least much more beautiful than they might otherwise be, either because my vantage point of smallness allows me to see details that big things wouldn’t see, like when i see the flash of the sun at sunset with my little eyes on this big planet, or because my briefness finds vastness so incredible cuz it’s so much bigger than me, like when i sit under a very very old and very very tall tree.” and this was all somewhat obvious but it didn’t make the feeling of epiphany go away or diminish at all

[muzzystar]

“To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger—these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most of these tasks are so full of pleasure that there is no need to complicate things by calling them holy. And yet these are the same activities that change lives, sometimes all at once and sometimes more slowly, the way dripping water changes stone. In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life.”

— Barbara Brown Taylor (via llleighsmith)

[vjeranski]

David Moreno

Obsessive Draughtsman

[huariqueje]

Rainy Day 9 After the Rain  -   Chin H. Shin

Korean,b. ?

Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 

[onigiribikini]

Yoshitomo Nara mugshot

arrested for doodlin graffiti at the union square subway station to point towards his art show

he described the two days he spent in jail as “a nice experience in my life like in the movies” and “a small space filled with all manner of people he would not otherwise meet”

[cowboy]

the first full moon of 2021, Sophie's moon

[credit: @rami_astro on instagram]

[fairycosmos]

self reflection is a good thing but too much self analysis is so exhausting. constantly questioning your own motives and how you're being perceived and whether or not you're being real and what's authentic leads to such a convoluted mentality like. u don't even know who you are cause you just end up being a case study and not a person. i just want to let myself move through the world for a moment

[weltenwellen]

Marya Hornbacher, Waiting

[archive-pdf]

A Magazine Curated by Maison Martin Margiela.

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