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[osumesu21]

Tamagotchi: Generation 2 Character Profiles

[plantt-pal]

wanted to draw the goat room

[voltaical-art]

gay old man has captivated me

[russelldels]

[asoftspotforangels]

some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps

[wizardshark]

WOVEN TAPESTRIES???

[psychologicalwarclaire]

WOVEN TAPESTRIES?!?

[cursed-and-haunted]

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

[cursed-and-haunted]

In case you're curious here's what I mean.

Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):

Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):

Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):

Do you see the difference?

[gabyluvsxena]

this post has re-wired my brain in the best way

[theseventeensteps]

obsessed with how fixable society is, on a structural level.

obsessed with how all you need to do is throw money at public education and eliminate most standardized testing and you will start getting smarter, more engaged, kinder adults. obsessed with how giving people safe housing, reliable access to good food, and decent wages dramatically reduces drug overdoses and gun violence. obsessed with how much people actually want to get together and fix infrastructure, invent new ways of helping each other, and create global ways of living sustainably once you give them livable pay to do so. obsessed with how tracking diseases, developing medicines, and improving public health becomes so much easier when you just make healthcare free at point of use.

obsessed with how easy it all becomes, if we can just figure out how to wrench the wealth out of the hands of the hoarders.

[forkingandcottage-deactivated20]

via indiarosecrawford

Frog Paints a Water Lily Pond 🪷🎨🐸

𝑓ₒᵣ ⲕᵢ𝑛𝑔 ₐ𝑛𝑑 𝑐ₒ𝑡𝑡ₐ𝑔ₑ

[grumpygreenwitch]

Ok, I adore the Frogs to begin with, but the sheer finesse and dedication of this one boggles my mind.

[hms-no-fun]

me: this is cute and precious

my brain: 45 years ago this person could've made a public access television show that ran for half a decade on the strength of this concept with the right framing device and it would've been paid for with federal arts grants and maybe even national syndication rights. now they're begging for a single minute of engagement on tiktok in the hopes that maybe someday the abstract metrics of digital media platforms will translate into a tangible career

me: yeah me: cute frog though

my brain: it is a cute frog

[camelidae]

Unicorns don’t seem to have many speculations regarding the afterlife, and certainly the concept of spooks and vengeful spirits would seem foreign to such laid-back creatures - but of the softer kinds of hauntings, one wonders. With such a strong love of herd and home shown in life, might they not wish to watch over those things even after they’re gone?

[ba1laur]

mindless fox drawins

[weltenwellen]

Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

[tsunflowers]

book from the sky (tianshu) xu bing, 1989-91

I was so excited to see a copy of this in real life bc it's something I studied in art history. this is a book that was typeset and printed by hand using wooden blocks but every one of the characters was invented for the sake of the piece and does not correspond to any word in the Chinese language

[tsunflowers]

yes. he invented and hand carved 4000 characters. it is a CRAZY project that resulted in an intentionally unreadable book. I love it

[curioscurio]

Xu Bing you're legendary to me !!!!

[quesadilla-tinta]

11/09/24

Ya no encuentro otra forma de sacar lo que sea que traigo dentro que no sea por medio de aquí. Me sangran los dedos y me pesa todo el cuerpo, traigo un llanto atorado que no sé cómo soltar,, ni siquiera sé que me duele

así que intento,

intento que las letras que tecleo me digan,

me susurren,

me cuenten mi secreto,

me expliquen por qué me he quedado congelada sin saber qué hacer,,,

Y es que me duele como a veces olvido puede doler. Mi estómago ha revuelto todo sentimiento por sentir y mi garganta se ha cerrado,,

¿qué quiero gritar?

[shebloomedbutwontforgethepast]

And after a while you just stop. You stop watering your plants. You stop watching netflix. You stop reading. You stop replying to your friends as fast as you used to. You stop buying yourself nice things. You stop putting an effort into how you look. You stop taking care of yourself like you used to. You stop sleeping. You stop eating healthy foods. You stop petting your dog. You stop socializing.

You stop with everything. You find yourself sitting in your room for hours on end, without doing a single thing. Days feel like years. And you think you can’t do it for much longer.

[chocolate-lilies]

My therapist told me that you don’t only spiral down. You can spiral up again. So maybe one day

You water your plants for the first time in a while. Surprisingly they’re not dead yet. You remember a movie that you really enjoy and you find the energy to watch it. You feel better afterwards. Maybe you still can’t find the motivation to reply to your friends but you buy yourself a nice scented candle and read your book. You take a nice long shower and you feel refreshed, so you put on an outfit you find cool. Then after what seems like forever, you get a good night of sleep. You wake up with more energy than usual so you play with your dog. Then you cook that healthy meal you really enjoy. You reach out to a friend.

You start remembering what brought you joy. You start again with the little things. You look back on the days that have passed and feel relieved they’re over.

Remember, you don’t just spiral down. You spiral up as well, even if it takes more effort to get started.

[quesadilla-tinta]

01/08/24

No sé cómo explicarlo, pero me han sacado el alma,,,

estoy sentada en mi silla y no puedo pararme, no sé cómo respiro,,

no sé qué me detiene y paraliza,

no sé qué me pasa.

Tengo tantas ganas de pararme y hacer algo distinto,

de sentirme bien conmigo,

de hacer cosas maravillosas como todes les que me rodean,,

de ser alguien,

algo,

de usar todo lo que una vez fui,,,

y moverme.

Pero no puedo,

me pesa todo y me siento inútil,,,

cualquier movimiento parece absurdo,

cualquier cambio sería diminuto,

ante tanto fracaso siento que jamás volveré a brillar,,,

y quedo estática,

atorada.

Con raíces en un suelo que no es mío,

pies de piedra que al día arrastro,

ya no quiero ser estatua,

un basurero que de envolturas no deja de llenarse,

un plato de comida sin terminarse,,,

QUIERO MOVERME Y NO SÉ CÓMO

SI ALGUIEN SABE UN CONSEJO, ALGÚN REMEDIO, QUE LO PASE

la receta de un té,

alguna oración o algo por repetir,

léanme las cartas o lo que sea,,,

pero díganme algo,

Díganme qué hago,,,

porque no sé

y me duele.

[shaonicwhite]

moonrise (2015) by phyllis shafer vs. landscape from saint-rémy (1889) by vincent van gogh. kind of obsessed with how they bleed into each other side by side

[prosetintmyworld]

“In an experiment revealing the importance of having friendships, social psychologists have found that perceptions of task difficulty are significantly shaped by the proximity of a friend. In their experimental design, the researchers asked college students to stand at the base of a hill while carrying a weighted backpack and to estimate the steepness of a hill. Some participants stood next to close friends whom they had known a long time, some stood next to friends they had not known for long, and the rest stood alone during the exercise. The students who stood with friends gave significantly lower estimates of the steepness of the hill than those who stood alone. Furthermore, the longer the close friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared to the participants involved in the study. In other words, the world looks less difficult when standing next to a close friend.”

— my new favorite psychological study, done by Schnall, Harber, Stefanucci, and Proffitt and published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.