Resplendence

[other-wordly]

pronunciation | ‘kI-ros (KYE-ross, English); kEr-‘os (keer-OSS, Greek) Greek | καιρός note | Kairos is both a rhetorical term for “the opportune moment” (as above) and the word for “weather”.

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2026 - 26

[ifeveristoday]

Be prepared to get comments like "Your hair is so pretty. You wrote her hair so pretty. Why is she so pretty?" And "Your writing is so good. I can really tell what he's saying and oh he smells so nice. That's a cool looking bag. Your beta has awesome shoes I bet. What's her name?"

Let the endless compliment cycle begin.

[fieldbears]

I’m so into this

[fieldbears]

It's five years later, I just saw this pop up on my feed, and I'm still so into this

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2026 - 25

[taylornprice]

airplane sketchbook drawing

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2026 - 25

[macrolit]

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2026 - 23

[depsidase]

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2026 - 23

[elizjjwold]

by Elizabeth Johnson-Wold

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2026 - 22

[c0ssette]

Emile Vernon ,Aux Roses (detail)

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2026 - 21

[expressions-of-nature]

by Biwako

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2026 - 20

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[weaselle]

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2026 - 19

[gemville]

Art Deco Diamond, Jade and Black Enamel Ear Pendants by Georges Fouquet, Paris, Circa 1925, Siegelson, New York

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2026 -19

[st-just]

It's funny that they still have the 'no smoking allowed' lights and warnings on every plane you fly on, as if there's a single flight you CAN smoke on any human has been on since the turn of the millenium at latest.

[txttletale]

the funniest part is that they're lights, and the other lights turn off and on depending on circumstances, leading to the strange implication that there's some hypithy situation where the pilot is supposed to go "eh, why not?"

[freelyunder]

turning off the no smoking lights as soon as it becomes clear we're not avoiding that mountain

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2026 - 18

[thahalfrican]

Congrats if you survived this year because what the fuck was that

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2026 - 19

[expressions-of-nature]

Italy by Daniel Plan

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2026 - 18

[luminescentwind]

1903.

Sent a CV to a school of English today thinking I'd get no response because it's so late in the year. To my surprise though, the director called me and we talked for about half an hour. The place seems really cool! She told me they will probably have a place available for next year so that's great! Of course, nothing's certain yet, but it made me feel so good!

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2026 - 17

[tookas-have-teeth]

Y’all “critical thinking” does not equal “criticism”.

[tookas-have-teeth]

I am very tired of saying positive things about characters and getting told I need to do some critical thinking (so that I’ll see the characters are actually bad). No. That’s not how that works. I already did some critical thinking and came to the conclusions that these characters are wonderful. Criticism or straight up character bashing is not more enlightened and is not how critical thinking works. “Critical thinking” is not “thinking about all the bad or problematic aspects of something.” It’s looking objectively at evidence, looking at context, recognizing and examining personal biases and assumptions, considering what assumptions and biases are being used in a given argument by other people, etc. Sometimes this process brings up criticisms, yes, but sometimes it also leads to the conclusion that something is actually good despite it being made out to be bad. 

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2026 - 16

[maureen2musings]

Black Forest, Germany

carolin_captures

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2026 - 15

[frostedmagnolias]

"Two Roosters" Pendant

c. 1901-1902

René Lalique

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

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2026 - 14