Whispers

[lostupnorth]

“Beware of Artists” - Actual poster issued by Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1950s, at height of the red scare.

[calugonpelayo-deactivated201805]

[rlmjob]

life hack

[sararkaye-deactivated20150323]

what in gods name

[sparxnfrost-deactivated20230102]

I formally add my vase to this thread… 😚😚😚

[sparxnfrost-deactivated20230102]

Reposting to get this on the top of my page again 😘

[lookingattheedgeoftime]

[panspanther]

Gan Eden

[rumade]

I want to hug that fat little tree so badly it makes my heart ache

[vital-information]

I told Miyazaki I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.

“We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.”

Is that like the “pillow words” that separate phrases in Japanese poetry?

“I don’t think it’s like the pillow word.” He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.”

Which helps explain why Miyazaki’s films are more absorbing and involving than the frantic cheerful action in a lot of American animation. I asked him to explain that a little more.

“The people who make the movies are scared of silence, so they want to paper and plaster it over,” he said. “They’re worried that the audience will get bored. They might go up and get some popcorn.

But just because it’s 80 percent intense all the time doesn’t mean the kids are going to bless you with their concentration. What really matters is the underlying emotions–that you never let go of those.

— Roger Ebert in conversation with Hiyao Miyazaki

[noirandchocolate]

“The men in the room suddenly realized that they didn’t want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.”

— Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, “Good Omens”

[smushee]

There’s this girl at my school and she’s really nice and I remember sometime last year at one point she would carry a clicker around and click it everytime she had a happy thought/something good happened/she laughed etc. It was always kind of cute how you’d just hear the little click every once in a while throughout class it always made me smile knowing that it was bc something made her feel happy idk

[blackwoolncrown]

she was training herself to be happy oh my god

[aureliaborealis]

does it work???? Imagine feeling yourself slipping into depression and you just click a few times and your brain says “wait, this is the sound of happiness I have to release serotonin”

[thebigblackwolfe]

She fucking Pavlov’d herself, the absolute madwoman

[gifbro]

[4gifs]

How polar bears dry off. [video]

[memorijal]

sorry i’m late, professor. im disenchanted with the human experience and waking up every morning thrusts me into an instant existential crisis

[4rianagrande]

i hope u find someone that mindlessly plays with your hands and lightly strokes your legs and massages your back and plays with your hair and i hope that u feel like you’re home when u look at them

[menta1-illness]

*quietly, from under 6 blankets* what the fuck

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“And when she thought of him her eyes were kind.”

— Amy Lowell, from Men, Women & Ghosts; “Figurines in Old Saxe,” c. 1929

[faglick]

[squeakowl]

Painted tea bags by Ruby Silvious - x

[museum-of-artifacts]

A wheeled asphalt and limestone hedgehog statuette, Iran (3500 years old)

[tinybed]

shred it u 3500 year old baby

[glumshoe]

My main method for making friends has always been:

1.) make 1 (one) friend

2.) hope that this friend has other friends

3.) hope that these friends accept you as friend 1’s sidekick and tolerate you long enough to bond

[nihilistwife]

One time I worked as a personal assistant for this rich dude. He was pretty ok for like. A dude w more money than I can rlly comprehend? Anyways a part of his assets was this grain processing plant; idk what they actually did I just ran errands for the dude n made sure he wasn’t bothered from big money decisions basically. Glorified coffee bitch? Anyways we’re working one day and the workers catch this random lady like??? Taking bags of whatever the hell they kept in the plant. We’re getting ready to call the cops, I’m getting anxious, and the boss…….. tells them to let her go. He tells her she’s allowed to take only what she can carry in her own arms. So she scrambled off with the bag of wheat or corn or whatever ???? And the crews super confused and the boss goes “do not stop her from getting what she can carry” & so that happens again like once a week for the next few months. I find out she’s actually an immigrant and a widow? Living with her dead husbands mom. She’s been stealing to feed her mom in law. Anyways eventually one day she like. Approached my boss. In his office.

And like a month later I was given an invitation to their wedding it was extremely fucked up my boss married a lady who was a wheat thief

[nihilistwife]

Classic bible story

[laceforest]

adult: what do you want to be when you grow up?

me: an old lady with a garden, soulmate, tons of animals, & a peaceful forest home

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]