[pxales]

miku in the style of mucha! available on INPRNT <3

[karlovycross]

₊˚⊹♡🍰🍓♡⊹˚₊

[zegalba]

Sony: PlayStation Magazine Ad (1999)

[lepetitdragonvert]

Undine / Ondine by Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte-Fouqué

1909

Artist : Arthur Rackham

[clawmarks]

Wood and water friends - illustrated by Charles Copeland - 1917 - via Internet Archive

[tilliewalden]

I collected 130~ pages from my various sketchbooks and made a little book! You can download a PDF from gumroad. It has slightly mature content! https://gumroad.com/l/eAsoj

[rederiswrites]

lovely story from a friend today.

[dicaeopolis]

[rederiswrites]

Look, this post has been wildly more popular than I thought it deserved, apparently at least in part because "don't burden others; be independent" is far more ingrained in people than I realized. So here's the thing: society works when people help each other. Helping others gives people a chance to know each other, and gives them an investment in the people they help. Helping creates bonds. People enjoy helping, and you are doing a good by letting them help you if they so wish.

Offer help; accept help. You will be a part of creating a helping culture. Which, incidentally, weakens capitalism and the fractionation between people that benefits those who would use us.

[bebx]

Sarah Fier’s Cursed Hand

— by Houston Sharp

[fullofsoupp]

world hard and cold... farcille soft and warm

[cyberxbattalion]

[blistexenthusiast]

engraved carabiners

[kness]

A crocodile mom and her little ones

Porcelain figurine

[borntowildfire]

[soracities]

Sharif S. Elmusa, ‘Soliloquy’, Flawed Landscape: Poems 1987–2008

[drizzledrawings]

I’m gnashing my teeth like a child of Cain

If this is a prison I’m willing to bite my own chain

[nemfrog]

Nitrogen cycle. Everyday Biology: Workbook. 1940.

Internet Archive

[itznarcotic]

[gengaritez]

[luckyladylily]

This is actually very normal human behavior. It's just that most people (in the USA) think "Jesus strengthens me" instead of "I am a pikmin, dandori time"

[sunspotpony]

This is literally why stories and fantasy are so useful to humans. We cannot tackle every mundane challenge with enthusiasm, and facing against profoundly daunting tasks can be deeply demoralizing, and you don’t get to feel cool or heroic for filing 400 pieces of paperwork.

We arm ourselves with stories and fantasy, so that the laundry can become a charming hurdle to overcome, and the daunting stack of bills is the leviathan we the brave knights must slay.

Humans have always been like this. So many cultures have stories or mythology or even rituals about literally embodying another being better suited to the challenge one currently faces.

Stories are armor. Stories are fuel.