Holding onto love like invisible strings

Katie🔹she/her🔹Library Science grad student 🔹ADHD and NVLD🔹Expect a lot a babbling about cute animals, important social issues, Muppets, mythology / fairy and folk tales, or stuff from my dash that I thought looked cool🔹Currently reading: The Rose and the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh; Dr. No by Percival Everett; Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett; The Devil Three Times by Rickey Fayne

[devinellekurtz]

My very first tiger drawing and my latest

[formaldehydedoesstuff]

Your skill level is unquestionable but listen.

I love him.

[toasthaste-art]

me also. as well.

[devinellekurtz]

This is the COOLEST thing I’ve seen in AGES. You both completely made my entire week.

[thevoidbunny]

I know everyone’s seen the “Superman writes about lead pipes in metropolis” post, but has anyone considered Superman writing about endangered animals and conservation because he understands what it means to be one of the last of your species?

[dogmotif-deactivated20240505]

the main problem i have with america is that nothings old as hell there. i cant be so far away from a castle it damages my aura

[chillyfeetsteak]

man people really just say stuff on here huh

[lame-kid-on-couch]

Noooo haha don't spread racist ideals and colonizer propaganda by idolizing white european aesthetics above all else and denying the life and accomplishments of native peoples on their own lands

[brehaaorgana]

People have been living in the downtown area of Tucson, Arizona for at least 4,500 years. The greater Santa Cruz river valley has been occupied by humans for 12,000 years.

You see this?

That's not a river. That's the South Canal in Mesa, Arizona (Phoenix metro area).

This is a view of the East and South canals. At least half of all the Phoenix metro canals were originally built by the Hohokam (from roughly 200-1400 CE), and are still in use (restored) today.

Phoenix, Arizona actually has more miles (kilometers) of Canals total than both Venice and Amsterdam. No, really. Phoenix has about 180 miles of canals, many of which are built on ancient canal foundations.

below is an aerial view photo taken in the late 1930's of one branch of Phoenix's canal systems:

Also have the "Montezuma Castle," if you need a castle:

I don't need to look at some 12th century European castle to see age.

[aetherograph]

Also want to point out that many Indigenous nations literally decided to prioritise NOT building permanent buildings. That was a choice they made. You know what permanent human-created things they left instead? THE LITERAL LANDSCAPE. Even though the settlers did their best to destroy it, the landscape was still tended and shaped by Indigenous people. Every biome that exists here was created by some nation or other, every plant was encouraged or discouraged by the local people who ranged in that area.

But more to the point: I don't need fucking buildings to know that people have been here millions of years, the people are here telling me that, and I fucking listen to them.

[leebrontide]

My 8 year old child has requested:

A "french hat" (beret)

"Tiger spot glasses" (tortoise shell glasses)

And "a glasses necklace" (one of those beaded chains my mother has on her reading glasses to keep them around her neck)

So, according to her, those are the hot styles in 2nd grade. She is also very proud of wearing my mother in law's hand-me-down black danskos. The ones every nurse in the US wears.

[leebrontide]

She's chosen faux pearl glasses strap. This isn't even grandmacore to her. This is great-grandmacore for her generation.

Like this is charming and adorable but I am baffled.

[leebrontide]

WAIT SHIT.

I just realized when I was 8 I loved everything Victorian. I fucking STILL love everything Victorian (at least as far as aesthetics go). As in, the style in vouge in my great grandma's heyday.

[sandersstudies]

Sick list of symptoms bro. Now try humanizing your behavior instead of pathologizing it.

[sandersstudies]

Pathologizing: Hey sorry I yelled at you. I have this ADHD symptom called RSD that makes me really sensitive.

Humanizing: Hey, I’m sorry that I blew up like that earlier. In the moment I felt really attacked and overwhelmed and I reacted badly, but I know you didn’t mean to offend me with what you said, so that behavior is on me.

[queer-asinfuckyou]

Because I just saw a post bitching about this one, I want to add: this post is saying that you need to take accountability for the way you hurt other people, even if it happens because of a symptom of your disability/illness. It's also saying that using terms (especially acronyms) that aren't common knowledge isn't a helpful way to explain yourself. It is NOT saying that you need to let people walk all over you because "your disability isn't an excuse."

If you're diabetic, you don't have to eat the honey glazed ham that will send you into a coma (their example). But you also can't yell at the person offering it and accuse them of trying to kill you. You can just say "thanks, but my body can't handle that kind of sugar intake, so I'll pass"

[ayin-me-yesh]

If you run over someone's foot with your wheelchair you still apologise

[elizabethan-memes]

It's interesting that the Brontë "bad boys" get lumped together because if they met, they'd HATE each other, for different reasons.

Heathcliff would hate Huntingdon as a Hindley 2.0. Huntingdon would probably underestimate Heathcliff, then realise his mistake and shit absolute bricks. Huntingdon would look at Mr Rochester and be like "ew, what an ugly grumpy freak. Why is he babbling on about fairies?" meanwhile his drunkenness, hedonism and infidelity would push ALL of Mr Rochester's buttons.

And while Heathcliff and Rochester both know what it's like to go bananas about a girl, they'd never get close enough to notice that commonality. Heathcliff would hate Rochester as a weepy posh boy who won't stop yapping and Rochester would be like "what the FUCK is your problem, WHERE is your pity".

On the other hand, Lockwood, Rochester and Gilbert Markham could get along tolerably well. Rochester is the beetle-browed grump Lockwood initially hoped Heathcliff would be, and Gilbert Markham could talk to him about land and how to handle feelings of jealousy.

Now that I think about it, Tenant would be a VERY different novel if Gilbert had Rochester as his wingman. Pure chaos. I kinda want to see it.

[stealingpotatoes]

@magnetfamily week 2026 day 2: Companion | Enemy

they must have to have this conversation every time they see each other

(commission info // tip jar!)

[sparrowlucero]

drawing i did for this art telephone a while back

[loveridden1999]

Apollo 17 (1972) // Artemis II (2026)

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez

[gracklesong]

From Criselda Vasquez's Instagram (3 April 2026):

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[catilinas]

i love shipping magazines and i especially love them when they sound like they were written by a mildly aggravated cargo ship

[catilinas]

who is ART murderbot

[lucybellwood]

An older piece for the Seattle Review of Books about formative reads from childhood. Lucy Pevensie is half my namesake and I'm pretty convinced The Voyage of The Dawn Treader is responsible for my eventual career path as a sailor, so this was a mandatory contribution.

[thestuffedalligator]

There’s a certain folkloric idea that if you die at sea, your soul is sort of. Inextricably stuck in the sea. Because your body is irretrievable, your soul is also irretrievable, down out of the reach of the gods who look at the surface of the world. In Norse mythology, they say that the souls of sailors who died at sea are caught in the sea-goddess Rán’s net and dragged into her domain, a distinct and separate afterlife alongside Hel and Valhalla. Davy Jones Locker. The funayūrei. A lot of cultures agree that once sea has a hold on you, even when your body has rotted and dwindled and been made food for crabs, it still won’t let you go.

Do you think we’re going to wind up saying the same thing about astronauts.

[naturalistsguidetoeberron]

"Space is haunted."

"What?"

"Space is haunted."

"No, I heard what you said, but..."

"Most times you want to get the ones in LEO. They can still see their home, and want to go back. If you're lucky, you can tell them you'll find them on your way down and they'll let you go. The most fortunate find the dog. A friendly little guy who's just solid enough to feel your hands petting him. None of the others mess with the dog.

"Those around the Moon, or Mars? They're a bit nastier. Lonely, I think. Some just want to talk, messing up the instruments in the hopes you hear them. Others mess your instruments so you'll join them out there. A new face in their lonely voyages.

"But it's the ones in deep space you have to worry about. Lot of those don't even remember they were human. Just an incorporeal mass of want. What do they want? They don't remember anymore. You can always tell if you caught one of those by the screaming, the way they smash you against the walls like they forgot what a door is. But they're not the worst."

"They're not the worst? Then what is?"

"The kind left trailing in the comets. Nobody knows what those are. The crawling liver, the webbed lungs, the sensation of seeing while blind and shouting desperately with your shoulder blades, 'I'm here, come back, don't leave me'. Never follow a comet."

[thatwritererinoriordan]

Passover falling on the evening of April Fools Day would be the funniest possible time for the prophet Elijah to come back btw

[owenhcrper]

i just love all the stories about production on project hail mary. they didn't use a single green/blue screen in the whole film. they built the whole interior of the hail mary. the petrova line scene was done practically by putting infrared lights on a chicken wire cage. rocky's voice was one of the puppeteers because he did such a good job during filming that they couldn't imagine anyone else voicing him. and rocky was a practical puppet/animatronic! sandra huller picked sign of the times as her karaoke song and she asked her daughter if it was still a cool song. i just feel like there was so much love making this film and im obsessed

[girlactionfigure]

Link

[anauthorandherservicedog]

I believe he also now has a library card.

[darlingvagary]

He does!

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Me, tears streaming down my face, sobbing, as I stare at the stars: it’s just so beautiful

The medieval peasant I went back in time to give a bag of Doritos to, concerned: what terrible and powerful sorcerers they must have in your age, to be able to veil the vault of heaven itself from view, as you say

Me, sniffling: I didn’t realize, I can’t, it’s so much, I, I… are the chips good, at least?

Medieval peasant, trying to make me feel better: they’re… magical, strange traveler

[aetherograph]

Here's the thing.

Doritos right? They're corn chips. Corn was unknown in medieval Europe. Corn is I think not really appreciated for the bio-engineering marvel that it is, compared to wheat and millet and oats, which are not really all that bio-engineered when you compare them to wild counterparts, in terms of just how much humans changed it, how dense with energy those Indigenous peoples made it. It's sweet, which is more than any other seed or grain that is used as a staple food anywhere in the world. It has a sweet flavour comprable to the roots and fruits used as staples in places, even in masa form it's sweet. Even in tortilla form with no additions it's sweet. That signals an incredible amount of energy, and I think in the modern world we don't understand the importance of that. In Medieval Europe, sweetness still did act as a "true" or "honest" signal of food-value.

And frying corn? In oil? Oil was so valuable that you didn't even use it for eating--you used it only for religion, and only if you could afford it! Oil is intensely labour-intensive and wasteful to make, much like juices and fruit-wines. You waste the fruit because you have to squish it up.

They're also very salty chips. Salt was very expensive in medieval Europe. They're also extremely flavourful chips--particularly, salty, savoury, piqant, sweet, and sour. Those strong flavours were very expensive in medieval Europe.

Likely that medieval peasant would consider those doritos as magical as you would the ability to see the milky way even in the middle of London.