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greatviolenceonthatthang

hey guys, be honest: will I get booed if I say james flint is a switch

#no because that's completely plausible and the only reality I personally accept #black sails

bringing back the one day at a time reboot is so real. . . .

I forgot I even posted about this but yes. YES. Thank you for seeing me

#one day at a time #it could have run for twenty seasons honestly

pmamtraveller

« Daughter » oil on linen by Filip Mirazovic

stjohnstarling

“Artist” is not an occupation—it’s an honorific title. All humans are creators in some capacity, whether whistling during housework, doodling in classroom notebooks, or making memes about the day’s celebrity foibles. … But only a gifted few will combine their creativity with enough expertise to ever produce anything that earns admiration from others. … As various writers have expressed, the social position of the artist in contemporary society is akin to that of a “priest or a sorcerer”—a “visionary genius” with “extravagant individualism” who reaches “epiphanies” through a “magical process” of creation.”

Hedging … is taboo for the true artist, who must stay detached from any status concerns. Only hacks make art for money and power. This explains why artists so often deny any conscious motivations for their work—including the desire to make art in the first place. … But nearly every artist pursues a specific kind of status: artist status. Unless society considers a creator to be an “artist,” his or her artworks won’t receive serious consideration, interpretation, or evaluation.

— Status and Culture by W. David Marx

#hm #save for later

simoneashley

Modern day Loustat Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid for Entertainment Weekly

ilonano

(knows nothing about a subject) I Should Start An Ambitious Project

re-dracula

Here, have some (mildly cursed) bumper stickers for all your Dracula needs.

unspeakablearchives

(Source: Sen the donkey)

maramahan

I feel like a very important part of worldbuilding for any universe with a magic system is asking yourself ‘how would people use this to do crime?’

maramahan

thefoundationsofdecay

Join us for the first emo studies April 10th - 11th at Washington University’s School of Music, featuring keynotes from author Dan Ozzi (Sellout, 2021; Fahrenheit-182, 2025) and scholar and drummer of American Football, Steve Lamos

schedule & abstracts are up now for what seems to be a really super cool conference on emo studies! they will be streaming most of the talks so I'm hoping to tune in myself

thefoundationsofdecay

this is tomorrow & they have zoom links on the website if you're interested in watching!

#oh dope

terror-billie

it's a weird emotion when somebody goes "doesn't this just shake you to your core and rewrite your dna and change who you are as a person" and your honest experience of it was that it was ok

markscherz

This may sound stupid but. How do you even begin to look for new tiny frogs???

madenthusiasms

The alt is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, y’all.

tam--lin

I don't want to put the user on blast but I just saw a "you're never too old to start" post about the Artemis II astronauts, and, respectfully, they are astronauts on our first trip back to the moon since Apollo because their entire lives have been building up to it. Christina, the youngest on the crew, wanted to be an astronaut since childhood, has two bachelor's degrees, and has been involved with NASA since 2001, well before she joined as an astronaut. Jeremy joined the Canadian equivalent to Civil Air Patrol at 12 and did his undergrad in space science. Reid started out as a Navy pilot in the late 1990s. Victor went to a public Ivy, has three master's degrees, and became a Navy test pilot 20 years ago. These people's whole lives have been building up to this.

We are not yet at the point in human space travel where you can just up and career change to being a working astronaut* unless you already are very well-established in a closely relevant career (like medicine), or you're part of a specialty program training mission specialists (like Christa McAuliffe was).

*as opposed to a space tourist

tam--lin

Perhaps a better message, if we insist on mining on here, is, "it's normal for people who are experts in their fields to be middle-aged, actually"