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lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223

“If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the gardener. If you want love, embody love. If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation. If you want peace, exude calmness. If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint. If you want to be valued, respect your own time. If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself. This is how to draw it in, day by day, inch by inch.”

— Victoria Erickson

themusicsweetly

"You are my joy. You're perfect, and wonderful—and I hear you saying now, in that tone of exasperation, 'But of course you think that—you're my mother!' Yes, that's how I know." —Voyager

fairycosmos

i hate when rich people condescend with the whole 'money can't buy happiness' argument like listen. just because buying your fourth car didn't fill the void in your deluded disconnected-from-reality life doesn't mean not having to worry about food/ bills/medicine wouldn't greatly improve the mental health of literally everyone else on the planet

durnesque-esque

Fun fact: they've done studies and money DOES buy happiness, but it tops out after a certain amount (nowadays around $500,000)

So yeah, having food / bills / medicine & a fair amount of leisure covered by income DOES buy happiness, but excess wealth depletes the effect exponentially.

manichewitz

sinners is like the perfect horror movie to me because it’s simultaneously an unironically good, well crafted film, but also just a little camp. it’s a beautiful homage to blues music and it’s importance in black culture, it’s a metaphor for the long-term impacts of colonialism, it’s a challenge to the idea that hoodoo & other forms of black spirituality are dangerous, it’s a story about love and grief and human connection through music—and also a racist vampire does irish step dancing threateningly into the camera

eggsdoodz

i missed drawing flowers

importantandunavoidable

i love watching an extremely famous tv show 6-60 years after its peak popularity and being like "whoa this is pretty good. has anyone heard about this"

kaiserin-erzsebet

Me: I don't really believe in gatekeeping a field where anyone can learn with enough work. The training we get in academia isn't impossible to self-teach.

Also me: The number of people calling themselves "historians" or pretending to educate about history on social media when they're just reading Wiki or telling you fun facts is way too high. The job title has meaning. You wouldn't call yourself a mathematician for knowing how to make your graphing calculator make graphs.

kaiserin-erzsebet

Do I want to add tags to this? No, it will reach my intended audience of "people who are tired of history fun fact Tik Tok videos" anyway

sailermoon

babe are u okay ur crying about closeness lines over time by olivia de recat again

xsilversugar

This speaks to me so viscerally it hurts. It also helped me get modern art in general? Like. These are just lines…but they convey so much because of the words supplied. That’s awesome!

Like, I’m gonna be thinking about this one for a while now. I wonder about the lines of my own life and how tangled and lost it feels to try and understand but to think about slices of it…

Hmm… yeah, I really love this.

ampervadasz

mortimermcmirestinks

via @p0tato-kn1shes

april-december

@bunjywunjy’s tags pass peer review too

nudityandnerdery

Honestly, y'all, I'm begging you. Take the time to think and learn for yourself. Even if it's just something casual like knitting or cooking. Exercise your brain. It's important.

marspumpkin

btw the katy perry/bezos' girlfriend/other four irrelevant billionaires 10 minute space stunt was not the first all female expedition no matter how much they try to market it as such. the first all female mission was in 1963 with soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova, Irina Solovyova and Valentina Ponomaryova - all three of which were working class and had to pass incredibly hard exams to be chosen from 400 potential candidates. just in case we started falling for the propaganda machine again

typhlonectes

vampilllia

travel songs (jonas mekas, 1981)

inkskinned

i love you vaccines i love you research i love you reading the book instead of having chatgpt summarize it i love you critically thinking rather than reacting to a headline i love you investigating the source material i love you science i love you math even though you are personally my enemy (math/yn slowburn) i love you writing even though you try to stab me a lot i love you Experts in Your Field i love you Using The Brain