[hann4hkur]

everything is made up of beautiful tiny pixel flowers

[godkissedme]

untitled (blue glitter), 2015 / ann veronica janssens

[disorientation]

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors

[c3rvida3]

I put a collar on him since you can wag his tail. :)

(made with an antique celluloid fawn toy and an articulated fishing lure)

[lleyksie]

brown bear, black bear

[eonblueinmay]

Watching the process of this absolutely stunning painting makes it even more beautiful.

The artist is Sydney Swisher

[onoyuko]

[somie]

The kiss (but kriselle)

[cheezydraws]

dressup

[orteil42]

utterly delightful family of words and things

[inthemuckandthemire]

natalie baxter

[hangsawoman]

NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY EVEN LARKS AND KATYDIDS ARE SUPPOSED BY SOME TO DREAM

[wizardarchetypes]

I want to write a book called “your character dies in the woods” that details all the pitfalls and dangers of being out on the road & in the wild for people without outdoors/wilderness experience bc I cannot keep reading narratives brush over life threatening conditions like nothing is happening.

I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.

Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.

Babes she would not MAKE it to that inn.

[pixelartpeach]

Are there any other particularly egregious examples?

[theglintoftherail]

This book already exists, sort of! Or at least, it’s a biology textbook but I bought it for writing purposes:

It starts with a chapter about freezing to death, and it is without a doubt the scariest thing I’ve read in years (and I read a lot of horror fiction).

[wandercuriosity-deactivated2024]

This book can be downloaded for free on Researchgate, posted there by the author himself:

The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments

[seagullinvasion]

“fruit tree electricity”

2026

(sharpie, digital color, marbled paper)

[whyenn-reader]

good art doesnt exist. you can't make it.

[whyenn-reader]

you're free now.

[temporalreverie]

?

[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.

[netherworldpost]

A horrifyingly few years ago I realized asking for help builds trust, too.

If I ask you for help then I demonstrate you can ask me for help.

That.

Was a difficult lesson.

[the-haiku-bot]

If I ask you for

help then I demonstrate you

can ask me for help.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.