“From every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

an artist, a poet, a fandom fanatic, folklore enthusiast, history enjoyer, writer, immigrant, ADHD haver, Roman Catholic/Christian, and a friend to those who need it, regardless of your past or personal views

[astraficer]

I suppose I'll go ahead and put this out as a prayer request: My mom's recently been in and out of the hospital--it turns out that she has stage 4 colon cancer, and she now has to be in hospice. All of this has been rather sudden, and I'm just...trying to process things. Prayers for both me and my mother would be appreciated.

[lilaccatholic]

These kids are super dope, actually, and I'm praying that their faith inspires their parents

[nmvord]

Meet Bessie, Slytherin!Harry's best friend (featuring Ravenclaw!Hermione and Neville).

[writingdose]

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

the only thing AI checker does is harm genuine artists and people in general too.

[darnitjack]

Somebody send this to that guy who says Claude wrote Leo's anti-AI letter

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[atwotonedbird]

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

I'm coming to realize how vital it is to keep a running list of shit you did in the past few weeks so that you can participate in small talk. It's literally not anything to do with them being interesting at all it's just having Something to say to give people even the barest thing to hold on to. It's so you don't get into the "what have you been up to" "nothing much what about you" "yeah same" trap. Literally just say something.

What have you been up to? Um well it's getting warmer so I've been having to brush my cat every day.

Like no it's not that interesting of a thing to say. But now they can respond to it. They could say, man yeah it really is heating up, I've been trying to think of things to do inside more often. Or, oh you have a cat? What's their name?

Like. It's Something. All you need is Something. And if you're like me and your brain immediately goes blank upon entering small talk then keeping a list will help you remember things to say.

[xeduo]

Okay so I’m an elementary school art teacher right, and I have this really fun game I made a PowerPoint for to teach like, emotions and intent and looking at the whole picture to first grade.

The idea is, when we count down and change slides, kids have to mimic one thing in the painting as best they can, whether it’s animate or inanimate. If there’s nothing in the shot for them to mimic (because I threw some contemporary abstract stuff in), they have to show me how the painting makes them feel. Easy enough, gets them excited to move around and vocal about their feelings regarding art, it’s very chaotic. I can tell pretty fast who’s got the emotional maturity to mimic things in a complex way, and who’s just enough of an abstract thinker to mimic inanimate objects early on in the game...

So the first picture is this:

Napoleon Crossing the Alps. My favorite reactions are usually the kids who pretend to be the freaked-out horse, but 2 memorable occasions were the one where a student immediately scrunched up to be the rock in the foreground, and the one where a pair of girls, without any communication on their parts, decided to be Napoleon riding the horse with one as Napoleon and one as the horse. Basically one of them fully tackled the other apropos of nothing, it was hilarious

I’ll add more if y’all want or if I feel like it lol I have a bunch of stories from this one game

[xeduo]

Okay so later in the lineup we get to Dalí’s Persistence of Memory, which is very funny because it’s preceded by several pieces that have like, obvious people in them, so everyone’s gotten a bit complacent in their mimicry

In case you’ve forgotten, this is Persistence:

And I swear every time, there’s a beat right before everyone either becomes a tree by t-posing for their life, or goes boneless like some kind of child-shaped pancake over the nearest flat surface

Highlights from this one include a pair who decided to drape themselves pancake-style over the same desk and banged heads, resulting in 2 ground pancakes, and someone who fully just stood there staring, and explained that they were expressing the hatred they felt as soon as they saw it

[xeduo]

Last installment: one of the pictures is The Scream, and everyone very quickly just makes a 😱 face, but then we get to talk about my favorite “throw spaghetti at the wall” topic, why is he screaming? (The answer is Existential Dread, but it’s not appropriate to tell 1st graders that so instead we all put out other ideas lol)

In case you haven’t looked at it recently, this is The Scream:

My favorite guesses from the kids to Why Is He Screaming:

-those guys behind him are going to arrest him

-he missed his boat and it’s one of the ones in the background, he just noticed

-the sky’s all wiggly

-he just wanted to scream

-HE CAN SEE THE CLASS OF FIRST GRADERS LOOKING AT HIM AND HE DOESN’T LIKE IT

Children are bonkers

[queen-esther]

Friendly reminder to any teenage/college-aged Christian girls out there that the whole tradwife, stay at home mom thing is not inherently THE biblical way to live. Please don’t make hasty decisions about your future because some freaks online claim the Bible says you need to get married at 18, hunker down in your house, and start popping out babies immediately. I promise Jesus does NOT expect that of you, lol.

[ultrafacts]

[ozempicofficial]

[longsightmyth]

I bring a real 'actually people who are pregnant do deserve some special consideration because they are effectively at least temporarily disabled if not permanently after some complications' vibe to the party that a lot of people don't seem to like

[vomitdodger]

[memeuplift]

[lillyloon]

PANTZ

[sweetmorningdew]

[sweetmorningdew]

Prayer request:

A family member died today. He was only a toddler. Prayers for his parents, the family as a whole, and the baby himself would be appreciated

[averagefairy]

did humans invent math or did we discover it

does math even exist

[averagefairy]

i already regret making this post bc smart people keep messaging me trying to explain math and it’s making me nauseous 

[cappucino-commie]

The universe did some weird shit, and humans were like “Got you now motherfucker! We got numbers and shit to figure it all out!”. And as punishment for this hubris God fucked up physics so hard we still don’t know what’s going on.

[tropiyas]

some fucker decided they could just start counting things and it was all downhill from there

[sweetmorningdew]

Fact of the Day: Pythagoras was a cult leader.

You probably know him as “the triangle guy” who invented A² + B² = C², but he was also a philosopher-shaman who founded a secretive math cult, banned beans because they supposedly contained dead people’s souls, helped run a city-state, inspired a war, and may have died because he refused to step on a bean field.

His followers believed numbers explained everything, reincarnation was real (Want to escape the cycle of reincarnation? Not through wisdom or virtue—through being really, really good at numbers), vegetarianism was mandatory because animals might contain human spirits, and beans were absolutely forbidden because they were somehow connected to the dead. The cult got so powerful that locals eventually got fed up, one rejected applicant allegedly burned their headquarters down, and Pythagoras became remembered not as the cult leader who founded a city and died in an uprising, but as the guy who made eighth-grade geometry homework harder.

History is weird.

[stream]

Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) dir. Stewart Raffill

An evil scientist implants the brain of Michael (Paul Walker), a murdered high school student, into a Tyrannosaurus. He escapes, wreaks vengeance on his high school tormentors, and is reunited with his sweetheart Tammy (Denise Richards).

[letyourheartfly85]

…..I’m sorry what?

[sweetmorningdew]