Sweetness and Decency @sweetnessdecency - Tumblr Blog

Mumbai Is Sending Powerful Messages Of Love, Support, And Solidarity For Paris

Further context: Mumbai suffered a devastating terrorist attack that was very similar to what happened in Paris. Multiple gunmen + bombers attacking a major city, focusing on soft civilian targets and taking people hostage. It killed 164 people and injured hundreds of others. That’s why this message of support is especially poignant.

newshour

In early 1942, the U.S. ordered 110,000 Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast to internment camps. Five-year-old George Takei and his family were sent to camps in Arkansas and Utah for nearly four years.

The Broadway musical “Allegiance” is loosely based on their experience.

Watch our interview with @georgetakei here.

prettybooks

Choosing a book is an adventure in itself.

bobafett176

Here’s an infograph breaking down all the lightsabers used in the Star Wars films, The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. Props to HalloweenCostumes and David Rosencrance for putting this together. Here’s a link if you want read more about it.

summercomfort

If Introvert Time isn’t a real thing yet, it should be.

sci-fantasy

It’s as real as you and the people who love you can make it.

I have a lot of introverted friends. I myself am one of those weird outgoing introverts.

If anybody ever needs Introvert Time with me, say the words and it will happen.

Promise.

animatedamerican

I second this.

sandandglass

Fresh Off The Boat s02e05

hnybn

IM SO PISSED BECAUSE I JUST REMEMBERED WHEN MILEY CYRUS WROTE HER BOOK SHE SAID THAT SHE WAS BULLIED AND LOCKED UP IN THE BATHROOM AT HER SCHOOL AND SHE HAD TO CLIMB OUT THE WINDOW IN MIDDLE SCHOOL BUT THAT WAS MY MIDDLE SCHOOL AND THERE ARE NO WINDOWS THE BATHROOMS ARENT EVEN LOCATED ON THE OUTER WALLS ITS LIKE CONCRETE CONCRETE AND MORE CONCRETE SHE LIED AND MY SIBLINGS WENT TO SCHOOL WITH HER AND SHE WAS SO POPULAR THAT THEY HATED HER GOD IM SO ANGRY

miss-gardner

The “If you’re not drawing 24/7 you aren’t working hard enough.” mentality is garbage.

When I was in college there was this ongoing competitive mindset from the teachers /students that: “If you’re not drawing all night / getting 1 - 2 hours of sleep, you’re going to fall behind.” If you’re an artist you’ve probably met this kind of thinking… I’ve heard it from so many pros / tutorials.

One of my professors said that line all the time. I loved this dude. he worked at Disney on many of my favorite movies, and my young self became absorbed in this mindset. About 3 years into my degree that professor had a stroke, and when he went to the doctor they said he actually previously had something like 10+ strokes without even knowing, brought on by stress, and that he needed to slow down.

Since then I’ve heard tons of other accounts of sickness and divorce brought on from addiction to work.

A few years later I was listening to an Animation podcast interviewing Glen Keane. He brought up that there were other animators who would live and breathe their work, never going home, barely sleeping, etc.

What shocked me was that Glen Keane said something like “I ignored this idea, and decided to go home every night to spend time with my family, because I could learn just as much from my life experiences with them.”

Anyway I just wanted to take a second after hearing a statement like this again recently and let any young artists out there know that:

There’s nothing wrong with investing plenty of time studying and drawing, but also be healthy.

nicterhorst

This is important! Draw often and draw every day - its how you get better - but don’t stress yourself out! You’ll always do better work when you’re well rested and living your life. I only pulled a few all nighters in college and every single one of them was a mistake. You don’t need to do that. If you’re not healthy in the end it won’t be worth it at all.

Wear your sleep as your badge of honour instead of being a person who trades stories about how they haven’t slept in days. Your body will thank you for it.

sizvideos

Baby elephant cuddling (Video)

paradoxicalissue

empoliam-deactivated20140210

tall-tiny-and-broody-deactivate

I have never felt so close to Anna Kendrick until now

awesome-picz

tristyntothesea

Babies

bando--grand-scamyon

I want them ALL

softmetalheart

This is all I want on my dash. Pure golden angelic content.

calmvolcano

@blkoutqueen

cosmic-noir

AHHHHHH

trinandtonic-deactivated2022102

a smol list

playingwithdaggers

spirit3d4w4y

Things You Need to Know About the Outgoing Introvert

1. When we see you after a long day, we might be all irritable and not want to talk

It has nothing to do with you. Outgoing introverts, though still introverts at their core, often need to recharge after a large use of social energy. After a long day of dealing with people, our social batteries are drained and we need to unwind and recover, usually alone.

2. We’re charming creatures and can be the life of the party, but…

You’ll be surprised how much we actually live in our heads. People often confuse us for extroverts, but we’re too introspective and over-think too much to be one.

3. If we like you, we really like you.

We don’t waste our time with people we’re not completely crazy about. If we agreed to go on a date with you, we like you. Take it as a huge compliment.

4. We have times when we’re weird with our phones.

Some days we can talk for hours, but sometimes we’re not so good at replying and talking on the phone. Don’t take it personally - we screen our phone calls, even from our closest friends. Outgoing introverts sometimes hate the phone because it’s all, like, intrusive and tears our minds away from whatever we’re deeply focusing on (and we are always deeply focusing on something). Our mind doesn’t change direction easily. Listening to one thing and seeing something else is a lot of sensory input piled on top of everything that’s already going on in our heads.

5. But don’t worry, in person we’ll listen to you for hours.

We have spectrums of introversion, so we’re good listeners. We’ll always be naturally in tune with how you’re feeling, so we’ll be able to see through any front you put up and make you jump into the deep end.

6. We need to dip our foot in the pool first.

We need time to warm up, so, like, chill. We tend not to outwardly express our feelings and spill our whole life story in the first hour of meeting you. Or the first year.

7. Our energy level depends on our environment.

Yes, we can get annoyed easily. If we vibe with the crowd, we can get our energy from human interactions. But if we don’t, we’ll start to get really introspective and reflective, and tend to withdraw into ourselves. It’s kinda like a hit or miss. We’re very selectively social. But it’s not because we dislike people - it’s actually the opposite. We dislike the barriers like small talk (which often comes with going out) creates between people, and try to avoid it at all costs.

8. You’ll think we are flirty with everyone.

Okay here’s the thing, when we inevitably have to interact with people, we make it seem like there’s nothing in the world we’d rather be doing. It’s ‘cause we’re, like, overly sensitive and so we go out of our way to make other people feel comfortable and happy. We’re intuitive and outgoing at the same time.

Research has found that introverts pay more attention to detail and exhibit increased brain activity when processing visual information. A study shows that the brain of an introvert weighs internal cues more strongly than external motivational and reward cues.