#off line

[kundst]

Katarina Janeckova (Slo 1988)

Off Line (2025)

Water colour and chalk on paper

[dk-thrive]

let the terrifying longing crowd out everything else

A much more reliable way to stay offline is just to be doing things so engaging that it wouldn’t occur to you to drift online in the first place. On the few magical days in 2025 that I realised I’d forgotten where my phone even was, it was because I’d become so immersed in reading or writing or conversation or nature that the thought of it had left my mind entirely. “If you want to win the war for attention,” as the New York Times columnist David Brooks once put it, “don’t try to say ‘no’ to the trivial distractions you find on the information smorgasbord; try to say ‘yes’ to the subject that arouses a terrifying longing, and let the terrifying longing crowd out everything else.”

— Oliver Burkeman, from "The secret to being happy in 2026? It’s far, far simpler than you think …" (The Guardian, January 3, 2026)

[simsyonet]

my pretties girl <3

mirror selfie pose pack

[off-linee]

シ

[midnightsilver]

personal update

I’m currently off-line due to poor health (nothing life threatening just chronic conditions I’m working on with the doctors) so I’ll be sorry to miss all y’all’s wonderful art but I’ll look forward to catching up with it in a few months.

please note that my art commissions are closed from now (13 Aug) through to the end of September at least, until further notice.

Stay awesome my friends and look after yourselves.

-Midnight

[werewulfbf]

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[suzilight]

“Boredom serves a function,” she says now. “It’s boring, obviously, and we don’t like that, but, when you have no input coming in, you generate output. That’s how you become resourceful. But now you constantly have access to information, entertainment, distraction – all of this stuff coming in, coming in and coming in. And it doesn’t allow you the empty space to create something, or to just process something.

Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review

100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet