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almost home
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if i look back, i am lost
shark vs the universe
KIROKAZE
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
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occasionally subtle
Monterey Bay Aquarium
@theartofmadeline
Kaledo Art
Andulka
Jules of Nature
Product Placement
trying on a metaphor
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#extradirty
Cosimo Galluzzi
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@thenaminook
Another sword, another cairn. Cut up an old necklace for the chain. The background fabric is scrap fabric from a thrift shop in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo doesn't do the fabric justice! It's very pretty!
(Also, yes - the sword CAN come out!)
Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy
PDF FILES - Luna the Crow Sewing Case - Raven keepsake Pattern by TheWishingShed
The tent is up!
This is a vevor 16.5 ft bell tent (it's gone up in price since I bought it but it's pretty reasonable value for money) painted with latex exterior house paint, the cheapest stuff they had at menards. I used a folding foam mattress on top of the four storage bins my gear was packed in as a cot--quite comfy and practical; I'm going to cut a sheet of plywood as a bin topper and do that again for sure. The guyline shorteners are just sections of 2x2 furring strips, cut and painted. There's documentation on the process for nearly all of this here already.
anyways remember when toni morrison said "sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it's not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances."
everyone say thank you toni morrison
Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet
She’s so one dimensionally evil you guys 😭😭 how is she real
read this and remember it. read this and remember that she is going to use the profits of her fucking ego-stroking reboot to decimate trans rights. read this and remember that every time you pay into her IP, you are emboldening her to hurt us more.
our lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.
trans lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.
Anyone else feel comfort in posting their art anonymously? Like I used to use an instagram for my art as well and my close friends would follow it, and although my friends mean well and live my art, I fell like when I would post I still felt uncomfortable with them seeing my art sometimes? But when I post my art here for only strangers to see, I feel so much more comfortable
- burned cedar and sandalwood
periodic reminder that the queer liberation library is an awesome non-regional library you can add on libby to access hundreds of queer titles. NO LIBRARY CARD NEEDED. i just found an audiobook for a pretty new release on there with no waitlist. also everyone use libby for your local library too NOW
free!!! queer!! books!! for anyone, anywhere in the USA!
you can browse the collection here
sign up for a QLL card to check ebooks & audiobooks out
& if you love what we’re doing you can toss us a few bucks here so we can keep doing it <3
OMG - really?
really!!! we’ve got 501(c)3 status and everything! turning 2.5 years old next month <3
Today is the first day of the trans rights readathon!
I decided to go through some of the books I've read in the past few years and highlight some with trans main characters or authors. I've summarized them all with one short sentence, but a few have appeared in other posts with more in-depth reviews:
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
Don't Let the Forest In by CG Drews
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Are you joining the readathon? If so let me know what you're reading! You can see what I'm working on in my TRR2026 masterpost 🪲
ideas for your journal˚˖𓍢ִ໋🦢˚🌷
|| prompts:
꩜ what if your favorite song was a place
꩜ a letter to your future self (I would use this for the first page tbh)
꩜ movie tickets/receipts and how you liked it
꩜ favorite movies or tv shows and why do you like them
꩜ celebrity crushes
꩜ the little and random things you love
꩜ your favorite childhood memories
꩜ about your childhood stuffed animal
꩜ a vision board
꩜ a doodle/sketch page
꩜ your dream life
꩜ a list of fictional places you’d visit
꩜ do random collages
꩜ describe how love should feel like
꩜ this one is gonna sound confusing but think of yourself as an other person and
write what you love about yourself but as if you weren’t yourself, you know?
꩜ how you actually feel, go as deep as you can with this one
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|| things to add to make it prettier
𓏲ּ𝄢 doodles, any doodle
𓏲ּ𝄢 glitter
𓏲ּ𝄢 do like scrapbook style
𓏲ּ𝄢 drawing
𓏲ּ𝄢 collage drawings
𓏲ּ𝄢 post-its
𓏲ּ𝄢 printed photos related to the topic
𓏲ּ𝄢 flowers or plants
𓏲ּ𝄢 watercolor paintings
𓏲ּ𝄢 beads
𓏲ּ𝄢 those bedazzling thingys
𓏲ּ𝄢 pearls
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Eeek! I think I’ve just finished making the best thing I’ve ever made before!! 🥰
September 2023
An ode to whimsiness ‧₊˚♪ 𝄞₊˚⊹
My recently discovered favourite word is “whimsical.”
A simple trisyllabic word, and although it does not make use of the entire alphabet in the English language, it appears pretty diverse. Whimsy would be a close second; it’s shorter and sweeter-sounding.
Not because I’ve never heard it before, but because it never meant anything to me — until now.
Think about how many times you could use a word like that (not too many times, that’s for sure.)
When I finally looked it up, I expected something simple. The internet, of course, disagreed.
Whimsical is peculiar, playful, fantastic, but also volatile, capricious, and impulsive.
The same word that evokes sunshine and daisies also implies instability.
That duality fascinated me.
If whimsy were a person, I’d love to get to know them.
What draws me into this is how everyone knows that the world is on fire, people across the world starve, laugh, cry, and some days it feels like the only rebellion available is joy.
Embrace your whimsy and invite magic into your life with open arms, because the fact that all of us are alive is a statistical miracle.
Think about what whimsy means to you. I think of big smiles, the kind that makes your cheeks hurt, ladybugs, golden hour, green grass, the smell of hay for some reason and goosebumps.
This year, especially, the way news is being presented, the way monocultures barely even exist anymore, and a thousand other signals seem determined to tell us we are doomed, but at the end of the day, all you have to do is make a bit of money, help people and have fun.
Lost a job? It hurts, but it isn’t your identity.
Someone stopped talking to you? Painful but survivable.
Haven’t paid your taxes?
Okay. Please pay your taxes (:
(But seriously, pay your taxes.)
You see,
I’m not promoting being irresponsible but if we have a problem in our lives, half of it is the actual problem and the other half of it is this ego or persona that we desperately clutch on to, the person that we believe has never failed, that is a good person, that does charity, that is beautiful and kind and never ever messes up.
Every time we do something that proves to us that we are not entirely this person, we destroy ourselves with our bare hands.
I believe your whimsy is loving your messiness, along with everyone else’s. It lies in loving the fact that you’re a good person, you’re disciplined and also the fact that you’re lazy and you can be inconsiderate at times. It’s giving yourself the grace of being a person, a fully functioning or partially functioning human being.
The whimsy of always being late, or perpetually forgetting to put the cap back on your toothpaste and a million other idiosyncrasies can drive us insane, but they coexist with you being an eloquent dancer and someone who makes great breakfasts or gives great advice.
So, give yourself grace, give others the same grace. The human beings you listen to, you watch, you agree with or disagree with, deserve the grace of being human. (Maybe grace should be my favourite word.)
To clarify, “whimsy” to me is not irresponsibility but the courage to hold your flaws gently.
Allow whimsiness to embrace you, to cover you in its blanket of glittery powder, cotton candy, and the smell of the back of a baby’s head.
Sprinkle glitter on your tears, allow yourself stay in bed till noon but, let whimsy exist not as escape but as mercy.
cheers to sunshine and rainbows (:
By Katrin Vates
Vintage destination ads from Aeroflot, the Soviet airlines (1960s)
Art by R Kikuo Johnson
