always trying

amena | she/her | twentysomething part time author and illustrator, full time Taskmaster fan this is a side blog to @smalleffortsrepeated all my books

[thewarriorssun]

my dearest apologies to anyone who has come to this blog expecting my books or author posts, only to be greeted by my real personality instead

[trainstationgoodbye]

Hamnet (2025) dir. Chloé Zhao

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[winged-thinged]

You have to let people love you. You have to let people get to know you. You have to let people help you. Being so completely selfless that you try to erase yourself off the face of the planet and never ask for anything and reject everybody's offers of support makes you very hard to love! Unfortunately. Emptying yourself out of everything that makes you, you is not actually what your loved ones want from you, generally. They want to make you happy! They will be so so sad if you don't give them the chance. It's not all selfish. I promise.

[teafromthemicrowave]

Look whom I found at pride today

[anonymousyellowlizard]

[meirimerens]

on the topic of underrated female artists and this is horse i will die on and stay in the saddle as a corpse:

HILMA AF KLINT

(in order : Group X, No. 1, Altarpiece - Group X, No. 2, AltarpieceEvolutionen, Serie WUS/Sjustjärnan, Grupp VI, No. 16Group IX/SUW, The Swan (Svanen), No. 9The Evolution, No. 10)

ABSTRACT ART PIONEER. THEOSOPHIST. MEMBER OF AN ALL-WOMEN MEDIUMS & SPIRITUALISTS GROUP.

AGNES LAWRENCE PELTON

(in order: The Fountains ; Sea Change ; Winter ; Being)

ABSTRACT PAINTED. TRANSCENDENTALIST. PAINTED OF MEDITATIVE STILLNESS.

SOLANGE KNOPF

(in order: Cosmos n°3 ; Behind the Darkness ; Astral Odyssey ; The Protective Shields)

CONTEMPORARY SURREALIST. WORKS WITH BAUDELAIRE'S POETRY AND MUCH MORE. ARTIST OF GHOSTLY AND ONEIRIC LANDSCAPES.

[malice-kingdom]

“Save Earth save Erid”

[teaboot]

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

[teaboot]

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

[nonlynear]

“unprofitable platform” i’m getting rich off the currency of genuine human connection idiot

[tlirsgender]

I think it's cute when depictions of our solar system include earth's moon. Like yeah sure the moon's invited. We just like her

[tlirsgender]

Like simplified models that don't have Literally Everything just the planets. And our moon #OurMoon

[kosmogrl]

june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be

[inkwhelp]

people who are gay: yeah i’m gay

people who are straight: yeah i’m straight

people who are aroace: have you seen project hail mary

[hailed-marys]

how to get out of your own way

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog

[depsidase]

[wutheringheightsfilm]

every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...

[wutheringheightsfilm]

i made a separate post about this but actually there are plenty of people cough white people who care about animals more than they ever do human people . not what i'm talking about make your own post

[nourishedbytime]