Long ago and far away...

Findlay/BLM/💙💜💖/she,her This blog is just a mess of things I enjoy. No apologies.

[random-brushstrokes]

Iain Macnab - The Sleeping Beauty (ca. 1950-1967)

[cosmonautroger]

Yulia Sidneva

[wiles-art-blog]

It's make a terrible comic day.

[pnglove]

[blumineck]

I have done some weird trickshots, and some difficult trickshots, but that last one is the most of both I’ve ever put together!

[hightide-error]

the poster that this incredible illustration is based on is extremely striking. but while searching for it, I also found earlier posters for conveying this message along with a corresponding one for summer, and I fucking love them. absolutely lovely graphic design work. (both are from 1924, artist is Austin Cooper)

the one I was looking for originally also has a summer variant. (artist is Frederick Charles Herrick: 'it is warmer below' is from 1927, 'it is cooler below' is 1926)

[elodieunderglass]

I also like Edward McKnight Kauffer’s London Underground posters, the 1923 Natural History Museum one is such cool piece of visual art

[oritoor]

Black Fish

[thestuffedalligator]

“When we were kids, the Phonics Wizard came to our town to show off how the letter E can change the sounds of vowels. He turned a can into a cane, a pin into a pine. This one kid had a cap and he changed it into a cape, that kind of thing.

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

After a moment, she put the ball of twine back onto its pillow. “Anyways. They tried to arrest the Phonics Wizard, but he had a plan in case something went wrong and he turned it into a plane and flew away.”

[validblogname]

one fight at a time

[lizardlicks]

Black Hills drilling project canceled after backlash from tribes

A South Dakota mining company has canceled a drilling project in the Black Hills after opposition from Native American tribes and local grou

[wizxrdpendrxgon]

The backlash was a major lawsuit from 9 tribes alongside other lawsuits from advocacy groups like NDN Collective. You can support NDN Collective by donating to them here.

[chloematis]

“That’s true! I did! I crinkled this!“ A painting of my favorite post from @straycatj I hope my rendition of this dastardly crime did it justice

[straycatj]

Why do you reveal my naughty past… although it’s a good art…but…but…but…

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

“Who yells?” Is unquestionably the best broad city line i think about it every time someone raises their voice even slightly

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[thoughtsfromthedark]

Ohhhhh god you really do just have to give up on being liked

For context I had a REALLY productive meeting with an advisor yesterday and checked off everything on the list that I brought with me--i also cried for like 70% of the meeting which I completely did not plan for

MANY times in my life I would have found the embarrassment of that situation to far outweigh the benefit of continuing the interaction--this person is pausing to console me between questions surely they are thinking less and less of my ability to cope and liking me less and less for having to put forth such effort--but the therapy must be therapying or whatever cause I pushed through? (And im sure my advisor gets this a lot because she was SO very zen from start to finish) but the high of being (to my mind) unlikable, embarrassing, and SUCCESSFUL IN MY GOAL is just now starting to hit and again if I wanted her to like me above all else I think I would have had to bail at some point in the middle

Stop caring how you look and what people are gonna think about it. I will learn this lesson 1 william ways but yesterday was a new one

[bimboficationblues]

hate when you’re going somewhere in Chicago and it becomes clear you’ve wandered into Cubs-fan controlled territory

[bimboficationblues]

especially when they catch your scent and their protruding mandibles start chattering

[havinghorns]

Some more quilts, these all by Pamela Studstill

[thecryptkeeper]

i love women

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