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…but first of all— and in the end, too — [writing] is an art, a craft, a making. And that is the joy of it.

To make something well is to give yourself to it, to seek whole-ness, to follow spirit. To learn to make something well can take your whole life. It's worth it.

#on writing #ursula k. le guin #steering the craft #quotes

caesarsaladinn

reading poetry forces you to ask wrenching, necessary, impossible questions, like "is the author stupid? or am I?"

deadacademic

abdesignhouse

Beautiful Libya Oum Al Ma “ the mother of the water ” south Libya Source “ the Libya we know”

#worldbuilding fodder

pussypopstar

I'm, above all else, a tangentgirl. always saying shit like "sidenote," "oh also," "by the way,"

wedarkacademia

- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)

#evelyn waugh #quotes #uff

babyanimalgifs

This is truly incredible.

underthebeechtrees

One of my very favourite things ♥️

#always a reblog

sesiondemadrugada

Lorna Simpson.

#ooh #art

thekinglemingle

I referred to something as a "real Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra moment" in conversation with someone who has never seen TNG, and let me tell you, that was a real Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra moment

#the perils of being a Trekkie

orpheuslament

sorry for romanticising the mundane. i have little else

elodieunderglass

beckysquiltingagain

The goal: mimic the brushstrokes

Found a pic on a college website that showed the paint and brushstrokes well. There were a lot of colors of paint in those strokes. So my brain was like ok, build up the colors of the paint too. And then later my brain was like what were you thinking building up all that thread. And then when today after the fourth additional color, my brain was like you gotta stop now or you never will. Then when I pulled it off the frame and stepped back, my brain (with a headache today) says see, told you.

Now to take something to make it stop hurting, and then bind and deliver…

foolinapril

Holy amazing banana pants

underthebeechtrees

😲

#art

aenslem

Some of our readers have been writing in wanting to know what you people look like. Far Beyond The Stars (1998) || STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE

#can confirm all writers are in fact incredibly attractive

huariqueje

The Sun At Tresaith Beach - Bill Bate

British, b. 1962 -

Oil on canvas, 92 x 122 cm.

#art #a little bit of beauty

scorchroots

I've never loved anyone as much as I love Ursula Le Guin

#on writing #and also on chilling out

catchymemes

themaskismyface

My show is being rebooted. We have better executives now.

katsdom

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

"If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!

"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."