Unsigned dreams

Collection of things that make me happy, with a sprinkle of things that interest me.

[titsay]

[laurenillustrated]

Pride and Prejudice Art

A few recent scene redraws from the 2005 Pride and Prejudice film! One of my favorite movies ever.

Prints available in my shop!

I’ve been on a big Jane Austen kick this year and currently reading my way through all the books! So far I’ve read Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and I’m almost finished with Northanger Abbey!

[to-orrr]

cats 🌸

[to-orrr]

tomato

[to-orrr]

here are some more cats 🍓

[iamheavymeta-lll]

[laurelcanyon1966]

by japanese painter and illustrator kato yuzu

[holespoles]

Haruka Kawakami

かわかみはるか

[kawareo]

Tumblr is like our elderly dog and when she makes an especially scary cough we apparently think "oh god it's the big one"

[kawareo]

They're trying to kill her. Go send Feedback about the shitass update it's apparently the only place where they sort of listen

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Since some of you don't seem to understand how this 'new notes' thing works, I'll break it down:

I'm the OP. I'm making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I'm the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.

However...

If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won't see them.

If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog...as OP I won't see that. I won't see any of those notes in my activity page.

Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they're, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn't see it, doesn't get notes for it, but they're gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.

If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it's not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!' then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They'll only see my reblog. So it's possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it's been seen by that many people.

It's killing blow to the community we've built here, by someone higher up who doesn't understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.

That's what sucks.

I encourage people to go to tumblr's support page, select contact support, and then in the dropdown menu select 'Feedback' and leave polite and constructive feedback (for those of you who enjoy 'emails worded politely but are a strong 'are you an idiot?', try that way of wording it). They're more likely to listen to you if you're not an asshole about it. I've already gone and done this, and I hope others will too.

[ruhaniya]

“i’ll take care of you” will be one of the most gentlest things someone can say to you

[titsay]

[holespoles]

Mikiko Noji

野地美樹子

[sammalsiipi]

Cuties from the nearby forest.

[thecollectibles]

Cats in weird places by Djamila Knopf

[huariqueje]

Night Watch - Alice Brasser , 2025.

Dutch , b. 1965 -

Oil on perspex on wood panel , 30 x 24 cm.

[unsigneddreams]

Stumbled upon your post about not being karelian enough and related to it a bit. I've always identified as finnish and my family has also been lutheran so idk if I could even count as a true karelian. Family from värtsilä, kitee and pälkjärvi but because my grandparents didn't lose their homes and north karelia is too near to savo they're not real karelians according to many people. Even though kukkonen, sultsina and karelian pie among many other things have been part of our food culture for generations. They didn't speak the karelian language or dress in beautiful outfits, but the food and manners and way of living are still there. I understand if it's not real enough but it hurts to read that north karelia never had "real" karelian culture etc when I just want to respect my ancestry. But I hope you feel more at ease with your identity, you deserve it and I hope you have a wonderful day whenever you read this. I don't want to make you feel like I'm stealing spotlight with this message, just wanted to say that I felt a bit seen by your post ty <3

Oh hi! I’m so sorry it took me so long to see your message, I tend to come to this account a little less these days, but I still check it from time to time. I do hope you’ll see my reply and thank you for sending me the ask <3

I’m happy you could feel seen by my post 🥺 And I can relate to what you’re saying. At the time I wrote the post I was kind of semi-part of the Karelian community here on tumblr and on discord and just happy to learn. I’m not really part of those anymore, I think in the end I didn’t really fit in. Maybe partly because of what I explained in the post, but also I just didn’t have the same passion to connect more with the culture at the time as I felt was expected. But as much as I sometimes look at Karelian language courses and wonder if I should take part etc, I do still feel like I live the culture, maybe the finnish version of it, but it’s part of my culture and identity in subtle ways and I don’t currently feel that I’d have to perform it more than that, if that makes sense. And just a week or so ago I made Karelian pies from scratch for the first time, somehow it came from muscle memory after watching my grandmother and mom make them so many times and having been taught by them over the years. That was kind of a proud moment for me and made me feel like the tradition will have continuation through me too. So I feel like at least at the moment being Karelian for me is in these kinds of little things and I do feel at ease with that thought. And in a way I am making my own, maybe slow and guided by whatever interests me at times, reconnection to other parts of the culture that I might not know that much about. But I try to not pressure myself with it, I have my own pace.

About you saying your family has been lutheran, mine has been too on my mother’s side, but then I found out my grandmother’s family turned lutheran from orthodox quite a bit before my grandmother was born. So that’s always a possibility around here. Also part of my family line comes from värtsilä too.

If you see my reply and want to chat more about this topic my ask box is open :) (dms are open too, but no pressure)

[thecollectibles]

Art by Kamura