Art and Musings

[technofinch]

ok new oc ask game

Send me 📻 + an oc and I'll give you a random song off their playlist + an explanation of why it's there

[cantabilechaos]

I like when cats are like busy doing something and not really in the mood to be pet so they like walk past you at exactly the right distance to be just barely out of reach and if you lean forward they very slightly increase their pace to avoid getting caught in the affection zone. Like oh sorry sir I didn’t realize you were in the middle of important business. We can reschedule this for another time

[my-dailydreams]

[my-dailydreams]

[limitedmedicine]

【Rippi/リッピ】

fuzzy bugs series

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@shiba0607

[anonymousalchemist]

happy birthday to all the queers I assume it just works like horse birthdays where they all turn a year older on Jan 1.

[thedreamthieves]

i once again want to say that hulu used to be entirely free with ads, and if you watched two minutes worth of commercials at the start of an episode the next 24 hours would be commercial-free. and now you pay $11.99 per month to watch things with commercials. what the fuck are we doing and how did we allow this to happen lol.

[mothman-etd]

Not sure got to feel when the hobby book says this should only take an hour but it took me 5 hours.

[gallusrostromegalus]

1. Hobby books are often written by the same people who think you can caramelize onions in 5 minutes

2. Hobby books are even more often written by people who don't have or are actively neglecting their partners/full-time jobs/pets/children/household maintenance.

3. Hobby books are often written by people with ADHD, and an hour in ADHD hyperspace is like 2-7 hours for everyone else, including other ADHD people who are not currently in the zone.

4. Hobby books are written by people who, when told by an editor to add in how long it will take, just make shit up

5. If you're doing something for the first time, you're going to take way, way longer to do it than someone who's had years of practice. Maybe it does only take an hour IF YOU'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR TEN YEARS. Think about how long it took you to make idk your first excel spreadsheet vs how long it takes now

To actually answer your question: proud. You should feel proud, because you made something, AND you did so while learning a brand-new skill! Go you!!

May I ask what the Allegedly-One-Hour project was? Both because I like hearing about what my friends are doing and I want to see how wildly inaccurate the listed time scope is.

[lichenaday]

I got lichens growing on one side of my car because I park in the same direction every day. Any chance they'll damage the paint or can I leave them?

Yeah, they probably will. Or more correctly, they already have. But I am on team lichen in this debate so I would argue that you should leave them, paint job be damned. But that is totally just me.

[dietspam16]

everyone has paint on their car. how many people can say they have lichen.

[lichenaday]

Plus when was the last time the paint on your car converted carbon dioxide in oxygen??? (probably) Never! Lichens>paint

[probablybadrpgideas]

"vampire media should draw from bat behaviour more"

VtM character who regularly performs oral sex in exchange for food

[gay-trans-lgbt-advice]

Thank god for titties and pasta

[sapphic-orpheus]

as an Italian, I’d like to make this my motto, thank you

[henk-heijmans]

Island cat - by Hans Silvester (1938), German

[lacetulle]

Joli Poli Couture

[konoko]

[penny-anna]

Do Eridians know they are different colours. I bet Grace's alien kids love finding out what colour they are. It means absolutely nothing to them but they're like :O :O

[penny-anna]

Some of them think he's making this whole 'colour' thing up to mess with them and try to catch him out by asking again on a different day to prove he's just saying random noises but he's like you are still blue buddy and they're like :O :O

[penny-anna]

Like if we met an alien species who had extra senses & they said that some humans felt spingly and some humans felt spoingly I bet we'd all want to know if we were spingly or spoingly humans

[penny-anna]

#we would create an entire new astrology system about it#spoinglology

Grace, watching the eridian children develop a whole astrology-esque personality typing system based around what colour they are: oh god what have I done

[strive-to-be-human]

Rocks are different colors because of the minerals that make up their matrices. Eridians know what color they are, they just don't describe it that way. Their bodies resonate at different frequencies due to the properties of the different minerals.

If anything, they are shocked that Friend Grace can tell, because there's so much else about Eridians that he's blisteringly ignorant about! So, yes. The kids absolutely try to catch him in a lie, but they think it's because he's faking Resonance Listening.

[uncanny-tranny]

I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)

Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)

Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often

Eat dessert first

Celebrate well, and often

Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)

Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.

Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate

Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)

Walk without having a specific destination or goal

Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.

I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.

[enki2]