Artistic Thoughts

Autistic & Trans (she/he/they)

[petapeta]

[hunter-rodrigez]

[cameoamalthea]

I think I like the message that in order to avoid harm we should research and find a method that eliminates risks all together rather than settling for a solution that causes the least amount of harm.

[anarcha66]

Honestly, I love the idea of a vampire who only drinks blood taken from blood banks and hospitals, because it so beautifully encompasses someone who's more concerned with the vibes of something than the actual impact of it.

Drinking from someone on the street, barring some other condition they may have, isn't likely to kill them unless you gorge yourself. Taking blood packs? There's always a shortage of blood, and having even less of it runs the very real risk of getting someone killed in a way that is wholly out of your control once you've sipped on that blood. Someone you can't assure the innocence or guilt of, if you're the type of person who cares about that.

Despite that, in popular stuff, I often see discussions of drinking from a blood bank being somehow better or preferable, and yeah. No. The only thing it does is make you feel better while doing more harm, because of that degree of removal. You're effectively drinking blood from someone on the cusp of hypovolemic shock, but since it's not straight from the tap, some people seem to think it's better.

[chaoticgabby]

[ashes-and-static]

not leaving that thought in the tags friend

[magescythe]

list of mundane things that feel like ancient human rituals

cleaning or wipe your bare feet

breaking off a piece of bread and handing it to someone

putting the weight of a basket on your hip or head

eating nuts or berries while hunched over close to the ground

seeing something startling just out of your line of sight and very quickly stepping or leaping on to a larger object to get a better view

cupping your hands into running water to wash your face

the unanimous protection of a baby or child in a public space where women are present

when an elderly woman laughs and grips your forearm tightly

[icarus-suraki]

May I add?

Touching someone’s face with the back of your hand to see if they have a fever

Stopping to watch animals moving in groups (geese, fish, horses, butterflies, bees)

Helping an elderly person to walk or sit

[xactodreams]

telling stories around a fire

huddling together for warmth when it’s cold

marveling at sunlight through leaves

wonderment at the brightness of a full moon

bringing food to sick or grieving families

[charmirthir]

[devincastro]

[tguzz]

I will always reblog this

[maxinbc-deactivated20210518]

Beautiful

[carldangerous]

This video made me cry the first time I saw it when I was a teenager because I didn‘t know if I would ever have those kinds of moments, but I just finished cooking dinner for my boyfriend of more than two years, whom I took home for Christmas to be warmly welcomed by my parents, whom I didn’t think would ever accept me. I wish I could tell 16 year old me about what my life would be 9 years later

[carldangerous]

We got married yesterday btw

[carldangerous]

Married 2 years now

[luulapants]

actually once you do vote by mail once, it feels STUPID that in-person voting is even a thing. getting to sit with your ballot in your house, easily see your options, have time to do research and consider your choice, talk with friends and neighbors about their vote. it's especially so for small local elections and primaries where you might not have heard about different candidates and really have to ask around, attend local events, or dig into local news stories to find out who they are and what they stand for. but, of course, not allowing voters to easily research and carefully consider their votes is why there is opposition to vote by mail in the first place.

[kedreeva]

I get the sentiment, but in person voting needs to remain a thing. Not an exclusive thing, absolutely not, but the choice needs to be there.

People that don't have a residence to send a mail in ballot to need to be able to go in person if they can. People in situations with abusive spouses or partners or families need to be able to go in person and be allowed to vote without influence, if they can. People who would feel pressured to vote one way or another, or feel pressured to show their ballot to someone else if doing it at home. People that can't read or write and don't have anyone they know or trust enough to help them with the ballot can get help at the in person places. They can ask questions of the volunteers there to assist. People that are nervous to do it alone can go in person together and make a little event of it. Sometimes the mail gets misplaced or stolen.

There are a lot of reasons that in person voting is a thing and should remain a thing, just not an exclusive thing. I want to receive my ballot in the mail to my house that I own, and spend time with my wonderful spouse looking up the candidates and reading each other their stances on stuff we care about, and I want to drive my car over to the township building at my leisure and pass my completed ballot to a human being so I know it was received. But I also understand not everyone is in that kind of position, and that having more than one option on how to vote is essential actually. Voting should be as easy and accessible to as many people as possible.

[dreamilypurpleoutcast]

[evergreen-femme]

had to share this

[wizardshark]

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

[lea-knows-the-devil]

teach your friends this NEW secret handshake! it goes like this:

touching tips

scissoring

foxgirls kissing

[fladurblegon]

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

[breninarthur]

"What if poor people abuse the system?"

Rich people abuse the system far more and out of pure greed, not necessity or desperation so idrc about that

[weedle-testaburger]

'being secular does not automatically make you progressive and being religious does not automatically make you conservative', i say. everyone boos, but i know I'm right

[concerningwolves]

Every now and then this little card falls out the back of my journal (where it will live until I decide what to do with it), and every time I'm like yes, thank you, I will meet the pygmy shrew again. and I am delighted to do so! i also think many people on Tumblr would like to meet it too

[scribeherself]

still, there are strawberries staining your fingertips, cats asleep in impossible shapes, dog-eared books, thunderstorms heard from beneath warm blankets, handwritten letters, peaches in july, old songs through open windows, the smell of libraries, flowers growing through sidewalk cracks, someone remembering how you take your coffee, and the moon faithfully showing up every night as if she has never once considered giving up on us.

[shrimpy-in-wonderland]

Some Queenie fo today

[sapphicgardensinmymind]

i’ve never seen a mouse that looks so much like a mouse before

[great-and-small]

She looks like she belongs on the cover of a beloved illustrated children’s book 🥺

[kyleesarthell]

Recollection (2/2)

[kyleesarthell]

Recollection (1/2

[mikkeneko]

After years of living in the adulting world, I think I’ve come to a realization: Manners exist to guide you to good conduct even when you’re in a bad mood.

When you’re happy, when you’re feeling generous, when you’re pleased with your gift or your service or your outcome, it’s easy to be nice. It’s easy to tip the waiter well when you’ve had a good day. It’s easy to thank the teller or the clerk when you got what you wanted out of the transaction. It’s easy to smile and chit-chat with strangers on the road when you’re in a good mood.

It’s hard to tip the waiter when you didn’t enjoy your food. It’s hard to thank the clerk for their time when you’ve just been told there’s a problem with their account and they weren’t able to fix it for you. It’s hard to think of something nice to say when your aunt gave you a crappy sweater you neither need nor want. It’s hard to be nice to people when you’ve had a shitty day. It’s HARD.

That’s what manners are for. Scripts and phrases that you learn by rote to say when you can’t think of a single nice or good thing to say from your own volition. Yes, they’re scripted. Yes, the sentiment is empty. But the scripts work in every situation, and the emptiness provides a buffer between your own unhappiness and the rest of society.

Because most of the time, it’s not the waiter’s fault that the food you ordered wasn’t what you expected. It’s not the clerk’s fault that your account is overdrawn. It’s not the fault of the barista or the stranger on the subway that you got fired today or your favorite aunt died. But even when you can’t summon a smile or a cheery word, you can still have manners, because they will serve you the same in sunshine or rain.

[animatedamerican]

This is very wise and very well put.

[crabussy]

this one gets it. it's a flippant yet enigmatic and inclusive hand wave in survey form and I love it