all the colours

18+, she/her, tired WOC, be nice or get gone. probably not writing rn

[teejaystumbles]

Poppy King  (I’m obsessed, I told you)

O soft embalmer of the still midnight,    Shutting, with careful fingers and benign, Our gloom-pleas’d eyes, embower’d from the light,    Enshaded in forgetfulness divine: O soothest Sleep! if so it please thee, close    In midst of this thine hymn my willing eyes, Or wait the “Amen,” ere thy poppy throws    Around my bed its lulling charities. Then save me, or the passed day will shine Upon my pillow, breeding many woes,—    Save me from curious Conscience, that still lords Its strength for darkness, burrowing like a mole;    Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul.

To Sleep - John Keats

[within-a-dream-perchance]

L O V E 💖

[nocandleinthewind]

12th August 2026

The light from the eclipse, projecting through the gaps in a tall tree, was quite the spectacle

[unpredictable-probabilities]

Too Many Nights, a night without armor, Jewel

[draconym]

I think it sucks that you have to go to so many different kinds of doctor to take care of yourself. It's the 21st century. I should be able to go to a single office where they scan me with a big xerox machine and tell me what I'm allergic to and why my tummy hurts and if I have any cancer or cavities or if my glasses prescription has changed. And then I should get a sticker.

[tintaymetraje]

The Sandman (2022)

[velvet-jellyfish]

If you get into white work embroidery, you might discover cutwork. And when you start doing cutwork, you might get curious about incorporating detached elements. And before you know it the fabric is gone, you are making needle lace, and there goes the rest of your week.

Buttonhole stitch - not even once.

[famouspainterwombat]

[subjectsix]

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

[subjectsix]

glad this post is resonating with the local populace fr

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[creatingblackcharacters]

The drama! The skill! The cinematography! It's ART! IT'S ALL ART!!

[chilewithcarnage]

[within-a-dream-perchance]

JAW. ON. FLOOR.

[taimatsu910761]

[eka-mark]

This is a particularly lovely example of the wallpaper pattern known as "2222" (in orbifold notation) or "p2" (in crystallographic notation). I've marked the four distinct gyration points of order 2 below; these are the points you could rotate the pattern 180° about without changing how the pattern looks.

[expressions-of-nature]

by Jordan Doane

[ecneir]

[softiekurbie]

Maria Del Pilar, Joana Choumali, 2022.

[hylltonart]

Faun lady.

timelapse

[dangercocktail]

[release-the-sheep]

just witnessed something devastating

guy on the subway with one ear pierced, little gold hoop. other guy on the subway very quickly and subtly googling "which one is the gay ear". it is not the gay ear. visible disappointment on his face as he puts his phone away.

[apoemaday]

Embrace

by Billy Collins

You know the parlor trick. wrap your arms around your own body and from the back it looks like someone is embracing you her hands grasping your shirt her fingernails teasing your neck from the front it is another story you never looked so alone your crossed elbows and screwy grin you could be waiting for a tailor to fit you with a straight jacket one that would hold you really tight.