lolwhut

I need a space where I am free to be stupid.

[raidfozan]

ثنائيات

Adam Styka (1890-1959)

[jannaphia]

I’m deep in the 19th century art hole and every time I think I’ve seen them all I find another painting that makes me go !!!!

[appeltaart27]

?? you cant just say this and then not share the painting in question!!

[jannaphia]

you are absolutely right!!

Arthur Trevethin Nowell, 1887 - Captives

Honestly where do I start? The movement? The composition? The lighting?

Look how much more it seems like she's leaning forward because the tree and the man curve away and around her? Like Tantalos who reached for fruit but the tree would bend away from him? That's what this feels like. And then there are these other two, pulling her away into the opposite direction. So there's a lot of movement! But what makes it even better is how he still stabilized the image with a lot of hidden vertical lines!

Also the contrasts? Fantastic! Like the one between the metal of his armor and her flowly dress or her light face vs the other faces kept in darkness or the light foreground vs the dark background,...

Also the edges are amazing! Everyone tells you corners are not important but here? Wrong! Her foot is like an anchor that stop the eye from falling out of the image so it's a lot more rendered than the flower petals.

And don't even get me started on the rendering...

Ok I'll stop here tl;dr: BEAUTIFUL 10/10

[jannaphia]

you know what I'm not done, I found something else:

The reason why it doesn't look like they're senselessly pulling at her? Because the action is actually built up like a spiral, whoa! There's a lot going on behind her back, but because of the spiral your eyes don't linger there and instead are lead towards her body and then towards her head.

It's not just the spiral, though, there's another line of movement hidden in those hands:

And not only that, they're grouped together in the shape of a pentagon! Simple shapes are easy to recognize, so it tells your eye where to go immediately.

who gave you the right

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[water-aesthetics]

[humansofnewyork]

“My parents didn’t know much about deafness. They were young. They were adjusting to life in America. And they barely spoke English, so they had no way of advocating for me. I didn’t get my first hearing aids until elementary school. And those helped a lot, but they didn’t actually restore my hearing, they just amplified sound. It could be hard to pinpoint voices. And I still had to read lips, so I was constantly asking people to talk slower. It was exhausting. And I felt like a burden, like I was constantly pushing my disability on other people. Eventually I just stopped trying to engage, which came with its own set of problems. I developed a reputation as someone who never spoke. I got bullied quite a bit. The majority of my social interaction came from my older brother Brian. It was just a typical sibling relationship. We annoyed each other, and got in fights. I envied how easily he made friends at school. But he always made a point of saying ‘hi’ to me in the hallway. He’d even scream it sometimes. And that meant so much to me. Because people could see, that even if I didn’t mean much to them, I was important to somebody. After school Brian and I would watch a lot of TV together. It was a safe space for me. He was the one person that I never had to ask to turn on subtitles. There was no obligation to socialize, or interact, or anything else I struggled with. We’d just sit there. And be together. Maybe it didn’t mean much to him, because he had so many friends. But it meant a lot to me. Both of us are grown now. We’ve matured a lot. And we understand each other better. Not long ago my dog passed away, and it was so hard for me. She’d been with me for fifteen years. I’d leaned on her so much. And that first week I couldn’t bear to be alone. I went into Brian’s room and just plopped down on his spare bed. He didn’t say a word. He just turned on The Office and switched on the subtitles. He left it playing for the entire week. It was his way of being there for me. We didn’t speak much. We just watched the show together. But it was my way of silently telling him that I needed somebody. And his way of silently telling me that he understood.”

[biladal-sham]

Rice fields in the Mazandaran Province, Iran. A. Abbas

[fierce]

[feliciachiao]

I’ve been feeling overwhelmed lately.

[scenerybook]

[573p5]

[benditlikekorra]

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. [x][x]

[multiscales]

[bogleech]

They really finally havin these real talks in the anime huh

[morphimus]

Serperior said fuck protecting people.

[totem-kommo-o]

Serperior does have hands, but would probably just slither past you without taking them off their back

[nitashinori]

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

So what I’m hearing is

this is Serperior.

[thoughtkick]

All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.

Iain Thomas, from I Wrote This For You (via thoughtkick)

[2aminhouston]

[sartorialadventure]

Vietnamese ao nhat binh

[sanskritistories]

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

-John Green

[m1tos1s]

the only reason i still have depression is because i can’t take my brain out of my skull and blow on it like a ds cartridge