Yellow Walls, Blue Sky

[its-jesster]

The Fool: Beginnings, Freedom, Innocence

[todaysbird]

i really love this piece - bird window collision deterrents should absolutely be mandatory for large buildings not only in NY, but nationwide. designing architecture to not kill the world around us should be the norm.

[todaysbird]

don’t leave this in the comments!

[lamajaoscura]

If anyone is looking for ideas, Chicago Bird Collision Monitors has done decades of advocacy work in this area and fought for real improvements in saving birds. Their work on lights-out and preventing window strikes have had a big impact on the local ecosystem.

[strangehorse]

OCD recovery is cosmically unfair because it's the only disorder i know of where the treatment is 'okay! now make yourself feel worse'

[strangehorse]

depression recovery: go for a walk. eat some nice food. meet with a friend. be kind to yourself.

OCD recovery: okay, so it's very important to accept that we cannot definitively rule out that you are mega-hitler, and you may have caused 9/11

[sturionic]

"Learn the fundamentals first" seems like really sound universal advice, and as a former classical musician, I can vouch for it. You will have a more solid foundation for increasing complexity if you put in the time to study in a structured way. If you don't, you'll have a lot of shit to fix later.

As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.

You have official permission from your local pretentious classical music snob: fuck the fundamentals. You can always unfuck them later (but only if you want to).

[sturionic]

Oh my. This one seems to be in the process of breaching containment, so I'm going to add my own tags back to the post. For anything involving repetitive motions, book at least a few lessons with a teacher (or ask someone you know with expertise) to show you correct posture!! And continue to check in with someone knowledgeable IRL every few months in case your posture drifts as you are building your own practice habit. Yes, IRL - it's hard for people online to catch nuances in posture that could be harmful to you!

[polkadotmotmot]

Nikoleta Sekulovic - Anna Karenina, 2025 - Acrylic and oil stick on linen

[frostedmagnolias]

Suit

c. 1947

Black and white wool gingham skirt suit. Jacket with padded shoulders and insertions on right torso and sleeve. Four sizes of check fabric used in jacket.

by Adrian Ltd., Los Angeles

Drexel University

[traincat]

Ever think about how Peter Parker was trying to get married at age eighteen and just didn't stop until he succeeded at the ripe old age of twenty-three. A monster.

[aleshakills]

*getting too in the weeds of the worldbuilding of a horny tumblr post* Okay I get that you're saying princess, but honestly the dynamic you're describing here seems more like you want to be a duchess or even a lower noble

[aleshakills]

You wanna be the villainess in an otome anime

[aleshakills]

This has nothing to do with historical accuracy by the way. It's about the genre conventions and the internal logic of the scenario. If you wanna be a princess getting kidnapped by a dragon or running of to faerie, go for it. If you wanna be a prize locked away in a tower, or an aspiring despot, be a princess.

If you want to have an intense homoerotic rivalry with another girl you met at magical boarding school, you're the daughter of a marquis at best.

[ditch-lily]

so when louis meowed how did he share that to daniel in the interview? did he sit at his 10 foot long divorce table with armand on the other end, look him in the eye and meow?? how did it go down louis I just wanna know

[1327-1]

based tags @runestele

[valtsv]

i just know there was a weird little girl in the middle ages out there stealing snake's eggs and putting them in her family's chicken coop in the hope of hatching a basilisk

[valtsv]

god i love the internet because if i said shit like this to people irl they'd probably just stare at me blankly but when i post it online everyone in the notes reacts like this

[pmamtraveller]

By Giulia Calio.

[freegiftjones]

one time i was making potato soup and i needed broth for it but i was out of broth. but in my dog food cabinet there was a carton of chicken broth that i had bought for my dog. now the box did say HUMAN GRADE and the ingredients were just bog standard chicken broth. it did say something about joint health for dogs on there. but the ingredients were normal. i even compared the ingredients list to some normal person broth and they were the same. so i did put dog broth in that soup and it did taste completely normal. but i did use the dog broth.

[chicknparm]

[enbyfication]

priest kink but midway through sex you find out he's one of those liberal protestant priests so it's like not even a big deal for him. and he just wanted to fuck you for normal reasons

[enbyfication]

and it didn't even symbolise anything when he sighed and unbuttoned the top button of his shirt and put his clerical collar on the dresser by the side of the bed. his neck was just feeling a bit tight

[urgetocreate]

Sergiu Ciochina (Moldovan b.2001), Trees in Summer, Paris, 2026, Oil on canvas

[geminivenusgirl]

something i find hilarious is that when harrow first sees coronabeth again in htn she describes her as having the same features as ianthe.

which like yeah. they’re twins.

but when they’re first introduced in gtn, gideon basically says their only similarity is that they’re both blonde and tall, which implies that:

A. gideon is an unreliable narrator because she’s too distracted by her attraction to corona

B. harrow is an unreliable narrator because she’s attracted to ianthe despite her better judgement

C. it’s a mixture of both

[redstonedust]

as a lifelong nerd and hater nothing has been more devastating than realising that school's weekly gym classes were actually a pretty good idea for my general health and wellbeing.

[puppygirldick]

Morphological differences between thorns, spines, and prickles

[oodlenoodleroodle]

"Every rose has its thorns" - wrong. Prickles