Gotta remind myself not to overdo it when looking at beautiful art. There’s this special golden zone where you’re the most inspired and motivated by other people’s art but it’s so easy to slip into overwhelm and get demotivated :(
So…I have this theory in my head that someone might like.
One day one of my relatives decided to open a cafe near the station where I live. He prepared the equipment, bought the materials, and picked the perfect location. I mean, he thought it was perfect. There were almost no similar establishments in the area, so in his opinion this meant he would have no competition. All the people living near the station would come running happily to him yelling “finally some coffee,” right?
Wrong.
His café stood empty for three months and then closed.
Then he tried again, but this time he chose a place where there were many other cafes like his. There were plenty of prettier and more developed competitors around, but his business still thrived.
Some time after all this happened, he explained to me why this was the case. He said that if there are a lot of cafes somewhere, it means that people there like to eat good food. And the more people there are, the more cafes there are.
The funny thing is that this applies to many other areas and professions.
If you see a lot of things made for people in front of you, it means there are a lot of people nearby who really need those things.
Now, when I see a lot of art for a theme/fandom/character, the first thought that comes to my mind is “damn, there’s LOTS of people who really need art. Who want more art. Who will definitely be happy to see my art.”
It doesn’t take away from the difficulties described in the original post, but it’s what helps me stay positive and productive and absorb tons of other people’s art at the same time:)
Their art just reminds me that people need my work
Me, reading discourse on the internet: woah, this is JUST like dandelions and amaranth and oaks and pawpaw trees
The one thing Darwin was most terribly wrong about has done so much damage.
Darwin believed competition was the main driver of evolution. Now, many scientists are revolutionizing the field with evidence that no, evolution is equally, if not more, driven by a vast web of cooperation.
But people still think about society in a competition-based way.
A woman using the word "partner" to describe her boyfriend somehow "takes away" from gay people??? A cishet guy wearing a dress is somehow bad for transgender people???
Don't y'all know that the most tough and resilient plants thriving in a hostile environment make it possible for the other ones to survive?...
...Anyway this is why I don't shave my legs. Disaster species (autistic who is completely oblivious and indifferent to all social judgement and critique) taking hold in hostile environment (misogynistic society) preparing that environment to support a wide variety of species (many other women who would want to stop shaving but don't want to feel judged and alone)
now i want there to be a comic that's a panorama of a teeming forest with giant trees and mosses and lichens everywhere, the ground is covered in loads of fancy orchids and berries and flowers and the understory is packed with blossoming and fruiting shrubs, there are multicolored birds everywhere and deer browsing in a little meadow full of sunbeams where wildflowers and vines are going wild
Up toward the lower corner two flowers are having a conversation: "We didn't have any of this stuff back when I was young ...orchids that can't even sprout in the first place without the mycorrhizal network!...flowers that can only be pollinated by one specific rare bee...I just think it's getting a little out of control...there are even plants down there in the bog claiming to be carnivorous! Plants that don't even want to have chlorophyll anymore...We're photosynthetic autotrophs! That's a biological fact!...Don't you think it's a little ridiculous? Sixty years ago you never heard about anything like that...The weeds that came here after this place was logged wouldn't have approved of it..."
Some guy: People like you would have never been accepted when we lived in THE WILDERNESS.
The wilderness: *literally interconnected by a vast symbiotic network that distributes resources among the plant community, gets steadily more diverse and supports more fragile species with more specific needs as it matures, everything is interdependent, a huge variety of weird organisms that wouldn't survive in a more hostile environment indicates a thriving ecosystem*
These pictures are killing me
There are many animals I expect to see in caves, but I can confidently say that this was not one of them.
Elephants branch off from mammoths
Cavemen kill all the mammoths
Cavemen leave the caves
Elephants make their own caves
?????
when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”
when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”
by raymond carver
Magnetic ball in magnetic putty
superluminalflower
me trying to get comfortable in my covers at night
thats the kind of thing i would love to just have in a little jar on my shelf so that when people came over they would be really unnerved by the mysterious shifting blob i have in a flask and i would refuse to acknowledge its existence
enrichment
A complete Rainbow... photo was taken at around 30k ft above the Earth. On the ground, we usually only see the arc half of the circle.
I've never seen that. had to reblog.
seasaluki-deactivated20151024
I love everything about this.
@headspacedad Is this true? Because I love the concept of bunnies practically flipping the bird
this is TRUE!
Rabbits rely on body language for the majority of their communication. They also rely on manners in a way that would make the Heian Era aristocrats look uncultured. And you don’t get manner dictates like that without ALSO knowing how to be passive-aggressive with them.
Rabbit flops are super vulnerable for a bunny. Their stomachs are exposed and they’re in a position that means if danger shows up they have to waste precious seconds getting up before they can sprint for safety. A rabbit flop means both ‘I’m so happy I can’t contain it’ and ‘I feel so safe I am going to be vulnerable and really let go’. Rabbit owners love seeing it. It means that your bun really does feel that safe around you. It’s a pretty high compliment from an animal that knows everyone’s out to kill them.
However -
it can also be used passive aggressively in the ‘you mean so little to me you’re not even worth acknowledging as existing’. It’s right on the same level as walking into a room and greeting everyone but one person. An enemy rabbit would be a threat. This rabbit? This rabbit isn’t even important enough to be a threat. They’re a nobunny and so I will flop because there is nothing in the area worthy enough to bother being aware of.
To humans it can look very much the same but trust me, the bunnies know exactly which is which.
We need to better educate kids on the importance of animals that are typically hated because otherwise you end up with adults who think hating wasps is a personality.
Trufax: hatred of wasps is so widespread that it’s prevalent among biologists as well. An entire field full of people getting excited about species that nobody else has heard of, and many have collectively decided that wasps don’t need to be researched, even though they’re threatened by the same things that are threatening bees, and disappearance of wasps will spell bad things for the number of pests found in gardens and farms.
I have a friend wasp named Queeny. She built her nest on a really inconvenient area where I often dump my birds’ uneaten seed or shake towels out. She would come out angrily and buzz at us, ready to defend her home from the strange giants.
Queeny didn’t know that it was our porch she built her home on, she saw a nice ledge and decided that it was a suitable spot to begin her life as a lone female.
So instead of removing the nest and poisoning her with bug spray, you know what I did? I moved the area where I dump my things and started feeding her. I would tap three times on the railing before leaving a treat like fruit, honey, dog food, or pesky beetles I find in my garden, then move away to give them lots of space. At first she would buzz out, wings spread and ready to fight, but after doing this for just a few days…she stopped!
Now when she comes out, it’s slowly and non-threatingly. She tilts her head at me before gingerly inspecting the offerings. She doesn’t threaten my mom any more either, she’s learned that we mean no harm. We’ve started using that ledge to shake sheets out and dump bird seed and she doesn’t mind at all! She just watches quietly.
She even has a family now! Five daughters and one lad- a husband or son, not sure which lmao -who greet us the same, she must’ve taught them that we’re not enemies (or they just grew up used to us). They even protect my garden, since Queeny’s family has grown the invasive Japanese beetle population has plummeted! They really are delightful neighbors.
It’s incredible how smart they are.
Nepeta: :33< mew s33, the purroblem with writing is that it is always easier to just lie facedown on the floor and make incoherent noises.
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
thetatteredveil
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
i need all the help i can get for finals
Hey so
the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.
So you know.
This might be the real one, y’all.
So I had to get nosy and do some research because It's never occurred to me that this kind of effect was possible in the 19th century (upon reading the origins I was like "Oh Shit That's what that is??").
Fabric is made up of basically two parts while being woven, weft (which goes side to side), and warp (which goes up and down).
This dress is made of Shot Silk, so named because of how the weft bobbin of a different color is "shot through" the warp color while the fabric is being woven. The silk in the original post is probably "Dove silk", made of turquoise and magenta fibers which makes that striking iridescent grey color. It was popular all throughout the 18th century, especially in French fashions, and gained a popularity during the American Civil War (cotton production was disrupted and yielding smaller crops as the enslaved peoples involved with production of cotton were dealing with bigger fish to fry, like seeking freedom from slavery and trying not to die).
You might be more familiar with its use in cosplay spaces, specifically with One Disney Princess In Particular
This fabric has so much potential in modern garment making, and I'm so shocked no one else has latched onto it for period pieces. Especially when we have documents suggesting that this technique has existed in Noble and Clergy circles since THE 700'S
Shot silk! What a concept!
yes! shot silk/changeable silk is so pretty. I see it fairly often in late 50s/early 60s party dresses, usually in really intense green/blue but sometimes in pink/orange or blue/purple.
There have been archeological finds of thousand-year-old medieval woollen cloth woven by hand that uses the same effect! It's so cool.
I've seen this before, but it's been years and it just came across my Twitter in its dying days. The words are from a favorite author of mine, Maggie Stiefvater, and they are the words I most need to hear when it comes to dealing with chronic pain and illness. I didn't need this the first time I saw it, six years ago. I need it now. Maybe you do, too.
isekai about a nyc apartment block getting teleported into a fantasy realm, and how this group of people who previously have only had incidental contact with one another come together to build a vibrant community in their new circumstances. there's a season-long arc about introducing bagels and pizza to the fantasy world that gets into the details of sourcing ingredients, developing new technologies, and learning how to work with supernatural substitutions.
Clarifying question: just the people or the buildings and animal life too?
And does it include random people on the street at the time of the transfer?
oh the whole thing for sure, im picturing the whole city block with a crust of sidewalk just dropped onto the outskirts of a small medieval village. im thinking theres probably a corner store and a couple other things included too, so youve got the people who work there or were shopping at the time of the transfer too.
i hadnt thought of animals but having a whole thing w pigeons would be awesome too; have new york feral pigeons meeting with tamed messenger pigeons of the era, a raccoon that was sleeping in a trash can eats a magical necklace and starts talking. love it.
fucking love this. an army of monster rats descend upon the kingdom, led by a single subway rat under the banner of a half-eaten pizza crust
But they do not anticipate the rise of the Hero, their one, true, and most worthy foe—
THE BODEGA CAT
These are my favorite kind of people. Like there is clearly no other reason to be doing this than to give other people an Experience and a Story
Source: instagram.com
This is ‘Clinamen’, by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot (it’s an installation artwork). I got to see it in person and it’s stayed with me since.