So there’s this artist, Alex Schaefer, who makes a bunch of paintings of Chase Bank burning.

There’s just

so many of these

and I think it’s incredibly funny but

I just read this bit from the artist and

And I just think this is the greatest artist statement I’ve ever read.

Children playing in Peshawar on Eid 1957

It’s never been more lonely or isolating to be a young person than these last 5 years. Meeting actual people you can connect with takes a lot of energy and time so at the end of the day it’s the vulnerable people that are being left behind

And sometimes I lay awake and think ‘’What if I will forever be this lonely little thing? What if I die like this?’’ so im putting effort into preventing that. But I know not everyone is able to do that. I guess what im trying to say is that I suspect there are a lot of lonely people and these numbers will only increase. So if you’re lonely rn I just wanna say that you’re not alone in this. It’s just really hard

Working on French LSAT and seeing this on my feed warmed my heart idk why

TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries (x)

literally no r/prequelmemes meme will or can ever top this I don’t even know what to say other than good luck ever creating a single image that reaches this astral plane

a very badly constructed peloponnesian war meme for @derelictship

Having donated our FYC budget, making a big stink about ourselves online is our only chance at getting the attention of Emmy voters.

If you’re a Game Changer fan, I’d really appreciate you taking the time to post about why – and using the  #emmyforgamechanger hashtag! 

This has been a PSA.

I’m trying not to reblog posts on this blog but I feel that this is important to post here.

on a related note:

And for the people asking “Well if you don’t support it irl then why would you like it in fiction?!” Because when it’s happening irl real people are suffering and dying and that’s horrible and I’d never want that. But when it’s fiction, when no real people are being hurt or killed, it’s interesting to explore the experience, the effects it may have, and to an extent experience the emotions involved without actually having to experience the horrible thing. You explore scary, dangerous things from a safe distance.

Love that they put “a sense of impending doom” as one of the symptoms of a heart attack, like girl, that’s just how it is to be alive these days, you’re gonna have to be more specific

This made me chuckle but after scrolling away I felt the need to come back to it.

Because as someone who has felt this I can not stress how different it actually is from anxiety. Which is saying a lot because I have a massive anxiety disorder.

I've only felt this twice in my life - once when I was going into kidney failure due to an infection and again when my body was going into shock due to dehydration and malnourishment due to GI issues - and I can not stress how much it saved my life. It's hard to even put it into words. It's not like a panic attack, or anxiety. It is a horrific gut turning feeling of absolute dread.

Especially if you have anxiety you'll know the difference honestly. It's so much worse. It's every cell in your body and your brain screaming that there's something horribly wrong in a way you've never felt. It's your brain screaming out that you are going to die in a way no panic attack has ever done before.

I can not stress how important it is to get yourself to the ER if you feel this way. Especially if your having other physical symptoms.

This is amazing and incredibly helpful, oh my god. Thank you.

Seconding the above : I was going into shock from internal bleeding, and that sense of “something is gravely wrong” was entirely different from my day-to-day whirlwind of anxiety.

For me, it was very quiet. For me, there was a deep sense that I could just lie down on the floor and not have to ever get up again, no effort required.

That combined wrongness/relief was so weird and so unsettling that I drove myself to the ER.

The “impending” part is really key to that symptom, I think, based on my experience. It’s not the existential dread of late-stage capitalism grinding the world into nurdles. It’s a ghost crow on your shoulder whispering “it’s here, it’s now.”

Impending doom is also a feature of anaphylaxis, something I’m intimately familiar with as someone with mast cell dysfunction.

For me, its the overwhelming, near calm certainty of doom that distinguishes it from the jittery panic of “but something could go wrong.”

There’s no “what if?” There’s no room to question it. It just IS. And it’s very different from the “calm” of disassociation too. I’m not disassociated from myself when it happens. I’m probably actually the most present ever.

I’ve turned to doctors and told them calmly and with utter certainty “I am going to die” and the reaction that calm certainty gets is immediate intervention because doctors also recognize that stillness as the body not bothering to waste any time on fight or flight and just going straight to “death is imminent due to some internal failing, act accordingly.”

Rocky Horror is turning 50 next month and people still act like being gay was invented by Ellen in 1997

But honestly! Renowned French poet Théophile de Viau wrote the poetic ode to King James titled "The Duke of Buckingham," containing the immortal lines "One man fucks Monsieur le Grand de Bellegarde/Another fucks the Comte de Tonnerre/And it is well known that the King of England/Fucks the Duke of Buckingham" exactly 400 years ago and people still act like being gay was invented by Oscar Wilde in 1890

Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were buried together in the 25th century BC and people still act like being gay was invented by renowned French poet Théophile de Viau 400 years ago

King Gilgamesh ruled in the 27th century BC and did not have his lover Enkidu die in epic poetry to have people act like being gay was invented 4500 years ago.

birds can be gay which means dinosaurs, do you see where I'm going with this.

This whole semester I've been in a poetry class with poets dealing with poetry and I have no idea what's going on at any point in time. As a prose writer I'm used to being able to point at something and say "This is or isn't working for me for xyz reasons" but the poets are using words like lineation and syntax and enjambment and kinda floating around giving any concrete opinions. Do my poems suck ass or not? I'm so confused.

When poets take fiction courses they tell me that they're confused by how structured the workshop is and I get why now. It's a really weird form of anarchy in there where everyone reads poems by making their voice go down at the end of every line. I feel like I'm gonna float away like a balloon. Where am I? I think after this semester I'm gonna go back to just the fiction workshops and the set format. Everyone says what's working well, everyone gives advice for potential improvement. I think I'm more in my element there. The poets are fun to hang out with though. It's funny to watch them stress out over having to write an entire page of words. They don't know what to do with themselves when they have to write prose. They're so caught up in making everything sound pretty that at times their prose becomes so jam packed with pretty language and metaphor that it's nearly unreadable and I love them for that.

I thought I had a relatively large vocabulary before I took this class. Apparently not. Apparently poets get access to some secret third layer of English that's full of very specific words that your average person can't remember or conceive of after they look at them.

*holds a reporters microphone up to you*

How do you feel about me not using any enjambment here?

literally the most normal tag i have seen on this. thank you for simply tagging #dog and not “you must answer his riddles three” or “why the long face” or “he is melting!” etc.

from the tags.

Shout out to the day i killed the queen via AO3, legendary (name of the fanfic is jigens sick adventure, yes it is a sickfic)

No thoughts.

Only Jeane-Pierre Gibrat illustration of women.

funds for indigenous communities affected by the canada wildefires

i’ll update this as i find more fundraising initiatives and please free to share your own. reblogs with anything than sharing resources/mutual aid requests/fundraising opportunities get blocked.