Galaxy of Poetry

Throwback thursday to when I was like 12 and I was putting out new writing DAILY...... Like entire Chapters of my then-current wips just, over an afternoon. What the fuck was I on

Nobody:

Me, age 12, just started drinking coffee:

I drew 14 pictures during the day, and wrote 32 pages a night. Now I can’t do shit.

A huge part of this is because you've gotten better! And now, when you're drawing/writing/doing whatever creative task, you're not just mindlessly throwing thoughts at your paper, you're thinking as you do it. Children can churn out a lot more work because it's not yet refined, but when you're older and have more practice, you work with all these thoughts running through your head about form and shape, color palettes or word choice. Now, you're making a dozen decisions with every moment of work, and you're also questioning the decisions you've just made, wondering if you can do it better. Don't beat yourself up about producing less work now than you did back then, because every sentence or shape involves a lot more effort for you now, than it did when you were ten and brand new to this hobby.

Also you have a job now and the never-ending bullshit that is laundry and dishes and feeding yourself.

forever

Commissioned piece for PG!

Source

Video of Tama

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The picture in the background of the second one

Tama is boss

THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

Beautiful.

Now I’m crying thanks

and a new cat was hired right?

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

she works very hard

Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

Law

I’m crying at 11pm over train cats

Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016).  There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

a legacy

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better

You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)

world heritage post

I thought i was on the wrong website

("Tell our userbase it was planned, Jenkins.")

"- Good job 'Fei, 'Ro's in another space. I totally lost my boyfriend. - What about you? Not reading the book I gave you? - Me? Naaah, I'm a streetrat remember? Gotta maintain the reputation."

I made this for the @gundamzine. I just want them to be fine now.

HEY ITS THE ART THAT INSPIRED THIS!!!!!!!!!

Oh this is cool! I saw this comic and was like ... is that... about my drawing?

Midnight Shiranui

one of the characters in harvest moon DS that u can marry is a mute woman who’s always asleep on the 255th floor of the mines. u literally have to make it to the 255th floor of the mines every time you want to see her or give her a gift. her favorite item (the only item she loves) is golden lumber which is the most expensive item in game. here’s a picture of her asleep in the mines (which are full of monsters btw) i dont understand anything about this tbh. complete respect to anyone who actually manages to marry her i don’t think i ever bothered to meet her once 

Sea Fever! My favorite poem in the world, especially as the season ends each year and I get nostalgic. I hope I’ve done it justice. _ other comics /art /ko-fi /patreon

lady chirp featherfowl

me personally? i die every night and come back wrong every morning but no one notices because i've been doing that for a long time so it's just kinda par for the course

you're my king and I'm your lionheart

(Am I actually posting on Tumblr again??? Idk but it seems as good a time as any doesn't it)

Water biscuits

This is a spiritual companion to that exclamation point kitty.

my main problem with totk is I cannot pick up my nephew & give him a hug

some spider people <3

Ok so genuinely this is a problem in the modern world.

I work at a university as classroom technology support, and this past semester there was a debate in a business class about the oil industry and climate change. Several of the students simply said “Well, I don’t care about all that ‘nature’ stuff. We don’t live there. It doesn’t serve mankind. I have a fiduciary duty to my shareholders, my customers, and my employees, not to some endangered owl or whatever.”

And as the semester went on I realized that this was a common attitude. These people think of Humanity as wholely separate from the environment. There is Nature and Man. They literally do not understand that we are dependent upon the environment, and seem to think that climate change is a “nature” problem. That even if every wild thing goes extinct that humans will somehow be fine, that agriculture will just keep trucking on. Sure maybe some “primitive” people will die but whatever.

Thankfully there were other students who were as appalled and confused by this assertation as I was. But it still seemed to be a *majority* opinion. People *do not understand* that we live *in* the environment. That we depend on it just as much as “some endangered owl or whatever.” And what hurts that owl *eventually hurts us*.