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Make More Art & Be More Kind

@portraitoftheoddity / portraitoftheoddity.tumblr.com

'Lena: Multifandom. Artist. Utterly terrible influence. - About Me | My Art Tag | AO3 | Instagram | Twitter

Since I have a handful of new followers...

Hi. I’m Lena. I’m a terrible art goblin, 30+, and this is my predominantly-fandom blog where I reblog assorted content relevant to my interests, and post occasional plot ideas, thoughts and art. 

My art tag is #Lena’s Art Thing - I post a mix of polished finished work and really dumb doodles.

Current fannish things I’m into these days:

  • Trigun: Stampede (and some OG Trigun & Trimax)
  • Marvel (comics + MCU)
  • My Hero Academia (tagged as #bnha)
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender
  • Arcane (tagged as #arcane netflix)

Plus a smattering of Good Omens, Fullmetal Alchemist, Dragon Age, the Magnus Archives, and assorted other fandoms. I also like art, nature photography, D&D, and tallships.

I am also on:

Thanks for stopping by, check out My About Page for more deets, and feel welcome to drop me a line if you have questions, wanna nerd out about our shared favs, or have a cute picture of your dog you’re willing to share. 

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ten years of fighting and when shit hits the fan tumblr instantly has reddit's back. the greatest enemies to lovers story ever told.

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you understand

[ID: first is a screenshot of tags by sarah-dipitous reading: this was them wearily showing up at our door because they 'didn't know where else to go', and we said 'who did this to you?' with a protective ferocity we didn't know we felt. next is a tag from anthonyAmpersand reading: they're having the nastiest hurt-comfort sex ever rn (initials for right now) end/]

I know, I know, gatekeeping the outdoors, that's supposedly bad, right, but I think if you show up to do a hike and you brought a portable speaker with you to play music while you hike, I think, like hear me out, there should be a gate, and someone at the gate should keep you from doing the hike.

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playing music in public should get strong social disapproval

Recorded music, anyway. Live music is different rules. If you want to lug an entire cello up a mountain you can do whatever the hell you want.

Carrying a speaker on a hike to make everyone listen to your bullshit, and simply sitting under a tree and playing a fiddle in the woods, are two activities so different they may as well not exist in the same world.

I think the critical difference is that the bringing of recorded music with you ties the space to Elsewhere, whereas the creation of live music with an instrument you brought both binds you to the space, and drags everyone who hears you play into it as well.

I think you're right.

Yeah I'll accept this into my belief system.

if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until there’s nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?

They ship of theseus’d my girl

Can’t have shit in Detroit

this actually perfectly demonstrates the transitive property of memes: you can replace a meme piece by piece until it only structurally resembles the original, and it is, in fact, the same meme.

call that the meme of theseus thesis

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tumblrites can have a little intertextuality as a treat

my naym is ship and when i’m broke the broken part from me they toke

replace the part had been the plan but in the morn hand door car man

*me shoving transitive properties into my purse* sorry, I have to go

Started keeping a spreadsheet of my hikes, charting what trails I did and when, elevation gain, total elevation, distance, and trail conditions. I've done eight summits* so far in 2023, which is more than I did in 2019 through 2022 combined (my first NH mountain hike as an adult was in 2019, when @veliseraptor and I did Mt Willard together). So, feeling pretty good about that! Aiming to do at least 13 summits in 2023, and that goal is looking very doable so far. Hoping to do Mt Pierce (my first 4kfooter) in July. :)

(*admittedly, these are small peaks, but for someone whose worst grade in high school was PE, I'm killing it god dammit.)