inter folia fulget

It’s been a while.

evening sketch 27/09/18.

May Sarton, from "The Autumn Sonnets", Selected Poems

Do you ever get reminded of that one really intense longfic that you had every intention of writing and had meticulous notes and complicated outlines for but then something happened and you aren't in the fandom anymore and you still have the desire to write the fic but it's slightly hollow now because it's a good idea and you think it would have been a great fic but you haven't been in the fandom for literally years and you don't have that bit of passion for it that you did when you were writing it and have just a weird moment of nostalgia where you want to reread it but it never existed

I’m not asking you to give it up. I would never ask you to do that.

All Creatures Great and Small (2020) — Season 5, Episode 4: Uninvited Guests

Heart eyes "Don't be daft"

Kerry Egan, On Living

I’m staring at a blank document with these four Day 23 Whumptober prompts staring back.

I love and hate when the prompts are so fantastic that you can’t pin down just one idea to use 🫠

Sev doing a meticulous inventory check. ♥︎

More from the vault of older art.

- Nathaniel Orion, "Hevel"

Tagged by @napo-con-fritas. I disagree, you've got a lot of cool stuff in your room. 💚

This was fun. x)

Tagging @hklnvgl, @postmariannizm, @dionysia01, @ashesandhackles, @itslucyluna and anyone else who wants to do it.

Wasn't expecting my comic books to get chosen, but I'm very glad!

I got the Asterix & Obelix collection when I was a bit older —a teen, I think—, but well, it's pretty. Same with Mortadelo y Filemón, I bought the pretty editions when I was older. I still keep a Zipi y Zape comic from when I couldn't read yet:

I had another Zipi y Zape and a couple of Pequeño País comics that were my pride and joy, but they were in an even worse condition and I think my parents threw them out years ago —or perhaps one of my younger cousins took them. :')

The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, July 4, 1927

i think one of the most important things you learn about making connections with others is that a significant portion of the time people just do not know theyre doing what theyre doing

sometimes someone is acting selfish because they just didnt think you had any interest in what theyre hogging. sometimes you dont get invited to the movies because your friend could have sworn that you said no. sometimes you think someone is mad at you because theyre bad at hiding how little sleep they got. we are all like little worlds that briefly crash into one another from time to time and we just arent physically capable of seeing the whole picture at once in those moments. and learning that really changed everything!

In my head, I call this "vase of flowers" thinking.

See, when I started driving, I would get irritated by people who drove Soooo Slowly... like, the ones who slow down to 10 MPH to take a turn kind of slow. And then one day I was taking a vase of flowers to an event, and even though I'd strapped it in carefully you can bet I was taking the turns extra carefully to keep it from tipping over, slowing way down, and... oh.

And, like, there are definitely unpleasant people in the world. There are definitely people who are toxic, or just don't care about other people, or have a pattern of hurtful behavior. But there are a lot of people who are just trying to deliver a vase of flowers.