Source: moxtheboat

Saw this old camera at the antique store, and I just think it's so cool how since photography used to take so long, cameras used to have built-in accordions so the photographer could play you a little song while you waited.

How it feels to be in the fandom of a show about friendship :

[image description: a cartoon drawing of someone in the fetal position on the floor with the aromantic flag superimposed over them. surrounding them is text that reads "Friends wouldn't do that for each other!!" "They MUST have a crush on them" "There's no platonic explanation for this-" "Friends don't look at each other like that-"]

had a bad low blood pressure moment last night and messily asked my partner for saltines and water before realizing i should probably ask for the Blood Pressure Medication I Need To Take. while they went to go grab it though i still had water and crackers so in a daze i took a swig of water but didnt swallow and then tried to cram 2 saltines in my mouth. full of water. in bed. with mouth full of water

Oh My God Damn

horror timeloop game where an entire group gets timelooped and have to work together to break out but realize in horror after a really good loop that one of them no longer remembers any of the progress made and now does the same thing every loop. they have to get out individually. they cant escape together. making progress means reducing the amount of people you have with you

^_^

Instead of apologizing for liking "trashy" media, consider: what is it doing well? If you like it, if it's making you feel pleasure and interest, then it must be succeeding at something. Is it shaping a set of emotional beats that you find satisfying to watch play out? Did it craft a character you find really compelling? Is something in the styling and aesthetics speaking to you? Did it unexpectedly resonate with a mood or experience you needed to see reflected right then?

However shallow or flawed a piece of media is, if you like it, it's because of something it did well - at least well enough to affect you, on the day that you encountered it.

There are a lot of good reasons to acknowledge this. One is about gratitude and manners: someone worked hard on that thing, and if they provided something that gave you happiness and pleasure, it's nice to honor that. Another is about breaking down the insidious habit of sorting everything into simple good/bad boxes. A piece of media, like a person, can do a lot of things wrong and a lot of things right, and the things on one side do not magically erase the other.

But the most important reason, I believe, is to get in the habit of celebrating what brings you pleasure and happiness. All your life there have been and there will be people telling you that you find joy in the wrong things, that if a particular thing makes you feel good it shows that there's something wrong with you. I reject that utterly. If a particular thing makes you feel good then there's something right, about you and about that thing. I'm not saying that pleasure is the only important thing or that every pleasure should be indulged indiscriminately. All I'm saying is that pleasure is in and of itself a good thing, and deserves notice.

painted this while procrastinating my various responsibilities 😔 tempera on paper, 19 x 27 cm. sold

if you are reading this i want you to stop for a moment and imagine a crab

This was shared as a "bad" joke but I was so charmed by it I've been thinking about it for days.

Moose at the next table: No they don't. I've been waiting here for an hour.

René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967), L'Empire des lumières [The Empire of Lights], 1954. Oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm.

i suck the strap because I’m an empath & Iwould feel bad if I didn’t

oh to be a pangolin squirming around in the sludge 🥺🥺🥺 this would fix me

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