Ink & Paper Love

I love when fiction makes the audience feel guilty about their role as the audience. When something fucked up is treated as a joke but later it's recognised how fucked up it was and the audience feels guilty for finding it funny. When a character breaks the fourth wall to plead for help, and you can't do anything so you just watch. And you know that the characters pain isn't real, but they're begging for help and you're not helping because their suffering is entertainment for you

How do I get inside your head

This is a good thing! A lot of stuff that's considered "common knowledge" is actually wrong or misleading, or it really has changed since you learned it. It was common knowledge that the Sun revolver around the Earth...except that's not true. It's common knowledge to hide under freeway overpasses during tornadoes...except this is extremely dangerous and warned against. It's common knowledge that you have to wait 24-48 hours in the US to file a missing person report...except it's actually recommended to file as soon as you know someone's missing because the first few days are the most critical to finding them.

I get that this post is about anxiety and memory issues, but the truth is that knowledge changes all the time. It's good to avoid spreading false information, even if you do it by accident.

considering that just within my lifetime the names and borders of a third the countries in Central Asia have changed, and Pluto is no longer a planet, I cast zero shade.

There's a term for stuff you were taught that's no longer true: Mesofacts.

(The quintessential example is the number of people on earth. Like I was taught 6 billion, but it's currently nearly 8 billion)

As an adult still living with their abusive parent, I often find that affirmations meant to empower me are unhelpful at best. They often feel like they're overstating the amount of agency I have as an adult; I've spent my entire life being abused. It's all I know and I have a lifetime of conditioning and nervous system damage to show for it.

All that doesn't just go away now that I'm older than 18, and neither do the material circumstances that keep me here. Even though I have more legal rights and have grown since I was younger, I am still not in control by the very nature of being the victim in an abusive relationship. So, for those who relate, here are some affirmations that might hit different:

If any of these don't resonate, feel free to discard them. Everyone finds comfort and empowerment differently.

Don’t let anyone silence your voice or steal your power, which is your vote.

Your vote is private. Your vote is your own.

Vote accordingly.

How many "Trump votes" are abusive MAGA husbands or boyfriends who essentially got two votes, while their wife or girlfriend got none?

To be clear: abusive men may think their wife or girlfriend belongs to them, including their vote. But legally, this is voter fraud.

Report these criminals.

Legally, this is voter intimidation.

IF YOU WITNESS OR ARE A VICTIM OF VOTER INTIMIDATION (like what Tom Cox is confessing to in the OP) or other violations of voting rights laws in the US:

Your vote is your own. You don't have to tell anyone who you voted for. You can lie about who you voted for. Keep yourself safe out there.

You can also call or text the Election Protection Hotline

And if you are in a situation where a spouse or partner is the one doing the voter intimidation to you, like Tom up there is, there are intimate partner violence orgs in your state and many towns who are there to help you. Because what Tom is doing is not okay, and you don't have to live like that.

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writing tip: don’t tell us your character’s backstory. don’t tell us what your character is thinking. don’t tell us what your character is doing. don’t tell us anything. the reader should simply look at a blank page and be suddenly overcome with emotion.

Good tip. I know a lot of writers who cry uncontrollably when they see a blank page, so I’m sure that feeling will translate directly to the reader.

EMBROIDERED ‘PEACOCK FEATHER’ CAPE QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

The long cape entirely constructed with layers of overlapping peacock feather shaped panels, each panel finely worked in satin stitch, the silk threads in tones of ivory, yellow and blue on the eye of the peacock feather, and the surround intricately worked in peacock feather filaments, with one cloth button on the collar and another near the waist, finished with Imperial yellow lining

Christie’s

Pssst

Hey, are you an artist or writer with WIPs?

Come here... I got a secret for you pssst come ‘ere

waiting in deep suspense

Psst you ready here comes the secret

Here it comes

I am also very curious about this secret

Your time spent enjoying the creative process is infinitely more valuable that any final project you create. So stop putting yourself down for never finishing or posting those WIPs because every moment you spent creating something you loved is a moment not wasted. Your progress and talent is measured by your passion not your number of posts.

This post went from 3k to 7k overnight and that just goes to show how many of you need to hear this so make sure you don’t ever forget it

Halloween comic two weeks late bc i will never let tamadrien die

The Cat with Julie Manet (detail), 1877

by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)

let's get ✨vulnerable✨

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being a fan of Chappell Roan I just think some of them need to realize and accept that they are a fan of a mainstream popular artist making popular pop music and therefore straight people are going to play it at weddings and it’s going to be in commercials for DoorDash and stuff. And that’s literally okay. It’s actually good. It’s good and normal for gay people to be making popular music. Idk if it just hasn’t sunk in for people yet that she is very popular. Ok I am telling you now. The woman is very popular

ID: Tags via thevowels-pt2: #elton john isn’t less gay for being grandmas’ favorite the world over.

"Does the author respect women" is a third distinct question from either of the other two.

First Teaser for Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2

Māori child, Aotearoa/New Zealand, by Maania Tealei

Maania Tealei has more portraits at the link and they’re all amazing.

Dobrovský Dobrovslayed 🤣🤣🤣👌🏼

Jak by měli

Translation/explanation:

A shelf at the Knihy Dobrovský bookstore dedicated to queer literature, with each book displayed having either quotes or summaries or other information on the labels beneath, for example "June - LGBTQ+ pride month", "lesbians and gays do not threaten the family but the patriarchy" and so on.

On the left of the top shelf is the Bible, on the label there's 1 Corinthians 13:4–8:

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

Basically they put up an entire shelf of queer literature and what seems to be One Single Bible with a quote that essentially means "love wins" as a gigantic fuck you to any homophobe that might want to complain

Czechia mentioned!

Song: Mr. Handagote Artist: Tomas Dvorak (Floex) From: Machinarium

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@czechia-mentioned amanita design my beloved!!!!!

Czechia mentioned!