Tulips and Tesseracts

STARGATE SG-1 | 04x22 - Exodus

the west wing modern reboot: good evening. I’m running for president. and if you don’t know who I am, I wouldn’t be surprised.

fun fact about me is that when i was a kid id write capital E’s with as many of those little horizontal lines as possible and id call them ladder E’s and adults fucking hated them

artistic rendition

All capital letters should have a leveled-up form

So far I’ve got

Please add your own unsettling godtier capitals!

New alphabet dropped!

oh my god, it’s beautiful

(future handwritten notes are gonna be so wonderfully cursed now, thank you! :D )

well it’s going to take some getting used to, @ceekari (don’t mind the redacted letter between T and U)

But I think i’ve taken a real shine to it! 

recursive

Lmaoo

Posting this here because someone might just find this relatable. A comic I drew as therapy, to help me get over some big creative issues I’ve been dealing with recently. Hope it can help some of you as well.

Thank you so much for posting this to Tumblr! I hope you all find this as inspiring as I did.

I don’t want sunbursts or marble halls. I just want you.

i will just sdjkj and SJDKDJSJ my way through life

i’m currently helping a dear friend edit their first-ever piece of creative fiction and I’m realizing several things:

a) writing is valuable in all its forms.

When she sent me the draft, she apologized “for having a policy brain” instead one like mine, which is far more abstract and creative. I told her that writing policy was just as important as the kind of work that I do. I, for one, could certainly never effectively write or evaluate public policy.

So be it policy, or manuals, articles, emails, fic, non fiction, poetry: your writing is valid. It’s an expression of who you are.

b) writing is really hard.

I think we all know this. If you’re a writer, you know the feeling of writers block and blank documents and abandoned WIPs. And if you’re not a writer, well, there’s probably a reason for that, yeah? I mean, I’m not an artist because it’s freaking difficult; I’ll stick to my coloring books, thanks.

My point here is that no matter how much innate talent you may posses for your craft, it’s still going to be hard. And that’s okay. We didn’t all just start spewing out perfectly characterized fics from the womb; it’s a process that takes years.

I’m giving her the same advice I tell myself every single day when I sit down to write — make them feel. show, don’t tell. use your senses. And hell, I’ve been writing since I was five years old.

c) writing is brave

I’ve talked about this before, but it’s worth repeating. creating is an act of courage. going one step further and sharing what you create requires immense valor.

Was my friend’s prose stunning? Did it knock me off of my feet? Well no, not exactly. But the important thing is that she’s trying. She’s willing to try something completely new and out of her comfort zone. And isn’t that the point? To learn new things about ourselves and others?

d) it doesn’t have to be perfect

drafts and half thoughts and abandoned WIPS are just as valid as the ones you complete. The process of creation is no different there than completed works. Saying that WIPs or abandoned ideas are “bad” or “shameful” is like saying that you never should have dated before you met your partner. Those past relationships may not have worked out, but you still learned something.

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Amanda Gorman, “The Hill We Climb” (2021)

Amanda Gorman, a 22 year old poet from Los Angeles, becomes the youngest inaugural poet in memory as President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris take office. There have only been a handful of inaugural poets; Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy were the only presidents in the past who chose to have poems read at their inaugurations. You can read all the previous poems here.

(via phoebejanes)

Sir please thats my emotional support stack of books that i havent read

Favorite Characters → Olivia Dunham (Fringe)