a feather in the wind

A portrait I had the pleasure of working on earlier this year, but never posted because I'm a dingus.

(after getting attacked by a one-episode creature) whatever that was, it's gone now...

CALL THE CURTAIN! RAISE THE ROOF!

Stanisław Wyspiański 

Illustrations from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur by William Russell Flint (1911)

Are we gonna talk about gawain yelling his own name like a pokemon or

[Image ID: The poem “One Source of Bad Information”, by Robert Bly.  There’s a boy in you about three years old who hasn’t learned a thing for thirty Thousand Years. Sometime it’s a girl.  The child had to make up its mind How to save you from death. He said things like:  “Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk.”  You live with this child, but you don’t know it.  You’re in the office, yes, but live with this boy  At night. He’s uninformed, but he does want To save your life. And he has. Because of this boy  You survived a lot. He’s got six big ideas.  Five don’t work. Right now he’s repeating them to you. 

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I'm like if a chivalrous knight kissed a fair maiden's hand and said "my lady, I fight for you" and then walked off and immediately tripped over his own armor and fell on the ground

#funny#if the lady's a keeper she would make a funny comment to dissipate the tension#'my good knight though I admire your skills you have no need to fight the whole earth for my sake'

This would be amazing.

"As I was saying, milady," he springs to his feet, declaring proudly, "I worship the very ground you - " before tripping again.

#my knight in stumbling armor

It's terrible. But hey! What if I went to my prom when I was still of prom-going age? And what if I could afford the prettiest dress om all of the world? The one Sarah wore to her drugged peach prom, in Labyrinth? With shoulders so puffy that Anne Shirley would have an aneurism? And what if I were pretty? What if I had trans-pride themed converse high-tops? WHAT IF?

Anyway. My drawing skills are atrophying with my inability to really focu

Listen Up Columbia! — Portraits from a campus in crisis Photographed by Gabriella Gregor Splaver

I think the best advice I ever got to stop myself from getting in my head over issues i was having with a partner/friend was “Are you deciding on ultimatums in your relationship without the other persons knowledge or consent? Are you having conversations in your head where the other party is a projection you supply the responses for? If so; you have done this person a huge disservice in not allowing them to answer on their own terms. You have done so much architecture around this problem in your mind that is impenetrable for anyone who was not there when it was being built.”

That shit really changed my life and honestly? I think made me a nicer person to be around.

I just saw such a great disability term I personally haven’t ever seen before and I wanted to share it with everyone so here it is:

Usable hours, aka the amount of hours a day someone has where they can carry out tasks (school, work, showering, cooking, household tasks, being out of bed etc.)

I don’t know why but this feels so revolutionary to me 😂

If I’m honest it changes a lot for me but on average I can manage 4-5 whereas a healthy person might have 10-12 usable hours. Otherwise I’m sitting on the couch scrolling and watching YouTube or resting in bed.

Some days I can handle more and sometimes a lot less depending on how much I’ve done previously that week/month etc. It also depends a lot on the type of tasks, I manage mental tasks pretty well and typically write a decent amount but physical tasks exhaust me much more quickly.

I know this is a lot more than some people but instead of focusing on that I’m trying to focus on how much less it is than a healthy person. Having half as much time in a day I can be functional as the average person and during that time I’m still exhausted/in pain/having symptoms/struggling in ways an abled person wouldn’t.

ID: a photo of a concrete pole(?) on the side of a sidewalk with a large black featureless dog head barking painted onto it, with the words "anger is useful" in all caps underneath. end ID

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