the reason for stars

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sarah. expresses self via the tag novel.
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i go to bars and coffee shops and breweries and libraries and thrift stores all the time by myself and i have a chill banger time i love my own company. so why is the grocery store a warzone. im fighting for my life. barely make it out alive. if someone even looks at me i want to blow them up with my mind

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Of the locations you listed, the grocery store is the only one with PvP enabled. Your player is trying to kill the people reaching for the last jar of peanutbutter because they can.

#my Immortal Enemy is the people who stand in the middle of the aisle scrolling through their shopping list on the phone#or maybe the couples who go grocery shopping together and don't divide and conquer like god and also jesus intended#but instead go all lovey-dovey in the aisle. in front of my rice.#like excuse me!!! some of us have places to be!!!#some of us wrote our list on paper for ease of access#some of us have honed our knowledge of when to leave the cart in another aisle to a finely-sharpened point.#some of us can do a grocery run (door to door) in 30 minutes or a Really Big Shop in under an hour.#some of us are PROFESSIONALS.#(in front of my rice!!!)#celestial emporium of benevolent knowledge
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cats...?

#I love the idea (implied by this lovely art) that all the non-photographic representation in the past#was photo-accurate actually and things were just Weirder back then.#there really were trees growing penises. elephants looked like dogs with a tube for a nose. snails could be ridden by knights.#some animals wore clothes and walked around upright as if they stumbled out of redwall.#cats had flat teeth sometimes.#I just think that has implications that would be fun to explore through worldbuilding.#dreamscapes
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Speaking in a meeting, and noticing out of the corner of your eye that you have a new email---

---only to fall suddenly and abruptly silent, to the point where the others in the meeting ask, "Did she drop? Are you still there? I think you're frozen..."

The subject line of the email:

#the actual email itself was just typical pablum but holy hell.#why is my insurance company asking if I want to bury a body with them. that seems...not IDOI compliant.#no wonder the company has to secretly manipulate you
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NORTH OF NORTH (2025) costume appreciation: "Inuk Bridgerton" (Series Costume Design by Debra Hanson)

requested by @alinahdee ✨

#a of all#this show is lovely and perfect if you're looking to turn something on as background noise for crafting#it's smooth and sweet as chiffon pie with a real love for the community it portrays; their quirks and weaknesses and grit.#parks and rec vibes. or corner gas. or rutherford falls if you're looking for a native-helmed project.#b of all.#this dress appeared on screen and I felt myself physically emotionally spiritually catapulted back to pubescence#and I and my teen self both breathed at the same time: ''ohhhh her DRESS''#so that's what I have to say about that.#fashion
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The Dragon Painter (1919)

#a proscenium for our dreams#I am slowly adding to the list of silent films with orchestra accompaniment I've seen; this was the latest#(scored by a modern experimental japanese-influenced group; their soundtrack was ambient and haunting#it actually went a long way to gentling and elevating a movie that is...of its time in many respects)#and to be really clear there are moments where this film is breathtakingly beautiful!#the scene above where ''ghostly'' aoki visits sleeping hayakawa; the striated light;#there's a scene where aoki's character sneaks out after dark and her silhouette against the rice paper is divine; no wonder#that device immediately entered the filmic lexicon.#there are shots of hayakawa's face where you can understand why he had a reputation for being a heartthrob#his eyes and profile alone could birth a hundred overheated ''ooh mr. hayakawa ooh'' letters.#but I think the theater did the audience a service in (a) giving us a little introduction about hayakawa's career#and (b) first showing ''The Death Mask'' which also starred hayakawa and aoki playing native americans in redface.#it contextualizes ''Dragon Painter'' in a generous way; makes it clear that while this thing is imperfect#(eg the decor is very clearly a western vision of japanese kitsch; those are NOT japanese mountains; there's a white actor in yellowface)#it is at least closer to something that hayakawa and aoki would have recognized as their own#compared to some of the other projects they worked on.#that said. thank fucking christ we don't live in 1919.#(...also at one point aoki dances for hayakawa and it looked much more like hula in places; but that could be#my deep ignorance of traditional japanese dance. something to investigate.)
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I realize this is a bit like complaining that water is wet, but it does annoy me on a deep level how many big public events are rooted in buying things. Craft fairs, art expos, even street festivals where ostensibly everyone is there to listen to music and drink in the sunshine---yet the sale of things is so integral to what's happening that you can buy food or buy things, and those are really your only options.

#I would like to go stand in big rooms full of people all doing the same thing and not be sold things.#to be clear I think being sold experiences is different.#like....going to a street fair and paying to play carnival games? perfect! exactly what street fairs are for!#paying an additional fee to see a site-specific installation at an art fair? only fair! take my money.#entry fees are just and honorable.#but then you have to give me something to DO. something that isn't ''buy some stuff''#celestial emporium of benevolent knowledge
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Captain Nemo

I drew this piece in 2019, and although I can see lots of mistakes and imperfections, it's still one of my favourite artworks

#take soundings deep#moby dick and twenty thousand leagues under the sea are two novels that I feel like I should read;#I've heard so much /about/ them and I feel like there's so much there to explore#but unfortunately. I do not care about the sea that much.#and that feels like sort of. foundational. to the whole premise of both those novels.#in the interim have this lovely art! the linework is exquisite; I love the crosshatching on the couch and carpet#the way it lends density to the objects in contrast with the ocean.
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googling "how do you kindly tell your parents that retirement has made them selfish, and that's fine and probably pretty normal, but you can only tolerate it in small doses and you need to talk to them less"

no results.

#exorcising this demon here so I do not accidentally slip up and mention this to my mother.#because I don't want to be cruel but also.#...............''selfish'' probably isn't the best word but I'm annoyed at the moment so it is.#celestial emporium of benevolent knowledge
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this is basically a short horror film

#sometimes I watch these videos and I can't help but think of how many seemingly unrelated things had to happen#to reveal how much creativity and vision exists in otherwise ordinary people.#not just the invention of the internet; smartphones; smartphones with cameras that can record videos; and social media platforms#but also this video rests on an understanding of common 20th century pranks; filmmaking techniques#(the camera cuts and transitions in particular are very well thought-out!)#scripting and joke-telling; an understanding of how to yes-and and heighten or loosen the tension#(we've all seen a magician pull a tablecloth away without disturbing the plateware; it's funny when stuff shatters)#the way dreams and unstable realities have been portrayed in media#and then television language (ie the laughtrack and seinfeld sting at the end; and I haven't even watched seinfeld!)#the sheer density of things that had to happen to ensure these people could make this video and circulate it to me is#I mean. astonishing.#and all because we like it when we can make other people feel an emotion.#come on get happy
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in an attempt not to go horribly insane, I have started making a bunch of stuff with my hands---and unfortunately, this does help. woe.

#pardon the terrible photos but I need to brag to SOMEONE.#not pictured: a couple half-finished paintings and a scrapbook that I'm still trying to decide how to fill#a draft blocker I made for my back door (it's cute but hard to make a sock full of beads look interesting)#plus a hook and latch rug that is very relaxing to work on; but I can't do that and embroidery simultaneously#embroidery is already hard enough. honestly how did people do this? how???#at least I can watch something on a streaming service.#I simply cannot imagine doing this without additional external stimuli.#this is a thing I made
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