hildegard von bingen wrote “we cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. an interpreted world is not a home. part of the terror is to take back our own listening. to use our own voice. to see our own light.” she wrote part of the terror is to take back our own listening 

thank god Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton came together to make a PSA about the dangers of fake news

The Left Hand of Darkness

I had three days, an urge to draw mountains, and far too many emotions. Some things I got excited about:

Feel free to pop into my replies/inbox and yell about this :)

I love the song "Scarborough Fair" because it follows my favorite poetic structure:

when welcome to night vale said: “Sleep heavily and know that I am here with you. The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first, and settles in as the gentle present. This now, this us, we can cope with that. We can do this together you and I.”

i am completely in love with the jenna and julien fam so i just had to draw their four furry children!! honestly why watch anything else on youtube when their videos exist 🐕

Figures trapped within carved wood Sculptures by Tung Ming-Chin

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do i believe in romance…not sure. am i obsessed with it…absolutely

Some hand studies with watercolor & prismacolor pencils

these shitty "literature hot takes" on twitter are giving me a fucking aneurysm. "nobody should read books older than 100 years old" is easily the most idiotic knee-jerk reaction I've ever heard of but everyone is eating it up because nobody wants to be intellectually challenged by anything more difficult than harry potter

literary education is piss poor at the K-12 level, and I don’t think it’s helpful or productive when this education begins and ends with “xyz is a canonical work and therefore it is a masterpiece that you must enjoy” but there’s a fucking reason this shit is taught—because its influence on literature and culture is enduring! there does need to be more contextual education on the historical and cultural significance of certain works, which isn’t a value judgement that these words are “good,” only that they’re influential. but also acting like anything old must be worthless is complete brain rot considering how much pop culture even today draws upon literary tropes and traditions, fairy tales, folklore, all of that stuff. are you really going to tell me that shakespeare is washed-up and useless to the modern reader and then go watch the fucking lion king remake without a hint of irony 

me time

did you know red snapper can live for over 100 years…. whatre they DOING down there

I hope this doesn’t work the same way for centaurs.

Thanks! I hate it

Young Decadent, Ramon Casas

what a fucking mood