a pearl

saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

Mother and baby viewing Van Gogh's Madame Roulin and Her Baby at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, US. By the Boston Herald

I’m not sure how to look at art by Lynda Barry

Poison Ivy #24 cover art by Jessica Fong

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PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS (2023-)

Somewhere out there on a planet very far away is a civilization that has included our sun in a beloved constellation of some animal we couldn't dream up if we tried

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

That post that's like "stop writing characters who talk like they're trying to get a good grade in therapy" really blew the door wide open for me about how common it's become for a character's emotional intelligence to not be taken into consideration when writing conflict. I remember the first time I went to therapy I had such a hard time even identifying what I was feeling, let alone had the language to explain it to someone else. Of course there are plenty of people who've never been to therapy a day in their life who are in tune to their emotions. But even they would have some trouble expressing themselves sometimes. You have to take into account there are plenty of people who are uncomfortable expressing themselves and people who think they're not allowed to feel certain ways. It also makes for more interesting conflict to have characters with different levels of understanding.

i think people have gotten out of the habit of writing characters being untruthful unless they're evil. sometimes people just lie, or they believe and repeat things that aren't true. people just do not and often Can not tell the absolute truth about themselves all the time even during heated and climactic moments. why are you writing everyone being absolutely honest about their feelings!!

Hold fast. Brave the storm

i saw a video the other day detailing why we see so much about gaza🇵🇸 but not sudan🇸🇩

it comes down to these 3 key differences

which is why it's more imperative than ever to follow Sudanese creators and journalists who do report on the little information that does come out.

here's a post on where to get daily updates about Sudan

disclaimer: palestinian press also deal with immediate risks when confronted with IDF on-ground.

My tribute to Andre Braugher, thank you for Captain Raymond Holt ❤️✨

roman’s handwriting vs kendall’s handwriting vs shiv’s handwriting vs connor’s handwriting

Just a reminder that Yemen has risked it ALL for Palestine, as they are going through one of the worst humanitarian crisis' ever. Due to their resilience, the puppets at the UN have decided to exclude them from the world food program. Yemen is STARVING. Please consider donating towards their hunger crisis. Let's show up for Yemen.

Merab Abramishvili (Georgian, 1957-2006)

Pomegranate

Merab Abramishvili (Georgian, 1957-2006), Pomegranate, 2003. Tempera on plywood, 215 x 110 cm.

'you wouldn't pirate a-' i would steal anything from any company. anything in the world. i dont even want it i just hate you

We have to look…How else will we know exactly what happened? Even if nobody else cares, we can tell each other.

– Howard Norman, from “Milk Train,” Kiss in the Hotel Joseph Conrad and Other Stories (Penguin, 1990)

turns out i'm living in a horror film where i'm both the killer and the final girl so who, who are you?