mayor-dana-cardinal

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

t-shirt that says ‘I’D RATHER BE DEBASING A CHASTE AND VIRTUOUS KNIGHT RIGHT NOW.’

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

another life

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

ID: a sketchy two page comic of my tortoiseshell kittens, Maggie and Bunny.

From off panel, I hold my hands out to Maggie, who leans away

Me: Aw, Maggie doesn't wanna come up?

Maggie: Mother I am not a child.

Me: You're ten months old.

Maggie: I am a warrior.

Bunny pops up from behind her sister.

Bunny: I'm not! I'm baby <3

I scoop Bunny up while Maggie watches in shock and confusion.

Me: Aw, yes you are, Bunny. Who's my sweet baby?

Maggie flops on her back and shows her tummy. She has big blobby tears in her eyes.

Maggie: Mommy??? Betrayal?? You abandon your baby?? Your Darling Girl?? Your little Maggie-Pie?!?

End ID.

Maggie is a strong, independant kitten, so long as you never pay attention to anyone else, ever.

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

Za.ra_h on Instagram / Patreon

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

Volume/headphone warning.

Wanted to try and pay homage to perhaps the best tweet in existence. Any and all credit goes to Patricia Lockwood for the original post and picture. And, of course, to darling, affronted Miette.

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

Girls in bathtubs // Female gaze

Daisies (Vera Chytilova, 1966)

Peppermint Soda (Diane Kurys, 1977)

Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch, 1985)

Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002)

Ginger & Rosa (Sally Potter, 2012)

Planetarium (Rebecca Zlotowski, 2016)

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

There is one particular ship dynamic that never fails to wreck me, and I’ll call it Soulmates, But Not Like That. Not in a “some higher power has decided that we are destined to be together” way, but something that is almost the opposite of that. It’s that character who has been alone for a long time, and has maybe convinced themselves that they will be alone forever, and who has a lot of barriers to intimacy with most of the people around them, for whatever the relevant narrative reasons are. And then they just happen to cross paths with this ONE FUCKING PERSON who works for them, through some very specific combination of personality and circumstance and life experience and mutually compatible damage. And there is always the shock of what are the fucking odds, and underneath everything the terror of what if this doesn’t last. what if there’s no one else. I would just go back to being alone. I don’t know if I could do that after knowing this. Because when you finally let down that wall of emotional self-sufficiency the thought of having to put it back up again is painful. And in real life I don’t at all believe that there is only One Designated Person for anyone, but in fiction I do tend to gravitate toward characters who believe themselves to be The Only One in some way, and I will always be emotionally compromised by that dawning sense of oh. You are like me.

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

Do any of you know about that one painting with Aphrodite being born out of lava with a black swan by her side or did i completely hallucinate that? Been searching for a while but i can’t find it for shit.

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

Yes, I love fun Tumblr memes such as:

carcinization

Diogenes and Plato

copper fraud in ancient Babylon

The Cask of Amontillado

unionizing

color vision of shrimp

the trolley problem

Kellogg, founder of Kellogg’s

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

the Ides of March

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

Loosely implying a cat 5

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

Some girl scouts came by to sell us some cookies! Some things never change I guess… except maybe the girl scouts themselves 💀

[ livinthefuture | 71/? 👁 NEXT | PREVIOUS | FIRST ]

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

Happy Easter from Luna ☺️🐇🌿💐🌼

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

flare

[mayor-dana-cardinal]

Dandelion hair~

Part of my flower hair series :D what other flowers should I paint? So far I got rose and hydrangea planned.

Already have Wisteria Coils and Cherry Blossom Buns~