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#MiniatureMonday

#TaleOfTalesExhibit

Mrrarr and me / written and illustrated by Romilda Dilley.

Any cat owners out there sometimes feel that your cat thinks they are the ones actually in charge?

This fun book is based on that concept, written from the perspective of cat named General about his responsibilities around "his" house and person, whom he calls 'Mrrar". These include making sure she gets up suitably early, 'helping' with the lawn work, and inspecting everything.

This is particularly important, as General says "Every single thing in this house and yard has to be investigated. Mrrarr doesn't always realize how important this is."

This is part of a continuing series featuring pet minis in conjunction with the of the new pet themed exhibit that is now up in the reading room. This particular item is from the corresponding mini exhibit, put together by Rachel, so make sure to take time to see that wonderful collection as well, for more fun finds like this!

--Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student

^"Don't worry human, I have inspected the pumpkin, and it is safe from any foul Halloween creatures! You can go visit the exhibit now. Say 'Hello' to the Hawkeye Ghost for me!"

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@hellsite-hall-of-fame

I’m not sure why I actually did this but here you go. XD

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OPPOSITE SIDES OF WANTING TO BE GOOD 

Japanese Breakfast, Slide Tackle // Mary Oliver, Wild Geese // Patti Smith, Woolgathering // Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood // Saul Bellow, Herzog // Mitski, I Will // Florence Welch, Useless Magic // Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star // Mary Oliver, Dogfish // John Steinbeck, East of Eden. 

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Simz Art on Instagram / Tumblr / Patreon

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If you don't see love, climb a tree. Jeremy Miranda Fine Art

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if wired earphones have a million fans i am one of them. if wired earphones have ten fans i am one of then. if wired earphones have one fan i am that fan. so on and so forth i can’t remember the rest of this meme

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One of the most beautiful & thought provoking cinema out there....

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"Now I've only one thing left to do,

nothing."

Three colours: blue

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Hey hey I have a question; you said your dad a writer, and you write fanfics? Would you mind sharing some writing tips?? Could be for fanfic, professional or both…please

so, i'm not a professional writer, that should be said before I give any advice LOL i just grew up reading a lot and with an author and a reading teacher as parents

that being said, here's the advice i can give you:

-READ. Read everything. Read fiction, read nonfiction, read picture books, read recipes you'll never cook. Read the back of shampoo bottles and the ads on buses. Read the fine print on offers that are too good to be true and read the instruction manuals that come with electronics.

Reading everything you can get your hands on is in my opinion the most important prerequisite for writing. In order to be able to effectively use different styles, you need to have a wide base of styles so you can pick and choose what will fit for the ideas you want to convey. Writing in third person present tense requires a different skillset than writing in first person past tense and you need a background with a wide variety of things you've read to draw on.

-Even beyond that, analyze what you're reading. This doesn't need to be hard. It doesn't need to be especially complicated, either. The paper in a box of tampons will have a different tone and style than a trashy romance novel. Notice how a text makes you feel, and notice what words they're using to evoke that feeling. See if you can see the mechanics of their word choice, their sentence cadence, the tools they're using to convey information.

-Even bad writing is valuable. Reading bad writing is an exercise unto itself. With good writing, everything is seamless--there's a very tiny gap between idea and execution. With bad writing, though, you can see into the gaps between what the author wanted to write and what the author actually wrote. If the writing itself is tolerable, it's a really good exercise. Look for the gap, and ask yourself what you would have done to close it more.

-Writer's block happens to literally everyone. I only have one tip that I use to get through it: Write what happens next. It doesn't have to be good. It can just be "then he walked across the room." You can edit that to be more descriptive later. Just write the very next thing that happens, and then the next thing after that, and so on and so forth. The most important thing is to get the words out.

-It's fine for you to not fine tune every single sentence to perfection. Nobody's going to notice if a few phrases aren't flawless. You don't have to make every sentence beautiful. Some sentences are just doing their jobs. You don't need to put prose into everything. Sometimes, simple is FAR better for getting your point across.

-Trust your reader. You don't need to spoon-feed them everything happening. If you have a character in the living room, you don't need to write them walking to the dining room table to set it. You don't need to detail every single little thing about a scene--that just gets tedious to read. Readers are smart. They'll be able to get what you're trying to say if you outline it enough.

This is all I've got right now, so if anyone else has tips, feel free to reblog and add them!

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I do wholeheartedly believe Wes Anderson is a sick sick freak. I like his movies but I definitely think this guy has like a hidden room in his spacious french apartment that he slips into quietly each night and it is just filled with tiny little doll replicas of all the actors he's ever used in any of his movies and he puppets them around and mimicks their voices and shit. and sometimes he'll text Owen Wilson pictures of his little doll with a comb or something from an untraceable number and pair it with like "see how I take care of you Owen?" and then the following day Owen Wilson will find him at the service table and go, "Geez Wes look at this," and Wes will pretend to be all concerned and horrified but there is this calculating almost eager look in his eyes that unsettles Owen Wilson. and the next time Wes is having a little soiree with all his actors, his beloved beloved actors, maybe Owen Wilson will accidentally get lost on his way to the beautiful bathroom and find that little room and see all those dolls and his throat will hitch with horror. And before he can call Bill Murray or Adrian Brody to look a dark silhouette will appear in the doorway and Wes looks sort of resigned when he says, "I see you finally found my secret, Owen," and Owen Wilson will try and pretend that he's fine with it but they both know better. and Wes will go (the look in his eyes back again) "We both know this can't get out, right?" and he'll grin very suddenly and Owen Wilson will laugh along very nervously and leave the room and eat some brioche and when the evening is over he will rush over to his Prius and frantically click his keys but over the cobbles on the beautiful beautiful street there is the sound of footsteps. and tears are running down Owen Wilson's cheeks but he can't say a word and Wes, emerging from the shadows, will gently touch him on the shoulder and say, "look, I'll drive you to the airport, huh?" and Owen Wilson will try to refuse but they both know it's futile. and, halfway through the drive, Wes Anderson will smile and say, "I'll miss working with you" and then perfectly jump and roll out of the car, wiping off his corduroy pants, while Owen Wilson's Prius swerves into a local patisserie, bursting into flames

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“For the next year, I hope you have faith that there is more out there for you - that life still has a lot to offer and that you’re deserving of it. I hope you have the courage to keep your heart open even though you’ve been hurt and misled. I hope you still find it in yourself to trust. I hope you can hold on to the thought that things do get better in time even though there have been days when you nearly gave up. I hope you give yourself enough time to heal, as much as you need. I hope you keep your patience and your good heart and I really, really hope 2022 treats you well. And even if it doesn’t, I hope you’ll do what you always do: you fight and you fall down and you get back up again.”

— 2022 / n.j.

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Socialism: You have 2 cows and you give one to your neighbor.

Communism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and gives you some milk.

Fascism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and sells you some milk.

Nazism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and shoots you.

Bureaucratism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both, shoots one, milks the other and throws the milk away..

Traditional Capitalism: You have 2 cows. You sell one and buy a bull. You herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

An American Corporation: You have 2 cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow dropped dead.

A French Corporation: You have 2 cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

Japanese Corporation: You have 2 cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called Cowkimon and market them Worldwide.

An Italian Corporation: You have 2 cows, but you don’t know where they are. You break for lunch.

A Swiss Corporation: You have 5000 cows. None of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.

Chinese Corporation: You have 2 cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.

An Iraqi Corporation: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No one believes you and they bomb your arse. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy…….

Counter Culture: ‘Wow, dig it, like there’s these 2 cows, man, grazing in the hemp field. You gotta have some of this milk!’

Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

Apathyologism: You have 2 cows. You do not care.

Fatalist: You have 2 doomed cows…

Atheism: You have 2 cows. There is no God.

A West-Country Corporation: You have 2 cows. That one on the left is kinda cute.

A Brazilian Corporation: You have 2 cows. You pay taxes for 6 cows. You have to sell one cow in order to pay the taxes. Your remaining cow gets sick and dies while waiting for availability in the public vet hospital.

Russia: You have two cows. Since they are both female, if you happen to keep them in the same stable you will pay a 5,000 rouble fine for homosexual propaganda.

PETA: You have two cows. You kill them both. You then use naked women to convince other people that killing cows is wrong.

Moffat: You have two cows. Both of them are your daughters time traveling from the past where they had a brief love affair with Da Vinci making you the rightful Queen of England. As you assume the throne, you throw them off a building.

Hussie: You have 2 cows. You ask for another one. Instead of getting just 1 cow, you get 2,485,506 cows.

Romney: You have 2 cows. You are not the president of the united states.

Once-ler: You have 1 cow. Everyone decides to make 5 different versions of that cow.

Old Spice: You have 2 cows. The cows are now diamonds. I’m on a horse.

An Irish Corporation: You have a million cows because they’re everywhere

Tumblr: You have 2 cows. You ship them together and make GIF posts screaming about how much you love your cows, but they should stop existing because they are so perfect.

Also Tumblr: I give you a hamburger.

Night Vale: You do NOT have two cows. Cows do not exist. What’s a cow? Show me a cow! That’s not a cow! Who let you in here?

Tom Hiddleston: You have two cows. You are very sorry for them.

Thranduil: You do not have two cows, you have an elk. Riding on two cows is not majestic. Also the dwarves are on fire.

Dwarves: You had two cows but now they’re on fire.

Bilbo Baggins: You did not invite those two cows for dinner.

Cows: The shit you go through.

This post: Started off as a post that explained different goverments but then everything changed when the fire nation attacked

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