#because that's important

[sashathegreyhound]

Have you ever loved something so brilliantly terribly that you would do anything for it, that you gave up everything to create it, just to destroy it yourself before someone else can to hurt the one you made it for with.

Medea does.

So does Gordon Brown. Does that ever keep you awake at night?. It's thoughts like these that drive me to take up rock tumbling.

"Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate.

Incurable, in each, the wounds they make."

"What heavenly power lends an ear

To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?"

MEDEA: The gods know who was the author of this sorrow.

JASON: Yes, the gods know indeed, they know your loathsome heart.

MEDEA: Hate me. But I tire of your barking bitterness.

"My love for you

was greater than my wisdom.

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

The children are dead. I say this to make you suffer."

And what if I said that they really are tragic?

Gordon Brown really did give up everything (the party leadership, even his shot at being PM) to help build a new Labour government, to just give them a chance at building a government. He spent a decade mourning the loss of the closeness they had back before he was forced into that decision, to betray everything he was for the hope of everything that could be. He spent those last years desperately fighting against a betrayal his betrayer would not acknowledge, launching coups against his closest friend, destroying the child government they had built together, so no-one else could do it, and for revenge, because mortals are vulnerable vindictive creatures. Yes, Gordon Brown understands Medea.

At least Medea didn't have the example of Gordon Brown to warn her. What's his excuse?

"Those who are pregnant in mind bring forth not bodies, but wisdom and other virtues." - Socrates, Plato's 'Symposium'

Their children were their ideas. Their ideas were what created and destroyed them, and they will live forever.

[davintheperson]

It's okay to have any body as long as it's not actually causing you any health problems. You're allowed to store weight, you're allowed to be born bigger than others. That's what makes you unique.

If you are heavier than others, that's perfectly fine! Are you facing health problems over it? Not as okay. Just keep eating regularly. You're gonna be okay. <3

Weight isn't a problem until it stops you from living normally.

SORRY FOR THE VERY PERSONAL COMIC!!

This is my half of “Unhealthy”, an essay comic double header with the lovely and talented Sarah Winifred Searle. She and I both wrote about our personal experiences as overweight ladies with eating disorders, and her story is breathtaking! You can buy a physical copy of the book here: https://topatoco.com/collections/abby-howard/products/ah-unhealthy

Or buy a digital PDF here: https://abbyhoward.itch.io/unhealthy

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Pssst... something new is coming...

...this weekend!

Free, non-AI animal art references.

[kottkrig]

People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it

You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u

[ghosted-jazz]

Soldier, Poet, Kings

Bonus wallpaper version with just Joel:

[shitpostingkats]

We need less "shy, anxious, always second guessing" Apollo in fanworks, and approximately 400% more of whatever the hell this is.

[sailermoon]

idk why ppl think megan is faking liking anime she was so right incels mad she’s a weeb and a baddie

[cozylittleartblog]

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.

#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

[liones-s]

a big lesson for me was learning that most things are not as fragile as I’d believed. missing a class, or turning in a bad assignment, won’t instantly destroy your professor’s opinion of you. accidentally saying something harsh won’t make your friend want to end the friendship. it takes work to repair these things - it takes effort and research and sometimes a sincere apology - but you can do that because they’re not irreparably broken. what you’ve worked to build, in academia and in relationships and in life, is stronger and more enduring that your mind may teach you to believe. don’t let imagined fragility lead you to giving up

[chiptrillino-art]

(ID in ALT Text) Happy very, very late Mother's Day!

I am not saying that zuko is sokkas substitute for kya. or they look in any way similar! The whole concept here is that something was happening at the moment, be it how they were laying in bed, how the hair pooled over the pillow, or how sokka was able to hold onto it. It just brought sokka back. It triggered a memory, and suddenly he relived a brief memory. Making him suddenly miss his mother again. hope you enjoy!

[spacerockband]

Quetzalcoatlus! poised to spear her prey!

[nymph1e]

On Discomfort and Morality

My father finds gay men uncomfortable.

He's told me before that it's like a knee-jerk for him. Something he doesn't consciously control. He sees two men behaving romantically, and his body reacts with mild discomfort.

In the 1960s, when he was in high school, most of the boys in his form thought he was gay on the simple fact that he wasn't homophobic. He wouldn't participate in insulting queer people, he didn't care if someone was gay, he wouldn't have a problem hanging out with gay people. So people thought he was gay. That's how prevalent homophobia was in his formative years.

When I was 10, my dad told me very seriously that Holmes and Watson were gay. That it was obvious from the literature and the time period that they were meant to be a gay couple. When I was 14 and I came out to my parents as bi, when my mum was upset my dad ripped into her for it. Told her that she was being stupid, that it was my life to live how I wanted to and that she needed to get over herself.

My dad formed my views on censorship: that being that it was completely ridiculous and thoroughly evil. He didn't believe in censorship of any kind. If I asked him a question about sex, he answered it honestly. When I was 12 and I asked him about homosexuality, still young and uncertain, he told me that there was nothing wrong with it. That it was just how some people were. That there was likely an evolutionary reason for it. And that for some people it was uncomfortable on an instinctual level.

He taught me that just because you're uncomfortable with something, doesn't make it wrong. He also taught me that most people don't understand this.

I see a lot of this on the internet as of the last few years. The anti shipping movement, the terf movement, the anti ace movement. It all stems from discomfort that people have crossed wires into believing means wrong. Really every -ism and -phobia out there stems from this same fundamental aspect of humanity.

The next time you see something and you automatically think it's disgusting, or wrong, or immoral, I invite you to ask yourself: is this actually wrong or does this just make me uncomfortable?

[foolsocracy]

they barge into justice league meetings saying they have something very important to show them. and do stuff like this

[malenjoyer]

He’s shy

[lazylittledragon]

domesticating your vampire: a memoir

(beautiful high res version on patre0n)

[catmask]

does anyone have like an anti aesthetic. like something you look at and can recognize as a complete fashion/interior design/artistic movement and understand it but it makes you shudder seeing it. i am not talking like “its morally bad” “its poorly structured” like just sheerly devoid of joy for you actually invites a repulse response.