#bullshit from yours truly

[fawninthewinter]

Sonknux shippers have it so good in Sonic X there was so much great moments and chemistry between them I swear! We eat good with that show.

[cleradinthealps]

it’s so telling that the ultra-wealthy are suddenly so worried about violence when it’s against a ceo but couldn’t be bothered by the hundreds of school shootings that have happened over the years

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Well, at least Fukuzawa got his wish granted, I guess.... he's finally inside Fukuchi <3

[volivolition]

wiggles my fingers at you ouuuu… you want to tell me about solace so bad…

HKJGG wiggles my fingers back lovingly!!! i really do, i fuckin LOVE solace :3 hey did you know i really like making fake skill descriptions?

SOLACE

Follow the north star. Find light in even the darkest places. Cool for: Optimists, Recovering lost souls, Sweet summer children

Solace is the skill you tucked away long ago, at the bottom of Pandora's box. The little one that tells you: despite it all, there is still hope. It needs a lot of nurturing -- and it's far from being the most helpful for police work -- but taking care of it is basically self-care. It enables you to find the glow in yourself that you often ascribe to gold lungs or brilliant halos in others. It encourages you to wake up and watch the sunrise, to play board games with someone you love, to forgive yourself and let yourself be a gentler kind of animal. Constantly looking forward to a brighter future, it also helps shield your morale from damage.

At high levels, Solace gives you a heightened sense of childlike optimism - which isn't always the sense to lead with in this precariously harsh world. Always looking for the bright side will blindside you with naivety. At low levels, however, you may just extinguish whatever keeps your soul alight. You've already lost her once. You may not survive the desolation if you let her disappear again.

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

Hi, it’s the op of the color of the sky compilation post.

So fun fact, you have given me several hundred notifications since you’ve reblogged it because not only am I getting notifications for the post itself, but all of the links are to my reblogs of other posts so I get notifications for those as well. So rip my notifications

But I’m glad you (and your followers) are enjoying it so much

I also want to say that I fairly regularly try to add more whenever I find a bunch, so the post will get updated every so often with more

Anyway, hope you have a lovely day, and hope everyone has a fun time with the Colors of the Sky™️

hello! I am so so sorry for contributing to destroying your notifications RIP

but it’s a truly truly wonderful post, and i’m very much looking forward to any future additions!!

thank you again for creating it and I hope you have a lovely day as well !

[ozsvessalius]

ty for the people following me bc of the watcher posts. this is a watcher hater club now u can all vibe here knowing we are mentally standing outside that pretentious hollywood hq building w pitchforks and torches

[yourhighness6]

drarry isn't even good though it's not even toxic it's just shipping a bully with one of his victims

Hi, anon. I wasn't going to give this any attention because hate asks are annoying and I'm kind of done with them, but let me clarify what I meant. In the canon that we have that JK gave us, you're absolutely right and Ginny and Harry lived out a wonderful life together. I, however, live in the magic delulu sunshine rainbow land where Draco, a literal child, got a redemption arc instead of an oily, whiny, abusive bitch like Severus "walks-right-by-your-husbands-corpse-and-crying-child-to-creepily-hug-your-lifeless-body" Snape

[fawninthewinter]

Ok, hear me out. Has no one else made the connections before? May have to make fanart of it.

How to train your hairy monster?

[makwandis]

"America would like electro swing" no he'd do heroin to miles Davis and listen to jazz the way jazz was intended to be listened to

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

I will never understand why some people feel the need to defend the indefensible.

[greendomine]

hey im back look at this drawing i made of my new hyperfixation, jesus christ

[fawninthewinter]

Ahh, yes. The two styles

Goth Scene

[mangled-by-disuse]

for some reason while slightly-delirious-levels-of-tired last night i found myself just. obsessing over how we never ornament shit any more.

like, okay. the thing that sparked this was my partner's flatmate's laptop stand. it is a very basic laptop stand - it's a metal X-frame, and it has little grips on the top ends of the front, so each end is kinda like

(shh i'm still very tired i don't feel like getting my tablet out)

and I was just sitting there like... man. when else in HISTORY, when else in THE ENTIRE ARTISTIC HISTORY OF THE WORLD, would we consistently be overcoming the urge to turn that weird little grip into a carved hand? a bird with open wings? a talon, perchance?

and then looking around the flat like... this is not a nasty flat, it's not badly-decorated or anything, and the same is true of my house, but where are the ornamentations?

By ornamentations, I don't mean "things that look nice", and frankly I actually love a lot of unornamented furniture that's just a Nice Shape or just really well-made. but at some point we also lost the art of - not adding things, exactly, but integrating little decorative flourishes into the things we make and own. carving floral designs into the front of your bookshelves. embroidering your work shirts. painting little designs on your doorframes and your window shutters. carving monstrances and vines and silly little guys into the archways of your grand architecture. putting a cheeky little hand carving on the laptop stand you use for work.

tbh I think there's some answers to be found in this in my boy William Morris' writing from nearly 200 years ago, because so much of the Arts & Crafts movement was based on recognising this loss. How, as industrialisation and mass production reshape design, we move away from artisans proving their chops with little tricks of the trade, because they now have to Add Value in a way that justifies spending ten times more on something that does the same thing. How, with cottage industries hamstrung and the working classes no longer having the long winter nights to whittle spoons and weave cloth, individuals no longer tend to make the things they use. How patents and copyright trickle down to a culture where originality is found only in structural difference, in the shape and the silhouette and the things that can be noticed on first glance.

and the weird thing is, I like unornamented goods. I am a dyed-in-the-wool English Quaker and highly ornamented styles are not at all my natural habitat. the baroque gives me a fucking headache. the first thing I did when I moved into this house was be like "i am getting these overwhelming patterns and squiggly things OUT."

BUT

i also remember as a kid being absolutely enamoured of Robert "Mouseman" Thompson's carpentry. he was a local(-ish, North Yorkshire) carpenter who made furniture and also did a bunch of lecterns and rood screens for churches, stuff like that. And every piece he did, he had a signature that he added:

he was very Arts & Crafts inspired, and you can tell. his furniture on the whole was pretty simple, clean lines and carved channels. but from the 1920s until he died in 1955 he always put a mouse on his work somewhere.

but this is the ornamentation I think I miss in my life. these cheeky little touches. the mouse climbing up the altar rail. the lion feet on chairs and tables. the flowers carved out of a bookcase. braid trimming on upholstery. painted vines climbing a windowframe. stonemasons making shapes in a lintel:

not huge and dramatic and overwhelming. just... artisans, having fun. making things look special, because it's neat and because it's a way to show off and because they can.

idk. I have no conclusion. I just have an image of that laptop stand in lacquered wood with little hands and feet, like a million bookstands and folding stools and the like which were made pre-industrially, and I think I just want to live in a world where that would be. not a statement? not a one-off item?

where everything wasn't so utilitarian and so plain.

i guess what i'm saying is: i wish as a culture we made more stupid little creative choices to make the world we live in fun?

[swagging-back-to]

watch me go to read a klance fic bc i cant sleep and then immediately after i start i become sleepy

[sardonicsergeant]

Idk its sorta funny that it took me 25 years to really ask for help and I just... completely lost my oldest and closest confidants and then I'm just stuck on the other side like... wow I was really getting physically abused again and they just... abandoned me over love bombing. Usually I try to forgive but... man even if it stopped feeling so raw, and I was able to completely blame myself[both for the initial abuse, and the fallout ensuing from talking about it but fearing being too negative or focusing on myself too much, resulting in ""love bombing""] I just can't see myself actually... engaging with them. Which is fine enough, I closed myself off to everyone including them long before that anyways. I'm certainly a self fulfilling prophecy, I do wish there were less casualties in the meantime.

[moddestmouse]

Like it was never about me or what was best for me...I have to laugh because of how absolutely ABSURD it is