#but it's also an exercise in patience

[marsreds]

in other news suzanne collins really needs to stop killing off people who have no business dying in stories sejanus sweetheart you deserved a life of light, love and joy

[gongyussy]

(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

[cuttledreams-bugs]

I forgot to share, I tried out some woodburning recently and had a fun time:

the wood was so soft it was more like wood carving lmao but I'm hoping to doing more sometime

[goldiipond]

kids these days love falling into mountain holes

[welcometogrouchland]

I miss them so bad (Dick and Damian)

[noisytenant]

always kind of strange and uncomfortable when someone admits "yeah i basically fried my attention span on Phone so i can't do anything that requires patience now". the kind of thing where i want to say a million things in response but i tend to say nothing at all

[eddis-not-eeddis]

Sometimes the things in our lives aren't directed at us individually. It is so easy for me to look up and ask God, "Why did you do this to me?" But that is such a self-centered thing to do--especially when the thing in question is on a large scale or effects more people than just me. I think often we deal with the effects of what is happening to other people, and it may not be directed at us specifically. It can be hard to realize that when we are suffering (or "suffering") but it may not be our specific problem beyond how we handle it in the given moment and move on with our lives.

[ruiningthesoup]

I find it a bit frustrating that the user base on tumblr has finally clocked on to the idea that posting online is Not Activism and that we have to do something irl, but refuses to popularise knowledge about how to organise (in communities, around campaigns etc) and replicates many of the barriers to organising by positing that not having all the information about a subject is a good reason to disengage lest you should repeat some semantic error.

LISTEN TO ME. YOU WILL LEARN MORE THEORY AND BUILD SUPPORT NETWORKS BY TURNING UP TO A MEETING AND ASKING SOME QUESTIONS. reading theory online is fine and even good! but your political education is not an isolated event! you can and should learn from other people where possible and make up your own mind based on material realities IN ADDITION TO scholarly thought.

sometimes you might be wrong. sometimes you might change your mind based on new information. these are not factors that should stop you from opening your mind to working with others in search of a collectivised future

[itspileofgoodthings]

you know what I’ve realized lately? that’s really helped? the axiom: it just doesn’t really make that much of a difference. Or at least it doesn’t when you’re talking about good things and not, like, doing good vs. doing evil. Big choices, little choices, decisions, decisions —it’s not just that they don’t matter in the grand scheme of things—because they do! —but just. It won’t make that big of a difference. Life will continue to be wonderful AND difficult, fascinating AND hopelessly mundane, full of roses AND thorns and all the other cliches whether you walk down one road or another. And you’ll get used to the joys and sick of the sorrows whatever they are, and you’ll be ungrateful and bored and dissatisfied in some measure some of the time and you’ll have to work on all the things you have to work on anyways and just. Yeah! It doesn’t make that big of a difference! Even the biggest things!

[discoidal]

ur all invited to the party btw

[motherhenna]

So today was my first day teaching an after school elective theater class (10+ 2nd 3rd 4th grade girls) and holy shit y'all I have even more respect for teachers now than ever before because that was BRUTAL lmao it was like they could smell my fear and knew they could trample all over me. Maybe my viewpoint is skewed, seeing as I was a really meek, easygoing kid at that age, but I can't fathom just...blatantly ignoring the teacher when they tell you not to do something. I get theater is a bit more loosey goosey but damn I can't imagine treating any of my past theater teachers (or any adult for that matter) with such disregard. Hoping that they were just crazy because it was their first day back at school after summer break and they'll mellow out a tiny bit by next week.

There were two super sweet and responsible 4th graders that I'm probably going to have to lean on to get through to some of their classmates. Like appoint them "team leaders" or whatever.

Either way, no more Ms. Pushover next Wednesday--Miss Helen is gonna lay down the fucking LAW lol I'm going to print out a set of class rules and expectations and have the kids repeat them back to me, and I may invest in a fucking whistle to cut through how loud they can get. If any of y'all have a background in teaching or otherwise dealing with large groups of children, feel free to drop any tips or suggestions you might have to get a handle on a rowdy crowd of munchkins and gremlins without yelling or being overly strict.

[musical-chick-13]

"This show is SO good, you should watch it!!"

I gotta be honest. If I look at a character list on Wikipedia and get five characters down without seeing a single woman, it's probably not for me.

[aroace-cat-lady]

I won't cut my hair short cuz I want to donate it I won't cut my hair short cuz I want to donate it I won't cut my hair short cuz I want to donate it I won't cut my hair short cuz I want to donate it I won't cut my hair short cuz I want to donate it I won't cut my hair short cuz I want to donate it I won't cut my hair short cuz I want to donate it I won't cut my hair short cuz I want to donate it I won't cut my hair short cuz I want yo donate it I won't cut my hair short cuz I want to donate it—

[vulturevanity]

I am NOT shaming anyone for this because doing it at all is a huge undertaking but the animation snob demon in my head is eating my brain and I have to say it or else I die. But it's always a bit obvious when an artist decides to create an animatic while being entirely unfamiliar with the principles of sequential art.

And I hate that I care about this. Why does it matter if an otherwise very good animatic made out of love for a story looks like a slide show. Why do I have to be this pretentious and picky. The art is beautiful. The editing is perfectly serviceable. Why can't I just appreciate something for what it's trying to do and how do I stop immediately noticing every flaw in everything I look at.

[eorzeanflowers]

it’s late night, so it’s time to think irrationally again