#forever in dreams

[mosstrades]

im someone who stuggles not to let his curiosity and drive sometimes (often) cross over into an overwhelming and maladaptive need for answers, for explanation, for certainty. someone who, historically, sees making art as a primarily intellectual exercise. this is not inherently a bad thing, we all have our temperaments and this kind of attention can be a strength. but, you know that artist who makes a painting, and then only wants to show it while explaining it to you? thats me, sometimes, more often than i like. every story i used to write had another hundred page document behind it, explicating every single choice -- often i would simply read that, instead of ever actually write the story itself. the explanation precedes everything. the answers alone are the experience.

david lynch's work and philosphy has been and is a vital foothold in my efforts to learn to love the questions as our breath. learn to appreciate intuition and dreams, trust them instead of fear them. learn to see that the world has so much confusing, uncertain, strange beauty, that can be terrifying but turns sublime when you cease rejecting it from fear. when you embrace the unknown and dont try to immediately & anxiously explicate it all away, a whole new world opens up to you. that you need the darkness in order to dream, and you need dreams in order to live fully immersed in what the world has to offer. a foothold in learning to be okay with abstraction, with imperfect subjectivity, with uncertainty. to know it is not anthitetical to truth and meaning. know that to skillfully make ideas come alive into a work *is* to rationally pin them down, but that you cannot lose sight of the intuition they were born as.

his artistic intuition reminds me of what i need to have -- the trust and humility for experiencing the inexplicable and understanding that to be enough. a devotion to ideas and their realisation. a balancing force, for my endless inquiry -- to not forget to live the question in my the search for an answer. to allow some thing to go without clear or universal explanation, allow for some things to remain unresolved, allow for others to have that be their resolution. it's why his work equal parts captivates me and disturbs me -- i am very bad at this. but feel in my heart a need to get better at it. to be a better artist, a better thinker, a better searcher, a better person. you need to feel it, intuitively, quiet your endless noisy need for an answer and simply let it fill you up, let it resonate intuitively, and find in that how life makes sense to you and you alone. mediation, mindfulness, humility to sit with abstraction without trying to pin it down. more and more i try to understand this. some things don't need to make perfect sense. some things dont need answers, or their answers are not the point. some things dont need anything but to be experienced as they enter you -- like dreams do. that can lead you to the answer, and that can also be enough in itself. that can be just an intrinsic value in being alive to experience it. and so often, it is all in conversation with the search for joy. it's why he feels so captivating, so unique, so tremendously alive. why people use the word "visionary" when talking about him. because he knew how to use his medium in all the potential he could see, so that it let you live in the strangeness and questions. he understood them as sublime, he understood them as enough, he understood them as a joy. he understood them as beautiful. and his memory will remind me to do the same; always to seek the space to dream.

[nenoname]

Stan Pines' drawings

Plus a Stan drawing of debatable canonicity but I love his signature being a dollar sign

[cryptixotic]

Forgotten silhouettes - Familiar places

[luthienne]

Anne de Marcken, from It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over [ID'd]

[spoopdeedoop]

who up thinking about they c!clingyduo

[bishy437]

he won

bonus:

[sunseed-fandump]

THE NEW WIZARD COSTUME IN OVENBREAK I'M DIE

[businessbois]

okay i guess a compilation for old time's sake what can i say i got nostalgic

yt: 1:01:37 twitch: 1h29m

Dream: "But Tom— I mean, Tubbo."

yt: 1:30:49 twitch: 1h59m

Dream: "I don't even know that this happened." Tubbo: "How do you not know if you called a woman a whore or not, man?" Dream: "Okay—" Tubbo: "What do you mean you have no idea if this happened. 'I have no idea if this happened.' What do you mean?" Dream: "Okay, Tommy— I mean— Fucking..." Tubbo: "WHAT THE HELL, MAN?"

yt: 1:43:03 twitch: 2h10m

Dream: "...that company used child labor." Tubbo: "Then where's the proof? Because—" Dream: "Tommy..."

yt: 2:13:56 twitch: 2h41m

Dream: "It's the same thing. It's like— It's a response— It's like a critique of his critique, Tommy." Tubbo: "Yeah, but it's—" [sigh] Dream: "Tubbo. Oh my god."

yt: 2:38:07 twitch: 3h6m

Dream: "Yeah, exactly! I'm critiquing, To— Tubbo, I'm critiquing his critique."

yt: 3:18:38 twitch: 3h47m

Tubbo: "Oh, come on, man. Oh, come on, man!" Dream: "Yeah, well— I still— I still— I left that— I left that call, okay, Tommy, well— well, the difference is..."

[tringstarruuu]

just finished the book HUALIAN HUALIAN HUALIAN IM GOING INSANEEEEEEE

[egophiliac]

what do you think malleus has been doing this entire time during his long absence

honestly it's kinda...mushy...how much time has actually passed in-universe, since all the dreams seem to run differently and we've been popping in and out all over the place. so I think chances are it hasn't been that long for him, and he's still getting the run-around from Lilia!

(just let Malleus destroy everything in order to trap you in an eternal dreamworld like a normal person, gosh)

[eggdrawsthings]

The Nikto called the kid a “fledgling Jedi”, saying Din had no idea what he could “do”. The Armorer also called the Jedi “sorcerers” and though Din doesn’t know anything about sorcery, he does know there’s something magical about the kid’s hugs. Something powerful. They have the power to erase bad dreams and painful conversations. They have the power to heal hurts and pains and age-old loneliness. They have the power to make Din laugh like he is now.  If that isn’t magic, Din doesn’t know what else is.

Dream Child by @muchadoloo

[hotcinnamonsunset]

nancy drew and the case of the color work sweater🔍

[frootertooter]

We do not choose our parents, or the circumstance into which we are born -> late night Hollow Knight sibling sketches

[breadbugg]

afternoon nap

[bugsnbites]

[spoopdeedoop]

very very late to the party on the lost in the woods somewhere beeduo fae au by @hellenite but i am here now and it is taking over my brain like a very fast growing moss of some sort