#lesigh

[inscmiac]

what the fuck am i actually painting

[inscmiac]

i read this book for my college writing class and it was so interesting i loved it

The evil stepmother is a fixture in European fairy tales because the stepmother was very much a fixture in early European society–mortality in childbirth was very high, and it wasn’t unusual for a father to suddenly find himself alone with multiple mouths to feed. So he remarried and brought another woman into the house, and eventually they had yet more children, thus changing the power dynamics of inheritance in the household in a way that had very little to do with inherent, archetypal evil and everything to do with social expectation and pressure. What was a woman to do when she remarried into a family and had to act as mother to her husband’s children as well as her own, in a time when economic prosperity was a magical dream for most? Would she think of killing her husband’s children so that her own children might therefore inherit and thrive? [...] Perhaps. Perhaps not. But the fear that stepmothers (or stepfathers) might do this kind of thing was very real, and it was that fear–fed by the socioeconomic pressures felt by the growing urban class–that fed the stories.

We see this also with the stories passed around in France–fairies who swoop in to save the day when women themselves can’t do so; romantic tales of young girls who marry beasts as a balm to those young ladies facing arranged marriages to older, distant dukes. We see this with the removal of fairies and insertion of religion into the German tales. Fairy tales, in short, are not created in a vacuum. As with all stories, they change and bend both with and in response to culture.

— Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

[keytaryourheart]

just made creamy pasta sauce thing with leek and it tasted saurrr good then I added the ravioli and it tastes like ass urgh

[inscmiac]

i wrote an essay on this picture

[sirnlish]

I guess it’s Australia’s time now…rip origin. You can bet I’m backing up my mods, saves & tray folders first…just in case….

[editorsusan]

A guest op-ed writer for the Washington Post wrote "scoffing down a hot dog."

There was once a time when the WashPo editors would have fixed that.

[keytaryourheart]

It’s so funny how when I head into burnout my brain goes “you need to drastically change your life.” Because I’m more sluggish, finding it hard to do what was usually easy, tired to no end, that somehow means I’m not trying hard enough. So obviously to remedy this I have to start a new workout routine, start learning a new language (asap) and start offering to do unpaid internships. When really my body giving up and my mind preferring dreams over reality are clear cut signs that I’ve pushed myself too far and need to slow down.

I don’t know how many times I have to go through the burnout cycle to realise I’m not immune.

[inscmiac]

reminds me of this song

a lot of you know me for the "my psychiatrist asks me about friendship & i tell him about distance" excerpt but its been almost a year since i wrote it & the whole piece still resonates so i thought id share (x)

[inscmiac]

ticktock ticktoc tictok.... fuck off ... it has ruined ribbons for me i hate this i hate it fuck off can a girl just like something and keep it for herself instead of turning everything into an aesthetic. i wore ribbons today and someone came up to me and told me shes seen the videos on tiktok.. BRO What do you Mean for the love of god what happened to just compliments. we need to stop calling everything an aesthetic or an "era".

"im in my painting era" no you are just painting.

[dreamieparadise]

I'll draw Colonnello and Reborn as this just you wait.

[serenofroses]

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[inscmiac]

this is the most ive felt in a while

Leonard Cohen, "Beneath My Hands"

[nireey]

Friendly reminder that you don't start discourse and spam (ship) hate on my art postings. I will remove your comments and block you. Stay civil. I am not interested in your unwanted opinion. Use your own blog for discourse and hate, not my drawings. Thank you.

[lllsaslll]

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[inscmiac]

5thank U p

"Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life."

Patti Smith

[bunny-hoodlum]

I'm thinking of turning my Office AU submission into a no plot/slice of life thing that I update whenever I feel like. And naturally, I want to change and expand the first chapter.

Originally Naruto was supposed to be a totally normal graduate, so I want to go back to that. I just stream-of-consciousness-ed the 'screw up son of a politician' thing to give it more 'depth', but I don't actually have any plans for that or anything. And it just feels shoehorned and uninspired, so *yeet!*

I'll probably change the story title too, just cuz only the first chapter is themed around dark circles, and I don't plan on restricting the whole thing to that motif alone. I have ideas for other reasons they have dark circles 😏 later on, but yeah, that's it. Just my thoughts.

Also it's the holidays once again and I still haven't been able to touch AWY. I really want to update it because I have the Rinne and New Years chapters coming up. 😤 And every time it's winter, I think about updating it. I swear I do. 😂 *lesigh*