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apple blossomed trees / roots with the birds

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do you ever draw something for yourself that’s so deliciously self-indulgent that you just sit there like

[Image ID: 2 digital drawings of a short-haired person drawing on a tablet. In the first image they are looking at the screen and blushing pink. In the second image they are looking away from the screen and blushing more heavily, with the caption “…is this allowed?”. End ID]

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not being able to borrow an ebook because someone else has it on loan is stupid as hell. like babe this is Document. these are pixels.

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It's the last day of April

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i don't get how goals work i've never had a target goal i just flow through life like a little leaf being carried by the wind

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texts from the airport

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they're making a new movie or something and everybody agrees it's going to be bad but for some reason we will have to keep talking about it and paying attention to it and writing a million thinkpieces about it and unpacking every aspect of it on youtube. yeah sorry it's the law

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I mean, fuck, I like bed. I like sleep. I like cozy blankies I like napping, I like to eep. I like Z catching and wink catching and counting sheep. I like doing beddie bye shit. Snooze it? Honk mimi

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Digital painting for a project over at GAIA on instagram! Our theme in March was "green landscapes" and thought this was the perfect opportunity to draw the rolling hills in botw <3

Close-ups of the tiny little swirls and details because that was honestly my favorite part of drawing this

Also available as a print now!

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The tribes of Tumblr appeared to worship Apollo as their primary patron deity, most often under the epithet Apollo Spairahemon ("Apollo the Ball-Thrower") as a god of prophecy and sport. His name was typically invoked to celebrate a user blessed with uncommon prescience. Moments of prophecy were considered highly sacred and were often recorded, and such texts are sometimes accompanied by an artistic depiction of the god — either his traditional masculine image or, unusually, in the form of a young woman, which appears to have been an earlier style before a conservative shift toward more conventional iconography — preparing to cast a round rubber ball that our scholars believe was used in the sport known as "dodge ball". Much as other cults regarded his arrows as bringers of disease and health, this community believed that being struck by this ball would bestow prophetic visions.

Some icons are reproduced below:

An earlier depiction (c. 2020) of Apollo as a girl clad in a simple tunic and playing with other children. Figures are smiling and the image is brightly colored, indicating a celebratory outlook toward knowledge of the future.

A later piece (c. 2022) that resembles the traditional appearance of Apollo. References to childhood and play are omitted, and the god carries a more frightening aspect; perhaps this icon represented grim omens rather than good tidings.

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torture myself or torture myself? tough choice

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come see my bones

Winter in Palos • Paull Kozal

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‘full movie watch free online’ was in the early 21st century a kind of prayer

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your only job on this earth is to be so intrinsically yourself that the right people gravitate toward you and the wrong people move out of your way