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Prince Lyre and his beloved ferret Milord

#art #character design #animals in art #drawn ferret #ferret #animation #gif #quality #cool

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drill girl

#art #character design #quality #cute

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“Many young Americans think that to know themselves they need to find themselves, and they hold the naive belief that if they could just strip off everyday life like layers of an onion they would reach their true core, unadulterated by other people’s expectations and the distractions of a fastpaced world. They believe that they have a true core, an essence, and that it sits inside of them waiting to be discovered, and that once they find it they will know whether they ought to be a doctor or a lawyer or a philosophy professor. Sometimes these young people go to Europe and work their way through Mediterranean countries picking grapes, confident that their true self will emerge somewhere en route to Italy. But people who believe that the self is like an onion and their true self is its core have not spent much time in the kitchen. Peel an onion down to its core and all you will find is air. You are not an untouched core. You are and will become the sum of your commitments, your choices—moral, intellectual, and practical—they amount to much the same thing in the end. To find yourself, don’t dig under the surface of your life. Look at what you actually do, at what you come to care for, at what you fight to defend. Look at the small choices you make every day in the classroom, in the way that you read and interpret and argue, and the big choices will sort themselves out by themselves.”

— 2003 - Tanya Luhrmann | Aims of Education | The University of Chicago (via logicandgrace)

#quote #tanya luhrmann #self actualization #knowing yourself #growth #the more you know #text post

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Satoshi Kawamata

#art #animals in art #leopards #satoshi kawamata #quality #cool #wow #pretty

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#dragon ball super #dbs #manga #ugh

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help i have brainrot again

#breaking bad #better call saul #memes #horror movies #lol #humor

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Floowandereeze & Toccan

#Floowandereeze & Toccan #yugioh #ygo tcg #Winged Beast #official art #quality #cute

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Otter and the gang

#art #animals in art #wood carvings #sculptures #quality #cool #cute

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"how can you like this objectively bad thing!" because i have bad taste. move on.

#media #art #books #movies #media literacy

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I hope everyone understands, when I say “most endangered habitat on earth”, I mean temperate grasslands.

They’re more endangered than tropical rainforests, coral reefs, the arctic tundra, all of those go-to environments that get more of the spotlight.

Where I live, maybe 25% of the prairie remains in a natural state and that number is dropping. Even these fragments are mostly missing the keystone species that maintain their health, like bison, wolves, and prairie dogs. I know this is the case for other grasslands like the pampas and steppe as well. Vast lands empty of many species that used to call them home.

If you live on temperate grasslands, hold onto them tight, because they’ve been exploited like no other land and most people don’t even know how far the devastation goes.

#temperate grasslands #prairie #endangered habitats #the more you know

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Ending the stigma of drug use will save lives.

#harm reduction #never use alone #hotline #the more you know #signal boost #important information

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Its good that people are talking about the “noble savage” stereotype and how it is harmful and at the same time I keep seeing climate doomers claim that anything related to indigenous environmentalism or traditional ecological technology is just a product of that stereotype and it makes me want to scream.

#climate change #environmentalism #indigenous peoples #reality check #the more you know #text post

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Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:

In general, I think "Is X out-of-character?" is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.

A better question, I believe, is "What would it take for Character to do X?" What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT'S where a potentially interesting story lies.

In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from "What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?" As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you've got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.

#writing #character development

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i had a joke about orpheus and eurydice but looking back it wasn't a good idea

#text post #jokes #mythology #greek mythology #orpheus #eurydice #lol #humor

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they call me George on account of my W Bush

#text post #jokes #omfg #lol #humor

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thieves

#art #animals in art #3d art #cats #quality #cute

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pokemon netsuke

#netsuke #pokemon #pkmn #fanart #quality #cool #3d art