#I rly like this book lol

[ink-the-artist]

“Social media has made this generation so narcissistic and self centered everyone’s always posting selfies and posting about everything they do during the day” shut up. The human desire to show you exist and you were here is innate and we’ve been doing it since the days we were leaving hand prints on cave walls

#I’m in a romantic mood rn don’t mind my bullshit lol #I have a lot of feelings abt the idea of how we want to show we exist and be seen #it’s really a shame I don’t see this idea explored much in media #there is stuff about leaving behind a legacy in media sure but that’s not quite the same #bojack did do this which I rly liked #in the episode where he’s giving a speech at his moms funeral #talking about how she said ‘I see you’ before she died #the desire to just be seen #also this book I like called moral lessons had a chapter on this #it was a chapter about smoking and how part of the appeal of smoking is #you sort of prove you’re existence. the smoke and the smell of it goes beyond you and your presence is undeniable #and the same is for wearing perfume #‘’​‘I am here’ she sniffs happily ‘I am really here’’’ #I rly like this book lol #edit: it’s mortal lessons not moral lessons #my bad lol #also the author is Richard Selzer #if anyone’s interested in reading it

[artist-rat]

my old and new tes character Saima <3 she’s a combination of a couple of my prev. ocs!

#elder scrolls #tes #khajiit #oc: saima #i play / will be playing her in both eso and skyrim bc the 'worldstate' my sister our friend and i have... we just stopped caring lol #probably if asked to take time seriously it would/will be all happening around skyrim times but #we just have such great time running around together in eso building the stories #:') #she's from dragonstar craglorn originally #. traveled... met a pirate captain and fell in love w/ her and became a pirate as well... #is besties with a daedric cat creature literally called 'lockpick' <3 (collects mint for them) #... always keeps a diary and loves collecting books and tomes.. #once got to peek into an elder scroll (but only lost vision from one eye bc kept the other one closed <3) (shh i know it doesn't work like #that in canon but i thought it was silly and awesome for her lol) #...her birthsign is the serpent. most blessed and cursed <3 #BOW GAL! both crossbows and uh. the usual ones? #in eso her class is nightblade. i once did another version as a necromancer and it was rly cool too but decided to keep the nightblade #THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK of my gal <3 it's over now #oh. one more thing.! she/they #💗

[creekfiend]

I get a lot of asks about training advice and I'm always like "well I am not a professional in any capacity" and also I forget every book I have ever read etc the moment someone asks me, but I remembered at random today that my very talented friend has written a really amazing training book that I think would be especially good for the people who tend to ask me this, bc Bridger has ADHD (LIKE DO MANY OF US) and is therefore really good at breaking things down into digestible chunks! this is one of the things I find most challenging about training so I think this is an extra valuable thing to have in a book.

It's mostly training basics for people who are beginners, but in a way where you can use the info the build a LOT of skills once you grasp the basics, and I really vibe with Bridger's ethics around training as well.

it's called Level Up Your Dog Training by Natalie Bridger Watson and I'm going to provide a couple different links where you can get it.

Amazon link:

Support a small business link:

(Bridger adds: "Also for accessibility, there is a large print paperback edition (Amazon only) and a digitally-narrated audiobook (Google Play only, trying to get it available more places). Am aware of the ethical implications of AI narration and would like to replace this with a human-narrated version when I can, but that costs $1,000-$2,000+ to hire out, so the not-ideal compromise is digitally-narrated for accessibility in the short term with plans to do better when I can.")

Anyway this is a really great book and not recommended as often as it should be bc it's just not one of the standard go-to books (yet!!!) so I thought I would plug it and in doing so answer all the training rec asks I get all the time and am so bad at answering 🤣

#dog t #PLS FEEL FREE TO REBLOG ITS A RLY GOOD BOOK. #other online training content i like include smart bitch dog training #superpup academy #ummm #cogdog ofc but a lot of that goes over my head bc im not a sports guy lol.

[theorahsart]

Fellow autistic ppl- do you ever hyper fixate over smth really, really niche, and then find your brain is just like super tired because there is very little outlet for the niche thing you're super into and you can't really talk about it with anyone?

I much prefer when I'm hyper fixating over smth everyone knows about so I can talk about it more and just literally get it outside of my head haha

#I'm basically really interested in the French Revolution rn #but no one else is #cos it like happemed 250 years ago lol #Im reading a rly good fiction book set in the french revolution #but it was written in 1993 #no one knows about this book #But its so good ;_; its getting so dramatic but I cant talk about it with anyone lol #autism #autism hyper fixation #hyper fixation

[wuntrum]

mentioned maybe switching to something in tech career-wise to my therapist and he told me someone he knows who got a certification in cyber security w/o any other schooling and 2 years later is now making 300k/year working from home. grits teeth

#personal #like damn okay maybe thats where i gotta go for real 😭 #like i dont wanna be rich! i just dont want to have to worry about money allllll the time #the idea of also having an indie press to help other ppl #publish books (as well as my own lol) sounds really lovely... #and itd make the taxes thing so much easier 😭 ugh idk man #staying at my current job until top surgery at least. bc theyre rly understanding

[blueiight]

claudia still gets infantilized by media surrounding iwtv despite this being core to the tragedy of her condition

i think shes always been infantilized & ppl dont see the merit of her arc bc ppl rly only care about female characters in relation with romance or if they are children [or someone’s child of sorts?] in so far as they relate to the men rearing them. [cue 5001 lestat-claudia webweaves]. claudia is both selectively infantilized & excessively adultified whenever convenient to character/s [somehow both a ‘child interfering’ and both powerful enough to ‘turn louis against lestat’] nd to a certain extent by the fandom too. speaking of the show here too - show!louis now wanting claudia as his child is never disseminated for what it is in relation to louis (how he wanted children, and how hes forcibly exiled from the public sphere & makes do with the quasi-domestic) or claudia (in her want for a companion in immortality & wanting to understand the origins of their existence. in both the book and the show its claudia who initiates the question of ‘who made lestat/vampires as a whole’) but rather ppl render show claudia inert solely as a fictional moral bludgeon to character bash louis or make stuntin like my mommy/daddy posts with lestat. i was thinking too the other day how people often talk about iwtv in the sense of outcasts but never mention claudia… which is insane bc this line in the show alone says so much

But it was 1939, and the only N* allowed in first class was the porter, and the N* passenger rode the rear. The N* vampire made do with what was left, which was fine with her.

neither second-class passenger nor porter directly serving whites: claudia is the black vampire sitting in the stowaway with the dogs and people’s luggage, earlier hiding out in university corners pretending to be the cleaner’s child, engorging herself on blood and taking body parts from her victims to put in storage all if it means she could have something for herself. shes really the ult. outcast of sorts.

#yn. #yn answers #yn do sum maymays. #kaelio #iwtv #claudia #opinion rate #The word is censored bc i dont believe in using it recklessly in mixed company^_^ or at all tbh. #Not in the modern day. #and it also irks when ppl r like ‘claudia needs a woman’s touch’ #but forget how in the book estelle & the other theater chicks groped her n treated her like a doll #or how book!madeleine sees claudia as a proxy for her dead daughter #but bc book lew+ clauds r in this quasi incestuous set up shed take dead daughter over wtf lewis wanted out of her #like ‘women’s touch’ dont do her very much up until the ghost psychic mind link w/ jesse im afraid. lol #its a bizarre form [& actual example] of essentialism applied to claudia. #which makes me excited for s2 claudia bc like #like why is she dressed as a doll on stage!! in the theater #Oh baby esther we rly in it now. #I like romance i just dont like pop fandom’s idea of romance

[wundrousarts]

The Wintersea Republic and the Free State: Different Age lengths?

I was going to save this until my Hollowpox reread post, but I’ve hit a snag in my eternal reread and now I don’t know when I’ll share that. This is something I noticed that I didn’t fully realize before. This is specifically about post-Massacre Ages. Pre-Massacre stuff is still currently a Wild West of unknowns.

The Wintersea Republic seems to have consistently had 10-12 year Ages since it was formed. This lines up with the amount of Ages it has had and how long it’s been around for. This consistency is also how Squall establishes the “curse.”

I had always assumed that Ages were consistent among the Realm, so that Nevermoor has also been experiencing these same Age lengths for the same amount of time. This is because at the beginning of the first book we see that their Morningtides align. This is where my theory about Wundersmith deaths or Wunder irregularities causing Eventides at the end of years comes from, because it seems likely that that’s what triggered this Eventide and likely all the ones related to the “curse”.

However, in ch2 of Hollowpox, Jupiter says the following:

“Golders Night,” Holliday echoed, and her expression grew thoughtful. She tapped a finger against her mouth. “There’s a thought… what’s it been, twelve years since the last one?” “Fourteen, I believe,” said Jupiter. “Spring of Seventeen in the Age of Poets. ”

So, 14 years ago, Nevermoor was in the midst of an Age that was at least 17 years long? Now I'm less sure what triggers Eventides/new Ages, especially in the Free State...

I find it unlikely that the Republic also experienced this same 17 year Age, as the fairly consistent Ages seems to be how Squall establishes the Eventide Curse... HOWEVER..... Morrigan turns 13 in Hollowpox... so this would have been the Age before her, and it might've actually been more like 18 (or 19? I'm bad at math) years long? Maybe Squall did something new the Age before Mog, like tried to take on an apprentice or two before her, or carry out some plan (or study?) with the other cursed children. The abnormally long Age could be balanced out by some of the earlier Ages in the lifespan of the Wintersea Republic being considerably short in comparison.

I would love to hear anyone's own thoughts on this! It's something I realized and now am trying to figure out how it fits with everything because I never really thought about it before.

#nevermoor #nevermoor theory #if I'm missing or forgetting about or etc etc any notable facts or details please let me know. it happens sometimes lol #my eternal reread is on hold bc my Apple Books app updated when my phone did and it’s ugly and unreadable now!!!!! horrible!!!!!!!!!! #anyways. enjoy this. I honestly think I need to wait for more info before I post other theories I mentioned #bc I think I sorta jumped the gun w the eventide one and didn’t think abt details like this so now I only rly believe in like half of it….. #the thing is that octopuschair of wiki fame always mentioned this and bc I never rly reread hollowpox I just assumed it was one of + #+ the past ages like in a ghostly hour. oops lmaooo. #this also throws a little bit of a wrench into my calendar project

[seriousbrat]

@annasghosts I didn't want to pile on that post any more lol but I wanted to reply to this because it's interesting.

To me headcanon always implied something that could feasibly be canon. Like, to me it means "in my head, this is basically canon". So presumably something that you think would fit believably into existing canon but just hasn't been confirmed. So a headcanon would be "I think Vernon Dursley is a chelsea supporter", like u can't just go "I headcanon that the avengers came to hogwarts and were sorted into a secret fifth house".

It does seem like it's been warped over time. In some ways I think this is okay, such as saying "my headcanon is that Sirius was gay" even though iirc jkr said he wasn't*. Because even though it's not true in terms of the author's intent, it also doesn't contradict canon in any significant way. There's no concrete information either way in the actual text and it doesnt (or shouldn't lol. anyway...) change anything about the character or the story.

however since most of the fandom has Pretending There Is No Info About the Marauders disease, this just leads people to use 'headcanon' to mean "any random thing I made up on the spot which I personally would like to be true" to the point it has no meaning lol. Since the fanon Marauders are basically just OCs at this point, their "headcanon" are just character traits that they've given to their original characters. Which is kind of funny.

*edit: apparently jkr did not say that and I misremembered/was misinformed. BUt I do think it's likely that he wasn't intended to be gay, so I think my point stands anyway.

#im edgy in that i always have sirius as gay or bi but dont ship him with anyone lol #ALSO that post by the marauders stan who read the books for the first time and got upset upon reaching SWM #'nooo my sweet baby boy james would NEVER act like this' #thats what u get for putting ur trust in a man #they should rly give the marauders era ocs their own names like poor things #'this is lysander moonbright my harry potter OC' #following in the tradition of the GREATS namely ebony darkness dementia raven way

[stuckinapril]

honestly crazy how much trial by fire we had to go through for bioethics to find a place in biomedical research. 23 nazi doctors were accused of crimes against humanity during the nuremberg war crime trials. from 1932 all the way through 1972, black american men were (unbeknownst to them) subjects in the phs study of untreated syphilis, and weren't even offered treatment when it became available. the revolting willowbrook trials, where mentally disabiled children were deliberately infected w hepatitis. the jewish chronic disease hospital study, where cancer cells were. on purpose. injected into cognitively impaired patients. fucking wild and crazy and insane. this is why the national act and the belmont report and 38736 other regulations exist. i cannot imagine being a doctor or clinical researcher during that time and just 1000% doing this w no conscience.

#this is why as a pre-med student i try to keep books on bioethics in my rotation all the time #and i'm rly enjoying the history modules i was assigned before i start my neuro hospital internship. #i want to know all this stuff. i want to constantly be questioning review committees. #bc i rly truly care about becoming an ethical physician one day. and currently an ethical clinical research scholar #i don't want to blindly accept what my superiors say like i actually want to know how this stuff works #it's also all super fascinating #the healthcare system is still hella broken these days but it's just in more insidious ways lol #major tangent but i wanted to document all these studies so i could pick up books/articles on them #text

[paeinovis]

Compiled this lil piece from solar filter I used during the eclipse and plants I grabbed from my friend's parents' yard in Arkansas (they have those cool helicopter seeds we don't have around Florida)! Included Jupiter and Venus symbols on two handheld filters since those planets were very visible during the eclipse, and bits of a cyanotype I did the day before! So all the components are directly related to the eclipse/general area I viewed it from :-)

#my art #i don't actually usually post my actual art here bksndjd but I kinda busted my butt and thought this was a very cool thing I did ! #text #eclipse #solar eclipse #the truth is out there #all of the inorganic materials are solar filter or cyanotype #(aside from glue lol) #the silver is the side that faces the sun - the black is what you look through! #and all the organic materials were from near eclipse path #i like the little red leaves which I grabbed bc I thought they looked cool but they ended up being neat as prominences too lol #anyway. inspo'd by exquisite creatures exhibit in crystal bridges AR bc the guy there uses bugs n plants n such in his art #also fuck leaves for use in art those little bitches fr . very annoying ! #probs my fault in part bc I'm too impatient to book dry them tho... I rly wanted to get this Out Of Me y'know? #i put that dandelion together by hand lmaooo #like reattached the seeds to the head . so I could glue em on somewhat and keep em kinda more in place #than how they were attached naturally

[soranker]

Heya! Saw your cry for a distraction and honestly such a mood.

I've got a question!

What's your least favorite thing to draw/do when you make art?

I'm on my own art journey right now and kind of dread the transition from lineart to coloring.

Trying to study anatomy right now and ignore rendering but I'm curious what other artists feel is challenging or just like 'ugh, ok time for [x]'

OHHH in terms of what's challenging, for me it's definitely coloring, rendering, backgrounds, and composition HAHA (<- chronic flat colors user who only draws character art on a floating white background)

i love focusing on gesture and lines when i draw ^_^ i rely mostly on intuition for the other stuff but it really only takes u so far T_T i'll spend hours trying to fix something by trial and error when i probably couldve saved that time by putting in more conscious studying/practice lol

#the thing that keeps me from getting too down about it tho is that it just takes some dedicated time and practice!!! #one of my goals this year is to take a class on one of those things!! or read a book on it or smth lol #for me i like learning the theory behind those things. makes things click and saves me a lot of time and frustration down the road lol #just the other day i was working on smth and the colors took me FOREVERRRR to figure out T_T #it's like. i kinda knew why the colors didnt work together but i didn't know how to pick the right ones to fix it. #it's nice to have tools to fall back on when you get stuck/intuition fails you #BUT!! everyone is different #the important thing is to not get too hung up on the things you are weak in ^_^ it's only temporary as long as ur patient and practice!! #i think its hilarious how u put it tho 'ugh ok time for' BC IT RLY DO FEEL LIKE THAT SOMETIMES DKJFHASF #me when i finish my sketch/lines. ugh now time for everything else BAHAHA #ALSO SORRY I REPLIED SO LATE this has been sitting in drafts for a while and i forgot to finish writing my response omfg

[c-kiddo]

if i may be a little bit of a hater (/lh) for a moment i must say i jus dont rly like most of the moomin adaptations. theyre just too cute 2 me i think .. the anime looks nice but eh its ok. the newest 3d animated one is just kinda annoying akjnsfkns .. i think i like the 'fuzzy felt' one the most bc its charming and wonky and kinda spooky. mostly they just dont have the correct vibes of the books though.. its missing the darkness and especially loneliness of the world and characters that makes the moomin family stand out as so warm and moominvalley as somewhere so safe for everyone who visits , i think. not that it isnt cute and silly in the books too, they do run from the police by sailing through a flooded field of flowers and eat pancakes and befriend a tiny dragon (though, it is maybe the last one ever), but also like, theres characters who are deeply lonely too

(forever thinking about the groke following moominfamily across the sea to the lighthouse because she is freezing and wants to gaze at the warm flame of the storm lantern 😢 ...)

#kiddo say #moomin purist moment . lol #basically nothing will compare to th vibes of th original books and illustrations to me #i just rly like the groke also . #moominpappa at sea is my fave #also i like the weirdness of moominvalley in november too #i should reread moominpappa at sea . at some point

[lsdgay]

#sidney crosby #american psycho #pittsburgh penguins #bret easton ellis #if i owned this it would be my most prized possession i want it #would sidney crosby like american psycho (specifically the book)? probably not lol #it appeals to a lot of people for a lot of reasons and almost none of them rly make sense for him #i don't think the setting/aesthetic/world building would be of interest to him #i don't think he relates to being deeply alienated and unheard #everyone needs to read the shards including sidney crosby #just more accessible imo #i think he would appreciate the driving routes #that one has the most like you can put yourself in the character's shoes and feel like you're going into battle #but then it's a whole mindfuck it's great

[sadhorsegirl]

fuck it posting moiraine playlist on main

#please enjoy my incredibly vibey and abstract playlist i finalized while very very high lol #i made it that way bc she is vibey and abstract. 2 me ❤️ #could have posted this days ago if i hadnt agonized over the inclusion of master hunter #feels like its a little aggressive and doesnt totally work #but i am a master hunter ive cured my skin nothing gets in nothing not as hard as it tries #vs the breakdown of like fuck off u think i enjoy suffering!!! #later in the song rly works for book moiraine at certain points. where u become so emotionally isolated to try and protect urself but #but rly u still care sososo much #i think her struggle for connection in the midst of all her planning is a big part of what makes moiraine such a strong character for me #like. any ability she has to repress her own emotions is p surely undercut by her own capacity for love #she cant help it! even if she struggles to connect with others and frequently faces rejection in the white tower #she still cares deeply for others #v boss of her u might say #anyways ramble basically over this playlist is also heavily impacted by new spring go read new spring sound of the summer #reserving the right to go back and edit this if the a side in the title isnt clear enough lol #moiraine damodred #wheel of time #music #Spotify

[volfoss]

my silly book rec for today is Zoo by Otsuichi. its a collection of sci-fi/horror short stories and is one of the best short story collections ive ever read. it does deal with the themes of death pretty heavily as a heads up but its definitely worth reading (pdf link)

tws: suicide mentioned but not committed(in the stories "in a falling airplane" and "words of god"), self harm (in the story "words of god"), child abuse (in the story "kazari and yoko", it is the plot of the entire story), rape mentioned (not graphically but still) (in the story "in a falling airplane"), death (including animals, in pretty much all stories as the collection is by and large centered around death)

#twist rambles #song of the sunny spot aughhhhhh me when i blow UP. #this site is safe btw :) it just used to be a pricy book so id rather give a more easy to access way to read it. its under 200 pages and go #its all so so good. #i also did rly like how the 2nd story dealt w like... the feelings of failure u get as a young adult and feeling like you will never be abl #to measure up to what ppl want from you. its very good. they are also very haunting stories lol #its a horror story thing so. obviously proceed carefully if ur easily upset by smth but its one of the best books ive ever read

[wundrousarts]

#nevermoor #nevermoor poll #wundersmith #hollowpox #my mog birthday drawing is never getting done at this rate i fear. won't be able to get to it until like may or june 😭 #just slowly chipping away at some stuff and wanted to ask this #poll the fandom and all. etc etc etc. #personally I think I've gotta choose wundersmith. It was really a step up and you discover so much abt the world and the history and stuff. #and the twisttttt. it got me when I was reading it for the first time. I did notttt expect it honestly lol #anyways. if you're reading my tags: don't be influenced by me. pls choose which one you like the best. #and if you try to come at me with the “oh I can't choose I love them all” you and I both know that's not really true lol #i feel like the first book will prob sweep since it prob has the fondest memories for folks but also let's try to think past nostalgia #and go more for honesty #I haven't reread it since making my quote bot but I fear hollowpox might be my least fave. #it has some aspects I love (ravi my beloved blorbo) but also some I don't rly care abt (it is honestly quite like zootopia i'm sorry 😭)