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chickenscratch-comics · 2 years

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#cartoons #drawing #comics #webcomics #cartoon #commonplaces #stereotypes #funny animals #animals #humour

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sakura4891 · 3 months

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As an exercise in overcoming the fear of writing in public, I'm going to start thinking of my blog as a commonplace where I think through ideas and try to make sense of the world.

#writing #thinking out loud #commonplaces

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totheescapement · 11 months

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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

~Charles Lamb

#time #quotes #charles lamb #wealth #riches #commonplaces

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lantern-hill · 1 year

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"In an era of “girls-supporting-girls” and “let-people-enjoy-things”, having distinct tastes or opinions is tantamount to social suicide. There is no room for good-spirited teasing or critique or gossip or even interpersonal dislike. As much as I despise the phrase, these things are human nature. We possess the human range of emotions, which includes being annoyed or petty or mean-spirited—to pretend anyone is above it is not only moralistic but biologically false. When we don’t like someone or something, we scavenge to find a political or moral reason to critique them, instead of owning up to our honest truth: sometimes, you just find someone annoying.

Our crisis of niceness is both insufferable and detrimental to our artistic output; the films, art, and music we make are expected to promote pleasantness and punish everything else. We don’t see culture as a vehicle for artistic expression, but instead for moral expression, and as such our capacity for connoisseurship is at an all-time low. A film can be visually uninspired, a song can be derivative, a book can be poorly written, but as long as it espouses some rhetoric of universal justice it will be lauded as “important”. This is boring. It is uninspiring. If you even critique the mechanisms of the culture industry and its monopolized outputs (Marvel Movies, Taylor Swift, etc), you are deemed at best a hater and at worst a misogynist/racist/classist/homophobe depending on the day and the detractor.

It is a vague and meaningless form of pleasantry and niceness that does little more than create social codes of conduct concerning our language and discourse. It is Redbubble “Treat People With Kindness” stickers on MacBook Airs, it is a mass produced t-shirt with a slogan like You Matter <3 sold as mental health awareness. It feels suffocating, a cloying Yankee Candle atmosphere that gives nothing of substance yet demands a smile and a quiet wave.

We have confused pleasantness with kindness. Pleasantness is plasticine and sanitized, florescent lights over pastel bulletin boards. Kindness is human, old hardwood floors and fresh fruit.

Kindness is bringing your neighbors a bowl of chili, or sitting quietly with the people you love to reflect in the morning. Both actions somehow sparked mass outrage online and the individuals who shared their moments of quiet kindness were either called privileged or evil or any of the -ists that internet commentors love to toss around… classist, ableist, et cetera. The people who attempted to bring some joy into their own lives and the lives of others were called ugly and annoying in hundreds and thousands of replies within the same cultural space that insists that it is materially violent to say that you don’t like K-Pop or Taika Waititi."

-meditations on meanness - charlie

#commonplace book #org

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caffeinatedcatlover · 2 months

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Commonplace pages about Joan Didion’s On Keeping a Notebook and the art of Louis Wain

#caffeinatedcatlover #journal #journaling #bujo #notebooks #studyblr #quotes #joan didion #louis wain #hobonichi #hobonichi weeks #commonplace journal #commonplace book #journal spread #coffee #coffee aesthetic #dark academia #dark aesthetic

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belovedapollo · 22 days

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archive of my mind 🌙 reblog is ok, don’t repost/use

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sevenofdeers · 4 months

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favorite pages from my third field notes: a lot of trees, hands and quotes from philosophy of emotion papers

#field notes #common place #common place book #own #field notes book #notebook #journal #journalling #commonplacing

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zzzzzestforlife · 1 month

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✏️ what no one tells you about how to journal 📒

i was sick of all the "how to journal" content out there recycling the same advice that sounds great but doesn't always work in the reality of daily life. you're welcome 😏 (also low-key a shitpost, but there are nuggets of wisdom in here, i promise 😇)

✍️ what to journal about ✍️

sure, you could journal about self development and treat your diary like your therapist, OR you could write about:

the pettiest grudge you're still holding onto from elementary school 😤

all the gossip about other people's lives that you have Strong Opinions™️ about, but you're a good person, so what goes in the journal, stays in the journal 🤫

all the witty comebacks you never say to people's faces because you're a sensible, non-confrontational person, but also you didn't think of it until later 🙃

the possibilities are endless, let your imagination run wild, and/or feel free to contact the blogger for more 🤭

🚫 when NOT to journal 🚫

this is just as, if not more, important as when to journal.

nothing to say — forget morning pages, i can barely string together a coherent greeting before lunch. also, a whole night's sleep is like a total memory wipe, so i have nothing to write about 🤷‍♀️ and don't listen to whoever says to just write "i have nothing to write about" because if you start enough entries with that, you're gonna begin to feel there's no point BUT THERE IS!! just not right now. and that's okay ☺️

too often — personally, i think it's important not to make journaling your one source of clarity 🔮 continue to think things through in your mind, confide in people you trust, and have moments (in nature, perhaps) that simply can't be transcribed to words 🌼

not feeling it — if you're too tired OR feel fulfilled and clear-headed enough about your day, don't make journaling a chore you have to do no matter what. if that means you don't journal everyday, then so be it 🌝

so when do you journal? in general, when doing so would add something to your day ☀️ whether that's peace, humor, gratitude, or something else.

🎁 materials 🎁

now for the fun part: let's go to the stationery store! 🛒

✒️ GET A PEN THAT WRITES SMOOTHLY! you are literally lowering the physical resistance that's keeping you from journaling, trust me it works. also pencils suck.

🔐 get a journal with a band, lock, clasp, button, etc. — just because it's fun, but it has the added benefit of securing your intellectual property(?)

have a separate journal for writing thoughts vs. schedules vs. todos vs. collections (TBR lists, recipes, etc.) — beats having to make and maintain a whole index to keep it all organized in just one (1) notebook 😵‍💫

🌸 stickers — are a pretty substitute for correction pens 😻 (in theory, but i have yet to use all the washi tape i bought 😅)

or just journal digitally, idgaf, do what works for you, okay? 😇

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chickenscratch-comics · 1 year

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My mind has to process a lot of commonplaces everyday, creating cartoons distorting them is a coping mechanism.

#mistakes #cartoon #sayings #commonplaces #drawing

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petite-gloom · 1 month

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little archives and their covers

#filofax #commonplace book #on the sofa #own #commonplace

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lucieviolette · 3 months

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last weeks of january 📖

#hobonichi #hobonichi weeks #journal #zebra mildliners #hobonichitecho #journaling community #commonplace book #commonplace #passion planner #passion planner stickers #own

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alicewritten · 5 months

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virtual journal, 08/12

commonplace updates + learning again and again that nothing motivates me to focus on studying as taking my time in the morning to slow down and do the things, the superfluous unproductive things, that i find joy in 🌱

#alicewritten #studyblr #journaling #light academia #studyinspo #commonplace book #commonplacing #notebook handwriting #noteblr #dark acadamia aesthetic #travelers journal #spilled writing #heydilli #notebooks #writers on tumblr

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caffeinatedcatlover · 2 months

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