#riding the bus

[anonymousdandelion]

The thing (one of the things) that I love about taking the bus is that sometimes a random woman gets out of the bus to run half a block to return a jacket left by another random woman, while the driver and all the passengers wait for her to deliver it and then come back and reboard, and afterwards when she gets off for real she wishes the driver the most heartfelt I hope you have a really good day you’ve ever heard, and you disembark walking on air over the small random kindnesses of humanity

and then five minutes later a different random woman walks up to you at the bus stop, yells a series of vague threats and slurs, and then walks away again, leaving you too bemused to even be properly disturbed

and then you get on another bus and join everyone already on it in looking at your phones and completely ignoring each other

and like, public transportation is such a microcosm of humanity and there is truly nothing else like it.

#dandelion says #buses #riding the bus

[keyonsketches]

"next to me riding the bus" By Keyon aka Kirsten Dennis ; medium: Faber-castell Pitt Artist Pen soft brush marker set on Canson pen and ink paper 80lb ;

#riding the bus #bus passenger #random people #people #keyonsketches #Kirsten Dennis #sketch #quick drawing #drawn from life #quick sketch #marker sketch #marker #faber castell artist pen soft brush

[dianne-spanner]

Have you tried disassociating on the bus recently

In the rain

While listening to Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers.

#riding the bus #disassociating #october #rain

[taxi-davis]

Saul Steinberg

#art #illustration #fashion #the bus #subway #riding the bus #dresses #fashion illustration

[tatersgonnatate]

... Y'know what, sure. why not

#okay but i did laugh #funny #lol #meme #memes #mood #kfc #volkswagen #funny meme #bus ride #public bus #public transport #funny stuff #funny signs #signs #accidentally funny

[wallycet]

#danny phantom #danny phantom fanart #fanart #digitalart #danny fenton #bus ride #king phantom

[thunderc1an]

Hold me one more time, so that I never forget how it felt to hug the sun

#warrior cats #warriors #thunderclan #firestar #sandstorm #firesand #I should’ve probably waiting to take the picture in the morning #so that the lighting would be better #but I loved how it came out #so I’m posting anyways #also sorry for the increase of #firesand content #just been thinking about them a lot recently #drew these with cheap color pencils #9 colors in total- but it was fun being limited yknow #i drew it on a 3 hour bus ride from Pompeii to Rome yay #in my dorm I have this super fancy color pencil set I got for my birthday #like senior year hs #but couldn’t bring it with me on the trip

[glennmillerorchestra]

ok been wanting to make this post for a while. reblog and tell me your favorite bus line and why but DON’T tell me where you live

#mine is the 7 my beautiful beautiful girl. i ride her for a good time bc she’s long distance. i’m not even joking i just get on that bus

[anonymousdandelion]

Once again feeling sentimental and starry-eyed about wholesome bus interactions

#dandelion says #riding the bus #random thoughts #good things #positivity #the little things #public transportation

[kenvamp]

Obligatory new year post👍

#karas closet #linked universe #lu four #DO NOT LOOK AT HIS HAND LMAO #i drew this during a bus ride okay

[the-magpie-archives]

I gotta be honest if some random guy approached me in the street and asked me to tell him my paranormal trauma I'd literally just tell him? Like he wouldn't have to compel me I'd like to share. Free therapy for me, free story for him! Not my problem if it feeds an otherworldly overlord.

#Conversations with strangers can be great! I once spent a whole bus ride chatting with an old man and he told me all about his sons birth! #It had suspiciously similar details to my own birth but you know what that's not my problem! #Talking with strangers is great. Tell them your trauma‚ spread the horror‚ don't ask questions‚ don't complain to their institute. #(it's actually a wonder that I haven't been killed yet why the fuck do I do this stuff??) #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #jonathan sims #tma memes #tma season 4 #mag 142 #Oh also this is very okay to reblog!! It's not me being serious about real trauma or whatever 😌

[one-httyd-a-day]

Your art is so cute :D Could you do a baby Bewilderbeast?

Of course I can, but the real question is;

Are YOU prepared to see THE most muppet looking baby dragon I've ever drawn??

Dragon #65 - (Baby) Bewilderbeast

"STOP LOOKIN AT ME WITH THEM BIG OLE EYES"

#httyd #how to train your dragon #httyd fanart #httyd bewilderbeast #dragon 065 #asks #dragon request #thank you for the request! <3 #I finished this drawing right before leaving the dorms #and two bus rides and several hours later I got home #looked at it again #and promptly lost my goddamn mind #because I forgot about the BIG OLE EYES #I love this beast so much #It looks comical

[dionysus-complex]

idk how to phrase this but something about how classicists who otherwise are very interested in breaking down the notion of authorship get almost performatively dismissive about Christian/messianic readings of Vergil’s 4th Eclogue is so fascinating to me. like yes obviously from a historicist point of view the 4th Eclogue is Not About That, but the transmission/reception cycle of the entire Vergilian corpus is inextricable from Medieval and Renaissance interpretatio Christiana and to be like “lol people thought this poem from the 30s BCE is about Jesus, isn’t that silly” feels very much like “look how much smarter we modern scholars are than our earlier counterparts” and refuses to engage with the idea that a text might have meaningful things to say about something it can’t possibly be ‘about’ in the strict historicist sense.

and on this point we might also think of the eerie scene of desolated fields of Thessaly and bodies crowding into “Pharsalia tecta” at Catullus 64.37, a poem which certainly predates the Battle of Pharsalus. if you pressed me on it, I wouldn’t say that Catullus had some magical prophetic knowledge - but I do think the Catullan text is haunted by the ghosts of Pharsalus, and that text only exists as a thing for us in modernity because of the hands of copyists who were themselves living in a post-Pharsalus world. and the same principle applies to Eclogue 4 I think

#thoughts on intertextuality from my bus ride home

[eugeneamel]

WELL...THE TRAILER DROPPED AND

#sketch #clone high #topher bus #ch topher #clone high topher #I feel that will be a crazy ride fr #lmaoo

[atelophobicself]

not me getting a wattpad notification only for ao3 to crash afterwards.

#ao3 #ao3 down #this better be a joke #i have to go on an hour and a half bus ride tomorrow i need my fics #wattpad #look who came crawling back #i was famous #i am now a meme artist #five stages of grief #atelophobicshitpost

[paradife-loft]

I think my favorite thing about Katya/Sofia is the way that, in their final scenes, they end up thematically switching places with one another in how they're set up as foils to one another through the rest of the film

Sofia, who starts off beholden to no one in terms of loyalty, family connections, patronage, etc; who to Katya represents a (very idealized) notion of freedom that she envies but can't access - ends up leaving with the collection of her mother's belongings that she was finally able to buy back (which does incidentally include a watch, where she hadn't been associated with that motif much up until then!). It's a better ending than most (since she, y'know, lives), but even then she's still fundamentally unfulfilled, because the ties she developed to Katya, the ones she wanted to maybe start building a life around, have been irreparably severed.

Meanwhile, Katya has been the nexus of so many personal ties of obligation through most of the film, even as she resents what they've contorted her life into. But she makes her ultimate decision to betray Goncharov and the goals she'd been helping him toward up until then, as a selfish one for nobody else's benefit, giving up the life of prestige she had/was close to having so that she wouldn't be emotionally tied down by the relationship they once had, the system of connections and favors and debts she came from. (Incidentally, this is why I think her plan was to fake her death, even if it's left ambiguous in the actual scene; what else could be a more complete severing of connections that would allow you to become a new, unburdened person entirely?) The fact that she's not thinking of Sofia as affected by her decision, because she's not thinking of her as a part of that same web of connections, is what makes that unintentional second betrayal so tragic! But even so, it means she ends in a place similar to what we first see as Sofia's position - independent and able to make her own way in the world, but having sacrificed something she didn't realize she'd miss for it, until after the deed was already done.

#Goncharov #unreality #listen. I spent the bus ride home hammering out a bare-bones set of headcanons for the inciting plot conditions and character connections #that I wanted to take as a 'baseline' for what additional personal material I'm drawing on to make content in the future #this feels increasingly deranged of me but also. I'm having fun so who cares #(and also since part of the whole Thing is everyone slightly catering to their own tastes within a broader framework - #I am simply going to. not feel bad about tossing my own Serious Tragedy and politics-inflected version into the world too! :D)