#something i would do

[rubbish78]

The Way Brothers and🖕

#idk if he was trying to censor it or show it off #something i would do #random hand movements #gerard way #mikey way #danger days era #mcr #my chemical romance #rubbish78gifs #my gifs #nme awards 2011

[beautifulbitch-2]

So fucked up! I love it! 😂🤣

#funny #something I would do

[julies-room]

OMG!! This is SOOOOOO something I would do on Tumblr! 😂😂😂😜🤷🏼‍♀️

#sexy tease #beauty #lingerie #naughty #brunette #hot as fuck #blondie #blond girl #nipplicous #stockings #hottie 🔥 #hottie #so me #I’d do this #I’d so do this #totally me #we are the same #something I would do

[http-reddie]

based on this ask that was sent to @sunshinereddie <3 it’s been rotting my brain since I saw it ;__; the smiths + reddie is my new obsession

#something about Richie crying in bed over Eddie while listening to The Smiths is so heartbreaking #something I would do #do I wanna be Richie? or date Richie? #genuine question #reddie #richie tozier #reddie hc #it #it (2017) #it (2019) #it chapter two #reddie fanart #reddie art #Richie tozier art #richie tozier fanart #let’s kill this fucking clown #you’re braver than you think #elijah art #digital art #sunshinereddie

[911onabc]

also I’m totally laughing my ass off that chimney and maddie didn’t coordinate doing their taxes. they’re honestly so real for that.

#something I would do

[thespiritboxisaglorifiedradio]

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[folkloregirlfriend]

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[helenawa-art]

Why is no one talking about how Asa explained all those super cool facts in her date!!!!!! That was so cool of her tbh. She studied all that too! Love her!

#something i would do

[cheriechrome]

Them not tapping their sticks slay

#something I would do #pettyness <3

[beautifulbitch-2]

Something I would do! And a fur-baby-safe cake of their own! 🤍🐶

#puppy love #cute asf #something i would do

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#shut up e #long post #Saturday thoughts #this has been in my drafts for a week haha #also this is the heart of why AI art feels so wrong #forget the discussion of copyright and theft etc - even if models were only trained on public domain they would still feel very wrong #because they’re not art. art is the labor of creation #even commercial art and art commissioned by the popes and kings of history: there is humanity in the labor of it #unrelated: I did not know living in the Bronx was now something to brag about. How the fuck do y’all New Yorkers afford this city???

[kelddaa]

I was plagued by a vision

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #laios #wondered what laios would look like in a crop top #don't ask me why #“someone should do something about this" #remembers I’m an artist #blacks out #this appeared #dunmeshi #shit post art #redraw #kelds art #kelddaa #anime-onlys I promise this will make more sense later

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

favorite modern musicians?

WELL, technically russ is a modern musician, he's still putting out music and writing. but you probably mean musicians that have STARTED in more recent times.

i have to be honest, i've been so into 60's, 70's and 80's because there's SO MUCH to learn and i hate that so many of them have been so forgotten and underappreciated for so long, plus those are my favorite decades for music(and fashion), i have not really paid attention at all to the music of today. not to mention all that i hear on current radio stations here is.. not.. like..

wait let me first say, i love music in general, i love that all of it exists and gives people joy. i will always listen to things people send me and i will find good in it even if it isn't my personal taste. i love to learn what it is about things that other people like because that will give me another perspective and open my mind to more possible views on things.

maybe i will like it, who knows. that's what communication is about, sharing opinions and views and considering those opinions and views. sharing knowledge and feelings. that's how iron maiden(and many other bands) started getting popular when they first started, by people talking about them and other people listening to their friends. (it feels like this doesn't happen as much as it used to, in my experience at least)

also for example, if i had a friend that liked something i don't like, the fact that they like it would make me also like that thing just for that sole reason of "my friend likes that" and that would give me enough interest to want to know more. "my friend likes that and i like my friend, therefore i want to know about it, preferably from them" and maybe that would open up more things that i might like about it because i actually took a closer look because of the friend.

but anyway, most music that i hear on the radio here is not really my taste. nothing catches my attention to make me look into it more

and because there doesn't seem to be that much variety on radio stations anymore like there used to be, it feels like i have to really dig to find anything that i would REALLY like on my own. when it's just me, i don't even know where to start. i know there's new music i would probably like out there, but it feels like it's hidden from me. or maybe my mind is just closed to it and i don't realize because i'm so stuck in the past.

that's why i would LOVE if people would send me their favorite music and talk to me about it to help me learn and see beyond the bands/artists that i get obsessed with

because otherwise, every waking(and sleeping, probably) thought is going to be about that one band/artist that i'm into(whoever that may be at the time) and chances are, it's always going to be from one of my favorite decades because that's all i look into on my own.

i'm not normally picky about what i'll listen to(unless it's something like.. like.. i 100% do not liiiiike umm vulgar? things. yes that word works), but i am very picky about who i consider a favorite, so even if i find something that i like, i might not see them as a favorite. even from my favorite decades, i only haaaaavvve like 5? 6? favorite bands. out of all that i've listened to, that's so few. but i like just about everything.

when i was a teenager and maybe into my early 20's, i was listening to some newer music(kind of new at the time) but even then, i mostly just had a mix playlist of certain songs, i never had a favorite musician or favorite band at the time because none of them really stood out to me that much to make me dig into them more. i can't even remember any names. (don't know if it was because they just weren't memorable to me, or because i was going through the worst part of my life at the time and my memory was just not doing well)

there are some from maybe 90's/2000's that i used to listen to, like i liked some bands like train. i remember liking quite a few songs from them(russ likes them too, he always talks about their song drops of jupiter and i'm not even surprised. that song is so him). i was listening to a lot of lifehouse(the band) for a while. i liiiikedddd barenaked ladies for a bit. ummm matchbox 20 and rob thomas(some of these started from the influence of my mom like train and lifehouse and matchbox 20).

i can't remember more, i think the rest of what i listened to was just a mix of songs. i had one huge mix playlist i used to let play 24/7.

OH i used to listen to the exies. my dad really liked them too after i showed him, we'd play their cds in the car all the time when we had one. a 2000's rock band. one of the members i think left the band in 2010 to just be a songwriter and producer for other bands instead. i think i would have considered them a favorite at the time.

i'm getting more memories, wait a second. coheed and cambria was another one, i liked quite a few of their songs. i didn't get involved in the comic books that their music was based around though, so i had no idea what the songs were talking about. i liked the music and the guy's voice. something described them as being like the starwars of music. they're the band that made me want to listen to iron maiden in the first place because they listed them as an influence and they did a cover of the trooper. it just took a while before i actually DID listen because i didn't know where to start, until years later my boyfriend told me a song title to look up(caught somewhere in time). then i liked iron maiden more.

i was also listening to mxpx for a bit, they're like a punkrock band. (sometimes i still listen to their song 'bass so low' because i love the bass in it. DO YOU HEAR THE BASS SO LOW [bass noises](get it because you can say it like 'bass solo' or 'bass so low')i'm gonna listen to it right now actually)

i see people on my dash post about greta van fleet a lot, i remember around the time they first started, my dad saw them on tv and he was like "omg you gotta see this" and he had me look them up. we watched one video and i do remember thinking it was pretty good, but i never went past that because i wasn't in the right headspace for it at the time, i think.

anyway, if anyone wants to send me modern music(or any music at all, any genre) and show me what there is out there, i am very much here for it.

maybe at some point in the future i will have a real answer for this question that i typed a lot for and never actually answered

#i sure do talk a lot here on tumblr #i feel like i write an entire book to answer one small question every time and who knows if it'll even be answered by the end of it all #and some of it might not even be on topic at all #another similarity to russ actually #one of the times he brought up conscious breathing he said something along the lines of 'how can i breathe when i talk so much' #and then the times he talks so much to try to lead up to his answer that he forgets what the question was #something i would do #but i love listening to him talk #and just like him #i will never stop #i will get anxious about it though and reread it 50000 times before posting just to make sure i didn't accidentally say anything horrible

[shay-creates]

Apparently, my decision to be silly and make fanart of someone's writing (because I genuinely enjoy the story the person is writing and I was struck with inspiration upon reading a particular scene) has benevolent and wildly unforeseen consequences.

I apparently gained a bit of control of the canon because said writer really loved the art and decided what I drew/draw is canon.

2. Writer put said artwork into the document of his story right below the scene, so now it's IN the story where people who read the story will see it (with a link to me)

3. He sent the artwork to all his friends and people he knows because he was so excited

Wholesome interaction and I watched him do all that in real time, good stuff. However...there are two more consequences I was notified of today...nearly a full week after I gave the artwork.

Seeing the artwork caused his friends to become interested in reading and hearing about his story, which means more people are reading what he's writing and giving him critique on the story (which he actively asks for).

Apparently, upon seeing the art, his writer friends got a sudden second wind to pick back up writing they'd abandoned for a few months. Because, I quote, "seeing that someone enjoyed {his} writing enough to take the time to make art of it gave them the motivation that maybe THEY can write something that will inspire someone to also create something." I have accidentally caused a writing frenzy among his writer friends and my silly idea to make art for someone has had a butterfly effect for people who I don't even know.

Uhh...I'm pretty sure there's a moral here but I am tired and have a great deal of emotions about this.

#shay speaks #crying and screaming #I was not intending this! I just wanted to be nice to someone and show my appreciation for their work! #make someone's day by giving them a personalized gift #maybe make them cry a bit in joy or something (because he said he would if I went through with making art for him and he knew my goals) #This is the silliest thing to happen from me making art and idk what to do with this information #positivity

[theoldaeroplane]

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.

#writing #art #music #games #things i have to remind myself of daily #anyway ive found those things you're worried about sharing are often the most powerful things you CAN share #i hope you write #<- i would like to replace that tag with something that is less conversational #it makes reblogs awkward #anyway good morning. i have so many things to do today but instead i am crafting a memorial to my partner's best friend in my fanfiction.

[cyancees]

i have neither a good imagination nor aphantasia, but a secret third thing

#adhd #doodles #show this to your therapist instead of failing to explain it like i did #me: its like i cant control my thoughts like i was trying to think of something earlier today but #all i could think of was this giraffe eating leaves and no matter how hard i tried to focus the thought would just. replay #my therapist: what happens if you try to let the thought just play out #me: ........ i dont know but i dont want it to be there at all when im trying to do simple addition in a maths exam #10k #100k