#start where you are

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

#unicorn #start where you are #use what you have #do what you can #redraw #doodles #bad art #lousy drawings #doodle #positivity #self love #healing #recovery #start today

[smallumbrella369]

Hawk

So, I wrote a thing. It’s about painting but it’s about writing too. 

There was a hawk trapped in Walmart.

This was several years ago.

I was there to buy house paint.

I waited at the counter and watched it as it sat high on a rafter beam.

Looking placid and out of place.

The woman mixing my paint said they've been trying to coax it back outside.

They were going to try luring it out with meat next. 

After I paid for my paint and left, I thought about that hawk a lot. 

I still do.

A purely wild creature.

In a jarring juxtaposition with the garish big box store.

I imagine my muse to be like that hawk. 

A fierce and feral thing, waiting in the eaves of my cluttered head. 

I feel her waiting for me to find the thing that could entice her down. 

To tempt her to fly past the false colors of the domesticated,

to move her powerful wings, propel herself beyond the dull day-to-day. 

Beyond the plastic. The temporary. The easy access. The instant gratification.

She blinks, bored, as I present fresh paints, a clean studio, a new canvas, a stack of books on how to be better, faster, clever, profitable. 

She ruffles her wings and looks away. 

I don’t think there is any one thing that will tempt her. Not a physical thing anyway. 

I think I need to set up my easel in the Walmart parking lot and just paint. 

If I do it every day, maybe she’ll get curious.

Maybe she’ll see that I mean it.

Maybe then she’ll find her way back to me. 

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#poetry #true story #start where you are #use what you have #do what you can #writing #writer things #creative block #enticing the muse #my brain is a loud and littered parking lot

[thepeacefulgarden]

#one day at a time #growth #doing the work #doing the hard stuff #self care #recovery #healing #reparenting #start where you are #baby steps #progress

[postersbykeith]

#quotes #C S Lewis #you can't go back #change the beginning #start where you are #change the ending

[theinwardlight]

From Thomas Kelly, Holy Obedience, William Penn Lecture of 1939

#quaker #quakerism #society of friends #thomas kelly #mystic #obedience #regret #start where you are #prayer #faith #worship

[theuniversalscat]

🫶

#life blogging #love #feel the love #me #love is all around #love is #peace #big love #beautiful #beauty #start where you are #Elise de Wolfe #great quotes #great quote #community

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

#'your moon is here' things that make me explode like a supernova #UGHHHHHHH what if i was perpetually in your orbit. influencing the tides. protecting you from asteroids. and slowly drifting further away. #then you stopped moving and i was only pulse to your dead heart. orbiting you. right where ive been left. and so you started turning again. #ria.txt #personal #space opera au #(<- not about what you think is about) #hiiii this is gaining traction so glad we're all going insane :D your moon is here is SO fucked up. so good. #xkcd #randall munroe #space #moon #anyways xkcd comics are so good. entertaining witty and informative. check em out!

[shilohta]

Honestly think being Canadian insulates me a little bit from the trap of "wahh I'm white I don't have culture" thanks to the perpetual cultural anxiety of Canada being absorbed by American culture that resulted in a bunch of anxious (mostly white) Canadians staunchly defining Canadian culture as Different™️ than American culture. (And that mid 60s push for defining Canadian culture resulted in things like a stronger CBC and the career of Margaret Atwood and other Canadian writers and artists and a whole host of other things)

My other thoughts on identifying culture is that it's easiest to recognize what's unique to you and your people when you're meeting other people. That goes from like, going to your friend's house for a sleepover as a kid and realizing that they have a whole different set of rules about dinner time to traveling in another country. And my general impression of Americans is that they're... insulated from encountering people who are different from them. There's more to it than that, and I have further thoughts that I need to mull over, but yeah. Talk to other people, pay attention to what's different, and start recognizing your own culture! You don't have to be proud of it necessarily, but neither are you required to feel ashamed about your own culture (which, since it's socially mediated, is largely beyond your individual responsibility!) Just. Be aware

#start where you are #joining the culture wars on the side of the CBC #is it silly to be proud of and claim identity with Canadian celebrities just bc you were born in the same (vast) country? absolutely #is it incredibly eye-opening to be somewhere outside your culture and realize the things you've taken for granted? #eye opening and uncomfortable at times and hilarious by turns #culture is fake society is fake borders are extra fake #but we make up stories about ourselves to make sense of the world #look at your own stories! find a stranger* to help you figure out what your own story even is! #find something that makes you feel good. celebrate it. find something you don't like. think about how to change it. #*not saying bother a stranger: this can work by just reading books and thinking about things

[themandalalady]

23-356 No Time Like the Present #6

Today’s Mandala Message: Adopt the Phrase ‘I Choose to…” This week I’m working through Principle #63: Start Now!…Just Do it! of Jack Canfield’s book “The Success Principles”. I set my intention today to ponder the idea of changing my perspective regarding my projects and tasks. From MindTools.com about stopping procrastination they state: “Rephrase your internal dialog. The phrases “need to” and…

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#art #coloring mandalas #creativity #empowered #empowerment #I choose #just do it #mandala #mandala art #mandala artist #mandala coloring pages #mandala drawing #mandala to color #mandalas #no time like the present #one step at a time #procrastinating #procrastination #start now #start where you are #the success principles #victime mode

[wormtime123]

i couldn't rest until i made something this is driving me insane. so what if i dismissed your success as because of your hardships instead of in spite of them

#fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #dimension 20 #riz gukgak #fantasy high spoilers #my art #riz is a better man than me bc if i read all that i'd have straight up started killing people #where's your fucking rage where;s your anger RISE RISE RISE #kipperlily i am studying you like a bug

[paxopalotls]

The fanfictions are infecting me with brainrot oh my god have some au doodles before I explode

#the fanon here hits different idk #like?? why is there so much vivisection #danny phantom #danny phantom fanart #danny fenton #danny fenton fanart #dp #dp fanart #this is like a #fully dead au #where no one knows #kind of thing #jazz fenton #bc I'm obsessed with their sibling dynamic #why are they on the roof pax #bc after Danny died jazz started stargazing as a way of feeling closer to him #fuck you #I have thoughts about this au actually #in it Jack and maddy are still trying to get rid of the ghosts but mostly as penance #bc they know the ghost portal is what killed Danny #and they want revenge #Danny's aware of this but convinced his parents wouldn't love him enough to believe him if he revealed himself as their son #jazz helps phantom without knowing he's Danny #pax art #pax doodles #pax rambling #technically #tho all the rambling is in the tags

[knowledgevariabledarcy]

#star twinkle precure #start writing #start wars #start where you are #Youtube

[birdsofpasssage]

#putting my old wips Out There so i can finally let them go #and start with a clean slate lol #what do you mean it’s been a year since the last dain quest. WHERE IS HE NOW? #dainsleif #genshin impact #原神

[tshortik]

Turn on "prevent third-party sharing" in your settings!

Go into your settings, click on your blog name, scroll down and enable "prevent third-party sharing". I'm gonna be honest, I question how much/if this even prevents any AI bullshit, but do it just in case anyway.

Edit: On Mobile it's the Settings Gear, Visibility, Prevent third-party sharing.

You have to turn that on for all your blogs separately.

#i talk sometimes #that meme where barbossa says you best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias you're in one is feeling v real lately #i want to delete my blog if this goes thru but i feel like all the other social medias will follow anyway #so like #i rly dont know anymore #everything sucks

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

#selfie bee #good evening friends!! how are you doing! C: #I'm very very sleepy I got a new ikea office chair and I build it all myself #I think it went okay! I don't think I pulled the back screw tight enough and now the back is a bit loose #I can probably fix it but I can also ignore it for the next 18 years #thats how long the old chair held up!! in germany it could now drink vodka and drive a car!! #not at the same time that is illegal! not at the same time!! (❁´▽`❁)*✲ﾟ* #but the day is not over yet my uncle asked me for a big art quest and I do not want to disappoint #he wants a muppet tattoo and asked me to draw it #my uncle has started to get tattoos a few months ago #as far as I know he has now gotten 3 note clefs 3 stars a flower and multiple birds #he also started getting piercings but so far I managed not to know exactly where #I think tattoos are super cool (´｡･v･｡｀) I wish I had a good idea for a tattoo but the last time I was very sure about getting a tattoo #it was heath ledgers face as the joker #at that point I was 12 and would not see the actual movie for two more years #a muppet tattoo is a way better idea!! he asked for the count van count! that is also one of my top 3 muppets ₍՞◌′ᵕ‵ू◌₎♡ #I always thought I knew a lot about muppet lore but since I started looking up muppet pictures I think there are still a lot of secrets #can the muppets from the Sesame Street actually leave the Sesame Street? #I think Kermit is both on the Muppet Show and on Sesame Street but he is also like the boss muppet #he might have special abilities #I hope you're having a good day friends!! C: #I think I'll post a Sherlock comic later this week #miss you!! ♥♥♥

[inkskinned]

so one of the things that's so horrifying about birth control is that you have to, like, navigate this incredibly personal choice about your body and yet also face the epitome of misogyny. like, someone in the comments will say it wasn't that bad for me, and you'll be utterly silenced. like, everyone treats birth control like something that's super dirty. like, you have no fucking information or control over this thing because certain powerful people find it icky.

first it was the oral contraceptives. you went on those young, mostly for reasons unrelated to birth control - even your dermatologist suggested them to control your acne. the list of side effects was longer than your arm, and you just stared at it, horrified.

it made you so mentally ill, but you just heard that this was adulthood. that, yes, there are of course side effects, what did you expect. one day you looked up yasmin makes me depressed because surely this was far too intense, and you discovered that over 12,000 lawsuits had been successfully filed against the brand. it remains commonly prescribed on the open market. you switched brands a few times before oral contraceptives stopped being in any way effective. your doctor just, like, shrugged and said you could try a different brand again.

and the thing is that you're a feminist. you know from your own experience that birth control can be lifesaving, and that even when used for birth control - it is necessary healthcare. you have seen it save so many people from such bad situations, yourself included. it is critical that any person has access to birth control, and you would never suggest that we just get rid of all of it.

you were a little skeeved out by the implant (heard too many bad stories about it) and figured - okay, iud. it was some of the worst pain you've ever fucking experienced, and you did it with a small number of tylenol in your system (3), like you were getting your bikini line waxed instead of something practically sewn into your body.

and what's wild is that because sometimes it isn't a painful insertion process, it is vanishingly rare to find a doctor that will actually numb the area. while your doctor was talking to you about which brand to choose, you were thinking about the other ways you've been injured in your life. you thought about how you had a suspicious mole frozen off - something so small and easy - and how they'd numbed a huge area. you thought about when you broke your wrist and didn't actually notice, because you'd thought it was a sprain.

your understanding of pain is that how the human body responds to injury doesn't always relate to the actual pain tolerance of the person - it's more about how lucky that person is physically. maybe they broke it in a perfect way. maybe they happened to get hurt in a place without a lot of nerve endings. some people can handle a broken femur but crumble under a sore tooth. there's no true way to predict how "much" something actually hurts.

in no other situation would it be appropriate for doctors to ignore pain. just because someone can break their wrist and not feel it doesn't mean no one should receive pain meds for a broken wrist. it just means that particular person was lucky about it. it should not define treatment.

in the comments of videos about IUDs, literally thousands of people report agony. blinding, nauseating, soul-crushing agony. they say things like i had 2 kids and this was the worst thing i ever experienced or i literally have a tattoo on my ribs and it felt like a tickle. this thing almost killed me or would rather run into traffic than ever feel that again.

so it's either true that every single person who reports severe pain is exaggerating. or it's true that it's far more likely you will experience pain, rather than "just a pinch." and yet - there's nothing fucking been done about it. it kind of feels like a shrug is layered on top of everything - since technically it's elective, isn't it kind of your fault for agreeing to select it? stop being fearmongering. stop being defensive.

you fucking needed yours. you are almost weirdly protective of it. yours was so important for your physical and mental health. it helped you off hormonal birth control and even started helping some of your symptoms. it still fucking hurt for no fucking reason.

once while recovering from surgery, they offered you like 15 days of vicodin. you only took 2 of them. you've been offered oxy for tonsillitis. you turned down opioids while recovering from your wisdom tooth extraction. everything else has the option. you fucking drove yourself home after it, shocked and quietly weeping, feeling like something very bad had just happened. the nurse that held your hand during the experience looked down at you, tears in her eyes, and said - i know. this is cruelty in action.

and it's fucked up because the conversation is never just "hey, so the way we are doing this is fucking barbaric and doctors should be required to offer serious pain meds" - it's usually something around the lines of "well, it didn't kill you, did it?"

you just found out that removing that little bitch will hurt just as bad. a little pinch like how oral contraceptives have "some" serious symptoms. like your life and pain are expendable or not really important. like maybe we are all hysterical about it?

hysteria comes from the latin word for uterus, which is great!

you stand here at a crossroads. like - this thing is so important. did they really have to make it so fucking dangerous. and why is it that if you make a complaint, you're told - i didn't even want you to have this in the first place. we're told be careful what you wish for. we're told that it's our fault for wanting something so illict; we could simply choose not to need medication. that maybe if we don't like the scraps, we should get ready to starve.

we have been saying for so long - "i'm not asking you to remove the option, i'm asking you to reconsider the risk." this entire time we hear: well, this is what you wanted, isn't it?

#where's the word woman in this u might wonder if u suck #good news i am nonbinary and have a uterus so that is something that can happen #im also gender fluid tho which means im immune to certain psychic damage bc if u call me a woman i'll be like <3 okay <3 #writeblr #the tightrope of ''ppl need access to this'' #and like also #''what the fuck is going on over there'' is like. so difficult as an activist #i was <3 punctured <3 during mine #and almost bled out on the table :) they didn't have anyone standing by bc it's ''just a little insertion'' #so i started crashing and i vaguely remember apologizing for the fuss as i heard my heart rate monitor start going <3 tachycardic <3 #she wasn't even a bad doctor tbh #ps btw the reason i even HAD a heart monitor is that i have a genuine heart condition and they knew GOING IN that there was a chance #i'd crash on the table #like my heart just likes to do fun little tricks and <3 stop working <3 (i do not want to discuss the specifics ty i am okay im ontop of it #and they were like 'oh u will be fine' and then she did do a puncture thru my uterus . pop! #and im sitting there dizzy and feeling my heartrate start to drop bc it feels almost. beautiful. like. the whole ground just #woosh! out from under you. and shit is like grey's anatomy. i'm looking up at her grey eyes #she's old she wears this nice shawl she's like got Cool Lesbian vibes and people are sprinting into the room #from other parts of the clinic unrelated to me. while the monitor is like a little aria singing #and shes like hey youre okay stay awake stay with me something went wrong we have to keep trying #and i remember thinking - i was trying to think of nice things. i have so many beautiful places that now overlap #with this terrible memory #i became dimly aware that there was too much on her wrists and hands. like #that was too many liters #and then when they had finished all this. i packed up and drove myself home #i have had (bad thing) happen to me. and the same feeling happened after #that numb almost lamblike bleating. you cry without noise. like. ur body is so shocked and ur mind so empty #you just stare at the road and everything everything is happening behind glass and static and you are standing so far away from it #while you hold ur hands at 10 and 2. and something in ur brain is SCREAMING at you - IT WAS BAD AND IT SHOULDNT HAVE HAPPENED #and ur just watching the alarms in your body going off and youre thinking. a little pinch! ha. i think i just lost something important.