#this week has been

[thedoormann]

my natural habitat is hanging out with people

#shut up mei #im so gay and so full of love #this week has been #lovely #pleasant #amazing #probably the best week ive had all year

[firelightfoxes]

she's my babie

#this week has been #ROUGH #i'm ok she's ok #i just.... can't be normal about health issues #even if they're seemingly mild i just go to the worst thing #anyway she's most definitely fine after i did every test in existence on her #and guess what #it's most likely a simple case of (hard to diagnose) intestinal parasites #lol #lichen #8 months

[intermundia]

one important thing i learned while working as a clerk at the public defender's office was that every time i made a phone call to a client, i was the worst part of that client's day, and for me it was tuesday, you know? clients would have reactions to news i would deliver that was proportionate to their situation but disproportionate to the part i played in the whole thing. i was just the messenger, but their freedom was on the line. i try to keep that fact in mind whenever i deal with the front line of any institution, even when i want to freak out, i just remind myself, for them it is tuesday, and they have to finish this call and then go on break. nothing about their dispassionate tone or hurry is personal, and they are processing paperwork as they get it. like i'm currently desperately invested in trying to get two medical establishments to fucking talk to each other and process my referral which they should have gotten a week ago, because it is my life that is on the line, my health. i need to know if i have cancer, you know? that's something i need to know. but i try to make sure that the scheduler or secretary doesn't get the brunt of that need, because it's not their job to take that on. their job is to make appointments with the paperwork they have when they have it. it's not their fault us healthcare is a kafkaeque nightmare. to them it's tuesday. whatever mantra helps you from crying on the phone, you know? whatever works. to them it's tuesday.

#honestly thank god for the kenobi press tour #this week has been #one of the worst #in a good long time #which is saying something #lmao #fucking hell

[minimutty]

quick fun lil lucirav doodle to lift my mood for the week 😊

#minis art #fire emblem #lucirav #lucius #raven #fire emblem blazing sword #fire emblem blazing blade #fe7 #fe #just a lil fun thing #this week has been #fun #updated #minis doodles

[iiguess]

OOC. Hey all! Sorry for the silence on my end. I'm currently on hiatus since my thesis defense is this week. That means all threads and asks are gonna be put on a hold for a while. I look forward to coming back here when it's all over, though, so see you then!

#;; ᴀᴍᴏɴɢ ᴜs ( ooc. ) #this week has been #very rough on me ahdals #the day before yesterday was the roughest #don't procrastinate your thesis kids #or else you'll regret it #anywhoo #I miss you all ;w; #keep your fingers crossed for me!

[starsonmarsy]

dhfnfn i love being entertainment forr people to get off too

#this week has been #yeah #i love being used dhfjfhh #mars.txt

[adulthoodisokay]

happy new year, y’all

#what a year this week has been #everyone is okay but C’MON

[inktail]

reblog for the most chaos PC we can manage

#it is over; i am free #jk this has been a constant source of joy all week and I'm going to miss it

[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???

[fox-mulder-gets-pegged]

I just wanna say bc I KNOW you're somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.

It's been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you'd be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it's on sight.

#she cornered me in the car and asked what shipping was and i almost had a fucking heart attack #imagine being like 16 years old and habing to explain knotting to your mother #random emo music girl I'm glad you had fun talking about your Band Guys to my mother #bc i also attended take your kid to work day at that office and i know how boring it was #but christ alive why did you have to fuck me like that? #anyways i hope this post reaches you so at the very least you know i think about you at least once a week #this has been weighing on me for ten years #im almost tempted to blaze this post

[astraystayyh]

They have since left four premature babies to decompose on their beds. They have since kidnapped, stripped, tortured civilians and tried to frame them as Hamas fighters for their propaganda. They have since shot people at refugee camps execution style. They have since targeted academics and poets and directors. They have since killed 86 journalists. Still no ceasefire.

psa: i know that many of us did NOT doubt this for a second, neither did i. this is targeted at the people who educated themselves for the first time about this genocide and discovered the absolute horrific things that Israel is capable of doing to Palestinians, with the unwavering support of its allies.

#i rem clearly that video of the first hospital that was bombed #how israel first denied it and said that it was a failed hamas rocket #then it said it attacked the hospital because hamas was hiding in there #and i rem thinking that this would get every world leader outraged #that they would do everything to stop this genocide #that was too many weeks ago #nothing has changed #this should terrify us all #this could have been us in that hospital #in that house in that refugee camp in that ambulance in that street #nowhere is safe in Palestine #nowhere #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #gaza

[boltlightning]

in every workplace there should be a secret button you can press and if everyone presses it the workweek immediately ends and you can go outside and play instead of sending email

#it has been. A Week. i would like it to not be so #🥴 #ignore me #containment breach #notes #1k #5k #10k #15k #20k #25k #30k #40k

[leafatlaw]

I have just been nonstop playing ponytown for the last *checks watch, 5 HOURS (<- normal person behavior)

#sparrow speaks #I have made rand and Kian #And several mcyt Guys #Plus a sona I need to revamp now that o kinda know the limits of customization #Fuck it��s only Wednesday #This week has been #all over the place

[captainamateur-artistt]

𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐡𝐨𝐥e.

—

Direct reference to that one famous photo of Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald & Raul Esparza in “Twelfth Night”.

#minxart #blue eye samurai #mizu blue eye samurai #akemi #mizu #taigen #this show has been occupying my mind for weeks

[mangozic]

michael distortion what a goofy guy

#still experimenting with his design but i think i might be onto something #he’ll probably change in the future but for now there’s the boy #rattles him around in a jar #i have nothing more to offer but sketches #this week has really been kicking my ass #doodling tma to keep myself sane at this point #the magnus archives #tma #michael distortion #fanart #tma fanart #my art #digital art #doodle #sketch

[obsob]

the joy of creation :3 !! (anything worth doing is worth doing badly)

#mine #cats #original #i have not been feeling very joy of creation but alas. i must create #it is my calling and also my job #i hope everyone has a good week ! :3 be filled w joy and whimsy etc