You and i overlap in more categories than we remain seperate. A mirror is held up every time you face another human. I am you and you are me bitch
Looking at the notes is so fucking funny cause literally everyone is like “no thank I am the exception” lol no you are not. All your experiences are cosmically mundane and you gotta learn to see the beauty in that instead of feeling threatened.
After working on Lift’s design for the miniature last year, I made a sketch that I really liked and now I finally decided that it deserved get a painted rendering.
Here are some more sketches I did back then. The poses for Lift being awesome are taken from an ice skating race on a natural downhill track . I thought that got closest to gliding on uneven terrain.
i love how only a FRACTION of these have any recognizable gendered cultural meaning and yet she has built that meaning in herself and keeps them completely separated
This post haunts me because some of these names are, like, fine?? But some of them are HEINOUS. And it makes me think this woman actually has no idea what makes a name cool or not, and just had a dictionary open when she was filling out the birth certificate. Like Fern? Fine, already a name. Oak? Totally fine, I wouldn’t blink. But if you name a fucking girl fucking Vessel, that is a hate crime
I absolutely love the language of my mother’s people
I believe linguistically the term is called Comparative Reduplication! And while a lot of languages have it, including many Indigenous American ones, Yoruba culture holds a lot of influence over how Black Diaspora and AAVE have been shaped. It’s a good video.
in addition to the fact that people just have different natural rhythms, a big reason why we can’t seem to go to bed as early as we “should” is that nighttime is, for many of us, our safest and most fulfilling time of day. we don’t have to work, we won’t be contacted by bosses or insurance companies or collection agencies or other suffocating life business… we’re likely only to be contacted by our friends, or by no one at all. night time is release; it’s ours. we can rest or recreate. we can do things we actually want to do. who would choose to cut that short?? just to usher in the next morning when our lives are not our own again? nighttime is precious and nothing could be more normal than the desire to embrace this
So, y’all remember that post that said animals in urban areas slowly became nocturnal to avoid encounters with humans? Apparently that includes humans.
