Midnight - Steven Levin , 2012.
American , b. 1964 -
Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in.
Stranger Things
we're not kids anymore.
Jules of Nature
taylor price
trying on a metaphor
Cosmic Funnies
Cosimo Galluzzi
Monterey Bay Aquarium

tannertan36
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
cherry valley forever

çĽćĽ / Permanent Vacation
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
wallacepolsom

romaâ

Kiana Khansmith
Not today Justin
Sweet Seals For You, Always
đŞź

seen from Italy

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from El Salvador
seen from Singapore
seen from Bulgaria

seen from France
seen from United States
seen from South Africa

seen from Malaysia

seen from Italy

seen from Singapore
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Honduras
seen from United States
@krrerrx
Midnight - Steven Levin , 2012.
American , b. 1964 -
Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in.

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
and out of the darkness - you you you you you
I don't like to admit it, but sometimes I actually miss John Green.
Sometimes I can almost hear him.
âSo thatâs what Iâm left with. Option 1: Go home a hero and save all of humanity. Option 2: Go to Erid, save an alien species, and starve to death shortly after.
I pull on my hair.
I sob into my hands. Itâs cathartic and exhausting.
All I can see when I close my eyes is Rockyâs dumb carapace and his little arms always fidgeting with something.â
-Project Hail Mary, Ch. 29, page 455
Source
âImage Credit: Carol Rossetti
When Brazilian graphic designer Carol Rossetti began posting colorful illustrations of women and their stories to Facebook, she had no idea how popular they would become.Â
Thousands of shares throughout the world later, the appeal of Rosettiâs work is clear. Much like the street art phenomenon Stop Telling Women To Smile, Rossettiâs empowering images are the kind you want to post on every street corner, as both a reminder and affirmation of womenâs bodily autonomy.Â
âIt has always bothered me, the worldâs attempts to control womenâs bodies, behavior and identities,â Rossetti told Mic via email. âItâs a kind of oppression so deeply entangled in our culture that most people donât even see itâs there, and how cruel it can be.â
Rossettiâs illustrations touch upon an impressive range of intersectional topics, including LGBTQ identity, body image, ageism, racism, sexism and ableism. Some characters are based on the experiences of friends or her own life, while others draw inspiration from the stories many women have shared across the Internet.Â
âI see those situations I portray every day,â she wrote. âI lived some of them myself.â
Despite quickly garnering thousands of enthusiastic comments and shares on Facebook, the project started as something personal â so personal, in fact, that Rossetti is still figuring out what to call it. For now, the images reside in albums simply titled âWOMEN in english!â or âMujeres en espaĂąol!â which is fitting: Rossettiâs illustrations encompass a vast set of experiences that together create a powerful picture of both womenâs identity and oppression.
One of the most interesting aspects of the project is the way it has struck such a global chord. Rossetti originally wrote the text of the illustrations in Portuguese, and then worked with an Australian woman to translate them to English. A group of Israeli feminists also took it upon themselves to create versions of the illustrations in Hebrew. Now, more people have reached out to Rossetti through Facebook and offered to translate her work into even more languages. Next on the docket? Spanish, Russian, German and Lithuanian.
Itâs an inspiring show of global solidarity, but the message of Rossettiâs art is clear in any language. Above all, her images celebrate being true to oneself, respecting others and questioning what society tells us is acceptable or beautiful.
âI canât change the world by myself,â Rossetti said. âBut Iâd love to know that my work made people review their privileges and be more open to understanding and respecting one another.ââ
From the site: All images courtesy Carol Rossetti and used with permission. You can find more illustrations, as well as more languages, on her Facebook page.
Oooh. I reblogged a partial version of this recently but I didnât know how many more there were! I LOVE these!
OK SO THERE ARE TONS MORE OF THESE OF THE ARTISTS FB PAGE. GUYS THESE ARE AWESOME.
LOOK
AT
THESE
LETS APPLAUD CAROL ROSSETTI EVERYONE
 LOOK
Um, these are like the best thing ever.
I wish i got nice things like that. Everyone is always judging me based on my choices.
Everyone needs to see this! Spread this post!!!
A few of these I absolutely needed to save to remember at times
Iâll send it again because this is wonderful
My favorite thing about this is how thereâs diversity in the women even when it isnât relevant. There are more fat women than just the illustrations regarding body image. There are multiple women in wheelchairs even when the text isnât focusing on it. there are so many different races and ethnicity even when thatâs not what the words are focusing on. One of them doesnât have a left arm and it isnât the focus. Itâs beautiful, showing the overlap between all these things.
I already reblogged this, but reblogging it again, because it makes me so happy.
these are beautiful, reblogging to spread this to people who need to see it
these make me so happy. their names are diverse as well, Iâm not sure if Iâm wording it right but oftentimes you donât see characters of colour with more ethnic/cultural names and Iâm very happy to see that theyve included that as well.
im sobbing this is beautiful
Oh my gods
Goodness gracious these are so beautiful

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
One thing I really like about movie!Stratt is her leadership style. Which, I think, is pretty distinct from her book counterpart.
Because, basically, I'm not sure I find it realistic that a woman (or man) appointed to this role would last long if she was terribly abrasive or confrontational. It would be counterproductive and distracting for everyone involved. (It serves a purpose in the book, but I prefer how the movie did it.)
Movie!Stratt creates the appearance of being very consensus-oriented. She doesn't even acknowledge the concept of power games or sexism for that matter. Authority doesn't live in confrontation or visible status markers but in the visible support and deference of everyone around her, because she made sure they are all pulling in the same direction to begin with.
She's absolutely has a lot of power but she's keeping it understated. Nothing flashy. Business casual, always moving, flat shoes, calm voice, always questions, honest answers. She's consulting the room (while leading the conversation), she is to the point but reasonably polite, she works in tandem with others, creates a sense of shared experience. "Applause!" Carl knows exactly when to jump into the conversation while deferring to her authority, "Talk to her", "Just answer the question", "I would take the three". He clearly really knows her and can pick up his end of that game. The "We don't know" chorus. The "What's the alternative" centrifuge discussion. "Thank you so much" to the underling with the coffees. Seemingly flat hierarchies.
She lets people talk and then gleans what she needs. She gives credit.
Her job is to make the decisions and take responsibility, to keep the momentum going. People are unsurprisingly okay with handing it off. She points, they march.
No one considers opposing her because they all trust her. Because they feel involved in the process. It's not hard to ask, after all, when everyone knows what it's for.
Even in the end, she has the entire team on her side when confronting Grace with his choice. Because none of it is about power or ego. Only about the mission.
The lack of future international cooperation gets her most emotional utterance out of the entire film. "Which they won't."
At every point she is pulling for a team effort. And it works. (Except one time.)
I just thought that was really well done.
Whereâs that one post thatâs like Reasons Why My Wife Cried This Week and when are we gonna get a fanfic of that but Ryland Grace.
Reasons my human has cried:
* New student, very small. Grace said it was pebble. Pebble is small Earth rock. Pebble likes name.
* He found out Eridians have no gender rules.
* Students brought him mineral sample. After he stopped crying he said he loves show-and-tell game. Human naming conventions oddly literal.
* I told him Earthsun grew bright.
* I took him up atop atmosphere bypass elevator to look at stars.
* He woke up from nap and found me still with him. I did not wait on his chest; he says I am heavy like âelephantâ and he âcouldnât breathe.â I laid my arm over him instead, kept him close, feeling safe. He said âcuddleâ was warm.
* Before class he heard younglings singing.
* He has plants in house from sprouts on ship. Plant grew âbud.â
* Engineers got seawater temperature right. He took off shoes and stood in water, sighing. He didnât care about pants getting damp. Cried until shirt was also damp. Humans very endlessly wet.
* He missed âDoritos.â
* Adrian helped food scientists make taumoeba dried paste. Made it crunchy after heating. We fused it into triangle form. Told him it was Tauritos. That made him laugh-cry. Laugh-cry is rare and precious.
* He remembered Eridians have no gender rules.
* We made him celebration outfit. Used metals he calls pretty. He can see frequencies named âcolorfulâ and âshiny.â These make humans happiest.
* I gave him hug when he wasnât expecting it. Easier to hug close now with exosuit. Hug when Grace sitting down so he does not fall over.
* Told him to think long time, stay with me as long as he can.
Anon hate is shitty and you shouldnât do it of course but itâs also the funniest and least effective kind of hate
For starters the blogger can just delete and ignore it. And given tumblrâs penchant for eating asks I think it would drive some hate senders a little insane if they keep checking back in wondering if their ask got eaten.
For second the anon ask format guarantees the blogger gets the last word in every time. Even if anon sends a follow up message they will never get the last word. And tumblr for better or for worse seems to run on this currency of âwhoever expressed the last opinion in a post is the one weâre supportingâ
For third, this publishes the hate directly to the bloggerâs own followers, i.e. the people MOST likely to take the bloggerâs side. Home court advantage by design.
#I call for an audience with the king. After waiting in line I stand in front of his throne #(dressed in a huge white bedsheet like a cartoon ghost so as to hide my identity) #I call the king a bitch. I insult his policies all of which were made with the guidance of his court who r also all here #the king ignores me. I say it again in case he didn't hear. The king ignores me #I leave in shame (via @septimus-heap)
"grace. grace! grace give attention. rocky perform human ritual of escape closet now. statement."
"come again?"
"i learn more from thinking machine. human gender preference. attraction to same gender, means word 'gay.' all eridian same gender." rocky stands straight up. "rocky come out to grace now. all rocky plural gay, statement."
"...wow, that's... rock, i'm not sure it makes much sense to apply human ideas of sexual orientation to a monogendered species."
a long and judgmental pause. then:
"grace HOMOPHOBIC, question????"
I love fem klance

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
it is very interesting to see the language of contemporary book criticism co-opted by Christian Nationalists to remove books from English classroom and libraries.
One recent example: My novel Turtles All the Way Down was banned from being taught in English classes because one school board member claimed it "romanticizes mental illness."
(It does no such thing, of course. TAtWD makes mental illness seem really unpleasant and not at all either lowercase-r or capital-r romantic. To acknowledge something's existence is not to romanticize that thing. But part of co-opting this language is misusing it for the end of removing books thematically centered on mental illness, or physical illness, or sex, or anything else that might be deemed insufficiently inocuous for Educational Literature.)
But the question of when writing about something veers into romanticizing it IS actually a very important question for contemporary literary criticism, and one that's been explored a lot (sometimes with generosity and care, sometimes not) in book discourse online. So the Christian Nationalist Right is using the language of analysis that we are using in ways that are at best misguided and at worst disingenuous.
It's really discouraging--I mean, on a personal level obviously but also just as an American who believes teachers should be allowed to teach--to see such widespread book bans in American high schools and libraries. But it's not surprising, really. Books retain a lot of power--to deepen our empathy with those who are suffering, to connect us to ourselves and to others, and to see the full humanity of those who might be dehumanized or marginalized by the social order.
On that front, the Christian Nationalists are right to worry. Books can be a path into loving one's neighbor as one's self, and seeing the full light of the sacred in the experiences of the marginalized. God forbid.
What do you mean âchatâ is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?
When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.
<Grace play Tomodachi Life for us, question?>
I can tell my evil advisor has been feeling down lately so I've been pretending to take big sips from his cursed chalice and then roaming the palace grounds groaning and clutching my abdomen. Lowkey I know it's deceptive but I can tell it's really cheering him up. I heard him evilly cackle for the first time in weeks. WIBTA if I keep doing this
not my tweet or my fic (and thereâs a good chance of this comment being a bot) but yeah, donât do this. sure, some writers wouldnât mind having fanfics (or direct continuation) of their fanfics written by someone else. some may even be thrilled and happy. but the fandom etiquette is that if you want to write a fanfic or a continuation of someoneâs fanfic, YOU POLITELY ASK THE WRITER FOR THEIR PERMISSION. not their readers.
also 5 months isnât long at all. 5 months is 5 minutes when it comes to fanfics. Iâve waited years for my favorite fics to get updated (one of my favorite fanfics was updated by the author after 13 years) and Iâve never said anything to them about âitâs been ___ years, I donât think it will get updated anymoreâ. because another fandom / fanfic etiquette is that fanfic writers write for free in their free time, they donât owe you anything. maybe they will update one day. maybe they wonât. if you want your favorite fic to get updated, you comment something like âthis is good!! Iâm excited for what happens nextâ and maybe your positive comment will motivate the author to update. but you donât say âitâs been ___ months or yearsâ. fanfics writers write for themselves and their own enjoyment. theyâre just kind enough to let you read their works for free. stop being rude and entitled to fanfic writers.

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
"after the war," lance says quietly, "we'll go our separate ways. and you won't need to worry about it anymore."
from my fic, skin still
you can't say "hey has anyone noticed that M/M fic outnumbers F/F like 100:1â or âit feels racist that only 3/202 characters on the ao3 top 100 ships list are Black and two of them are Alastor HazbinHotelâ bc some ppl will start going like âoh so you think we should FORCE people to write about things they DONâT CARE ABOUT for WOKE????â and youâll be like âno, iâm pointing out that the conditions that created this disparity are informed by racism & misogynyâ and ppl will say âitâs not BIGOTED to only care about WHITE MENâ and then the gargoyle king appears