An oblique compendium of miscellanea

I always say that the thing which sets Sargent apart as a portrait artist is that he draws/paints literally every subject - no matter their gender, social position, life vs representational drawing etc - like he is right that minute realising he's desperately in love with them. And it rules every single time.

i love photography i love art i love losing myself in books and going to exhibitions and the cinema and walking through cities and i love architecture and learning about history and no one will ever take that away from me

sometimes cultural differences are really small things. it's the name of a cleaning spray. it's professional long-arm quilting services. it's the direction of the sea. it's how you prepare the same coffee. and there is a temptation, because these are small things that don't feel like A Cultural Tradition Requiring Respect, to argue over which thing is right. because we need to be right about something. shoes off in the house. how to eat with a fork. small things. but the small things are the culture, and you have to treat people decently in the small things.

Reblogging this once again because, once again, it made me laugh.

Every time this makes me laugh so hard I almost barf idk why I'm so weak to this

One time, while working in the drive-thru, I accidentally mixed up "I'll see you at the window" and "I'll have it for you at the window" and said "I'll have you at the window."

I like how teens are too young to figure out their sexuality unless its heterosexual

Idk how people find this old post like once a week but I will say as a closeted 15 year old nothing can describe how much confidence it gave me that everyone agreed with me. That it’s all bullshit. I was so angry and frustrated at the world not taking me seriously, and the thousands and thousands of people reblogging showed me that I wasn’t alone. I wasn’t crazy and heteronormativity is all bullshit. Being queer is as natural as breathing air.

the replacement of websites with apps sounds so backwards when you actually describe it. like hmm you have to download an entire program onto your device each time you want access to a portal, where it takes up storage indefinitely. somebody should invent an app where you can "browse" any portal just by typing in its address... 🥴