It Lives In The Dirt

This is your daily reminder to not be ashamed of making your life easy for yourself.

good morning everyone! I have a new all-time favorite work of art, and it’s this early 19thc ivory netsuke in the shape of an INCREDIBLY fat bird

This must’ve been a popular design for netsuke, because there’s a very similar one on display in the National Museum of Scotland:

after venturing out to pinterest in search of their roundest birds, i present the following

IM PRETTY SURE THESE ARE DEPICTIONS OF THE BEGGING POSITION OF JUVENILE SPARROWS

I think a part of it is that it lets you acknowledge that something sucks, which is actually really good in a culture that wants us to pretend that everything is fine and we’re soldiering through all the time. Like, no, my grocery bag breaking and spilling all over the floor is not fine. I’ve had a long day and I’m really upset and on the verge of tears because I can’t handle one more thing and pretending like it’s fine only means breaking down later.

I cannot overstate how freeing it can be to simply say "oh fuck off" at the object that falls off your counter of its own volition after you spent 10 minutes preventing items from falling off and breaking on they other side.

Me: Jupiter! Jupiter! Jupiter!