quiet please

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 This thread is gold… make your own here: https://htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/

say what you mean: i want more close connections in my life. i am sad that i don’t have many people in person to talk to. i feel lonely even around people i care about, and who care about me.

by saying what you mean, instead of defaulting to “i have no friends”, it makes you think about what the real issue is. and knowing the real issue is the first step to fixing it, and your friends will be glad to help you now that they aren’t feeling like you’re dismissing them.

How to make a green pumpkin 紫砂壶 zishahu (Chinese boccaro teapot/ Yixing clay teapot)

This is perhaps a little bit Ironic because the most tiddy-like cave formation I've ever seen is the "Breast of Venus" in Carlsbad Caverns:

“I’m so happy for them”

Black sheep

For @gedsparrowhawk ♡

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where did all that shit in Miranda’s house come from? The tea cups and the wash basin and the harpsichord and the books. Did Flint get them for her? How much do you think she wanted to break those lovely delicate tea cups? If Flint did get her all these things, how much of it was Flints dream for domesticity and how much of it did she want? How much of his vengeance was hers?

She said she encouraged his rage, but do you think… they just… exchanged expression of their respective emotions. She, acting a grieving widow when in reality she wants to Rip Things Apart Brick By Brick, He, acting a pirate captain, fuelled by hate and rage, when all he wants to do is lie back and weep.

When I was a kid, I always kept the windows open when it rained. I saw no reason to close them even though my mom kept asking me to. She never gave a reason, so I never listened. She'd say it let the rain in and I'd think "no shit" and continue to keep them open. Eventually, she explained that it could cause mold. That made sense to me, so I started closing the windows. Simple as that.

When we first got cats, they kept jumping onto the counters. Once again, I saw no issue with this. My mom kept chasing them down and I couldn't figure out why. She'd get annoyed whenever I let them stay up there. Once she told me that it was unsanitary, I thought that made sense so I stopped letting them stay on the counter.

To an outsider (and probably to my mom at the time) it may have seemed like I didn't understand the instructions or was being intentionally difficult. But I can't just follow an order without a reason. I must decide for myself if the order makes sense before I follow it, and I need the logic behind it to do that.

Van-Gogh’s “Wheat Field with Cypresses” as a living painting at the National-Gallery 

Dinosaur Carousel

I started this about a month ago when I saw some illustrations of some fantasy-inspired carousel horses, and thought I’d like to try and draw some dinosaur themed ones. I was going to post this yesterday, but a friend asked me to draw a Dilophosaurus for him, so I obliged.

I started off with the herbivores/ornithischians first since they’d be easier to translate design ideas, but luckily I found examples of all kinds of animals that have been turned into fancy carousel creatures- including a Dinotopia themed set, that too my knowledge wasn’t used, but was simply on display.