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things to not dwell on:
things to think about more:
Nightwing and Robin. Private commission, ink on paper.
Yeah so unfortunately, my friend was right. Muttering 'I'm gonna put on the greatest talent show this town has ever seen' darkly to myself is not only vastly funnier than saying I'm gonna kms, but is also somehow more concerning to anyone who might overhear it
Swept Away
Somedays my brain is too fried from everything going on, so I just doodle some mindless wiggly lines that make me happy.
i'm like if someone who was incredibly clingy and obsessive was also incredibly avoidant and elusive
cracking myself up thinking about the movement towards simplified forms in cave paintings
grug: grug must paint every hair on buffalo in realistic detail
thog: grug can chill out, audience know what buffalo look like. just do one line like thog
thog: cave painting world no longer look for photorealism. expression of form and movement is new frontier
grug: but then how will grug demonstrate high level of skill? grug have art degree
thog: any caveman represent buffalo as it is. grug must represent what it means to grug
grug: hm. this will challenge grug. but grug enjoy rising to occasion
genuinely i think everyone would be so much happier if we simply accepted that fanfiction isn’t supposed to be realistic at all, it’s just supposed to make you happy. these freaks are currently 20k words into pining for each other while living under the same roof and working the same job, fuck realism tbh
overhearing my neighbor rant on the phone top of his lungs and his friend is saying something in calm voice and he goes NO. NO NUANCE. STOP SAYING NUANCE. MY BOSS NEEDS TO DIE
i’m in trenches you’ve never heard of
i’m going to burst into tears. such a hauntingly stupid and wonderful phrase to immortalize somewhere. LOOK AT PIttbert!
jetpens just started stocking a product that will be an ergonomic game-changer for a lot of folks!
this is the kutsuwa punyu spiral pencil grip. unlike most pencil grips that are solid tubes and have a fixed maximum diameter they can wrap around,
the punyu is a spiral! it wraps like spaghetti.
this means that, unlike almost every other grip on the market, this grip can be added to almost every pen or pencil! and that includes fountain pens and gel pens. you can see it here being used on a pilot metropolitan fountain pen and a sakura gelly roll gel pen.
(not an affiliate link, not sponsored, you can buy from wherever you want if interested, jetpens has a lot of specs of their products that I appreciate)
a jetpens review even mentions someone using these on the lamy safari line of fountain pens. the ones with a really sharp triangle grip. these grips seem really really versatile, especially if you are about to sit down and take notes for hours on end!
if you do use this with a fountain pen, I recommend making sure the fountain pen is not prone to hard starts or drying out, has a good flow (whether that flow is from a wet nib or a wet feed or both), and/or that you use a relatively wet ink. because the goal is to have the fountain pen continue to write even if you put it down for a few minutes, so you do not have to keep removing the grip, capping the pen, uncapping the pen, or reapplying the spiral grip!
over the years some folks have asked me if I know of anything like this, and well, now we both do! if you get this let me know what kinds of pens and pencils you use it with and how well it works! this is a really exciting pencil grip!
a lot of scary awful shit might be going on in the world but today I got hundreds of people excited about a pencil grip and the many non-pencil things it can be used for. and that makes me happy
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I think if I could be the kind stranger in someone’s memory, that’d be enough.
The morning my mom died, we left the hospital and didn't know what else to do but go get breakfast at a McDonald's. We shuffled in like zombies. We were pretty shell shocked after everything we'd been through. And because of that, I guess the three of us were kind of struggling with getting our drinks and napkins and carrying our trays of food. I couldn't even tell you how we struggled with such a simple thing. We were just lost in thought, I guess. All I really remember is this little old man, a complete stranger, helping us bring our trays to the table. We didn't even ask for help. He just did. It was so weird because it was like he knew what had happened. I never got his name. The whole interaction couldn't have lasted more than 5 minutes. But I can still see his face.
I dont care if you think people are fundementally selfish. I choose to believe people are good and even if i get taken advantage of im going to do my part to make the world fair and kind
Maybe this is the wrong post to put this on but I've been going through this book lately and if you need your faith in humanity restored, try this: https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-paradise-built-in-hell-the-extraordinary-communities-that-arise-in-disaster-rebecca-solnit/11725474?ean=9780143118077&next=t
(My local library has it in both hardcopy and audiobook format, hot tip!)
Basically, time after time after time, when we study crises and disasters, here's what happens:
It doesn't matter what decade, city, or type of disaster: ordinary people step up. They carry things for each other. They loan resources. They share food and water. The idea that people would rather hoard and be individualist is, by and large, just an illusion; people start to help each other, and then when folks see people helping, they help the helpers.
Seconding the book recommendation! This book is fantastic.
I really like that letterboxd has the option to either rate movies 1-5 stars or just to just put a little heart. Like the feeling of saying "this film is a successful piece and revolutionary as a work of art defining its time and here's why..." is such a different emotion than "Im like it :)" and it's great we can choose
just because i like something doesnt mean its good
