if ur having a bad day here is some fairy dust (i’m sprinkling it onto you)  ⋆｡°✩ ⋆⁺｡˚⋆˙‧₊✩₊‧˙⋆˚｡⁺⋆ ✩°｡⋆ .・゜゜・　　・゜゜・． ｡･ﾟﾟ ｡･:*˚:✧｡

booping from here when people only know my side urls

look, fandom as a whole certainly has its own built-in biases and problems that need to be addressed 

but like

every so often i think about all of the deep, nurturing lifelong friendships that only ever happened because one day two internet strangers were like ‘oh hey, we agree on which fictional characters should kiss!’

people who are right now helping each other survive via connections they initially forged by liking the same sailor moon girl or something

the internet is a goddamn garbage pit but it is also a goddamn miracle

Happy spring, to my northern hemisphere friends. What fascinating beasts did you see this week?

Taiwan Rosefinch (Carpodacus formosanus), male, family Fringillidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to Taiwan

photograph by Lars Petersson

Listening to: ( ) [Sigur Rós]

My completed journal for #februllage2024!

i am no longer available for things that make me feel like shit

📸 • ryanaguzman: Processing

ITS MARCH YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

'iris blades pinned together with thorns filled in five sections with rowan berries fish attacking from below difficult to keep all the berries in nibbled at by ducks' west bretton, 1987 in a collaboration with nature - andy goldsworthy (1990)

A number of years ago, I was sitting at the kitchen table with my parents. (I think it was lunch? lunch-ish? but I can't really remember.) Anyway, my father kept insisting that if you have hobbies, you should hustle and turn it into a blog, a podcast---something that would use that expertise, and share it with others. But my mother pushed back; she insisted that doing something is an end in itself. You can just read a book. You can think about what you read, turning it over in your head. Maybe talk about it with your local book club! But you don't need to start a LIT CHICKS podcast and read books every month and offer Blue Apron discount codes during commercial breaks, etc. etc.

You can just read the book.

I find myself thinking about that exchange a lot. I can just take a butterfly pinning class, or a foraging class, or a historical walking tour, and that's enough. The world is for doing things in, learning and meeting and seeing---you do not have to turn that into shareable content or a life's passion to give it worth.

writers when they’re proofreading their works for the 34th time *find zero mistakes, there’s no typo, no grammatical error. everything looks good. hit the post button*

writers when they’re reading said works after they’ve been published like proud parents *find 52 mistakes at first glance, 38 typos and 14 grammatical errors with a bunch of inconsistencies and plot holes*

"Everybody likes those stories about killing one butterfly and the entire future is altered, but why don't we believe that there's one little thing we can do now that might alter the entire future for the better?"

- Rebecca Solnit, from the ten part series Uncertainty and Possibility-Meeting the Climate Future