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Remembering Jim Lovell, NASA astronaut and commander of Apollo 13, who died August 7, 2025, at the age of 97. May his memory be a blessing 💙

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(WIP!!) oooo my planes you should look at my planes <3 idk but i got some doodles of (what's meant to be) the L-1011 Tristar because. cute :)

(ALSO WHILE MAKING THIS I SAW THE PSA L1011 AND. ITS LITTLE SMILE. ITS SO GOOD <3)

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The physics of balancing toys 🙃

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I love how in so many fantasy series, especially those for girls, we’re told that selfishness is wrong and shit and it’s written as a character flaw, and usually given whole arcs of why with this moral that’s treated like taking a sledgehammer to the face.

And then there’s Discworld where PTerry goes “yeah but nah” and has Tiffany Aching explicitly turn selfishness into a weapon to defeat an Eldritch Fae Queen.

It seems small and trivial, but really think of whom the Tiffany Aching books are aimed at, and just let that sink in.

In a society where young girls are still being socialised to live according to certain “good” traits of femininity decided by patriarchal values, Pterry literally tells you that it’s okay to fucking be selfish, makes it’s a positive thing, makes it a power.

Just let that sink in.

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weird cultural shift detected

Fam, be careful with your time online. I highly recommend sinking some time and energy into offline pursuits.

Try: knitting or crochet; gentle movement, stretching, walking if you can; playing a musical instrument, whether it's piano or penny whistle; and especially reading.

I do not mean performative BookTok reading that we do for likes because our neurotransmitters have been nerfed by modern life.

I mean actual reading that we do for ourselves alone.

If reading is hard, if attention or energy or memory are operating at a deficit, I get it. Nevertheless, please try. If you notice you're skipping across big chunks of text like a river stone, if you can't finish a paragraph, slow down, pronounce the words out loud. Stop sometimes and ask yourself what you just read. Explain the story or article or poem to your blorbo or your cat or a stuffed animal.

If your head feels scrambled up, no judgment. We may have incredibly intractable neurochemical reasons that this is hard. Just tell the blorbo, "That's hilarious, I don't remember any of what I just read. Let's read it again, together."

(Please don't ask A.I. to do this for you. Please. It's your right to read and think about it your own way. A.I. doesn't actually understand anything. Please don't assume it will guide you safely through this next weird phase of our human culture.)

If reading longform, offline, makes you feel bored or anxious, be gentle and patient with yourself. Start with stories you remember well, reliable sources of well-being. But please know you will need to put some backbone into it in the long run.

I think we are going to need to rebuild our ability to think, to process experience. This will be an unsupported activity. In fact, most of the really powerful cultural forces are making it very hard for us to notice, feel, perceive, or think clearly.

Not sure what, but something's happened quite recently that is making this situation much worse, some kind of tipping point.

Please read something every day.

Your friend, greenjudy

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Concept art for Treasure Planet (2002)

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think that everyone has their own personal theme in life

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Three times David A Hardy used the same building design in his art

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buckaroos know

as time goes by and online platforms continue rewarding content of negativity and anger and hate, i am so honored to have this community of buckaroos trotting with love in their step. constantly DEFYING THE ALGORITHM that craves hate and slop and flooding it with love. HONORED to trot with you buds

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courage the himedanshi dog or whatever

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i dont even have guilty pleasures anymore i just like stuff and if people have a problem with that they can go fuck themselves

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Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, August 16, 1918

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"There's no hope for the future." And that's how they felt during the Atomic Age, during the World Wars, during the Enlightenment Revolutions, during thr plagues, during the Viking raids, during the fall of Rome.

Yet, we persisted.