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Mossy portraits, Sweden.

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Creek

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'Cats of the Louvre' by Matsumoto Taiyo

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Orange Oakleaf (Kallima inachus), family Nymphalidae, found in tropical South, SE, and East Asia

photograph by Grzegorz Hałat

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“Lucky Crossing” by Margaryta Yermolayeva

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Banded agate frog, Akkadian, 2400 - 2200 BC

from The British Museum

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Briarlight for the warriors designs! Please :)

briarlight!! she's got burmese markings :) though she's not an official medicine cat, leafpool and jayfeather gave her an honorary herb: blackthorn, symbolic of hope and strength against adversity.

i imagine she moves around with a bark sled attached to her with a harness around her midsection, i wish i'd drawn it here but alas

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hey mitski! i know you went to suny purchase, which is my top school ! but i'm at the point in my life where i have to decide a career path. i've always been into music, but i don't think i'm talented enough to pursue it. how did you know that music was what you wanted to do for the rest of your life?

this stuff is hard but incredibly exciting, isn’t it?actually, for a long time i resisted it! i did my best to do everything BUT music because, let’s face it, it’s a hard, sometimes ugly, and often unlucrative kind of career. but i reached a point where i just couldn’t do anything else - i realized i’d rather take a chance at being unhappy pursuing music than most certainly being unhappy pursuing anything else.here’s the big secret though - it doesn’t matter whether you’re “talented enough” right now! talent can totally come later! talent can be *learned*! many of my talented musician friends never really did anything about their talent, or dropped out of the career path because they realized this life wasn’t for them, and some are still going strong but just haven’t found their niche yet, and some still were musicians everyone thought were mediocre but just kept pressing on and now are doing very well for themselves.what you need 100% more than talent is grit, or love (often times i can’t tell the difference). that’s honest-to-god true. instead of wondering whether you have the talent, ask how much you want to do this, how much you love music, and how much you’re willing to bet on it. i am definitely not the most talented musician, in fact i went into conservatory with probably the least amount of knowledge of music out of everyone, but i was at the point where i’d exhausted every other option, and this was IT for me. all eggs in one single basket. now it’s been nearly 7 years of non-stop trudging towards doing this for a living, i’m talking dedicating 365 days of every year to music and a career in it, and i’m *still* barely making a living.and you know, maybe it actually won’t be a struggle for you, maybe it won’t take that long, maybe you’ll take a few detours and come back around to music in a couple years, but that’s what i’m saying - you just can’t know, because the amount of talent you have right now doesn’t directly correlate to the amount of success you’ll find later. in the end it’s about betting on it and continuing to nurture it.sorry this got long, but if you go to purchase please say hi to peter denenberg for me, and also definitely be skeptical of literally everything every professor says, because they’ll all tell you how to “make it” but all their career models are outdated.

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These pics always remind me of each other

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circle of sleep <3

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this is the first song i ever wrote. i started writing songs after high school which is late compared to my band friends, i was living in Turkey it was morning and i was still fucking drunk, idk why but i sat at the keyboard and started writing this, and by the time it was done my heart was pounding like i just saw the rest of my life. i was fucking doomed. anyway, happy monday, fam. kill this week.