#faithful beauty

[heartnosekid]

faithful beauty (composia fidelissima) | 🦋-🦋

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[ricky-mortis]

Not too long ago I saw people talking about Mariah playing Ethan and I had to draw her (plus it was an excuse to draw Joey Ethan as well :) ).

[nataliesscatorccio]

YELLOWJACKETS

[larriescompass]

“louis is a great person to just like, sit and kind of like just admire what he’s like.” - harry styles

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Hardships often prepare people for an extraordinary destiny.

- C.S. Lewis

The Basilica della Santissima Annunziata in Florence, Italy.

[maihonhassan]

I’m touched by this beautiful quote:

“How wrong of us to even think for a second that Allah won't answer our duas while we are currently living in our other answered duas”

[53v3nfrn5]

Candy Darling on her deathbed (1974) photog: Peter Hujar

Darling died of lymphoma on March 21, 1974, aged 29, at the Columbus Hospital division of the Cabrini Health Care Center. In a letter written on her deathbed and intended for Warhol and his followers, Darling wrote, "Unfortunately before my death I had no desire left for life ... I am just so bored by everything. You might say bored to death. Did you know I couldn't last. I always knew it. I wish I could meet you all again." Her funeral, held at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel, was attended by huge crowds. Julie Newmar read the eulogy. Darling's birth name was never spoken by the minister or any of the eulogizers. Faith Dane played a piano piece, and Gloria Swanson saluted Darling's coffin.

[boutine-babes-101]

[gionarte]

[light-koe-pinsky]

Ok but God having a lightbulb for head making it easy to break whenever someone's had enough of "his" bullshit but the back of his throne being full of new fresh lightbulbs, leaving it to the people/creatures, even the ones that broke him in the first place, to replace it if they find the mercy and humility in their hearts to do so has to be one of the hardest and most creative metaphors for hope Ive seen in a Groening show

[yashley]

Say something true!

[tangents-within-tangents]

Just some things I think deserve a super accurate movie/show adaption in a beautiful 2D animation style:

The How to Train Your Dragon series

Gregor the Overlander

Artemis Fowl

The Adventure Zone

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (fr so much was left out of the 1939 film!)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

The actual Little Mermaid story (there are a ton of adaptations I haven't seen yet so maybe it exists somewhere but we all know Disney’s didn’t even come close)

[iameriwa]

Metamorphosis

Imagine waking up and deciding not to hide your true identity, feelings, and beliefs anymore.

Taking the time to explore all the possibilities of what your life could be without wearing a mask.

Freeing up your mind from the distractions, stress and fear that you have been experiencing for far longer than necessary.

Well today is that day Sis!

Be encouraged, get ready for a big change,

A departure from what you’ve become accustomed to.

Just know that Ọlọrun, Olódùmarè [The ruler of Heaven and earth, our Supreme God] has an abundance of blessings in store for you.

(Amin Ase)

Embrace your new self, your new path, and believe that your future will bring you closer to your divine purpose, and that your biggest dreams will finally become fulfilled.

Stop holding yourself back, worried that you might fail, because you’re about to fly 🦋

Author @iameriwa

Photo credit @yarnover_ng

[the-joy-of-knowledge]

Lessons from failure

I have failed on a small scale and I have failed largely. Some failures still shock me and some, I have gotten over. Here are some lessons I have learned:

Failure could be the beginning or the end of a goal. Only you can figure this out.

Some failures could be predicted.

It is hard to console yourself when you know you are responsible for the failure.

You may fail because you are aiming too low.

To overcome failure, look into the failures of others.

The last thing to do is worry.

You will not get over it, so find a way to get around it.

It will hurt your self-esteem, so seek other ways to repair it.

To minimize the effect of failure, expand your scope.

Don't attach yourself too much to a person, place, or thing.

Try to learn from it while it hurts.

Do not repeat the same mistake.

If you find yourself going through those same cycles, take a break.

Know when to share your failure and when to keep them to yourself.

Best, know who to share them with, let your journal know before your best friend.

[christian-girl-blogger]