#illusive

[mrpicasso-face]

Peace is a shadowed figure,

Just at the edge of my vision.

First,

I become aware of it's presence.

Then,

I turn to meet it.

Finally,

It disappears.

It's taunting me.

It would seem the carrot

Has become aware

The horse

Can never catch it.

[yzrysiyzrysi]

Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls - Searching For Heaven 7” #np #vinyl #7inch #synthpop #abstract #electronic #synth #pop #newwave #paulinemurrayandtheinvisiblegirls #illusive https://www.instagram.com/p/CpXtlydPyu_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[zegalba]

I-80 highway through Wyoming. nicknamed The Sisters, for the three sets of hills that create an optical illusion of the road rising into the sky

[lgbtlunaverse]

Nothing will dispell the "the curtains were just blue" myth faster than writing something yourself, because the amount of pretentious symbolism i am putting in my silly little fanfics is ridiculous. I mean SO much with these words, literally every single one of them. This fic has twenty five typos and zero correct uses of punctuation but if there's curtains you bet your ass I put thought into what colour they were.

[solarwreathe]

let’s not talk about this, ever

[uncarving-the-block]

New hema jacket patches what up

Edit: I added photos of the other side (plus me wearing it) as a rb, fyi to y’all

[myjetpack]

My cartoon for this weekend’s Guardian books.

[jaubaius]

Catical illusion/  This kitty is in a bathtub

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[secretmellowblog]

My husband is a man who collects things he can use. A pistol, a pocket-watch, a woman's love, a wife....

I'm obsessed with That Scene(tm) between Katya and Andrei in the California Director's Cut Rerelease of Goncharov, so I did a lighting study inspired by the film's Art Deco Posters! Little details like Katya never referring to her husband by his first name really add to Andrey and Katya's tense dynamic, which is one of the most underrated parts of the movie imo.

[libertyreads]

Book Review #95 of 2023--

Illusive by Emily Lloyd-Jones. Rating: 4 stars.

Read from July 27th to 28th.

This book was such a quick read for me. I read all but the last 60 pages on my day off yesterday and then finished the book before I went to work this morning. I think finishing a book in less than 24 hours is a sure sign that you’ve read a good one. Not because it’s easy to read or short. But because the book kept you reading. Illusive is a 2014 YA superhero of a sort novel. I say of a sort because we are following the bad guys in this one, the ‘Crooks’ who don’t want to use their powers for the good of the country or the world. They just want to be able to not be hunted down for wanting to live a normal life. 17 year old Ciere (and of course that’s not her real name) faces mob bosses and government agents while just trying to live a normal, human life.

I thought that the world building was a little flat. I wish that I knew more about the society as a whole or the powers and how they manifest. Everything just felt so surface level with that. Also, the settings weren’t well described which meant I had to put in the work to make scenes make sense some times. But this book still managed to get a 4 star rating out of me which means two things: 1) good characters, 2) good plot. I loved Ciere and her handler Kit (plus whatever Kit has going on with Magnus...please tell me there’s more of that in the sequel). I love their bond. Of course I do. Found family trope antibodies probably swim up and down my blood stream. I DID worry for a second that the found family stuff was going to get messed up with a romantic subplot--possibly a love triangle. But the author never quite took it there which I appreciated. It was published in 2014 it could have easily gone down that road.

Overall, this was just a fun and quick read for me. I’m wanting to pick up the sequel but don’t love that my only options currently are to purchase it. I got this one from the library and it was definitely a great choice to go that route. I kind of don’t love that my library doesn’t have the sequel. Not even on ebook or audio. So, I’m not sure when I’ll pick up the next one but hopefully by the end of the year.

[viejospellejos]

no te hagas ilusiones

[eliotbaum]

The Illusionist ✨ A character class for The Hidden Isle.

Kickstarter is live until Oct 28th, '23!

[trashmancer]

Professor Dekarios sketches 💖

[zegalba]

Fata Morgana

a superior mirage caused by warm air resting on patches of colder air in an atmospheric duct that acts like a refracting lens. Objects on the horizon could appear to be mirrored, distorted, or float. This form of mirage could be the reason for the Flying Dutchman Legend.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

An interesting demonstration of how the human brain works.

But also something of a lesson regarding perception, and the unreliability of subjective perspective versus objective reality.

You can be extremely certain about how you perceive the world, your "lived experience," that which you "feel it in my heart." But that doesn't mean it's actually true. And it doesn't mean we have to endorse it, or ignore or outright deny objective reality.

That's a "you" thing, not a "we" thing.

[kevinbparry]

Collection of me turning into random objects