so i wrote a book that comes out soon and having that be real feels like falling down stairs because i wanted this since i was 7 years old so now what do i want after it.
so tell me why today all i care about is the word trundle, that the word trundle exists. of course i have things to do and emails to send and a world of suffering to protect but today my brain won't let me look away from the sheer linguistic improbability of trundle.
i saw a truck doing it. i imagine animals did it first. or people maybe. to trundle comes direct from old english. cows do it on occasion, but more often sheep (in my experience). someone had to name lope and someone had to name slog. the verbs to run and to leap make sense; they are singular and important distinguishers.
but we can bask rather than relax. we can scuttle rather than crawl. sometimes when i move in dance class it is to undulate rather than roll. someone had to name things like sonder and whimsy. of course we had words for tangible things like tree and grass and root. i love those words, i'm eating them.
i don't know the word for this thing. where it's real-now. sometimes i feel it when i am dating someone i actually like-and-love and i realize that is real, i am dating them and it's real that i like-and-love them. sometimes i have this feeling when i have been planning a vacation or an event for weeks-and-months and it finally happens - the feeling this is happening, it's happening right now.
it happens randomly sometimes too. i will be at the carnival or at an ice cream stand or with the last light of summer in my hair and i will feel it again, that sense - i have waited my whole life for this, and im finally experiencing it, and i need to pay attention to it.
but it's real! how amazing! how horribly tragic! it's real. it exists. the moment is here.
i have no idea what to do with it.
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got robbed in pittsburgh hows it going everyone
edit bc tumblr sucks: this isnt a joke our car got broken into and cops have been pretty much useless, lost my entire backpack w laptop, switch, speaker, water bottle..... im leaving pitt today and im gonna be in delaware for a few days but i just dunno if im gonna see that shit again. going to work on scraping together monies to replace my shit but if you wanna toss a couple bucks to help:
cshapp: atlasbeetles
nother edit: gotten abt $50 from this which is so awesome and i appreciate it sincerely.... got my new laptop now now the fun of paying that off begins, next order of business is replacing my speaker and switch since the fees for replacing my ID and SSN card are pretty low
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as someone who’s a very casual watcher viewer (i don’t think i’ve watched any videos in months) as well as being a media major, this situation is so fascinating to me
ghost files costing $50k per episode??? 25 employees??? what do you need a director for to make survival mode? it’s literally just a lets play
seeing people break down their expenses with flight costs, rooming, etc. is really interesting too, i need to ask my professor about this situation, it’s just so wild to me
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On God, a fully rendered piece??? I don't do those...
Anywho, Shattered!Dream anyone? I know nothing of his Canon vibes, I just love drawing him 🙏
Here's a close-up of his face! I used a huge canvas because I knew I wanted to make him kinda High Quality. I'm also using a different nose-style here?
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My dad: “now I’m not like anti-capitalist or whatever, I believe in capitalism, but: [the most anti-capitalist statement you’ve heard about exploitation of the masses through monopolized markets of overpriced commodities that have become required in every day life]”
I’m convinced so many people would be socialists or even communists if those terms didn’t exist surrounded by tons of vague language and propaganda that’s poisoned anyone born before the late 80s from being able to comprehend a better option than what we have because obviously everything else has to be worse, right? There’s no room for improvement at all! This is as good as it gets!!
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