yourlocalswan

[yourlocalswan]

Yoshitaka Amano: May :: 月 (1993)

[yourlocalswan]

in this ideal reality where you don't have to do one of these things, you still Could do them. ex. If you pick no longer needing to eat, you could still do it with no consequence. think of the possibilities. take my hand

[yourlocalswan]

Sunset and Super Moon at Arcadia Lake. Jef Bourgeau

[yourlocalswan]

scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon

[yourlocalswan]

There is more beyond the reef ⚓ !.

[yourlocalswan]

“Did these people [in academia who claim that they are not exposed to disabled people] realize that when they encountered the work of Rosa Luxemburg (who limped), Antonio Gramsci (a crippled, dwarfed hunchback), John Milton (blind), Alexander Pope (dwarfed hunchback), George Gordon Brown (club foot), [Jorge] Luis Borges, James Joyce, and James Thurber (all blind), Harriet Martineau (deaf), Toulouse-Lautrec (spinal deformity), Frida Kahlo (osteomyelitis), Virginia Woolf (lupus), they were meeting people with disabilities? Do filmgoers realize when they watch the films of James Ford, Raoul Walsh, André de Toth, Nicholas Ray, Tay Garnett and William Wyler that these directors were all physically impaired? Why is it when one looks these figures in dictionaries of biography or encyclopedias that their physical disabilities are usually not mentioned – unless the disability is seen as related to creativity, as in the case of the blind bard Milton or the deaf Beethoven? There is an ableist notion at work here that anyone who creates a canonical work must be physically able. Likewise, why do we not know that Helen Keller was a socialist, a member of the Wobblies, the International Workers of the World, and an advocate of free love? We assume that our ‘official’ mascots of disability are nothing else but their disability.”

— Lennard J. Davis, Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body (via sociolab)

[yourlocalswan]

in the club freakin it in a sensitive style

[yourlocalswan]

i hate yankees so much it's unreal.

[yourlocalswan]

guy who enjoys german class a little too much: ancient slavs had words of power they used to shout mountains apart

girl who collects crystals: that's actually true as fuck

70 year old professor who sometimes calls students "comrade": faggotry is actually good, I don't have a problem with faggotry, Aristotle was a faggot, Caesar was a faggot...

guy behind me: YOOOOO check it out (pulls up beheading video on a chechen telegram previously unknown to mankind)

Professor: ...Galileo was a faggot, I think Napoleon was a faggot, Comrade Tito probably wasn't a faggot but...

[yourlocalswan]

[yourlocalswan]

I’m begging you to write for yourself.

“But readers don’t like—“ who cares?

The only reader of your story that you should care about is yourself.

Do you like your story? Yes? Then it’s perfect.

[yourlocalswan]

If you’re experiencing writers block, make a playlist with songs that remind you of your WIP and go on a 30 min walk.

Trust me.

[yourlocalswan]

the baby has one parent's little face marking thing and the other's coat because they're a little horse family the world is a beautiful place

[yourlocalswan]

The most frustrating experience as a writer is having a clear vision in your mind of the story you want to tell but being too afraid to put pen to paper for fear of failing to do the story justice. I’m so scared that my actual execution will fail to meet my expectations that I’m paralysed to even start.

[yourlocalswan]

I lose myself in a daydream

[yourlocalswan]

[yourlocalswan]

Can y'all stop calling a Palestinian genocide survivor being chased off of tumblr with racist harassment 'drama' and 'discourse'? I know you've never experienced an ounce of real oppression in your life but the least you could do is respect those who have.