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body hair is not only acceptable but also deeply sexy I hope this helps everyone

not only am i extremely bad at video games, i refuse to get any better at them

foliage study :-) there's an angel in the garden

TIMEをイメージした子です。

I really like this website because somebody will be like “there’s nothing wrong with darting out from behind a parked car into traffic, bootlicker” and you can be like okay this clearly evolved from a valid point about how the US is too car-centric. But something happened to it.

Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Fields after the Rain, 1890, oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Rot! Rot! Rot! (gouache) Old wood and fungi, wonderful things to paint. This will be my postcard print for March. Join my postcard club on Patreon if you'd like this mini print in the mail - link in my pinned post!!

Artist: Terry Furry

went outside to scribble

rrrrrgh i HATE those mfers at the register but this is the only gay book store in town!!!

glad max friendly road

I was accidentally 15 one time and basically there’s Problems forever because of this

actually as long as we're talking about realistic expectations of ageing, the nature of social media decontextualising people's personal posts has absolutely given some of you guys a false and potentially dangerous view of how your body is expected to change over time. I semi frequently see people sharing or repackaging commentary on experiences with disability as if it's an inevitable part of getting older. and like, yes, as you get older you are likely to develop new conditions, injuries or disabilities, but you need to understand your body's baseline well enough to identify those changes and interrogate them.

e.g. if you are seriously having such bad joint or back pain in your 30s that it hampers your day to day activities, you need to take that seriously. that is not 'just ageing', that's potentially an indicator of an underlying condition, unaddressed injury (which is quite common but will get worse if you don't notice and take care of it) or daily habits (poor posture, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle) causing cumulative damage to your body.

I know plenty of 30+ and 40+ year olds who are not especially athletic but who can still climb up and down stairs with ease, sit on the floor and get up again without discomfort, have floor or shower sex, ride a bike, wrestle a dog or a kid, climb a tree, maybe even do a handstand. there is no shame at all in developing pain or mobility issues which limit the kinds of things you can do comfortably, but it doesn't serve anyone to pretend that those changes are bound up with reaching a certain age. even in your 60s and 70s and beyond you should notice if you start feeling a new kind of pain or physical limitation. don't dismiss this shit just because someone told you "yeah that happens when you pass 30"

i agree with this as someone who was invisibly disabled REALLY young, like in grade school, and grew up with parents who also have a bunch of chronic conditions they refused to acknowledge and instead just normalized in the household. likle every other week my mother would just have to disappear for 48 hours because she had a migraine so bad not even her overachievement OCD could get her through it. my father definitely has some sort of collagen/chromosomal disorder that causes chronic pain and joint laxity. and the parents of my friends who were the same age roughly, and are now the same age that i am currently, were not disabled to the extent that i and most of my age cohort are currently. i remember everyone's parents being 30 and 40 years old and they did not start getting weird cancers and injuries as a group until much later. it is not in fact normal for a 30 or even 40 year old to suddenly have arthritis, chronic lower back pain, have limbs regularly falling asleep from nerve injury, or not be able to jog up the stairs. covid has contributed to this significantly but it was happening before covid too. it's making the millennial and zoomer aging process extremely muddled because it is abnormal for the standards of recent history, and we all LOOK a lot younger because everyone is inside a lot more, not smoking, and wearing sunscreen.

it's normal for public health to fluctuate over long periods of time in response to socioeconomic conditions (and we are having a lot of different socioeconomic conditions rn, and no im not going to provide citations today ibut it's certainly Around in the literature), but doctors and researchers have been noticing for a while now that something weird is happening on a population level. dont lower your standards of health or function for yourself just because you know so many people who are also having problems, because most of them statistically aren't supposed to either

tangentially related in the context of repetitive stress injuries, which is relevant in spaces like tumblr where there's a lot of artists:

i have a friend that's a professional artist who's been working with a personal fitness trainer the past few years, and his trainer works with a lot of other artists as well. he said that his clients with the most consistent injuries are far and away ARTISTS, not the athletes or construction workers he works with. this is because we aren't taught how to recognize injuries as they arise, and are in fact strongly encouraged/pressured to work through them (especially if you do it for a living, but tbh even in school or from peers in hobbyist settings)

if you are noticing pain in your hands/wrists/arms/shoulders when drawing, stop. even just briefly for a stretch break, longer if you need to. your specific pain will determine what you actually Need to do (what kinds of stretches, braces, etc), but do not simply push through. chronic pain does not need to be a part of art practice, and just because it's widespread doesn't mean it isn't preventable!