Arman, Lovesong, 1989.  Polished and brown patina bronze sculpture, 68.00 x 54.00 cm.  

Material Shapes

Connecticut-based prop stylist and designer Kristen Meyer creates geometric shapes using crackers, sticks, spaghetti, herbs, and other common raw materials. The finesse comes in her use of negative space, creating implied borders lines that help complete the shape without a full density of “ingredients.”

Working on my novel and couldn’t figure out why it felt so empty. I didn’t have any filler. It was all 100% plot. The characters only interacted when necessary. I didn’t prattle on about the scenery or how the birds sounded. I had all my fuller stuff that I loved saved in another file because I “didn’t need it”.

Y’all, I knew this existed in TV shows but it didn’t hit me until this that everything is being whittled down. We are so starving for filler that we snap up anything. I unload all mine on Tumblr or keep it in a massive Google Docs. It SUCKS.

Honestly? Death to plot necessity. Revive filler. Revive unnecessary interactions. Revive just vibing with characters sometimes. I don’t want to just consume the plot and I don’t want to just create the plot either.

Stories are best when they can breathe

I've been saying this for AGES. Publishing has developed a "remove every single word that doesn't drive the plot onward" mentality and imo that's why many books these days get forgotten so easily and so quickly! Characters and relationships and worlds are the things that stick with people, so if we don't have time to explore them, what is there left to sink our teeth into? The plot? That's like eating a piece of plain bread and calling it a meal. Of course that's easily forgotten. Of course that's not satisfying to write. Of course we're going to look at three course meals and feel pangs of hunger.

god bless our troops [the ppl at ublock origin who keep updating the filters to keep working on youtube]

HOT SPOT ホットスポット 2025, Yamada Nobuyoshi,  Mizuno Kaku, Matsuda Kento.

ホットスポット Hot Spot (2025) | EP 1

Bronze tiger, China, Western Han Dynasty, 2nd century BC

To The Painters of Pompeii - Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is now available to pre-order! Get it here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

Horses in the wild spinach field - Joseph’s Dream Appaloosa Stud

Arachnophobia, Luis De Jesus

The Walled Garden and Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Northumberland.

the earth didn’t have to give us meadows of poppies, but she did!!

Liang Fu (Chinese, 1993) - Reflections of Nothing (2024)

Liang Fu (Chinese, 1993), Reflections of Nothing, 2024. Pigment, oil on canvas, 120 x 160 cm.

via @bobafett

Calling scam victims stupid, much like cult members, serves to do nothing but make you feel superior, blame victims for the wrongs done to them, and in turn actually makes you more vulnerable to scams (and cults, and so on). "Look at these people! Morons! I could never be one of them because I am smart, unlike these people who fell for them because they are stupid. It is not about vulnerability and luck, both of which are factors that could affect me, it is all simply a matter of in-born intelligence, which is why I, a better human, don't have to worry about falling for them."

And boom, you have already let your guard down - you would never fall for a scam (or cult, etc.) so you can safely click on that link or read that pamphlet because if it was a scam you'd have identified it as such immediately, because you are smart. You don't need to stop and question. You're too smart. And, really, if they didn't want to get scammed they shouldn't have gone out dressed like that.

We're all potential victims. Every single one of us has been at one point or another been at vulnerable to a scammer, or a pickpocket, or any other number of external force trying to harm you for their own benefit. Blaming the victims feels good but it doesn't help shit in the long run.

2.16" Potamon crab fossil in travertine