[myoxisbroken]

[juliedillon]

note to self: just because someone did the thing you were thinking about doing, and did it way better than you could ever hope to do, doesn’t mean it would be stupid or pointless to go ahead and try to still do the thing anyway. 

[lizardywizard]

Also, when it comes to creative things? There really is no “better”.

Sure, someone might be more technically accomplished than you - you might not be able to colour as nicely or craft a sentence that rings as poetically - but art is only really secondarily about that. It’s firstmost about what you, uniquely, have to express, and how the precise way you express it might be what others need to relate to it - even if it’s less flashy, less “beautiful”, and gets fewer notes.

I promise you this: there are obscure fanfics with only a handful of notes that are the read-and-re-read favourites of someone too anxious to comment. There are drawings done by 14-year-olds in poorly-blended markers that are someone’s favourite because they spoke to something that nothing else did. There are covers of songs where your voice cracks and you cringe every time you hear it but someone thinks the way it cracked just at that moment added beauty to the song. There are angsty three-line poems you wrote at 4am that someone once called “pretentious emo trash” that are loved by someone else going through the same thing as you.

And I guarantee you, there is something unique about your art. Even if you’re “saying something someone else has said”. Even if you’re the thousandth person to take on the subject. Even if you feel like you’re not at all unique. You’re bound to express something, however subtle, that didn’t exist until then.

Art is about connection. And the more you create, the more chance you have of finding other people who experience the world the way you do.

[we-lovecats]

[drpathetique]

[cranquis]

Nurse: So what’s your secret for living to 103?

Little Old Lady (leans forward, whispers theatrically): Just… don’t die.

[trek-tracks]

Captain Picard, asking us the real philosophical questions of our age

[pixel-art-gallery]

[yedrindax]

[bmouse]

[yedrindax]

Anonymous asked:

First of all: I love your blog! Second: Jumping on the bandwagon, Dutch Crowley ‘whirled down vaguely’. Not that bad I guess... Especially in comparison to the other things in the book. I -a native Dutch person who comprehends Dutch fine- literally do not get the translation of the ‘gayer than a treeful of monkeys’-quote: ‘As rough as an uncracked pinewood table leg’. Also, Aziraphales name became ‘Azirafaal’ and Crowly’s original name is ‘Cronkly’... I am literally crying. It sounds so horrible

ineffableplan answered:

Awww, thank you!

I read “whirled down vaguely” and the first thing i thought was “so he’s a lazy hurricane”

The pinewood table leg is so specific, i imagine it does mean something, possibly calling him soft in some way? It IS kind of weird

CRONKLY. Someone, quick, edit sunglasses onto kronk from the emperor’s new groove. He’s got dark hair and cheekbones, it works

[bringthekaos]

Yes, hello, I used Paint for this and it Sucks.

[ineffableplan]

No, no, it’s great, thank you

[yedrindax]

[atxnolasco]

*sighs* I have no excuse for this I just love my son and I’m ready to see dumb angel being dumb on TV

[discworldtour]

blommowitch asked:

got any nice discworld quotes for labour day ^^? (my fave is probably dorfl storming into the factory and writing "WORKERS! NO MASTERS BUT YOURSELVES!" in red paint on the wall)

I am six days late but this is a great ask and unfortunately I’m coming up short – the only one I can think of is this one from earlier today. Anyone else have any recommendations?