Water Painted By Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900)

“and the universe said…”

What in the hell is beauty? They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Anybody can be a beholder, hell everyone is a beholder. Eveyone will have a different definition of beauty, so why does it matter so much? How is it that something with so much variety be the base of so much self-worth and so many societies. Surely i qm not the only one who sees it. Surely others understand there will always be another critique. Beauty matters, but only because we have made it matter so much, only because we have shaped jt and valued so much off of it.

They say beauty is pain; i say beauty is born from pain.

Behold your own beauty, and do what you want, not what you are told to be, not what societies standards are, but what makes you feel like you. Don't give beauty power, take away that power, make it yours. Do believe others have the right to behold your own beauty, they have done it far too long.

Take the power of beauty, become the sole beholder of your beauty, and you will find beauty has no real power except the people who use it.

-Me ranting about beauty

Anna Haifisch

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

" you know very well you're not real"

- through the looking glass

my singing voice is good for showers and mornings in the kitchen and drunken nights and lullabies for babies who need sleep and im okay with this

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disardered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True art has always been a war against oppression

-Dick Gumshoe (ace attorney) about this fucking thing

"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."

Peep the Google Doc, now housing quotes such as

They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.

Mexican Proverb

And

You spend so much time trying to make yourself more palatable that in the end you taste bland.

Sketiana, tumblr

But also,

A story doesn't have to be true to be believed, it just has to be told.

Janey Spriggs, Borderlands:TPS

Ask box is open and anon is on if you've a cool youtube smp, a gaming stream, or even a comment from instagram you feel should be added.

As an aside, thank you to everyone who has made this collection so awesome. Without you, the Google Doc would not be possible.

Thank you!