The ability to relax can be legitimately liberating and politically powerful and looking to media for enjoyment is natural and reasonable. But therein lies the danger of allowing media to wash over us: we don’t notice what we are actually being sold. Superheroes team up with the American military or local police to produce “justice” in the threat of danger; that’s an explicitly political message. A young woman can be “empowered” by the sexual gaze of the patriarchy. That’s a political message. Even well-meaning allegories are laden with deeper, subtextual political messages. In Disney’s 2016 film Zootopia, what is supposed to be an anti-racism children’s parable also asserts the following: police misconduct is the result of a few bad apples in an ultimately just system and there are essential biological differences between ethnic groups that make some predisposed to violence.

Tested negative, out of quarantine, back at the library 😎

‘What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'

'Cats don't have names,' it said.

'No?' said Coraline.

'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.’

—The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

i love seeing people i don’t know adore things i love. i love going through tags of my moon posts and seeing others swoon over the moon as well. i love seeing people get excited over the rain. and i love when i come across someone who is just as obsessed as i am with a certain book.

did you know that a physicist (Boltzmann) has his equation engraved on his tombstone? what is physics, if not poetry? who are physicists, if not poets explaining the working of the universe lyrically?

please look at my favorite comment that has ever been posted on the internet

spring means switching from hot lattes to iced and cleaning out my room.... can you find my cat in these photos 👀👀 she is Hiding (not very well)

somewhere there is still some hope in this life..

Artists who know how to draw armors or very detailed clothing are powerful

oh to draw embroidery like Alexander Roslin does

See it’s stuff like this that makes me believe that selling your soul to the devil in exchange for talent was a real career track in the 1700s.

from journal entry (april 11th 2022, silas denver melvin, paper + digital)

click for quality + do not remove caption (instagram)

[ID: a black and white photograph of several muscovy ducks swimming in a line on a pond. in yellow text above them it reads "it's hard work, trying to make yourself into something your mother can stand to look at." /End ID]