berenshand
evelynwangs

“When I was a kid, there was this song that played on the radio all the time. It talked about a road that was long and a brother who had to be carried on it. The singer said the brother wasn’t heavy. That he was, simply, his brother. And that line repeated again and again—He ain’t heavy. He’s my brother. And something about the way the singer’s voice hugged these words, proclaimed them to the world, caught in the back of my throat. Making it hard to move. To swallow. I didn’t know then—at nine, ten, eleven—that this was love. That this was community. That this was about a greater good. If the road is long, it doesn’t matter what you weigh—I will carry you.”
— WEIGHT, JACQUELINE WOODSON

i'm just gonna cry real quick about buck and chimney being brothersand the first people to love maddie welloliver said buck doesn't hug back he clutcheschimney hanevan buck buckleyfirefam
el-huddpudd
startledoctopus: “y-that-crazy-five-foot-two-chick: “apricot-studies: “ dedalvs: “ incidentalcomics: “ How to Finish I drew this poster for Jon Acuff and his FINISH book tour. Big thanks to Jon for this collaboration, his book has some great ideas...
incidentalcomics

How to Finish

I drew this poster for Jon Acuff and his FINISH book tour. Big thanks to Jon for this collaboration, his book has some great ideas about how to complete creative and life goals.

dedalvs

Love this, but reblogging it specifically for “Get rid of secret rules.” That’s one of the most amazing illustrations—and points—I’ve ever seen.

apricot-studies

so important especially for perfectionists who procrastinate and never finish, or even start because they set such high standards for themselves.

y-that-crazy-five-foot-two-chick

Or for finding the motivation to start or finish a task with executive dysfunction

startledoctopus

image

an art a friend made me

for when i'm ready to learn this lessonto be a gallery wall
el-huddpudd
theprideful

why closed captioning should always be provided on every video:

  • Deaf People Exist
  • auditory processing disorder is a Bitch
  • people with ADHD can find it hard to concentrate on what is being said without the words in front of them
  • ^autistic people for the same reason
  • autistic people may also find it hard to interpret verbal messages within the context of the video, so it's useful to have written alternatives to fall back on
  • do you know how painful it is to be excluded from every joke, every video, every conversation because others just Can't Be Bothered?
  • some people live in a conservative household or with family who don't share the same ideals, and they may not have privacy to view things on their own, so they may need to watch things with the volume extremely low or muted
  • We Want To Watch Videos In Public, Dammit

feel free to add on!

as always, ableism will get you blocked (:

theprideful

a lot of people have been saying this, so I'll go ahead and add it:

  • having written words in front of you when the language they're speaking isn't your primary/native tongue is very helpful for comprehension and fluency
the-stray-liger

  • Not everyone is fluent in every language and sometimes accents can make it hard to understand what is being said
English (For the Hearing Impaired)that's a joke for the children of HoH adultsand a joke for the dvd watchers
dancingdryads
quecksilvereyes

something something lucy keeps time by the feel of peter's hand in hers and compares helen to the susan she first grew up with. because, really, which set of parents would be more tangible to her?

quecksilvereyes

no but consider

it is susan who soothes lucy's fevers, and peter who presses his cool forehead against her burning skin. it is them who hold her in their laps when she has night terrors, their beds she creeps into when her heart is broken. it is susan who teaches her diplomacy and peter who hands her warfare with trembling hands.

it is peter who bakes every birthday cake and susan who dots her every freckle with gold. it is susan she screams at in the depths of puberty and peter's chest she scratches when he holds her. susan's hands in her hair and peter's lips on her forehead and their faces when she thinks of home.

so who can blame her when she, twenty-three and eight and tumbled through worlds, looks at helen pevensie and sees only the girl who raised her in those carefully spun curls?

i have favorites and its themits about sistersto be a kid sister (gender neutral) in a big brothers sweaterolder brother (affectionate)to lucy barfieldof or connected with the sense of touch