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HIATUS

elli — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:46:02 GMT

Hello everyone,

By now you probably all noticed that we haven't posted in ages and have disappeared.
We are really really sorry, that we didn't notify you sooner. We tried to assemble an inspiration post, but rl projects, work and the like are keeping us from it.

We hope to have it all sorted out soon and to be able to be back and post regularly.

MOD APPLICATION

superjesster — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 06:42:25 GMT

HI, I'M SORRY I SUCK.
I've been busy/not online very much this week, so the mods' contribution will be posted in a day or two. I'm really sorry for the wait, you guys!

val_valerie is also on hiatus, so we will be needing 1-2 more mods to help with the community. If you're interested, please leave a comment below!

Your duties will be to:
1. Contribute to the mods' inspiration post at the end of every month.
2. Be in charge of posting everything for your months.

Comments will be screened.

JULY INSPIRATION [WATCHERS' CONTRIBUTION]

superjesster — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 06:36:06 GMT

Leave a comment to the appropriate threads in this post with any kind of inspiration that you'd like to share - you can share anything as long as it is inspirational.
Comments are screened.
A round-up post will go up at the end of the month with all the inspiration shared.
Don't forget to properly credit every piece of inspiration! If you can't find the credit, feel free to ask us for help!

June round-up post

elli — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:01:40 GMT

Thank you for the wonderful contributions.

Icons

alfiri / appleindecay / appleindecay / appleindecay / calikalie

dancelies / everythingshiny / fantasma_arto / fantasma_arto / fantasma_arto

hauntes / hauntes / imaginary_lives / liesmiths / liesmiths

longerthanwedo / mancalahour / messdestruction / messdestruction / novindalf

novindalf / watchpoint / petite_tomate / petite_tomate / poisonfield

poisonfield / poisonfield / dixon / schryosel / setentpet

spg_spn_girls / superjesster / the_silverdoe / the_silverdoe / vetica

vetica / vetica / vintagic / vintagic / visionsbeyond

waaywardson
submitted by vapor

longerthanwedo / nottiem / nottiem / spittingfish / spittingfish

spittingfish / wandererjulia / visionsbeyond / starkwars / fouroux

fouroux / fouroux / wickdshy / alisea_dream / petite_tomate

dixon / violateraindrop / theotherayn / daleksaresexy / julie_izumi

vintagic / daleksaresexy / elleaf / imaginary_lives / setentpet

calikalie / deadwillwalk / erzsebet / fantasma_arto / fulminant

hauntes / juanxyo / julie_izumi / julie_izumi / messdestruction

mm3butterfly / poisonfield / regis / spittingfish / starkwars

tunaeverynight / thyla87 / tilty / val_valerie / wickdshy

afeastforme / naginis / petite_tomate / scoobyatemysnax / spg_spn_girls
Submitted by rebel

justmyb0nes / nottiem / liesmiths / margerydaw_s2 / naive_astronaut
submitted by spartapuss

pamkips / goreplz / goreplz / starkwars / calikalie

watchpoint / vampire_sessah / kwerkee / absolutelybatty / watchpoint

longerthanwedo / sarisafari / rebel / sarisafari / raiindust
submitted by petite_tomate

Textures

acupofgraphics / acupofgraphics / cielo_gris / lemonpunch / misssnoopy25

ohfreckle / lookslikerain / lookslikerain / lookslikerain / lookslikerain

lifeisdolce / acupofgraphics / cielo_gris / lifeisdolce / poshing

ohfreckle / fuuurs / endearest / evey-v / longerthanwedo

tove_91 / 3psy / bijoou / lemonpunch / misssnoopy25

poshing / boom_badaboom / 12feethigh / spartapuss / erzsebet

poshing / toktoks / true_fellings / darciana / discolore

boom_badaboom / 12feethigh / rowofstars / elli / endearest

spud66cat / 3psy / acupofgraphics / born_butterfly / poshing

fuuurs / bijoou / messdestruction / scoobyatemysnax / evey-v

ellaangelus / tinebrella / toktoks / 12feethigh / fuuurs

danceground / endearest / evey-v / innocent_lexys / innocent_lexys

toktoks / ohfreckle / fuuurs / innocent_lexys / pamkips

lookslikerain / midnight_road / midnight_road / raiindust / scoobyatemysnax

cielo_gris / gallicka / misssnoopy25 / misssnoopy25 / dearest

ellaangelus / 12feethigh / erzsebet / innocent_lexys / innocent_lexys

misssnoopy25 / 3psy / 3psy / acupofgraphics / acupofgraphics

boom_badaboom / boom_badaboom / ohfreckle / erzsebet / erzsebet
Submitted by rebel

scoobyatemysnax / scoobyatemysnax / scoobyatemysnax / scoobyatemysnax / scoobyatemysnax

scoobyatemysnax / theotherayn / theotherayn / theotherayn / theotherayn

yunhojaejoong@tumblr
submitted by vintagic

marcasite / softstarless / satinelight / brutal / rebel

rebel / fuuurs / partitioning / paintedtarget / rowofstars

before_water / lookslikerain / vetica / 12feethigh / daleksaresexy

byall / byall / byall / byall / byall
submitted by spartapuss

Graphics

aegors | rrue

michellewilliamss | billyloomiswasframed

ohdear-prongs | ensnarethesenses

godfangs

daedric-prince-of-madness | hanhaneatmanman

submitted by vapor

by repeatingyourspeeches

queencersei / cesarelucrezia

by sheldons (deactivated) / whishaw-kun

by sansasnark

pages394 / sshireenbaratheon

attractedtosin / dragonswing

nexusoftime / wedidntpartfriends

barathaeon / notaqueen

lovegoods / dracodormeins

Submitted by rebel

gerves @ tumblr / catelynstark @ tumblr

Submitted by petite_tomate

Photography

Photography by Corey Arnold

Alek Wek by Sølve Sundsbø for i-D Magazine

Submitted by vapor

Alexander McQueen by Sølve Sundsbø

by Benoit Paille

by lyricsallday

Hogan McLaughlin Fall 2013 Collection

Alexis Mabille Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2010

Jeanloup Sieff Ballet, Paris Opera, 1960

0 Behind Enemy Lines, 1941 Dmitrii Baltermants

by Maxim Leurentop

by Henry Moon

by Louise Imogen

by chris maynard

Submitted by rebel

by David Butali @ flickr

Submitted by petite_tomate

Art

De la luna. by Stephen Criscolo

Submitted by vapor

art by Jeff Simpson

Submitted by satinelight

by foyaland

by inechi

by Natasha Kline

by Ron Guyatt

art by spicecat, lyrics by paul baribeau.

Submitted by rebel

Collage by Simon Casson

Iris Scott

Painting by Glenn Brown

Submitted by petite_tomate

verilyvexed @ tumblr

Submitted by spartapuss

Video

re·pul·sive: a violent hannibal mix
----listen or download
made by iceskatinguphill

Submitted by rebel

Submitted by petite_tomate

Loreen - Heal
Loreen - We Got The Power

Submitted by spartapuss

Other

motivational images found on Google

Submitted by vintagic

Words

"I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t."
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over again."
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If you care about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner."
-James Frey

"We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken."
-Ernest Hemingway

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."
-Vincent van Gogh

"You can’t go on like you’re going to start really living one day, like all this is some preamble to some great life that’s going to magically appear. I’m a firm believer that you have to create your own miracles. Don’t hold out that there’s something better waiting on the other side. It doesn’t work that way."
-Perry Moore

"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."
-Maya Angelou

"You’re still going to get criticized, so you might as well do whatever the fuck you want."
-Kathleen Hanna

Submitted by rebel

flavescent : turning yellow, yellowish
faux-fuyant : (french) hidden way to get out of trouble or to evade a question. Literally "the fake fleeing"
tête-à-tête : (french) situation where two people are alone. Literally "head-to-head"
prosody : the tone, intonation, accent, modulation we give to our spoken language based on our emotions
amorphous : shapeless
puerile : childish
risible : laughable
spleen : great state of melancholy without definite cause
(the) sublime : quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic
ephemeral

"There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze."
Charles Baudelaire

"Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. but life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud…"
Yann martel, Life of Pi

"I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget."
Beckett, Waiting for Godot

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
Mitch Albom, Tuesday with Morrie

"Amor Vincit Omnia"
Love Conquers All

Submitted by petite_tomate

“You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”
- Haruki Murakami

“And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.”
- Mircea Eliade

Submitted by spartapuss

ps: I hope there are no mistakes in this entry.

June Reminder

val_valerie — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:52:44 GMT

Hey guys! this is just a reminder for you to contribute in the June inspiration.
This activity ends on the 25th of March so you have about 3 days to join!

June Reminder

val_valerie — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:25:43 GMT

Hey guys! this is just a reminder for you to contribute in the June inspiration.
This activity ends on the 25th of March so you have about 13 days to join!

June Inspiration [Watchers Contribution]

val_valerie — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 01:22:11 GMT

Leave a comment to the appropriate threads in this post with any kind of inspiration that you'd like to share - you can share anything as long as it is inspirational.
Comments are screened.

A round-up post will go up at the end of the month with all the inspiration shared.

Don't forget to properly credit every piece of inspiration! If you can't find the credit, feel free to ask us for help!

June Inspiration [Mods Contribution]

val_valerie — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 01:13:21 GMT

This is our contribution for June, The theme is Supernatural: Werewolves, Vampires, Witches and Wizards, Demons, Mermaids, Dragon Lords, fire, space, smoke, earth.

Images

Video

MTV IDOL from Polynoid on Vimeo.

Syfy ID from d.chang on Vimeo.

Right click for larger image.

WORDS

“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems

“Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better.”
― Robin McKinley

“A song she heard
Of cold that gathers
Like winter's tongue
Among the shadows
It rose like blackness
In the sky
That on volcano's
Vomit rise
A Stone of ruin
From burn to chill
Like black moonrise
Her voice fell still...”
― Robert Fanney

“I got swirling eyes and the capacity to shatter windows with my bare voice. Tod got teleportation and invisibility. The supernatural world is so far from fair.”
― Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Keep

“A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter... the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever.”
― Fritz Leiber

PHOTOGRAPHY

oecologia

ICONS

ciudad | ofthesea | ofthesea | afeastforme | petite_tomate

regis | alisea_dream | goreplz | naginis | naginis

naginis | imaginary_lives | absolutelybatty | spittingfish | ionizable

theotherayn | daynawashere | daynawashere | john-scorpy | absolutelybatty

TEXTURES

12feethigh | 12feethigh | innocent_lexys | innocent-lexys | scoobyatemysnax

scoobyatemysnax | innocent_lexys | rebel | rebel | rebel

vintagic | deternot | longerthanwedo | longerthanwedo | innocent_lexys

innocent_lexys | innocent_lexys | absolutelybatty | ohfreckle | rebel

GRAPHICS

sansasnark | erzsebethbathory | greyjoy-theon

leegpce | calikalie | squirtohhh
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liselmeminger | rutilum | izkim

attractedtosin | tuperting | b0arass

ART

chirravutever

Kay Nielsen

Portrait of a Heart - Christian Schloe | digitallyimpaired | russellcro

Psyche - Jesùs Leguizamo | Rear Window - Simon Prades | genetisk |

MUSIC/VIDEOS

harpers

Images;
Photography/art:

By Alina Brunton @flickr

by Rene Walter@ flickr

blackamulet|tumblr

2headedsnake|tumblr

The Willing by Miguel Arias @ flickr

supersonicelectronic|tumblr

Icons:

regis | raiindust | longerthanwedo | a_thari

appleindecay | goreplz | iulieki | jsfunction

longerthanwedo | mm3butterfly | naushika | tinebrella

Large Graphics:

winterkiss @ tumblr

behindmylove @ tumblr

companions @ tumblr

mcgrathed @ tumblr

gayelves @ tumblr

grringirl @ tumblr

khaleesied @ tumblr

t-funster @ tumblr

Textures:

Color Palettes;

Color by COLOURlovers

Color by COLOURlovers

Color by COLOURlovers

If you've made anything inspired by this post, feel free to share it below in the comments!

May Round-up Post

elli — Fri, 31 May 2013 06:28:50 GMT

First of all, thanks to all of you for contributing so wonderfully.

Icons

julie_izumi / dixon / mummy_daydream / messdestruction / justonebeat

jsfunction / fouroux / petite_tomate / poisonfield / halesmoon

vintagic / superjesster / 12feethigh / scoobyatemysnax / jokermary
submitted by spartapuss

_veronique / 12feethigh / absolutelybatty / tilty / oviedo

fuuurs / petite_tomate / biliki / blue_emotion / blueymcphluey

born_butterfly / calikalie / absolutelybatty / alfiri / endearest

erzsebet / far_to_nowhere / regis / gallicka / fragiledelirium

juanxyo / lavanille / longerthanwedo / naushika / phaust_

raiindust / tinebrella / wickedshy / wildpages / afeastforme
Submitted by rebel

theotherayn / nottiem / schryosel / longerthanwedo / phaust_
submitted by satinelight

Textures

tinebrella / lookslikerain / lookslikerain / fuuurs / mm3butterfly

tinebrella / lookslikerain / lookslikerain / fuuurs / absolutelybatty

lookslikerain / gallicka / lookslikerain / longerthanwedo / sarisafari

fuuurs / 12feethigh / scoobyatemysnax / scoobyatemysnax / scoobyatemysnax

raiindust / lookslikerain / liesmiths / innocent_lexys / fuuurs

scoobyatemysnax / scoobyatemysnax / scoobyatemysnax / deny1984 / deny1984

tinebrella / mm3butterfly / longerthanwedo / innocent_lexys / daydreamshole

12feethigh / innocent_lexys / gallicka / lumsx / mm3butterfly

messdestruction / scoobyatemysnax / mm3butterfly / innocent_lexys / fuuurs
Submitted by rebel

lookslikerain / paintedtarget
submitted by spartapuss

Graphics

acidflashbacks / fleurstiels

aryasnark / calikalie

b0arass /princezuko

Submitted by rebel

Photography

Greek myrtle wreath, c. 330-250 BC. (credit to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) In ancient Greece, wreaths made from plants like laurel, ivy, and myrtle were awarded to athletes, soldiers, and royalty. Similar wreaths were designed in gold and silver for the same purposes or for religious functions. This example conveys the language of love.

A plant sacred to the goddess Aphrodite, myrtle was a symbol of love. Greeks wore wreaths made of real myrtle leaves at weddings and banquets, received them as athletic prizes and awards for military victories, and wore them as crowns to show royal status.

By the Hellenistic period (300-30 BC), the wreaths were made of gold foil; too fragile to be worn, they were created primarily to be buried with the dead as symbols of life’s victories. The naturalistic myrtle leaves and blossoms on this wreath were cut from thin sheets of gold, exquisitely finished with stamped and incised details, and then wired onto the stems. Most that survive today were found in graves.

Bishme Cromartie / Alexander McQueen’s Spine Corset 1998

John Green, via loveyourquotes

Puzzlewood, by iamthewoodendoors

Emily Boyer /Fernie787

Givenchy Haute Couture by Alexander McQueen photographed by Marcus Mam for Visionaire #26, 1998 / Ji Hye Park backstage Dolce and Gabbana Fall 2013

Submitted by rebel

Art

J.M.W. Turner - Morning amongst the Coniston Falls, Cumberland, 1798

Submitted by rebel

Words

"I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it— to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once." -- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it." -- William Shakespeare

"There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for." -- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Don’t lose yourself just because you found somebody." -- Anonymous.

"Don’t hang out with people who don’t love you. Don’t try to impress people who aren’t worth it. Don’t try to win people over who aren’t worth it. Focus on yourself, and focus on the people who are really awesome and who love you. Don’t hang out with people who make you feel like shit. Don’t spend your energy on them. There is so much pressure to be part of the right thing: well, you should create the right thing. If you don’t see it, create it. If you don’t see what you want, be the change you want to see/" -- Beth Ditto

"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." -- Alejandro Jodorowsky

"Nobody can save you but yourself — and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning — this is it." -- Charles Bukowski

"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive." -- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live." -- Oscar Wilde

"Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by, tickets you can run on. Intelligent humans make those choices with their brain and hearts and they make them alone. The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful…and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out." -- Zadie Smith

Submitted by rebel

Another Reminder

elli — Wed, 29 May 2013 20:49:34 GMT

Hey guys! This is a reminder to contribute to the May inspiration post! The post closes tonight, the 29th, so get your contributions in!

May Reminder

elli — Mon, 27 May 2013 14:07:55 GMT

Hey guys! This is a reminder to contribute to the may inspiration post! The post closes on Wednesday, the 29th, so get your contributions in!

May Reminder

elli — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:19 GMT

Hey guys! This is a reminder to contribute to the may inspiration post! The post closes on Wednesday, the 29th, so get your contributions in!

Thank you all for the wonderful feedback on our inspiration this month. We really appreciate it. And thanks to all of you who already entered such awesome contributions.

May Inspiration [Watchers' Contribution]

elli — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:19:49 GMT

Leave a comment to the appropriate threads in this post with any kind of inspiration that you'd like to share - you can share anything as long as it is inspirational.
Comments are screened.
A round-up post will go up at the end of the month with all the inspiration shared.
Don't forget to properly credit every piece of inspiration! If you can't find the credit, feel free to ask us for help!

May Inspiration: Space: The final frontier [Mods' Contribution]

elli — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:52:51 GMT

May is here. It's all things, Space, Trek and Science Fiction. Enjoy!

Space: The final frontier
These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise
Its 5 year mission
To explore strange new worlds
To seek out new life and new civilizations
To boldly go where no one has gone before
― Start Trek: TNG

Images

Photography

by Rafael Fagulha

Illustration

by Aaron Bloom | Catherine Zolotukhina

by Soyeon Kang | Russ Mills

by Shiwei Ng | Mateusz Kolek

by | Dani Blázquez

by Jasmin Lai | elmenordelosmales

Digital Art

by Kevin Roodhorst | Ursuleanu Daniel

by Kacper Kiec | nicebleed

by Tom Alex Buch | Craig Shields

by Peter Jaworowski

by JohnAslarona | Craig Shields

by joshua corliss

Design

by Amanda Mocci | Aldo Pulella

by Kasper Pyndt

Icons

obaona | obaona | ofthesea | partitioning | emily_reich

emily_reich | longerthanwedo | alfiri | spud66cat | spud66cat

dashberlin | heartoutofstone | ofthesea | rebel | setentpet

pamkips

Textures

vintagic | vintagic | rocketgirl2 | vintagic | vintagic

Videos

Trailers and Ads

ww2fs straga montage from straga on Vimeo.

Grounded from Kevin Margo on Vimeo.

Websites

Distance to Mars
If the Earth were 100 pixels wide...

Words

Quotes

“Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”
― Neil Armstrong

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

Images

Icons

raiindust | raiindust | raiindust | mm3butterfly | mm3butterfly

nottiem | longerthanwedo | the_silverdoe | likealight | absolutelybatty

accordion | daynawashere | talipuu | john_scorpy | longerthanwedo

Textures

raiindust | download

colourmayfade | stabmeintheneck | bluemcphluey

planets-bend-between-us

planets-bend-between-us | planets-bend-between-us | accio-glow

Graphics

interwar | shireens | caulfields

eenoch | racheldinozzo | companions

calikalie | adleration | clara-oswald

completemadman | itsthesolarsystem | unreasonablyme

Photography

nishe | Paolo Reversi

Claudio Bader

Art

deletes | Steven Bindernagel | p-1-m-p

jonmacnair | andreakalfas | mesineto

Music

Fanmix

ossians | kerosenesapphire | velificantes

amberspyglasses

If you've made anything inspired by this post, feel free to share it below in the comments!

April Round-Up Post

superjesster — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:27:50 GMT

Thank you for contributing!

Words;
Bourbon
Tainted
Twisted
Affinity
Lightspeed
+ submitted by spartapuss

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
- I DO NOT LOVE YOU by Pablo Neruda

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."
— J.K. Rowling

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out
— Robert Collier

+ submitted by kayable

Icons;

messdestruction
+ submitted by poisonfield

jsfunction | deternot | incandescent | juanxyo
+ submitted by spartapuss

longerthanwedo / naushika / phaust_ / motorized / absolutelybatty

12feethigh / absolutelybatty / fulminant / second_love / wildpages

fantasma_arto / sarisafari / scoobyatemysnax / far_to_nowhere / cookiestome

fouroux / lady_kingsley / vintagic / petite_tomate / scoobyatemysnax

12feethigh / 12feethigh / erzsebet / discreets / tunaeverynight

regis / endearest / arcticflower / lavanille / daynawashere

wildpages / blue_emotion / born_butterfly / fuuurs / dancelies

adina_mpj / vetica / applepips16 / 12feethigh / jokermary

messdestruction / talipuu / naginis / superjesster / absolutelybatty
+ submitted by rebel

Textures;

rebel
+ submitted by spartapuss

bambinainnero | midnight_road | mm3butterfly | makarosh | mm2butterfly

rebel | rebel | pandavirus | lookslikerain | innocent_lexys
+ submitted by kayable

Graphics;

Butterfy Boucher
+ submitted by poisonfield

The Little Mermaid Project by mmorrow
+ submitted by kayable

queencersei | godofthunderthighs | leepiemaker

osgiliaths | onlyaskeleton
+ submitted by liesmiths

Photography;

mujepa | PiecedByPeace | 1800mlph

里卡豆 | Steven Campbell
+ submitted by kayable

Art;

To live on

infusionsbags, roses, 2005

The stalks these flowers are already dried up but their blossoms are preserved and kept fresh by the medical infusin
bags. The life-span of every living creature is limited.The infusion bags stand for the progress in medicine and the
prolongation of human life.They somehow carry an ambivalent message as they refer to both death and life an the
same time. Both states are immanent here. To preserve the beauty of the flowers artifically with the help of the
infusion bags points out man's inclination to repress the fact having to die and to postpone death
Min Jeong Seo

Mihoko Ogaki

meago

+ submitted by kayable

yumbles | trabbold

L’Evasion de Rochefort, Edouard Manet | Black Painting I, Cecily Brown

+ submitted by liesmiths

Music/Videos;

+ submitted by vampire_sessah

+ submitted by spartapuss

+ submitted by kayable

superjesster — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:37:55 GMT

Hey guys! This is a reminder to contribute to the April inspiration post! The post closes on Monday, the 29th, so get your contributions in!

superjesster — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:29:13 GMT

Hey guys! This is a reminder to contribute to the April inspiration post! The post closes on Monday, the 29th, so get your contributions in!

April Inspiration [Watchers' Contribution]

superjesster — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:05:15 GMT

Leave a comment to the appropriate threads in this post with any kind of inspiration that you'd like to share - you can share anything as long as it is inspirational.
Comments are screened.
A round-up post will go up at the end of the month with all the inspiration shared.
Don't forget to properly credit every piece of inspiration! If you can't find the credit, feel free to ask us for help!

April Inspiration [Mods' Contribution]

superjesster — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:52:42 GMT

Here's our contribution this month - the theme is That's What the Water Gave Me: water imagery, Ophelia (Hamlet), orange/blue contrast, sad spring imagery, life contrasted with death, haunting, lost.

Trigger warning: drowning

WORDS
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
― Norman Maclean

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
― Margaret Atwood

ICONS

accordion | adrastea | before_water | daynawashere | deternot

erzsebet | incandescent | john_scorpy | liesmiths | longerthanwedo

longerthanwedo | memonechan | oviedo | spittingfish | talipuu

theotherayn | theotherayn | theotherayn | tunaeverynight | xxwasurenaide

TEXTURES

raiindust | raiindust | scoobyatemysnax | scoobyatemysnax | scoobyatemysnax

stabmeintheneck @ tumblr

GRAPHICS

dobie | tylerdrrdn | sansasnark

noblefighter | calikalie | nefertitis

interwar | hyunsoos | timetravelings

balerion | hatingcoriander | bullknight

PHOTOGRAPHY

Brooke Shaden

Ilse Moore

Alix Malka | kevvn | r-stark

MUSIC/FANMIXES/VIDEOS

queendoms | lisforlucy | haffalump

Images

Photography

by Elizaveta Porodina

by Christopher Wilson | Lars Focke

by Mikko Lagerstedt

by Lars Focke

by Mark Tipple

Illustration

by Aaron Bloom

by Bulat Zalyayev | Slava Triptih

by Marisa Morea | Uridome

by Monster Riot | Juan Weiss

by Mauro | Lim Heng Swee

by Bachullus | Jay Fleck

Digital Art

by Marta Bielsa

by Daniel Montiel | Vigan Tafili

by Kevin Roodhorst

Icons

Videos

Trailers and Ads

20000 leagues under the sea (opening titles) from Maximov on Vimeo.

Images;
Photography/art:

Journey to the City of No Horizon. By tangyauhoong @behance.net

Shining Bright by [ CK ] @ flickr

iamfallingintooblivion|tumblr

青春定影 / Series by Plotter @ flickr

Icons:

vetica</lj> | 12feethigh</lj> | born_butterfly</lj> | calikalie</lj>

erzsebet</lj> | fulminant</lj> | lumsx</lj> | naginis</lj>

oviedo</lj> | watchpoint</lj> | phaust_</lj> | swanwingful</lj>

Large Graphics:

lecresta @ tumblr

cruciothelights @ tumblr

Textures:

Color Palettes;

Color by COLOURlovers

Color by COLOURlovers

If you've made anything inspired by this post, feel free to share it below in the comments!

March Round-Up Post

val_valerie — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:31:47 GMT

Thank you guys for Contributing!

Quotes/Words;
"One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life." - John Green

"You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you haven’t eaten it in years. This is your choice, of course, but don’t kid yourself: it’s also the flinch. Your personality is not set in stone. You may think a morning coffee is the most enjoyable thing in the world, but it’s really just a habit. Thirty days without it, and you would be fine. You think you have a soul mate, but in fact you could have had any number of spouses. You would have evolved differently, but been just as happy. You can change what you want about yourself at any time. You see yourself as someone who can’t write or play an instrument, who gives in to temptation or makes bad decisions, but that’s really not you. It’s not ingrained. It’s not your personality. Your personality is something else, something deeper than just preferences, and these details on the surface, you can change anytime you like. If it is useful to do so, you must abandon your identity and start again. Sometimes, it’s the only way. Set fire to your old self. It’s not needed here. It’s too busy shopping, gossiping about others, and watching days go by and asking why you haven’t gotten as far as you’d like. This old self will die and be forgotten by all but family, and replaced by someone who makes a difference.
Your new self is not like that. Your new self is the Great Chicago Fire—overwhelming, overpowering, and destroying everything that isn’t necessary." - Julien Smith

"I'm not sad. but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. i’m not a girl anymore and i’m not sad anymore. you want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ you think i’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? i’ll swallow you whole." - warsanshire

"Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breathe in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes." - The Winter of the Air

EROS IS BULLSHIT: A POEM
"the theory that people
are always searching for
their other half is
bullshit.
don’t let anyone, not
even a god, tell you
you are anything less
than whole." - flowercrownprincess

“WRITING IS SOMETHING YOU DO ALONE. IT’S A PROFESSION FOR INTROVERTS WHO WANT TO TELL YOU A STORY BUT DON’T WANNA MAKE EYE CONTACT WHILE TELLING IT.” - John Green

"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses." - Friedrich Nietzsche

-Submitted by rebel

Icons;

erzsebet | deternot | amarylis | a_thari | wickdshy
-Submitted by nocturnelles

elifc

-Submitted by before_water

Textures;

fouroux / messdestruction / innocent_lexys / scoobyatemysnax / scoobyatemysnax

vetica / vintagic / 3psy / midnight_road / midnight_road

likealight / fuuurs / fuuurs ;/ scoobyatemysnax / scoobyatemysnax

innocent_lexys / innocent_lexys / innocent_lexys / erzsebet / fprintmoon
-Submitted by rebel

Large Graphics;

by aryasnark

by rosaweasley

by catelyn-tully

by winterkiss

by dailypotter

by balerion

by luthienswolf

by hyunsoos

by broomstix

by sirnovak

by girlsandpeas

by ooris

by thebeautyinwhite

by gigglemonster

by luthienswolf

by aryadrotningu (deactivated)

by meerareed

by lyannas
-Submitted by rebel

Photography;

by Vincent Favre

by Sebastian Lucrecio

by kylethompson

by phantomkitty

by 100andsome

by Ilse Moore

by Sid Black
-Submitted by rebel

Videos/Songs;

-Submitted by nocturnelles

MARCH 2013 INSPIRATION [Reminder]

val_valerie — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:11:31 GMT

Hey guys! this is just a reminder for you to contribute in the March inspiration.
This activity ends on the 25th of March so you have about 8 days to join!

March 2013 Inspiration [Watchers' Contribution]

val_valerie — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:38:15 GMT

Leave a comment to the appropriate threads in this post with any kind of inspiration that you'd like to share - you can share anything as long as it is inspirational. Comments are screened.

A round-up post will go up at the end of the month with all the inspiration shared.

Don't forget to properly credit every piece of inspiration! If you can't find the credit, feel free to ask us for help!

March 2013 Inspiration [Mods' Contribution]

val_valerie — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:31:52 GMT

Mods' Contribution with the theme: Once Upon a Dream. the watchers' contribution post will be up in a little. happy march everyone!

Images

Photography

by Patrick Hübschmann

Illustration

by Adam the Velcro Suit

Digital Art

by Staudinger Franke & Andreas Franke

by Matteo Pozzi

by ARO

by pedrohlr | by Valp Maciej Hajnrich

by Csaba | by Justin Maller

by Richard Benning

Videos

Trailers and Ads

Vorwerk "Stadt der Milben" (Mite City) from Sehsucht on Vimeo.

CTM.13 – The Golden Age – video trailer from DISK-CTM on Vimeo.

Upside down Trailer. High Res on apple.

Art of Yoz from badmiaou.

FIESTAS Awards Opening Sequence from panic embryo.

Images;
Photography/art:

Disney On Parade by Miehana @ flickr | More ghosts in the woods
By Colin Campbell (Bruiach) @flickr

flower lady by Strawberry animabase @ flickr | Disney By wickedboy_007 @ flickr

Icons:

dashberlin | born_butterfly | aeriiths | rebel

scoobyatemysnax | tinebrella | alisea_dream | befor_water

biliki | cb_janey | erzsebet | juanxyo

pamkips | likealight | petite_tomate | [Bad username: pretty butt]

Large Graphics:

asheathes @ tumblr | nameisirene @ tumblr

grringirl @ tumblr

Textures:

Color Palettes;

Color by COLOURlovers

Color by COLOURlovers

If you've made anything inspired by this post, feel free to share it below in the comments!

February Round-Up Post

elli — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:44:15 GMT

Thank you for contributing!

Icons

submitted by violateraindrop

Musik & Videos

submitted by a_cheshire_grin

Art

by Robert Henri submitted by liesmiths

Final February Reminder

elli — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:28:33 GMT

Hello, this is the final reminder for this months watcher contribution post. You can still enter inspirations today.

The February Watcher's Contribution ends Saturday, February 23rd.