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She feels like home, the kind you wander the world searching for, only to realize it’s where her presence dwells.

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I have to be honest with you. I think about you a lot. All the time, actually. In the morning, at night, in the middle of my day. It's you. It's just always you.

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it’s monday i’m in the labyrinth

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A black balloon saved me ~Waddle 2024

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I am them ~Waddle 2024

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It’s pretty good all the way down 

Turtling in the suburbs, safe and sound 

Know the drill and the ringing in your ears

Something better, worse, anything 

Bored bored bored bored bored bored

Pretty good grades, pretty good job

Your wife matches the fireplace

Pretty nice, pretty good, pretty good 

Mediocrity suburbanity insanity 

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Piercing roses my second piece

-Waddle

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Holy hearts my first entry into Art Battle Omaha

-Waddle

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— Traci Brimhall, Dear Eros

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Details of a night dress, late 1930s-early 1940s.

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Taking the DIES key to the OMEN room

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I know two men who are currently single. One is 26, and the other is 38.

I’ve spoken with both of them at length about what they want in a woman, seeing as they’re cishet and white.

They both immediately went for physical attributes. Thin, but needs to have a nice butt. Boobs can’t be too big. One likes short hair, the other likes long hair. They also went into facial features for some reason. That was the part that made me really uncomfortable as I hadn’t expected either of them to have been that focused on appearances.

Aesthetics came next. Both want ‘alt goth / witchy’ women. It should be worth noting both of these men said their potential partner can’t wear too much makeup.

Lastly came personality and interests. They both said this is the most important thing to them, but they also ‘have to be pretty’. Oh, and they need to listen.

I have some single ladies I’ve also spoken with.

It’s the opposite. They rarely care about looks. It’s about chemistry, emotional connection, feeling safe, and sharing common goals / ideals.

While I know it’s not ‘all men’ it sure as fuck is a lot of you. Also both of these men think they’re part of the ‘good cishet white liberal men’ who voted for Kamala, despite one of them not voting at all.

He’s the 38 year old. To make things worse, he’s trying to date a 24 year old. 🤷‍♀️ His criteria for a potential partner was also under the age of 30 because it means less baggage and they’re still ‘fun to be around’.

You don’t want to know what he doesn’t bring to the table. Either of them, rather. 😅

We do have a male loneliness epidemic, but it’s not women’s fault. We don’t owe you anything. We’re not vending machines you put tokens into and get sex out of. Male culture made by men and perpetuated by men has made men this way. And it’s your job as men to fix it, not point the finger at us and say it’s our fault for not wanting to be with you. Some of us like myself want to actually HELP you, but you guys rarely want to listen. You instead want to complain to us about our gender and how unfair we’re being by not giving you a chance.

We don’t owe you anything.

On January 20th, 2025 and forward, they’re going to try to take our rights. They may succeed.

Men have to take from us because they’ve gaslit themselves into seeing us as the enemy, despite having driven us away by their own actions centered around self interest.

“It’s not all men. But it sure is a lot of you.”

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The Astronomicum Caesarium --- An instructional on how to use an astrolabe. Written by Petrus Apianus, illustrated by Michael Ostendorfer, printed by Georg and Petrus Apianus

Germany, May 1540

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art