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I cannot trust the artistic opinions of anybody who can't frankly admit that the vast majority of whatever's produced in their chosen medium (books, film, etc) is unsalvageable pigslop. But also that dogshit amateur art is critical for said medium. AND that pigslop and amateur dogshit is different

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The Bather

Tried for a twist on the classic art history trope of the bather :)

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*faux leather no animals were harmed! :)

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parallel play (liking and reblogging your mutual's posts but not talking to them)

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wish the human body had like a crash log or something so I could pin shit down. Why am I having a sudden spike of anxiety when I’m just sitting here? Well it looks like there’s a conflict here between my medication and the better foliage mod

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All this discourse over who does "painting with light"

Hiroshi Nagai's paintings need sunglasses to look at.

They look like how it feels to walk across a parking lot on a 98° summer day without a speck of shade in sight.

They look like heaven but also like you'd burn your bare feet on the ground.

Even when you can see shade you know it's not enough and the minute you step out you'll be burnt to a crisp like a vampire.

And it's BEAUTIFUL

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idk why people tend to act like only medical transition has any bad repercussions when social and legal transition too are constantly under attack

trying to ban using someone's correct name or pronouns at the workplace or school, outing kids who socially transition at school to their parents, the whole bathroom thing, the fact that legal transition is impossible for british nonbinary people, the fact that legal transition in general was made very difficult in germany for the longest time until last november and that nonbinary germans couldn't legally transition until just a few years ago, the fact that the US is destroying passports of people who legally transitioned, the fact that german bureaucracy makes it so that social transition sometimes requires legal transition because a lot of places will refuse to change your name if you don't have legal documents, that an X in your passport makes if dangerous to go to certain places, that the mere concept of pronouns is mocked to death, that nongendered terminology for gendered languages is mocked to death, that places in germany are actively banning the use of nonbinary-inclusive language, that i got mocked at my graduation ceremony for daring to ask for inclusive language, that my second ever therapist refused to actually help me with my real problem because all he wanted to talk about was my gender, that my loan with my bank kept getting denied over and over until we realised it was because my Mx title caused a problem in their system, the fact that i had to fight for my legal transition for 6 years all the way up until i was signing my paperwork because they falsely forced a middle name on me, that socially transitioning at school increased bullying, slur calling etc, that transgender people "coincidentally" became a debate topic in class after i came out, constantly legislating transgender people out of existence and so much more

none of these have anything to do with medical transition and yet they're actively making transgender people's lives harder or even dangerous, fucking with our health and livelihood. or do you all really think these are someone exclusive to medical transition.

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Doodling outside !!

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[explaining tumblr friendships to outsiders] well, you see, when you know each other's porn preferences, it really creates a bond

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sorry for the delay in responding to your message. I was walking around the house with unclear intentions

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Why are the dial hands underneath the metal pin?

"I'm a security guard and I am tasked with doing rounds of mechanical rooms. I've been asked to look at these specific water pressure dials and examine whether the hands are stable and to inform the administration of the building if they are not. I noticed that two of the hands are underneath the metal pin on which they should rest if they were at zero. I'm very ignorant in plumbing, but is it supposed to be like this? Why is it like that? Doesn't it make the hand impossible to rise above 0 since it's blocked by that pin?"

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Not sure if I've told this story here before, but once upon a time, I didn't really get the point of most protests happening my area because I viewed them as "preaching to your own echo chamber" in a lot of cases. Ex: I saw people do a climate march through a very liberal university campus within a very liberal city, and I was just like "Okay, everyone here agrees with you. This place has crazy aggressive sustainability goals. What is the point of this?"

Then when Roe fell, there were a lot of protests outside the courthouses in cities near me, and though those city courthouses do serve the surrounding rural areas as well, the cities themselves are all rather progressive and left-leaning, so once again I was like "Okay, what is the point of this?" but I went anyway just for the experience. We stood on a street corner with our signs. Most people driving by honked in agreement with us. A few people yelled "abortion is murder" at us out their car windows, and we yelled back "abortion is healthcare!" Cool, okay, still didn't get the point because it's not like we were changing any minds or there in large numbers (we were no threat to any power structures), and the city already largely agreed with us.

But then we got another SUV that pulled up and yelled "abortion is murder!" at us (both husband and wife this time). Looked in the back seat, and they were traveling with their daughter who was maybe 13ish. She locked eyes with me, gave me the most serious look I've ever received, and gave us a thumbs up just above the window ledge so that her family couldn't see.

And that's the day I learned that protests are not always about threatening entrenched power structures but letting people in isolated ideological bubbles know that there are other perspectives and that if they share them, they're not alone.

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i am once again reminding everyone that food is getting more and more unsafe every day and your best bet for maybe not getting sick is to buy from small farms, farmshares/csas, and local small butchers if you are able. most farmers' markets take food stamps (at least in washington), and sometimes food banks are given donations of produce from local farms if you can make it to a more rural-ish area, so there may be options!

at least in my state, the regulations on small butchers are MUCH higher than those of commercial slaughterhouses, so they are way less likely to deal with contamination issues.

if you have to buy from a store, cook your veggies, no runny yolks from store eggs, avoid prepackaged or preprocessed stuff that you don't cook, make sure you thoroughly cook your beef, DON'T FUCKING DRINK RAW MILK, and maybe avoid poultry for now

and make friends with someone with chickens because they always have eggs they are dying to get rid of lmao

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everyone who is a fan of a book that has no movie adaptation: be grateful every day of your life

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Everyone needs a sicko to bounce ideas off of. It's necessary to survive any fandom ever.

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no h8 but thats an absurdly high number for this type of question. there's not an album on earth that I wouldn't listen to in one sitting for 20k. and if you need my qualifications on this I have adhd and Im kind of an art snob