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Part of me secretly believes that if I make a really, really good and perfect piece of art that it will prevent people from ever being mean to me again. They'll say, "Wait, aren't you the one that made the really, really good and perfect piece of art? I'm so sorry for what I said. I thought the art was so good. I wish I had never hurt your feelings, now that I realize you are the one who made the art. I also have decided to agree with your political opinions. Here's a gift card."

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Jason Todd Additional Tags: Jason gets a tattoo, Jason Todd learns how to live as himself, In a community away from the bats, Jason Todd is Red Hood, Jason Todd-centric, Minor Original Character(s), farmers market, One Shot, Canon-Typical Violence, Community building is more than just fighting people, Character Study Summary:

When Jason interrupts a break in at a tattoo shop, he doesn't expect to come back. But he does. And maybe leaves it feeling a little more like himself.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Steve Rogers & Tony Stark Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark Additional Tags: Could be pre-relationship if you want, Avengers Tower, Tony Stark Has A Heart, Short One Shot, Artist Steve Rogers, Mostly Vibes, 2011 tower fic, Character Study Summary:

Tony buys Steve a sketch book.

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Grounded Flight

2024, decolorant screenprint on quilted cotton

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My absolute hottest take is that, from a culturally relative perspective, no food is bad. None of it. It's an expression of culture, art, history, ecology, material conditions, subjective taste. It's all inedible pap to somebody and the taste of childhood for someone else. Americans be eating cheesed burger. Pea wet is as good as gravy in Wigan. The French eat snails and the Inuit eat seal, the Germans eat sauerkraut and the Russians drink kvass, the Inca ate cavy and the Romans ate flamingo. People around the world have been eagerly awaiting their serving of simple bread or thin porridge or fermented milk product or pickled whatever-the-fuck since we learned to cook food over fire. We all love the slop we grew up eating. Food is a reflection of millennia of culture and loving human artistic expression. Attempting to extrapolate largely harmless online food banter into actual serious comparative rankings or half-baked critical analyses of cultures based on how much you subjectively don't like what they eat is a miserable way to live. Live a little. Peace and love on the only planet with food.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alfred Pennyworth & Jason Todd Characters: Alfred Pennyworth, Jason Todd Additional Tags: Jason Todd Needs A Hug, Hurt Jason Todd, Good Grandparent Alfred Pennyworth, Jason Todd Returns Home, Concussions, Canon typical injuries, Hurt/Comfort, Jason Todd is Red Hood Summary:

An injury forces Jason back to the manor against his will. Alfred takes care of him.

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Lauren Mercer-Small, Canada http://worksbylauren.com

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To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

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Blacksmith, 2020 - by Maciek Przeklasa (1984), Polish

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This turned out so good ;u;

A serious labor of love from @magpied-illustration

Could not have asked for a better result!

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These are so fun to make

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It always upsets me so much when I see interpretations/illustrations of the two headed calf poem that show a living calf being torn away from its mother and killed to sell to a museum and framing the poem as being "humanity kills beautiful things for being different".

Two headed cows almost never survive more than a few hours after their birth. The farmer finds the *body* the next day. The calf was destined to die, and that's a tragedy, but for the time it was alive, it had a beautiful and unique experience.

It's not a poem about the cruelty of man. It's a poem about the beauty of life in an indifferent universe. It's about purpose and beauty being able to exist even in an existence doomed to come to an end, as all our lives are. It's not a poem about how a calf dies, but how, even for only a brief moment, it was alive.

And, for that moment, because of that life, however fleeting, the sky had twice as many stars.

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having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer

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The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.

-James Baldwin

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