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Valeria Duca (Moldovan, b. 1995, Chișinău, Moldova, based Washington DC, USA) - The Shoe Rack, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

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Appalachians: We’d really like it if there were more jobs. Maybe more in manufacturing and technology. The lack of decently paying jobs with benefits and upwards mobility means a lot of us remain in poverty our entire lives. The lack of opportunities means we have to decide between commuting 2+ hours to get to work or moving away from our homes. It’s be nice if there were industries in Appalachian that didn’t revolve around exploiting and destroying the natural landscape. How can you help us with our employment woes?

Trump: GET BACK IN THE MINES YOU HILLBILLY FUCK. YEAHHHHH.

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STAG, from Kostromskaya. SCYTHIAN. c. 6000 BCE

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goat fight. non-negotiable.

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Watching parents pass down their cultural practices fills my heart up. 🥹

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and the most important thing is always that ukraine is a peaceful country. we never wanted no iron dome, no strategic bombers, no long-range missiles. i refuse to feel bad about it. we need them now because imperialist states failed us, all of them. and not in a bullshit "both sides proxy war" way. russia does genocide and the west tries to save its face because they have their own sins to confront, right now and here

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Eye of Horus (Wadjet) Finger Ring

New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, ca. 1325 BC. Egyptian faience. Now in the Art Institute of Chicago. X84

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went a little out of my comfort zone for this assignment cause I wanted to practice lighting/rendering/environments

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and her child

I actually drew this for my mom, she likes the tarot stuff. I'm skeptical about it, but I can appreciate the good artistical aesthetic

and that's the bearded vulture of course, my beloved

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I love them, your honor

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"Just for one night" THIS IS NOT OKAY.

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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The Statues That Do Not Weather

For Sas, another story about helping.

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There is a statue on the cliffs overlooking the harbour, of a man shading his eyes with one hand and looking out over the sea.

They say that when invaders came, a man went up to the cliffs, and prayed to the gods. He offered them his own life to save his people. The gods accepted his sacrifice, and a great fire burned across the water, sinking all the ships. The man became stone, and ever since then he has stood on the cliffs, looking out at ships that sank long ago.

There is a statue that stands in the center of the town, of an old woman with both hands held up before her, palm out.

They say that when invaders came again, a woman stood in the middle of the square, and ordered them to halt. She reminded them of the great fire that sank the ships years before, and called on the gods to strike down any man who took one more step, though it cost her life. The gods accepted her sacrifice, and the invaders who stepped forward became water, running back down the hill towards the sea and soaking the boots of the men behind them. The survivors fled in fear, and the woman became stone, her feet set among the cobbles, her hands raised to stop invaders long gone.

There is a statue that stands by the road that runs past our village, of a young woman holding a basket.

They say that when brigands came upon the village in the teeth of a hard winter, starving and desperate, a woman saw them coming and offered them the food in her basket. They mocked her, saying that so little would not feed them for a day. She, too, called on the gods, and she, too, was answered. She made a bargain with their leader, that every man would turn back when he had all the food he could carry. From that one basket, she filled every bandit’s hands and sacks with food until he could carry no more. When she had filled even the leader’s hands, she bowed her head and became stone, her basket empty at last. The bandits kept to their bargain, and never troubled the village again.

We all know these stories. We all know why those people became stone, stone that does not weather.

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I fucking hate game apps. I wanted to play tetris the otherday so I figured there must be a simple tetris app out there its the most basic game. But every app is like heres your daily log in bonus of 10 gold! You get 5 free plays a day. Here's an ad. To replay a level costs 1 diamond. You can eart gold by earning points in levels. 1000 points = 1 gold. You can exchange 550 gold for one diamond but we have a sale right now that they only cost 500 gold. Heres an ad. You can buy a loot crate of diamonds for 5.99$! You leveled up! Heres 1 free diamond. Youve run out of free replays for today, would you like to buy some more diamonds? Heres your daily tasks, make sure to log in every day this month for a free reward chest. its free! Heres an ad. Would you like to sign up for this credit card to recieve 10 free diamonds? Invite a friend and you can earn points! Ding! Youve leveled up. Heres an ad. This is our special bonus play weekend, you get one free replay and a pack of diamonds only costs 4.99$. You can use your gold to purchase new skins for the tetris blocks. This ones shaped like cats! It costs 100 diamonds. You need to collect them all. Free to play, may be some in-app purchases.

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Nightwing!

Handstands... are fun to draw

Rant under cut :)

Drawing more recently because I'm moving out literally tomorrow, and I still haven't packed, or done my assignment yet. I love procrastinating.

I did this one quicker than I think any other, like... full body drawing I've done previously. So getting quicker is nice.

again I didn't use a reference. would have helped, since I realised the legs were super small like halfway thru colouring. I have been practicing shoes lately (kinda), hope that shows a bit.

This is another time I just had a pose drawn and decided to make it a character. This one's fitting though.

I have like... 4 separate PNGs of this image, because I couldnt figure out what block of colour I wanted in the background.

Trying to keep this short because I need to pack my stuff and actually do something useful. is it working? no.

I'll probably draw him front facing at some point. He's super fun tho, since he's an acrobat and all bendy

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