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you can say literally anything like. “the autistic urge to go for a walk” and everyone in the notes will be like #WELL SHIT #Guess thats another mental problem to add to the list #forest rambles #casey dont look

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I'm building a team...

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artists fuck better because we turn sex into art, masterpieces, mattresses become canvases where we can paint our love to someone with bodies.

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this is unedited. this is the original audio.

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the fairies and i did not make any figgy pudding. nobody is welcome to join us

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It still amazes me that the US Army gave combat artists carte blanche to paint whatever the hell they wanted to depict during Vietnam War

This is an era where censorship in public and private is not only accepted and encouraged (from the WWII/Korea era’s lingering influence) but widespread. The news can’t do too closely. Letters are routinely censored of military detail, and then anything that makes the military look bad too.

But the artists? They were left to do as they pleased. The US Army established CAT (Combat Artist Team) units that literally only went to Vietnam to sketch things, then returned home and spent the rest of their time turning those sketches into paintings. They were given free rein to depict whatever they wanted to draw.

There’s some harrowing artworks that I keep stumbling across while in the Vietnam war photograph section. Most atrocities (American and South Vietnamese alike) were not photographed or those that were, were censored (I do occasionally unexpectedly run into pictures of mutilated corpses, mind you).

But the artists? They were left to do as they pleased, and the result is some of the best and most thought-provoking singular things I’ve seen of the Vietnam War.

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crying

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working class

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my wife looking at my butthole 

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didn’t know you were an only child…… don’t like that *goes back in time and impregnates your dad so you have siblings*