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My new collection: Capybaras and Birth Flowers!

The peony is the flower for November and it represents love, compassion, good fortune, and romance.

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Melody Pond

River Song

Carol Flood.

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Re: the good place, someone I went to college with (and am therefore Facebook friends with) made a long post after finishing season 1 about how disappointed she was that the heartwarming good show was no longer heartwarming and good due to [spoilers]. So she would therefore no longer be watching it.

She was exactly that type of person in college too; sometimes I wonder if she ever went back and watched more of the good place

That's hilarious because most other people I've talked to about the matter agree that season 1 is kind of depressing.

(spoilers under the cut)

A "heaven" where you can only interact with 322 preselected people forever, where you're essentially in an arranged marriage with someone the system picked out for you as a "soul mate" (there is NO WAY that, given the exclusivity of actually getting into heaven, everyone works out with the right point totals that all heaven-goers are coincidentally perfectly paired up with an ideal mate who will be ideal forever), the major emphasis is on "harmony" in a "perfect system", and nothing you do will ever really matter in any way. The system's already ideal, there's someone there who can magically provide anything on request, you have eternity to just kind of sit around trying to entertain yourself knowing that any actual impact you can have on the community must be perfect or is making everything worse.

And -- this is the critical point, the thing that makes the whole Good Place model completely unworkable -- most people don't go there. You arrive and watch a cute intro video where Michael explains how the points work, how only people good enough to make serious social change and make it as impactful as possible end up there, and you talk to all your neighbours and they're people who dedicated their whole lives to helping others, only to arrive here and be told "oh, no, this isn't the end, it's the beginning -- and all those people you helped? Probably tortured for all eternity. Maybe you dedicated your entire life to getting shelter and counselling and medical care to homeless drug addicts, proved with every action how much you cared about helping them; they're all getting tortured forever. Don't worry about it! They weren't "good" enough, unlike you! Look how many flavours of frozen yoghurt we have!"

Season 1 was not a happy place.

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Re: the good place, someone I went to college with (and am therefore Facebook friends with) made a long post after finishing season 1 about how disappointed she was that the heartwarming good show was no longer heartwarming and good due to [spoilers]. So she would therefore no longer be watching it.

She was exactly that type of person in college too; sometimes I wonder if she ever went back and watched more of the good place

That's hilarious because most other people I've talked to about the matter agree that season 1 is kind of depressing.

(spoilers under the cut)

A "heaven" where you can only interact with 322 preselected people forever, where you're essentially in an arranged marriage with someone the system picked out for you as a "soul mate" (there is NO WAY that, given the exclusivity of actually getting into heaven, everyone works out with the right point totals that all heaven-goers are coincidentally perfectly paired up with an ideal mate who will be ideal forever), the major emphasis is on "harmony" in a "perfect system", and nothing you do will ever really matter in any way. The system's already ideal, there's someone there who can magically provide anything on request, you have eternity to just kind of sit around trying to entertain yourself knowing that any actual impact you can have on the community must be perfect or is making everything worse.

And -- this is the critical point, the thing that makes the whole Good Place model completely unworkable -- most people don't go there. You arrive and watch a cute intro video where Michael explains how the points work, how only people good enough to make serious social change and make it as impactful as possible end up there, and you talk to all your neighbours and they're people who dedicated their whole lives to helping others, only to arrive here and be told "oh, no, this isn't the end, it's the beginning -- and all those people you helped? Probably tortured for all eternity. Maybe you dedicated your entire life to getting shelter and counselling and medical care to homeless drug addicts, proved with every action how much you cared about helping them; they're all getting tortured forever. Don't worry about it! They weren't "good" enough, unlike you! Look how many flavours of frozen yoghurt we have!"

Season 1 was not a happy place.

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i love the hermitcraft irl events i get to watch my entire dashboard lose their mind over screenshots of two average white guys standing within 5ft of eachother. the world is beautiful.

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When you're a twin, your go-to fun fact is that you're a twin. I was once in a class where there were two twins (note: not twins of each other) and both said they were a twin in response the ice-breaker prompt "tell the class something you don't think applies to anyone else in the room"

i HATE when i have to come up with a fun fact about myself!!! I DONT KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Painting number 5 in the Feline Flows and Poses Collection, "Stretch"!

It's also my second painting painted with Rebelle, I'm in LOVE!

One point of disappointment is this ice blue color cannot be printed. It's beyond the CMYK spectrum... 😭! Been figuring out how to change the painting so it can be properly printed...

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why be radically exclusionary abt queerness when you could be radically inclusionary instead. let's inflate the numbers. let's become the majority. the sky's the limit

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"Blep" painted by me in Procreate!

This is painting number SIX in the Close Encounters Collection!

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there’s a line in the hobbit where bilbo takes courage remembering his father saying “where there’s life there’s hope” and i’d really like to know the context in which bungo baggins was invoking that sentiment

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Today, a guy at work (a senior lab tech, even he'd be promoted to manager if he weren't completely disinterested in management) was filling a large container with water, walked away briefly to do something, went to lunch...

And then I found the container overflowing with water. It was a lot of water. Like, half a inch deep on the floor, puddle was about 2-3 feet in diameter.

At a meeting this morning, the safety guy reminded us to keep an eye out for slip/trip/fall hazards, but he probably wasn't expecting the senior lab tech to flood the lab that very afternoon. Probably

Also, when we were cleaning it up, a guy walked past and said "ooh, a spill! Is it acid?" which I thought was funny, because I was kneeling next to it sopping it up with towels and if it had been acid I would've...not been doing that

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Please call this recession the Trump Slump.

We need to put Trump's name on this.

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Spouse and I disagree about the tone of this bumper sticker we see around here. It says "do you follow Jesus this closely?" and he thinks it implies the owner is religious and is putting down cars that are too close saying they SHOULD follow Jesus as closely as they follow the owner's car. I think it's sarcastic like if a religious Karen was following me and bothering me, I'd be like "do you follow Jesus this closely??"

It doesn't really matter either way but every time I see it I'm like "wait do you WANT us to follow Jesus closely or are you putting someone down for following Jesus closely???"

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My first Portfolio Day!

I'm Joy of JoyousJoyfulJoyness!

I make colorful 🎨, cute 🥺, shiny ✨ and happy 😊 art, and am obsessed with cats 😺 and capybaras 🦫 (there's no capy emoji 😭)!

My shop offers foiled drawings, digital painting prints, stickers, accessories, and custom portrait commissions!

My mission in this world is to create art that sparks happiness, so feel free to follow or reach out if you ever need a pick me up!

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Best thing about writing a story called Charlie MacNamara Saves the Princess is making Charlie MacNamara constantly think about how she's just gonna go home and not save the princess