#books and fruit

[dragonbadgerbooks]

[julianplum]

prompt 4 // crisp & basket // gouache on hot press paper

[classycoffeesublime]

The summer is such a nice time

[natureaestheticdreams]

Follow @natureaestheticdreams for more🌳🌿🍏

[grapeperfume]

[mikimuun]

[lovemoroporo]

we couldve had a t4t couple we couldve had a t4t couple we cou

[shinesurge]

listen there definitely does need to be a discussion about more ethical merch sourcing but i really really don't think acting like independent artists running convention tables are the rich we should be eating is the way to have it. no one is above reproach we are all complicit in capitalism etc but people have GOT to stop inventing impossible moral standards for individuals making independent art when the entities creating the conditions making them impossible are right there. it's the same bullshit as aggressively content policing queer creators with tiny platforms, all indiscriminate vitriol does is shut down smaller operations while bigger ones with way more impact on the things we care about continue as usual. the artist alley circuit folding wouldn't affect the huge dealers reselling bootleg or ai shit around the corner but it would make it harder for anyone to make non-corporate art.

the conversation is a lot of "people need to buy fewer Things" but we're not discussing the fact that people won't pay for art on its own, making merch to make money to keep making the art itself is a response to external conditions. again, i agree that ethical production and environmental responsibility are things creators should reckon with!! we still need to contend with what our decisions mean for others!! but going straight after indie artists for making phone charms instead of LITERALLY anyone else in this industry is WILD. business guys in the dealer room are running entire companies on ai work and funko is out here selling its 594th conan batman pop or whatever but at least we ran off a small creator for funding queer art with pronoun pins

[atomi-cat]

🐍 Year of the Snake 🐍

List of all the danger noodles:

Rattlesnake Jake (Rango)

Acidicus (Ninjago)

Rokume (beastars)

Viper(Kung Fu Panda)

Sir Pentious (Hazbin Hotel)

Mr.Snake (the Bad Guys)

Miia(Monster Musume)

Jelly Serpent Cookie (Cookie Run)

Seviper(Pokemon)

Boa Sandersonia (One Piece)

Lord Hebi (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003)

Coily (Qbert)

Life(Adventure Time)

Noko(Yokai Watch)

Kaa(Disney’s The Jungle Book)

Mordred Hood(Sonic The Hedgehog)

Hebi Hime (Dragon Ball Z)

Snakeman.exe (Megaman exe)

Hissi (Neopets)

Mrs.Plithiver(Guardians of Gahoole)

Ayame Sohma (Fruits Basket)

Maddie (Back to the Outback)

No Feet (Little Bear)

String bean(Owl House)

Sammy the Snake (Sesame Street)

[janasdiary]

life lately: iced coffee, falling back in love with reading, gloomy summer days, heartbreak, eating lots of fruit, feeling anxious about the future, spending time with family, being gentle with myself

[nemfrog]

The small fruit culturist. 1887. Book cover.

Internet Archive

[heartnosekid]

"As the light is reborn this winter solstice, 

may your heart lift with the joy of new beginnings

and nature's blessings."

a blessed yule & winter solstice to all those who honor this tradition, from my home to yours. - ish 💕

🕯️-🪵-⛄️ / 🥂-🔥-🦌 / 🌨️-🍊-🎄

[nashvillethotchicken]

A lot of people in the iwtv Fandom regurgitate antiblack talking points particularly wrt Louis being femme/effeminate/gnc and it's genuinely so disgusting like no, Louis is not making his partners engage in domestic labor when they participate in the businesses and investments they are partial owners of. No, Louis is not being the patriarch of rue royale when lestat leaves the house after beating Louis within an inch of his life. No Louis is not "masculine for his culture" especially when compared to other black men in the same time period. People will actively ignore canon to make Louis into this hypermasculine black brute and Lestatr or armand into these shrinking violets that are oppressed by Louis when he's not that at all. The only times he's ever acted even close to that stereotype is to assimilate into a white supremacist society that expected that of him in order for him to earn a living and to please Armand, which causes him great distress and visibly worsens his mental health to the point of Louis lashing out at Claudia and being so entirely numb that he self harms. Louis is not this hypermasculine black brute and a lot of people try to make him into one bc of unconscious bias surrounding black people (black people have been stereotyped as hypermasculine, angry, overly violent and sexual deviants since the 1700s) or to absolve their non black favs of the actual patriarchal and oppressive violence they enact on Louis and Claudia or a combination of the two. It's disgusting, do better

[sudaca-swag]

[pintoras]

Eliza B. Duffey (American, 1838–1898): Still Life with Books, Peach and Butterfly (1865) (via Freeman's)

[arthistoryanimalia]

#Baturday 🦇:

“Flugfuchs” (Flying Foxes, aka Fruit #Bats) Plate from Brehms Tierleben, Bd.1 (Leipzig & Wien, 1890)