#cracking myself up

[incorrectjjkquotes]

Panda: What are the hardest things to say? Maki: I was wrong. Yuuta: I need help. Toge: Worcestershire sauce.

[milkyplier]

How about the word... pink?

“How is the horse pink?” Legend asks incredulously.

“The dye shop had some excess dyes, so I brought Strbmlshk here to get dyed and it just hasn’t washed out.”

“You brought in who?”

“Strbmlshk. It’s short for Strawberry Milkshake but the stables have a letter limit when it comes to names so I had to improvise.”

[justtoarguewithyou]

8 May.—I began to fear as I wrote in this book that I was getting too diffuse; but now I am glad that I went into detail from the first, for there is something so strange about this place and all in it that I cannot but feel uneasy. I wish I were safe out of it, or that I had never come. It may be that this strange night-existence is telling on me; but would that that were all! If there were any one to talk to I could bear it, but there is no one. I have only the Count to speak with, and he!—I fear I am myself the only living soul within the place. Let me be prosaic so far as facts can be; it will help me to bear up, and imagination must not run riot with me. If it does I am lost. Let me say at once how I stand—or seem to.

[wizard-mp4]

[thateagleguy]

[quasibell353]

I think I'm funny. And I'm right.

[Image ID: Tweet from me this morning reads:

Thinking abt how my mom wld chastise me for using band-aids to cover wounds instead of *just* to stop bleeding.

Anyway, I'm putting a giant, expensive Frozen band-aid on this accidental scrape that reminds me of my SH scars so I don't get triggered.

She can let it go, I guess."

Image pfp shows a pale human with short, blue hair, glasses, and a red top]

[hinamie]

mentor

[dilfosaur]

the neopets economy vs one silly meow meow doing a bit

[husband-steve-cortez]

"Jill wants to have a baby and wants me to be the donor...but I wouldn't want to be just the donor. I want to be a father."

"Gil we should all be at the club"

[elise-mopie]

Disconnected Thoughts on Art Reproduction:

Hokusai’s Great Wave fascinates me because, unlike almost every other artwork in that bracket of fame, it was never a bespoke piece that was only later reproduced. It was a commercial print right from the start, and while versions of it can be identified as belonging to different print runs, there is no meaningful ‘original’ aside from the long-since-discarded printing plates.

Even better, this state has been imposed on artworks that were once unique. In 2021, the art collective MSCHF bought an Andy Warhol sketch at auction for $20,000, made 999 meticulous forgeries of it, shuffled them to destroy any record of which was the original, and sold each piece for $250 as Possibly Real Copy of ‘Fairies’ by Andy Warhol, by MSCHF.

As with many smartass art collectives, MSCHF’s projects range from eye-rolling to kinda clever to brilliant, but I think this is their magnum opus. It has exactly the kind of unwieldy literal title I adore. The original work has been arguably destroyed, but in a way that Warhol would adore. It’s the most pointed way to ask art buyers, do you care about the actual artistry of the work or just the bragging rights of owning the original?

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Artistic domains where reproduction is trivial are often prone to the Superstar Problem: Why would I listen to the world’s 50th-best cellist when I can stream all the Yo-Yo Ma I want just as easily? NFTs were pitched as a solution to this, marking the original or master copy of a natively-digital work to let it retain value. But even if the crypto market didn’t have its own 2008 every few weeks, I don’t want fine-art auction houses to be the future of digital art, especially when there are already plenty of existing ways to mitigate the problem. A fursona, a tabletop-game character, a niche Blorbo, etc. are all bespoke value-adds that enable a much greater range of artists to get commissions. But these require a culture of art fans who don’t care about flipping it at Christie’s, often overlapping with fannish cultures where plenty of artists operate at all experience levels.

I don’t have any tidy conclusions for this, but I just want to say that an earlier version of this process - “paint me a biblical scene, and put me in it to flex my wealth and piety” - culminated in one of the funniest artworks I’ve ever seen, Francisco de Zurbarán’s Christ Crucified (With Donor):

[ceilidho]

vampire Simon finding half dead reader and turning her because he’s been lonely and wanting a companion (even though she yowls and tries to scratch his eyes off when she wakes up because she did NOT want to be a vampire)

[copiarion]

[risibledeer]

boat boys, shortgrass and greenbeans- what more could you ask for?

(ps-drawing reqs are open btw i need inspiration helpp)

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Peter Lorre (as the Raven)

The Raven (1963) dir. Roger Corman

[lesbiamano]

FINEEE i'll draw your stupid greek mythology people

[oflights]

i have been laughing about this to myself all day