#the purpose of art

[thelasthippie]

[sensationalsegue]

"We are human and we ache for meaning, we ache for a transcendence that reminds us that we are not in isolation, that we are in communion with each other and with the world ... At this moment, I need the novel and film and poetry the most, when it reminds me - hope against hope - that there is also beauty."

Christos Tsiolkas, quoted by Anna Goldsworthy in The Monthly, Dec 24 - Jan 25 Summer Reading Edition.

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

"Art is where what we survive survives."

John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed (Kaveh Akbar's The Palace)

[dreamy-conceit]

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

— Glenn Gould

[jerich0two]

A begrudging Happy Valentine's to you all! Stay safe out there, my fellow aromantics ...

[ochiody]

really quick comic based on this post by @fangirling-phoenix

[sabertoothwalrus]

don't ask him about that it's private

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[ionomycin]

your last light

[canisalbus]

✦ Freshly ordained ✦

[eliounora]

the running sands recall the time when love was lord of all

[fesenmoon]

no fucking way

[hinamie]

happy gojoday to all who celebrate

[cryptocism]

big fan of daniel going completely off the rails while shouting "im nORMAL i am NORMAL im A NORMAL MAN" the whole time

i got commissioned to do another excerpt from the Devil's Minion chapter of Queen of the Damned and it was So Much Fun these two are insane

chapter excerpt under the cut:

[hansoeii]

you'll make it back.

[jerich0two]

Surprise! It's not Hazbin Hotel, shock horror... but happy pride month! I like this Mordecai headcanon (edit: I've since been told that it's canon!)