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Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K le Guin 馃摉
The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel 馃幍
Fly Away by Kristen Hannah 馃摉
Midnight Rooms by Donyae Coles 馃摉
Kink and Particle by Tiffany Atkinson 馃摉
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 馃幍
Kittentits by Holly Wilson 馃摫
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett 馃摉
Fractured Fables by Alix E Harrow 馃幍
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliot 馃幍
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin 馃幍
#currently reading#ursula k le guin#reading#audiobook#worlds of exile and illusion#scifi#fantasy#poetry#the story of art without men#katy hessel#art history#fly away#kristen hannah
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I am in love
#ahhhhh I am so in love with this book#i treasure it more than my life#this is so amazing jsbsksklsksks#the story of art without men#katy hessel#book#bookish
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New books (that I already posted haha) have been purchased! Wandering Souls is one I鈥檝e already read and loved. The other 4 will be favourites I鈥檓 sure! :)
#wandering souls#wandering souls by Cecile Pin#the story of art without men#Katy Hessel#African European by Olivette Otele#Minor Detail#Minor Detail by Adania Shibli#book haul#bookblr#books and reading#bookworm
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Would anyone here be interested in short stories about my XMen/Marvel Oc Kendall? This would include content with Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler and Matt Murdock/ Daredevil馃憖
#lostnighterarts#xmen#kurt wagner#marvel#marvel comics#nightcrawler#original character#x men 97#x men comics#x men the animated series#daredevil#matt murdock#the men without fear#oc artist#oc artwork#oc x canon#oc story#oc#oc art#artists on tumblr
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Workforce Tuvok is my cringefail babygirl
#why are you a Vulcan suffering from dysphoria syndrome?? So you can get held down by other men???#I really want to know what 'humorous anecdotes' he had to share.....I love him so much#I love that without his Vulcan discipline he becomes even more clearly annoying <3<3 explaining a joke TO the guy who TOLD IT to him#+ laughing SUPER hard at someone else being 'humiliated'#Also Janeway looooves being romantically quirky in an old romance movie way and idk how else to describe it#Neelix: If I had a tarynian nickle for everytime I had to rehabilitate a friend who'd lost all their memories I'd have two nickles#which isn't a lot but-#st voyager memes#bea art tag#OH! Janeway seems like she's two seconds away from swinging herself around a lamp post in the rain with a dazzling smile on her face#Workforce Tuvok (and thus normal Tuvok) contains so many multitudes...he is SO friendly he is VERY annoying he is SCARED of needles#he is OFF putting and PUSHY and he is KIND <3#He seems like if I made a mistake he'd VERY loudly laugh and point it out but also help me correct it while telling a story about himself#Literally a CRIME that Tuvok and Neelix didn't interact in this ep they would've become buds#another crime is that Tuvok does nothing in the second half of the episode v_v not even a little 'ribbon scene' at the end#Janeway: Thank you so much Chakotay and only Chakotay for helping get us all out of there <3#Tuvok in the background: ..........................................................................................#the 'ribbon scene' would have been between him and Seven - she completed the research he started v_v
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Lugh
A master and mentor whose path of life led him to a more open teaching style. As a young man, he was known to be an enthusiastic but goofy student, now grizzled by a haunted past and an uncertain future.
#sham's art#shamsbabs#lugh#i'm caving in to my instincts and making a whole class just for him#so he's not directly mishmashed into khdr's story#but he's there as an adjacent presence y'see#more on that later but rn?#i love old men and their war veteran energies without the war crimes#or at least some fictional war crimes idk#one day i'll do more with him for now i dedicate an unholy amount of attention to everyone#kh oc#kingdom hearts oc#khdr oc
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The Black Priestess Selene!
#marvel#xmen#x men fanart#digital art#selene gallio#the black queen#I can鈥檛 read her stories without hearing Conor Goldsmith鈥檚 voice now
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J鈥檃i senti dans la solitude la libert茅 dont vous parliez, mais j鈥檃i aussi senti que vous me manquiez.
#portrait of a lady on fire#no茅mie merlant#marianne#ad猫le haenel#h茅lo茂se#in solitude i felt the liberty you spoke of#but i also felt you missing from me#patterns of distraction#all eternal things#love in a time of...#a murmur of fire#stripped and bare#feel you on the inside#all you are to me#a story of art without men#elisa english#elisaenglish
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"Separate the art from the artist" is so insulting to the artists too actually (and totally irrelevant to the question of financial support of said art, in the age of pirating). Have you ever seen as artist say who they are is irrelevant to their work? Why are you implying that what we create is so unspecific to us that you can ignore us. You are trying to extend the capitalistic alienation from our labour to something inherently resistant to commodification, as much as the system forces its monetization for artists to live (and I wish all domains stopped alienating production from its producers, but it's particularly egregious for art imo). It鈥檚 something given or sold to the public for them to give the meaning they see fit, and you can decide to discard the initial/intended meaning for yourself, but it was still born from the artist and specific to them, created with their intentions motivating it, their biases colouring each and every choice, it is ludicrous to argue it can be totally dismissed. Trying to erase our role is downright offensive and akin to failing to credit properly. Copyright law has many flaws, in the sense that it is ill-equipped to handle the fact no art is ever 100% original and builds off existing elements, but it exists for a reason, so that artists get their due, you better believe corporations would not compensate us if they could. And minimizing our place in creation is the same mindset
I think it鈥檚 also tied to the myth we're born this way, given talent from birth and therefore not really the inventor but merely the executor of our art, negating the amount of training that goes into building skills, and the intellectual labor necessary for any creative work (see: ai bros acting like artists are hoarding drawing skills??), as well as the disregard shown for artistic industry workers anytime there's talks of unionizing (see : caring more about their marvel movies/video games releasing early than making sure crunch is avoided). Some people don鈥檛 like to think in depth about neither the context of what they consume nor the breathing bodies that make it come to life (and I understand, cause honestly it makes a lot of stuff depressing, be it food, clothes or art, but it'snecessary sometimes), and seem to think an artist鈥檚 relationship to a piece of work is over, all ties severed the moment they publish it, when it is a lifelong and everchanging relationship that takes labour to bear
On another topid so much of art is made of collaboration and merging intellectual properties and building off other people鈥檚 work i would like to beat up the myth of the lone genius artist or the mastermind director who deserves all the credit for his big brain, all projects would be nothing without the teams making them happen and an artist with no fellow creative friends literally will shrivel up so pls start putting all the people working in artistic fields on an equal footing, financially speaking too, i am begging society to stop disrespecting craftspeople too btw-
#sam speaks#sorry im mad when non artists go 'but it's not an autobiography so it's not about the artist themselves' shut up you know nothing#i can guarantee whoever the protagonist is the creatives found a path to relate to him and gave them to live their own experiences in a way#also people always use that shit to defend awful people or justify them being rewarded#did you know : you can consume art by terrible people without denying it it's called critical analysis#i had a teacher use it for fucking woody allen. when he literally makes movies where he plays the protagonist grooming a 16yo#never more obvious self insert/confession has existed#*relate to them#also like. the clich茅 of artists being self obsessed isn't exactly wrong let's be honest. there has to be a little bit of thinking highly o#yourself to believe (rightfully because that's the case for everyone) that your self is worth being expressed#so why would you think artists of the most arrogant self centered demographic in society would be humble enough not to insert themselves?#cishet white men write only about themselves and everybody else in their stories is an accesory; written with no empathy or understanding#something somthing refusal to acknowledge the inteligence of the people different to you#anyways. fuck jk and woody allen and polanski and so on and there are too many names#and support artists if you can so we can share art on our own terms#that said i often dislike art made about artists it's so. uninterestingly self centered
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Firstly, I love Katy Hessel's The Great Women Artists podcast. In the art world where most are oozing cool, or trying to, Katy is not afraid to be eagar, thirsty, and excited AF about woman artists. Her exuberance is almost unnerving with zero pretension to be found. Listening to the artists themselves come on after her glowing summary of their career, they seem almost confused to be entering a conversation about art with someone both so knowledgeable and so excited (I'll admit I found her a little annoying at first, but I've come around!)
Needless to say I was psyched to see she was going to be releasing a book. Following the trend that i don't understand in publishing it was being released in the US almost a year after being released in the UK. Around the holidays when the pound and the dollar were about 1:1 i realized i could but this book in the UK for 30 pounds and get it shipped to the US long before it's release in the US in May 2023 and it would be $15 cheaper. I also far preferred the more subdued tan cover for the UK vs the pink US cover (whyyyyyyyy?? It seems especially pandering to change the cover to pink for a US market). Now, it did get stuck in the Royal Mail hack delay, so it ended up taking almost two months to arrive, but I got it the other day (still several months before US release) and have already discovered, or rediscovered so many artists. Highly recommend!
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If this woman really painted in oils while wearing elaborate silk gowns, she's a braver woman than I am!
Ad茅la茂de Labille-Guiard, Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie-Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond, oils on canvas, 1785
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no, actually, where is the whimsy?
my ex had a best friend named larry who asked me once: what do you think comes after irony?
we were at the bar where larry worked. it was a quiet night, and he'd hopped over to sit with us on the patron side. i swirled the lemon around my limoncello martini.
earnest positivity, i said, while my ex said, art self-destructs.
i stared at my ex. he stared at me.
his argument was the cinemasins argument: look how bad media is becoming! look at the loopholes and the dumb shit!
it was roughly 2011. galaxy print was still in. at the time, i had a favorite shirt that was a wolf howling at the moon. it got ripped in half in the wash and i honestly still mourn it. i dressed like effie stonem, because everyone did. and irony was the name of the thing. men liked MLP "ironically." the internet liked the kind of crass, "anti-mainstream" vibes of things like fuck romance, touch my butt and buy me pizza. we put cats in sunglasses everywhere, which was because we only liked things in irony.
and media had the same vibe in it: anti-hero white men would be "hard to love" and then storm off the scene. nobody was just earnestly trying to save the world: they were jaded, angry, unoriginal. mad you even asked them to try to help.
my ex ends up not being wrong. cinemasins becomes super popular. a lot of people start viewing media with this lens that is the cruelest, most jaded depiction. it's wrong for your character to have unexplained powers, even if the entire movie is about how strange it is she has unexplained powers - that is still considered a "loophole." characters make thoughtless, panicked choices? loophole. characters are actually kind people, despite hardship? loophole. features a woman doing literally anything without assistance? loophole. movies become hyper-aware of scrutiny, and now irony rules the media.
which means you go to a movie, and the character has to turn to the screen and say "beats me!!" or one of the side characters has to have some kind of quip like "are you seriously telling me that you think this is normal?" because nothing can happen in earnest. like a sitcom laugh track, we now anticipate the fourth-wall break: the moment that the media acknowledges it is telling a story. the media has to apologize for itself, or else someone like my ex rolls their eyes.
but here's the thing: i wasn't wrong either.
the difference might be that i am (and always have been) so soft-hearted that any crack in the light of this world will spear me into the ground. and i was the poet in the relationship. (he thought that was the same thing as being na茂ve and stupid). i was making things daily. i knew how all of us artists are driven by some strange desire to evolve. he notably liked to critique art, not to create it.
so yes, i've made things that are bitter and angry and even ironic. i've made long, sharp poems with all capital letters, and i've made poems about how the silence stretches out like a song. someone wrote once that we will spend our whole lives just circling the place we grew up. i think it's more that we spend our whole lives trying to remake a home. i think it's that as we age, it becomes less exciting to build the castle on the beach - we become aware of erosion, of windforce. we realize what we really want is to come home to our dog, castle or not.
and while art in the foreground is mired in white male violence and irony, and aggression, and not taking anything seriously - i don't think that's true of all art. i think more and more artists are leaning in to the things we love. the world has changed so much. they have taken so many things from us. the only thing we have left is love. at the bottom of the moving box - all we get is the faint sense that we have to appreciate what little we've got. i can't enjoy this stuff ironically anymore: what room do i have for irony? if it makes me happy, that is an amazing thing. there are so few happy places left for me. i want to be happy because of how leaves shiver beside each other like nestling birds. i want to be happy because of the color pink, and how magenta doesn't exist. i have spent so much of this life suffering, i have earned my right to a gentle ending. if nothing matters, i get to assign meaning to the nothing. i get to create meaning. i am an artist first and foremost, which means creation is my thing.
where is the whimsy? wherever i fucking put it. because if this is my last fucking chance to do any good in this world - i want to do it earnestly. i want to write things that make you happy. that make people feel heard and seen. what comes after irony has to be positivity.
it was close to my 21st birthday. in 7 years, i would end up writing a book about this relationship, which is hopefully coming out somewhere around May 2024. i come back to this bar scene in my memories a lot. i keep thinking of how pale my ex was. the look that crossed his face. how i looked back at him. how for a moment, both of us couldn't recognize the other person. like the gulf between us was a suddenly wide and cavernous thing. like we were alien to each other. he never took my opinion seriously, and he always seemed surprised whenever his manic-pixie-dream-girl ever broke free of the plot. like in the whole time we were together, i wasn't human enough.
this knowledge: where he said nothing comes after, my only instinct was what comes after is love.
#spilled ink#writeblr#this is a real story lol#looking back i liked larry as a person SO much more than my ex hollyyyyy shitttt#compulsory heterosexuality will do you DIRTY#edit to correct effies name my apologies to effie and effies family
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THIS IS SUCH AN AWESOME POST NATURE IS HEALING
something about me is i got into sonic in 2020 because my BJF (best job friend) at the time wanted to go see the first movie together. we did, and then we saw it three more times in theaters (before they all shut down because of the pandemic). it was this whole thing, we brought our other friends along for the rewatches and always had a lot of fun.
now, in 2023, i surround myself with people who unironically love it.
i know my experience isn't universal, but overall i've had a very positive experience with sonic. and whenever i see stuff that implies sonic as an interest is "cringe" or whatever, i'm always like "huh?" cuz it's so divorced from the reality i live in.
it makes me sad to think that some people feel ashamed about liking sonic. like, what's there to feel bad about? it's a fun series with tons and tons of content, and i think it's great that it can bring people of all ages together. there's a little something for everyone, even if you don't like EVERYTHING about it.
games, comics, music, books, movies and tv shows, coloring pages and sticker sheets... not to mention all the stuff you can make for yourself, since sonic is a very big open world full of endless possibilities irt fanart and fanfic.
idk what this post is about really. i just think it's pretty cool that when i was at the store earlier today, a kid saw my sonic socks and smiled real wide. cuz that's what sonic is to me. something to share and smile about
#Its because of association with neurodivergent children unfortunately#If you made art/stories with complete enthusiasm and werent van gogh you were cringe#Back then it was common for grown ass adults to like. post peoples art from dA (usually children) and critique them like they werent#Just a child#And that they werent just a rando bullying kids for drawing their cool oc#It became mainstream to see sonic as a passing fad with shitty games because sonic's an enthusiastic and shameless franchise#Theres tons of different media and content that appeals to so many different people#I was on deviantart and youtube in 2012 where the hottest thing to do was tell young and neurodiverse artists how to draw#Because it wasnt Normal Enough#I see that so much less! And I really love that.#I think a lot of those young artists and folks just got older too#And more vocal about how they felt about sonic#Idk if anyone remembers the. edgelord cishet chad homophobic misogynist chokehold cis men had over shadow but like. That was common online#I love that we can openly code sonic as trans and gay and adhd and others as autistic and lgbt without it being a meme or joke#ANYWAY yeasss lovelyn love this post
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