@riathepinkie / riathepinkie.tumblr.com
life's too short to write for an imaginary critic that you fear will hate what you wrote
to be clear, odds are good that someone will hate what you wrote, but that doesn't mean the writing is bad. That means they aren't part of your audience.
don't write for them.
young artist posting your work online, heed my warning. im holding your face so gently in my hands, you have to stop caring about numbers right now and start caring about making the weirdest and most self-indulgent art you possibly can
STOP listening to the demon of capitalism and START listening to the angel of hedonism, i love you i believe in you keep making what you love forever ok?
When I ran my design studio, every illustrator I ever hired was based on the exquisite madness personal to their portfolio.
I don’t know if this is relevant, it feels like this notice for artists who wish to sell merch, but it felt appropriate to say.
Every illustrator came as a recommendation from someone and every time I hired them for a project it was purely out of their “ah HA” ability in their work.
My studio was… less than Madison Ave so again I appreciate this is maybe not appropriate if you are targeting a big ol’ ad agency (we were 2-5 people doing tiny work for big companies… but we paid well and on time!)
Maybe this isn’t great advice or broad advice, maybe it’s not even relevant anymore
I don’t know
“Personal work” was always the first portfolio link I clicked on.
It’s not hard to triangulate “your personal piece here, and your commercial piece there, is what I am looking for to do project piece.”
I remember one time a friend of mine got yelled at by someone who is now a big trasfem blogger on here but back then was a popular crossdresser, bc my friend said she should consider transition. The popular blogger replied "stop pathologizing me!"
And idk I think that says a lot about the reason behind things like the "egg prime directive" and people getting mad about saying Kurt Cobain could have been trans.
Because if you think of transness as a pathology, as a disease, then its seen as horrible to imagine that for someone. Like if transness is this awful condition that "forces you to get extreme surgery and change your hormones" and that's all supposed to be unnatural and traumatizing, then yeah I guess it would be mean to assign somebody that.
But if you don't see transness that way, if it's just a cool and unique way to be and no worse than being cis (besides all the bigotry we face), then yeah why not see Kurt Cobain as a trans woman? It's like people drawing Goku as a muslim, it just means we see her as one of our kind.
Put neck in vampire mouth. Put neck in vampire mouth. Vampire mouth perfec t size to put neck in to rest! inside very soft and comfort neck feel comfortable put neck in vampire mouth. put neck in vampire mouth. no problems ever in vampire mouth because good shape and support for neck. avampire mouth yes a place for neck put neck in vampire mouth can trust vampire for giveing good love to neck. friend vampire.
Now that I'm working in the anthropology department and we're teaching human evolution, I wonder how many anthropologists looking for ancient hominids must have found modern human remains instead. You didn't find a fossil of human evolution... but you did find the remains of a person. Isn't that meaningful, too? And also... they are so similar to us, that it's not unlikely that so many remains that could have been key to understanding human evolution have been misidentified as just humans (which raises the question "weren't they just human" but I digress)
There's an interesting story about Sahelanthropus (a hominid similar to chimpanzees who walked upright about 6 millions ago in modern Chad). When it was discovered, the remains presented wear and tear from wind and sun exposure, which was wierd because they were found buried. It was then the anthropologist noticed it was buried with its head facing towards Mecca, like in proper Muslim burial practice. Muslim nomads must have found the remains of Sahelanthropus, they would have thought it was a human, and decided to give it a proper burial, even if they didn't know its story or who was it life, they thought those bones deserved to rest.
(workshop this with me)
I have been calling it TBTM or Tech Bro Tracing Machine, but I like theftgen.
last minute announcement that i’m having top surgery today
things im scared will climb through my window at night: clowns, nosferatus, the river strid,
do you ever hear people talking about something and you’re like. fuck. let me be real for a second. i’m too much of a commie to have this conversation
“of course this is the bare minimum amount of labor someone must perform to be a human being worthy of being alive! what do you think, rimon?” brother if i told you what i think about this your head would fucking explode.
Blue Stadtbad Mitte "James Simon" - Eline Brontsema
Dutch, b. 1988 -
Woodcut, 68.2 x 51.3 cm
anyone else seeing weird mysterious failures on Tumblr
yeah but you didnt have to call us out like that
network failures network failures
saw someone misspell "stochastic terror" as "socratic terror" so I'd like to clarify that stochastic terror is the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act that seems random but is not, while "socratic terror" is what every athenian felt when they went down to the agora in the 5th century and saw an old man with a beard approaching them
you: suck my dick me, an intellectual: inhale my richard
here it is! the post that started a “me, an intellectual” hell frenzy, and is officially ⭐ the worst post of 2016 ⭐
you: the worst post of 2016
me, an intellectual: modern art
Look everyone look
This is the sort of thing where it’s hard to believe one singular human person invented this*, and that it was only in 2016 and also already in 2016
In 50 years or so if this has something like a wikipedia article, the French, German and English pages will each claim different inventors (obviously of the respective nation) and origin stories
Things that work in fiction but not real life
This post breaching containment has taught me that a lot of people seem to think they can accurately profile complete strangers. For the record, no the fuck you can't.
The creator of these images is Matt Bernstein, one of my favorite educators online -- he makes incredibly clear, forceful collections of information like this one. He's queer, has fantastic nails, and has done a lot of education recently from his perspective as a Jewish person on why supporting Palestine is so important. Here's a link to this post, which he created for World AIDS Day on 12/1/23.
Having internet friends is an experience. Did you eat today? I can’t believe your sister hasn’t apologized yet, what a bitch. Drink a glass of water right now. Want to see a cat picture? I love you. I know you better than your parents. I don’t know your name. I’m having a rough day, can you talk to me about your favorite videogame? I love you. Good morning means good night means good afternoon means go to sleep. Here’s a doodle I made in class. I’m stealing your clothes as we speak, they’re so pretty. I love you. I love your pet. What does your hair look like? I’d love to see that weird leaf. I love you. I’m making you your favorite food. Thank you for holding my secrets for me. I love you. We’re having a coffe date. I love you. I’m giving you a screen-sized hug. I love you. I love you. I love you.
adhd symptoms are always just mild enough to seem fake but just severe enough to make everyone on planet earth think you’re an asshole for having them. not a big fan of this paradox tbh
