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Next up: the heron! Another from this series.
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go executive branch go
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All throughout childhood, while my peers were socializing and making friends, I studied the blade read so many books that I am now almost legally blind, which left me with vast and deeply instinctual understanding of English grammar - and next to no ability to explain how it actually works. Friends will often ask me to proofread their writing and then get very mad when I say things like, "You need to completely reverse this sentence and cut this clause entirely; no, I'm sorry, i don't know why, I just know that the way it is now ITCHES 😭"
Now, what I want to see is a fantasy story where this plays out with MAGICAL grammar. Someone from a backwater town deeply steeped in folk magic arrives at Wizard Uni where all their fellow students are like "What do you mean, we should add another '𝞯∘⋇𝞿' to the incancation because it 'sounds better'? What do you mean, 'it could just be a regional thing'?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'THIS SPELL JUST FEELS LIKE IT NEEDS A LIVE RAT'????"
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Geothermal III Watercolor on paper, 8.5 x 10.25" 2021
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🧡 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟✨ // for day 3 of folktale week 2023: sea! // gouache on paper
a little study of scales, texture, and light for a larger project I'm working on! also made this one into wrapping paper because I CAN'T be the only one who wants to wrap fish presents for people????
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Shaun Tan (Chinese-Australian, b. 1974, Perth, Australia) - The Quiet Town, 2021, Paintings: Oil on Canvas
Source: shauntan.net
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#porco rosso#for many many reasons#(including the way it’s about grief and surviving)#(the beauty of the setting and the scenes of flight)#(the way porco just is and keeps being)#(the way he treats Fio and takes her seriously)#(also his vibes remind me a lot of my grandfather and a little of my dad so)#(look: a certain kind of gruff but boundless love is shaped like porco rosso)
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does the term “content creator” make anyone else irrationally angry?
the reduction of all online art, writing, music, comedy, etc to just “content” rubs me the wrong way. gets my goat. steams my beans
it’s the worst. we don’t create content for consumption, we use our creativity in a myriad of ways.
including weird-ass tumblr posts and monsterfucker porn.
Yup. It eclipses what it does for the viewer with what it does for the landlord. Art? No. Just a means of bringing eyeballs to the screen for the platform owners to sell to advertisers.
#a lot of our terms (for artists writers scholars etc)#also connote expertise and experience and knowledge#in a way that content creator just doesn’t#‘content’ flattens out sourcing and judgment about evidence quality and argument#(or about artistic skill and trained eye or taste)#we lose all the things that make the art worth seeing reading or watching or talking about
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Against Entropy, by John M. Ford
Against Entropy
by John M. Ford
The worm drives helically through the wood And does not know the dust left in the bore Once made the table integral and good; And suddenly the crystal hits the floor. Electrons find their paths in subtle ways, A massless eddy in a trail of smoke; The names of lovers, light of other days Perhaps you will not miss them. That’s the joke. The universe winds down. That’s how it’s made. But memory is everything to lose; Although some of the colors have to fade, Do not believe you’ll get the chance to choose. Regret, by definition, comes too late; Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.
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Milton Glaser, Therapy With A Tomato, 1978
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The horoscope of the Persian Timurid ruler Iskandar Sultan, 1411. This is the only surviving individual illuminated horoscope from medieval Islam. Al-Mizan (Libra) is at 3 o'clock in the circle of zodiac signs.
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Quarters only, please [x]
(done in procreate)
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"She had a picture book with many wonder tales in it - destroyed, we suppose, along with her other things when she died. she had brought it from Barizhan."
"You miss her," Arbelan said.
"Of course," Maia said again. "We loved her very much".
-The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison.
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Merab Abramishvili (Georgian, 1957-2006)
Dancer, 2002
tempera, heightened with gold, on linen laid down on board 19 x 15 1/8 in. (48 x 38.5 cm.)
Private collection