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It's nearly November, and that means it's time for #30dayscomics !
How to do it:
1. Choose a set of formal constraints:
- Number & layout of panels (1 panel? 2 panels stacked? 2 panels side by side? 3 panels? 4 panels as a swipe through on instagram? 4 panels as a cube?)
- Medium (Pencil? Ink? Digital? Arrangements of emoji over photos on snapchat? Collage?)
- Topic or subject (Inspired by a favorite album or sacred text? Written as letters to a friend or lover? A narrative story?)
- Text (Will there be text? No text? Will you write it yourself? Find a collaborator? Use found text? e.g. Kevin Czap did #30dayscomics a few years ago using only lyrics from one Joni Mitchell album and I loved that.)
- Color palette (This one is important—the fewer the better.)
- Time or environmental constraints (Will you spend a certain amount of time on each comic? 30 minutes? An hour? Will you draw only in your bedroom? Only after meditating? etc.)
2. Make a comic every day for 30 days for the month of November (unless you don't)
3. Follow your constraints (unless you don't) See you soon! 👋🏻
#30dayscomics created by @madinkbeard 💛
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do u ever miss your own energy. like damn what happened to me
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mothers and daughters existing as wretched mirrors of each other: i am all you could have been and you are all i might be.
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I feel FATIGUED like send her to the seaside for her health type fatigue
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stressed about this stupid fucking work thing because the leadership in my org continues to act incompetent. it could turn out to be nothing. but there’s a lot of tension and with all this shenanigans happening tomorrow, it has me irritated as hell that they’ve turned me into this paranoid person. so fuck them for that.
also please if you have a brain cell or good vibe to spare, send one up that I get this job I’m waiting to hear back from 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 PLEASE 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
stressed about this stupid fucking work thing because the leadership in my org continues to act incompetent. it could turn out to be nothing. but there’s a lot of tension and with all this shenanigans happening tomorrow, it has me irritated as hell that they’ve turned me into this paranoid person. so fuck them for that.
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i have a weird appreciation for Baroque artists, in particular Francois Boucher and Peter Paul Rubens, for depicting the human body in lush detail at a time that predates the standards for bodies to be thin and airbrushed with no wrinkles or cellulite
it’s just really interesting to me
so many the things women are taught to hate about their bodies—pudgy bellies, fat rolls, double chins, and cellulite—used to be ideals of beauty shown in depictions of goddesses
the cultural context of these is fascinating, because (I'm simplifying a complicated thing here but for the sake of not making this a novel) at the time wealth was to be well-fed. goddesses would never want for food; their bodies represent their freedom from the anxiety of whether or not they have enough food. and now wealth is to be able to afford a personal trainer and cosmetic surgery and a chef or meal service (and time to prepare meals), so our standard of beauty is based in being thin. in the 50s and 60s, it was based on your wife not having to work, so she would be able to ~maintain her figure. standards of beauty always come back to wealth.
so not only are these paintings beautiful and lush to look at, they are proof that beauty standards change drastically over time. for me, studying art history, it was so comforting to internalize that my body existed to be more than a struggle for conformity to a limited standard. this seems obvious but it was a big deal to me at 18! your body exists beyond your cultural context. your body exists beyond the ideas of wealth, and beauty, and perfection. you are worthy as you are.
there is a term to describe large women that i've always loved, based on rubens' work, and it is rubenesque.
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Anonymous asked:
Any books on family trauma and healing? I here struggle with a lot of family problems. I read the book that you shared quotes from, Adult children of Emotionally immature parents, and it really comforted me.
I have problems with trusting people, a lot. In my relationships, I'm always too anxious that I drive them away to prevent heartbreak. This one time ventured out, i ended up with someone just like my dad. After that, i had a hard time trusting people again. But i want to feel normal. Books are my only source i guess.
Any books for healing?
If you a interested about understanding trauma: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, Trauma and Healing by Judith L. Herman and maybe if you're truly fascinated then go into Attachment starting with the works of Bowlby.
Family / relationship dynamics: Running on Empty by Jonice Webb, as you already mentioned Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, Healing Your Emotional Self by Beverly Engel, Healing the Shame That Binds You by John Bradshaw.
Moving towards healing / willingness to be vulnerable: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, How to be a Person in the World by Heather Havrilesky, Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed, I also like Brené Brown's work but sometimes she can become very repetitive.
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This guy got banned twice for some of this shit and came back and immediately did it again. hero
RIP. They finally took his blue check away lmfao
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biting is a love language. no i will not elaborate.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. — Ursula K. Le Guin
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me dad says that when he first went to go see mad max in theaters that it seemed very apocalyptic, ridiculously so, to see a character selling bottled water. the notion of selling it like that was outlandish. I think about that a lot and how such an idea has become normalized to the point where a new viewer wouldn't bat an eye at it today. I think a lot about that and to the extent that Nestle has gone to privatize this natural resource. it's a bit terrifying.
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Pedro Pascal for Icon Magazine Spain, 2020.