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The final heron in the series! "Absurdist Heron" 12"x16"

Fritz Gärtner (German, 1882-1958) - The young paintress

more art by Andrey Surnov

i drew the metal gear solid 1 codec screen on my blackboard

Alfred Duke (British, 1863–1905) - Fish is Cheap Today

OBSESSED WITH THIS POEM BY DRI CHIU TATTERSFIELD

Louis Chalon - La fileuse (1892)

England, 1923

Sunrise 🌅☀️

Harald Sohlberg. The Mermaid, Unknown iteration, 1897

im playing disco elysium for the first time and it might be too early to call it but i think ive come across the funniest goddamn exchange in the game

Peter Doig - Blotter (1993)

"i could fix him" "i could make him worse" ya well i could shave him and then immediately regre-

not even bad really

yea! it's..... well, it just is!

You've been visited by Hairless DuBois. If you won't reblog him immediately he will visit you in your sleep to ask why you did that.

John Koch (1909-1978) The Sculptor, 1964.

“Ernest Ulmer posed for Koch’s “most self-revealing painting”, The Sculptor (1964, oil on canvas, 80” x 59 7/8", Brooklyn Museum). Its original title was Prometheus, the god who stole fire from Mount Olympus. A full-length standing male nude seen from behind, Ulmer towers over the seated Koch and holds a cigarette lighter at hip level, while the artist leans in to get a light. The lighter illuminates Koch’s face and its flame is vividly reflected in his glasses, “a sexually loaded reference to Prometheus’s gift of fire to mankind”.

As punishment for the theft of fire, Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock and sent an eagle each day to tear out his liver. Koch was an occasional sculptor, and modeled Prometheus and Hercules, a work depicting Hercules wrestling with the eagle to rescue the chained Prometheus. A large version of this appears in the background of The Sculptor, and Ulmer may have posed for the sculpture as well as the painting.“ (source: wikipedia)

Have been doing this for years without realizing it was an actual technique and it freaking works:

Do NOT say: “I think I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.”

Instead, say: “My best friend wanted me to ask you about something. I don’t even think it’s a thing, but she thinks I might have something called EDS. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, I think? I don’t know. It’s probably rare. But have you heard of it? Do you think I might have it?”

Here’s another example:

Do NOT say: “I think I have ADHD.”

Instead, say: “So my wife said I had to ask you about something. I don’t know if she’s right, but if I don’t bring it up with you, she’ll be really mad at me. She thinks I might have something called attention deficit disorder. And she said you might be able to help.”

Yes, it is wrong that patients have to use passive aggressive techniques just to get an MRI. But, as my mom always says, it’s better to be wrong than to be dead right. Sure you could insist on being more direct with your doctor, but if that doesn’t work — and the doctor dismisses your symptoms when they should be treating them — the choice could literally leave you dead. You’d be right, but you’d be dead right.

This is not part of the article but it also works:

It works especially well for psychiatrists instead of saying "I think I have this" or "I've been looking at x and I have x, y and z symptoms". Instead just say your symptoms and let them come to the conclusion on their own.