keep them crawlers out

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[stuckinapril]

This is actually so real

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I Want You To Quiet Down by Patrica Grullon

2011, acrylic and ink on wood

This got taken down for violation, even though it’s a perfect example of what is supposedly allowed. So I’ll put it back up for the three minutes it’ll be allowed up. 😴

[pheere]

Banquet of Mermaids - Ryoko Kimura

[mandi-bul]

Daydream

[segmentedleg]

Nasturcje. Stanisław Wyspiański. 1903. Pastels.

[jinxproof]

Anjelica Huston, 1976 © Evelyn Hofer

[nobrashfestivity]

Roland Topor Illustrations for Les Masochistes Eric Losfeld

[demilypyro]

[vintagenatgeographic]

Herat, Afghanistan 

National Geographic | July 1972

[julijbee]

lord of werewolves

[strangemonochromes]

Monster (モンスター) // Naoki Urasawa

[smsomah]

Tarahumara; Chihuahua, Mexico, 1980-84. John Running

[thirdity]

“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

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I want you to write for pleasure—to play. Just listen to the sounds and rhythms of the sentences you write and play with them, like a kid with a kazoo. This isn’t “free writing,” but it’s similar in that you’re relaxing control: you’re encouraging the words themselves—the sounds of them, the beats and echoes—to lead you on. For the moment, forget all the good advice that says good style is invisible, good art conceals art. Show off! Use the whole orchestra our wonderful language offers us! Write it for children, if that’s the way you can give yourself permission to do it. Write it for your ancestors. Use any narrating voice you like. If you’re familiar with a dialect or accent, use it instead of vanilla English. Be very noisy, or be hushed. Try to reproduce the action in the jerky or flowing movement of the words. Make what happens happen in the sounds of the words, the rhythms of the sentences. Have fun, cut loose, play around, repeat, invent, feel free.

Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering The Craft

[scorchroots]

I've never loved anyone as much as I love Ursula Le Guin

[weepingwidar]

Nicko Cecchini (Canadian, d.o.b. unknown) - Defensive Measures (2026)

[ymutate]

E. A. Mattila,

"Lost Horizons," 1971