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pangur-and-grim

pressed against the heating vent with TWO big pillows

#fave #grey #animals

springselkie

i'm afraid the character limit in the former bird app is destroying my potential

cringefail-clown

two sentence horror story

ouroborosorder

this is such a profoundly stupid thing to be mad about but. i periodically think about how banksy made one of my single favorite pieces of art of all time, and everything else he's ever done has sucked. man, how did you nail it once

ouroborosorder

It's this piece, titled The Banality of the Banality of Evil. Because on first glance, you're like. Yeah, okay, it's obvious what it's saying. Even nazis, even evil people can appreciate beauty, too. But then you learn its name, and suddenly the interpretation shifts a bit. The idea that evil is banal has in itself become banal. my first response to seeing a nazi on a bench is "oh it's about the banality of evil" and not "jesus christ there's a nazi on the bench."

and like. i dunno i think that's a really interesting way for a title to recontextualize a piece. it's finding nuance by tearing out the nuance you want to project onto it. it's not the greatest piece of art ever made, but i'd be lying if i said i didn't have a huge soft spot for it

manwhorewednesdays

Okay but I have to add to this

what I find really interesting is how the way this is drawn (especially considering who drew it) the art style seems extremely deliberate. This type of nostalgic landscape painting is very reminiscent of nazi art and specifically, Hitler's art.

Nazis were extremely judgmental of "entartete Kunst" (degenerate art). Bansky's usual work very well fall into this category! So for him to go for this style of painting in particular is another choice I find very interesting, because I can see some people react to this painting with some variation of "oh, I didn't know he could actually draw! I thought he is a hack but he is a real artist!" - and that is where they would agree with the Nazis.

I dunno I just find this piece very compelling

ouroborosorder

oh that is actually fascinating. in fact, to add on- a detail I omitted because I just kinda forgot to mention it. The reason there’s two signatures in the corner is because it was a painting in a thrift shop, Banksy adding the Nazi, and then returning it to the shop.

I think there’s something interesting about recognizing the lineage of this type of art and wanting to mess with it, subvert the intent, and explore the topic and legacy. It’s potent. I really like this piece

Word

lowkey too busy drawing cutscenes and sprites but i’d love to draw some “canon accurate frenrey” (aka loser nerd gordonplayer and his computer) for pride month. like happy pride month the player is trans and bi…! and doesn’t know if he’s supposed to take his pc to the pride parade or….?

blacktobackmesa

"Hey man! (are you good with "man"? cool.) Anyway i love your whole outfit-thing. Long distance relationships can be rough, great to see awareness." "Uh? Oh! Yeah, thank you! I'm--"

"no his computer's just gay. i made him drive me here"

"Benrey--"

#lol #hlvrai

ivipl1

girl who never got to fight back x girl who never got to be vulnerable

#YEEEEAAAAHHHHHH #deltarune

danceintheskies

bigender limp bizkit be like it's all about the he/her she/him bullshit

kneatle

I got the game and now I get to feed my miis cigarettes too. >:)

eisenkrahe

"As the LGBT community continues to face barriers in healthcare, we remember our past—when lesbians bravely stepped in to support our gay brothers during the AIDs epidemic.

When the AIDs epidemic first broke in 1981, widespread hysteria ensued—with AIDs being labeled the "gay plague." Medical professionals, confused and biased, even refused to be in the same room as those with AIDs. Lesbians (and some straight women) went to the frontlines, donating blood and offering support to those in hospitals and suffering alone.

This bravery is why the "L" comes first in the acronym "LGBT." Our history is what makes us who we are. And it's a reminder that we can get through this."

i think avoidance is such a little-recognized ocd compulsion. all the time i talk to people with ocd who are like "i was always having intrusive thoughts about using kitchen knives and harming myself or others but i'm okay now because i just stopped using knives ever 👍 so i'm good now"

and i'm like unfortunately i have bad news.

wizardarchetypes

if you don't know why this doesn't work, the issue is that ocd never stops when you implement a compulsion. it evolves. today you've "solved" it by never using a knife again (and losing access to an important cooking tool, thus limiting an aspect of your life) but in a few months or a year it'll be that forks are dangerous too. and hey, isn't it risky to use the stove? avoidance will even begin to manifest in places you might not recognize.

the point is that OCD compulsions are never solutions, they're actually the problems. the intrusive thoughts SEEM like the problem and the compulsions FEEL like the solution. and that's how it getsya.

wizardarchetypes

i once saw a serial killer on the news wearing green and became fixated on the obsession that if i wore green it would like. hypnotize me into serial killing in my sleep (???) so i didn't wear the color green for an entire year. and of course being OCD i knew how "stupid" that was and that i wouldn't actually be effected by green clothes. i didn't actually believe that! but the fear didn't need to be real; the distress was real.

looking back it's so funny. like. dude my eyes are green. i was never safe hahahaaaa