[deadlyduarte]

Art by: galactixy_illustrations on Instagram

[redlipstickresurrected]

Jie Song (Malaysian, b. 1982, Malaysia, based Kuala Lumpur, KL, Malaysia) - Flourish in Radiance, 2025, Paintings: Oil, Acrylic on Canvas

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

[mementochao]

Despite everything, it's still you.

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That's really cool actually

[tanoraqui]

#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry

@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.

[lamignonette]

[fat-models]

Kenna Sharp

[thefugitivesaint]

oakoak, 'Free Rothko', 2024 Source

[freshcuntgrass]

The best thing about this is how much love for Rothko there is in it. Like... here. Here is a rectangle, and if you stand far away it's just two or three colors a bit streaky, and the closer you get the more it opens up until it swallows you whole with the idea of how vast it is, how much bigger than you. If someone framed the real-life sea and sky and told everybody that's what my artwork was like to them I'd kiss them

[greenishness]

i'm thinking about charlotte brontë spending her last years editing and publishing her sisters' writings and about christopher tolkien dedicating his life to the protection and meticulous reconstruction his father's life's work and about johanna van gogh publishing the letters between vincent and theo that would propel vincent van gogh into fame because she knew how much her husband had loved his brother, and about how so often art isn't just a reflection of the artist's mind and skills but a testament to the fact that they were loved

[greenishness]

My sister just quoted this post at me over dinner bc it was discussed in her philosophy class & I can't even smugly inform her of its authorship. Due to the mindhunter yaoi state of my most recent blog history.

[charl0ttan]

huge fan of the depth of a good purple but another area that draws me is definitely around aquamarine/turquoise/seafoam. you can not go wrong once the green starts getting just a tinge more blue. a gal could certainly do worse than to pull over there and stay a while

[charl0ttan]

something earth shattering going on here

[emily84]

this is why one of my favorite all-time paintings is Ship in Stormy Seas by Ivan Aivazovsky... he was really onto something there

a close up to just... light shining through those waves, makes me feel faint with exhilaration every time

[is-there-a-boat]

THERE IS A BOAT BY IVAN AIVAZOVSKY!!

[clayandsorcery]

Ivan Aivazovsky could paint glowing water. One of the GOATs for sure.

[femme--deer-deactivated20260430]

Credits to the photographer Honey Gilmore. Consider checking out their other work !! :

https://www.instagram.com/iamhoneygilmore/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

[throesofincreasingwonder]

About to say something that will make everyone very mad but actually sometimes being uncomfortable with discussions/depictions of sex is a 'you' issue and you need to address it.

Yes, it is fine to be uncomfortable with sex. But if depictions or discussions of sex make you so uncomfortable that you don't think they should exist in public or without warning, you have to do the work of asking yourself why sex makes you uncomfortable, and to what degree that discomfort is helping or harming you or others

You are being actively pressured by large societal forces to be uncomfortable discussing sex and uncomfortable with seeing it. There are people arguing that gay people are deviant and need to be kept from public spaces because what makes them different is sexual preference, and that makes pride pins allusions to sex that could traumatize unconsenting people. This is people using their discomfort with sex to harm others.

There are laws being passed around the world right now predicated on the idea that seeing sex or discussions of sex are traumatizing or harmful for children, and this is not true. This is people using your discomfort with sex to get you to allow mass surveillance and the heightened control of minors.

Is the "movies shouldn't have sex scenes" discussion the biggest problem in the world? No. But it is part of a larger cultural trend toward isolating sex (a normal, natural thing the majority of humans do or want) from the rest of the human experience, and using that distance to other and target marginalized people by painting them as perverts.

Sexual liberation is and always has been an important cornerstone of queer activism because sex negativity is real, harmful, and the current cultural norm.

[tanyushenka]

Tomb of Shah Rukn e Alam (Bahauddin Zakaria), Multan, Pakistan  @Danish Khan

[modelsof-color]

Yihyun Kim at Laquan Smith Fall 2026

[rivercreature]

whittled wolves

[shamebats]

"Because I Love You" by Lex Marie.

[shamebats]

She spent hours upon hours just beating the canvas with a belt...

[gay-milton-quotes]

when you look at the finished painting, you can almost see letters - but there aren't any. It's all noise. a lot of adults process this sort of beating by insisting there is a lesson in it. with the title and artist statement in mind, it's like they're trying to read a message of love written in that chaotic canvas.

[isbergillustration]

Trans Inclusive Haunted Dogs & Skulls

[cryptotheism]

Cafe at The Portland art museum has Rothko no. 5 cakes. Something intellectually meaty about seeing the painting in person, and then eating a cake copy. The complete experience. Full spectrum.

[lacefuneral]

for ref:

[ospreyonthemoon]

THE ROTHCAKE.....

[darkcoastphotography]

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