idiosyncrasy

the jumble of life

[arynella]

I updated the thing.

I also started an instagram. There's a linktr.ee in my bio with all the ways you can help out, plus a way to buy masks as I've partnered up with another creator to paint Halloween masks 🎃😷👻

[anxietyproblem]

[auntymurda]

[fursasaida]

adult life is truly just thinking “I NEED TO CLEAN” while dealing with the 17 other things that have a hard deadline

[arynella]

https://youtu.be/X9mqqypM-CU

Updates on the whole cancer thing.

Help with my bills here.

If you don't like GoFundMe, buy something from my wishlist here.

Or Venmo me @Erin-Ramos-12

Ovary-acting with Team Erin, organized by Erin Ramos

This is our best friend, Erin. She is beautiful, amazing, and smart but best of all she's BRAVE… Erin Ramos needs your support for Ovary-act

[jadenite]

Hi! Hello! I have an original webcomic I started working on called Disaster Elves. 

If you like what you see here, please consider becoming a patron for just 3 euros (the only tier), to support me in creating this story.

I’ll update twice per month, and you also get to see some of the more elaborate drawings/illustrations I usually post here a bit earlier. Maybe further along the line I’ll start making some simple tutorials too.

I will post the updates to the story here too, but on a 1-2 week delay.

Anyways, enjoy the read :)

I have yet to come up with a cover design for the story so bear with me

[oneheadtoanother]

[athousanddispositions]

Giveaway

Hey guys I've stocked up on way too much Existential Dread and I really want to do a giveaway. All you have to do is like this post nothing at all . Come take yours today. If you want some inspo on how to carry your Existential Dread, check out my other posts for some looks/moods.

[arynella]

I've been seeing a therapist since I found out I have cancer because solid mental health is cool and also because I thought my insurance covered it. In a somewhat dystopian turn, they were just covering it due to COVID and now I have to pay $25 per session.

Anyway, my GoFundMe will help cover it, but you can also Venmo me @Erin-Ramos-12 if you'd like to help out.

[arynella]

I've been seeing a therapist since I found out I have cancer because solid mental health is cool and also because I thought my insurance covered it. In a somewhat dystopian turn, they were just covering it due to COVID and now I have to pay $25 per session.

Anyway, my GoFundMe will help cover it, but you can also Venmo me @Erin-Ramos-12 if you'd like to help out.

[camp-counselor-life]

From Girl Scout’s social media. The original Twitter thread is here.

[ftgloss]

[shadowrabbits]

genuinely hope y'all are having great days bc i sure as hell am not

[plumslices]

Can we have a day without like.....information

[sirfrogsworth]

This is the kind of weaponization of the elderly I can get behind. 

[831209214411212-deactivated2024]

People will say “I don’t dream of labor” like that is nice but I just want to shelve books and generate curricula for information access and youth literacy and just because I am opposed to the fact that labor is an obligation to survival under capitalism does not mean that I don’t aspire to labor for the benefit and maintenance of society. I dream of labor that is meaningful and life-giving to my community. I know capitalist alienation has convinced you that existence is ineffectual but it’s not a revolutionary belief. It’s an outgrowth of individualism.

[andhumanslovedstories]

I’m very excited for my latest craft experiment, where I rhythmically slap sale rank oil paint onto a canvas and I see how long it takes to dry so that I can finally touch the paint textures I stare at so longingly in museums. 12 hours in, still wet. I am beginning to think this might take longer than I thought which you can imagine is quite a burden, as I am absolutely horned up to rub this paint.

[andhumanslovedstories]

You guys sound like you know what you’re talking about but I’m gonna touch it every twenty minutes just to be sure

[andhumanslovedstories]

I’ve put this canvas to age in the basement like a fine wine, along another recent masterpiece of mine “I put the paint on me hand and I slap the canvas like a bongo”

[andhumanslovedstories]

Paint slapped on 6/9, as of 6/22 (I mean actually it was a couple days ago but I didn’t fully check the dryness then so I can’t be sure):

It is rubbery feeling and the peaks of paint move when you flick them. The texture is not at ALL what I expected tbh and it makes me excited to try a different experiment, thick brush strokes, you know, those mad thicc ones that swirl real good

Here’s an additional shot with my coffee cup for a further sense of scale so people will understand that these canvases are small and therefore stop sending me asks about my supposedly gorilla sized hands, you bastards, you rotten bastards scared of the hands your minds gave me

I don’t know shit about art but isn’t this like a great example of art that pushes the boundaries of what art is? Like you’ve got your canvas with paint on it, but your reason for putting the paint there is totally different than why most people put paint on stuff. It’s like a study on texture or something.

[mazarinedrake]

Agreed, this is really cool and also I love the fact that you really wanted to touch some paint, so you just went out and bought a bunch of paint and made your own painting for touching purposes. That’s striking me as really really cool right now for reasons I can’t entirely articulate. 

[electronicgallery]

For reference: Really thick paint on a piece of art is called impasto. Another really fun way to do it is with a painting knife: you can make each stroke SUPER SMOOTH like cake icing, but with visible, touchable texture between the strokes.

More impasto:

art by Jan Ironside, who does THICK IMPASTO FLOWERS THAT I SO WANT TO TOUCH

[phoenix]

You LITERALLY sat down to watch paint dry…

[jhelenoftrek]

Museums should have stuff like this on display JUST so you can touch it. With a sign like, “Feel me up! I won’t alarm!”

[ms-demeanor]

make good art

[flip-this-table]

Only thing about thick impasto is that the paint can get a bit sharp sometimes. Like, I’ve cut my hand on dried impasto paint because the paint stroke was that pointed. -.-;

[ganymedecatamitus]

Every reply on this post is delightful