[graveyard-pansy]

“feel no guilt in your desires”

linocut, black ink on off-white linen

[astraldemise]

IN A WORLD WHERE BEAUTY AND ATTRACTIVENESS HAVE BECOME SO COMMONPLACE AND MUNDANE THE EXCEPTIONAL UGLINESS HAS BECOME DIVINE

[astraldemise]

I SAW AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR A CAR THAT LOOKS LIKE EVERY OTHER CAR AND THEY COMPARED IT TO A UNUSUAL UGLY LITTLE VEHICLE AND ITS STRANGENESS WAS FAR MORE CAPTIVATING THAN THE SLEEK BORING CAR THE AD WAS ACTUALLY FOR

[soracities]

Umberto Eco, On Ugliness

[genderkoolaid]

These Dreamlike Photos Feel Radical For Showing Black Transmasculine People At Rest

“There aren’t any flowers within the images I make, but the flowers are the Black transmasculine people themselves,” Texas Isaiah said of hi

"There aren’t any flowers within the images I make, but the flowers are the Black transmasculine people themselves."

[ms-demeanor]

Hey kids, wanna learn what signs of botulism look like?

[ms-demeanor]

Since the sell by date wasn't for another 4 days I returned them. I was checking out at the store and I was like "i'm not sure you want to take them out of the bag" and he did and a passing manager was just like "That looks like a bomb, I'm just gonna take it to the back" and was off like a shot.

[ms-demeanor]

Okay but seriously, if you have a package of food like this or especially if you have a can that is bulging like this, it is literally full of poison, do not open it and absolutely positively do not eat it under any circumstances.

Any food packaging that is bulging has to be considered unsafe to eat. A lot of people who might be living on their own for the first time don't know what that looks like, and this is a really, really extreme example, but yeah if the top of a can has become slightly domed from internal pressure that's going to kill you, don't eat it.

[mortalityplays]

the whole point of a zine is that it's cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you're being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than "my work can be reproduced as part of this publication" it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.

[mortalityplays]

this isn't snobby gatekeeping or imaginary semantic problems or whatever, this is an issue that has come up irl at cons and zine fairs local to me and which keeps coming up online. people who show up to trade fairs selling professionally printed $15 anthologies as 'zines' have a direct impact on the people trying to sell their $3 chapbooks at the next table over. submission based kickstarter projects that bill themselves as 'zines' exploit the connotations of amateur, punk production values to induce creators to work for less and eschew formal guarantees and protections they are entitled to.

[leog4u]

my favorite zines have all been $1 or free and printed on highlighter paper. i used to pick em up from a book store in chelsea that sold predominantly self published work, and had sections for zines. Some were about how to eat cheap in the city when most of your paycheck went to rent, others were talking about the best drag performances in town, and plenty of DIY stuff. all of them had the same unique quality: nobody but the author and their collaborators could've made this, and they wanted to make it easily accessible to the community

i kinda hate that the word that was used for extremely personal and cheap works is applied to essentially art books of your favorite anime OTP

[mortalityplays]

hi! sorry, real quick:

grab a piece of paper and fold it in half like a book

write "im indifferent to zines" on the cover

write "i've never been able to buy one" on the first page

write "and i'll never be in one" on the second page

write "just want to be a hater today" on the back

congrats you're in a zine! if you like you can photocopy it and sell it to art students, fellow haters, or anyone with a sense of humour. I'll buy one.

[intelligentchristianlady]

U.S. will again offer free at-home Covid tests starting Monday

Americans will soon be able to use COVIDtests.gov to request four free tests, the Biden administration said in a release. 

Time to stock up again.

[teratocybernetics]

yo even if you have some pick as many of these up as they'll let you, they're supposed to be new ones that catch the newer variants

[fieldbears]

COVID Home Tests | USPS

Actual link!!

[gerardpilled]

I think it’s funny when fans are shocked people saw mcr in 2005 for $20… like yeah you too can go see a future world famous band at a local venue for $20 right now

[gerardpilled]

It seems some people are interpreting this as meaning that it’s impossible to see certain bands for this price these days? While yes you’re correct what I’m saying is that you never know who is gonna blow up so at one point every artist has $20 tickets. Also normal priced tickets are definitely still a thing if you don’t primarily see artists that are super famous. 95% of the shows I go to are under $50

[larry-david-lynch]

You can literally be on the ground floor of seeing the next big band right now if y’all would go to local shows. The amount of insanely talented bands out there that play to empty rooms is a travesty. Go support local bands rn

[fleshdyke]

me and the mutuals

[giftinguava-deactivated20230827]

once you’ve been bodyhair pilled you can’t unsee how weird shaving is

[milsae]

nerd gf kiss in 3 seconds

[potatoesandsunshine]

everything u need to know about me can actually be explained by the fact that i read that poem about the serving girl wearing the pearls so they're warm for her mistress when i was like 11 and it rewrote my brain chemistry forever

like this Changed Me

[unofficial-sean]

surfing flatfish! drop what you’re doing! Important!

[unofficial-sean]

HAPPY FLAT FUCK FRIDAY

[handsomeboymodelingschool]

You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick

[shutyourmoustache]

So long, Solidarity Summer! Helloooooo, Fuck You Pay Me Fall!

[shutyourmoustache]

Don’t you just love Kiss My Ass Autumn?

[titsay]

i like hanging out with u

[hayaomiyazaki]

would love to turn people on to nz on screen, a free archive of new zealand and māori content with over 4500 titles!

the site is accessible in both english and te reo, and it includes over 500 films, 3000 tv series & specials, 2000 documentaries, as well as history series & specials, chat shows, musicals, lgbtq+ content, standup, children's shows, historic news & sports, and more :)

new zealand and māori filmmaking & content, particularly from before the late 2000s, can be exceptionally hard to track down and haven't been given the archival attention they deserve, so this is an amazing resource!

[renamok]

[noromodragon-deactivated2019082]

This really hit home, and there are many types of families in the world. It would be great if more people could realize that.