One Nice Bug Per Day
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if i look back, i am lost
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

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Sweet Seals For You, Always

JBB: An Artblog!

shark vs the universe
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Janaina Medeiros
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Misplaced Lens Cap
we're not kids anymore.
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Keith Haring's story is usually told as a solo rise, but that version leaves out Angel "LA II" Ortiz, a Puerto Rican artist from the Lower East Side who collaborated with Haring from the very beginning. Angel was a teenager when they met, already active in the neighborhood's graffiti culture. He taught Keith how tagging worked on the street, painted alongside him, and guided him through spaces Keith did not come from. Angel's tags, infill, and visual language appear across works that later became associated with Keith Haring's public legacy.
After Keith Haring's death, the story changed. Museums mounted exhibitions, publishers released books, and merchandise entered the market under a single name.
In that process, Angel Ortiz was framed as hired labor instead of a collaborator, even though his work remains visible on paintings, sculptures, and objects shown in major institutions today. Angel has said openly that race played a role in his erasure, and photographer Clayton Patterson has explained how institutions chose a simpler version of the story that centered one white artist and removed a Puerto Rican collaborator. Angel Ortiz is still working as an artist today, and the time has come for the art world to give him clear credit for the work he helped create…yuliaxgon
LA II's wikipedia page
If staff reformed the ban system to stop banning trans women and used the resulting good will to re-introduce pornography, this site would become a juggernaut. It would swallow Twitter whole.
“‘The best thing for being sad,’ replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, ‘is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil […], or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then, to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the MIND can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.’”
— T. H. White, from The Once and Future King (Collins, 1958)
if you learn to love bugs with all your heart the world will feel half as hostile and a thousand times as big
Theres a sentiment I'm noticing in the tags that I'd like to address. I dont think learning to love bugs with all your heart means forcing yourself out of discomfort you have with them overnight. It's about observing a different sort of being going about its life and deliberately trying to reframe your observations through a sense of wonder and delight. It's about cultivating a positive interest and curiosity for their ecology and behaviors. It's especially about trying to uncouple the value we find in them from how 'convenient' they are to us; to face head on the part of us that wants to assign moral evil to another organism who just happens to live life in a way that is not harmonius with ours. You can love insects in this way and still recognize your own health and safety needs. We are animals living side by side within a biosphere. This is how it is, sometimes.
I think this is important to cultivate because, if you are alive at all, you are coming into conflict with countless other people and things that dont owe you an apology for their existance and needs. If you are alive at all, you are encountering countless other people and things that harmful bias and personal discomfort have made repulsive to you. This is about bugs, but its also about way more than bugs.
It's hard to explain to the uninitiated that you can just go for a walk just about anywhere with a bit of green (and sometimes even in the heart of a city) and find like a dozen neat little unique guys if you're patient and observant.
People get really into bird watching but here's a secret: bugs are WAY easier to find than birds and they let you get a lot closer.
Try to approach the world with wonder and curiosity rather than fear and revulsion. Bugs are a great place to start.
hey do you have a tumblr
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Reblog if you don’t have a tumblr
saw a woman talking about how betrayed she felt by her female gyno who really hurt her during a pap smear & claimed the cervix has no nerve endings. & i really do feel for her but also I think this is the problem with people only viewing medical bigotry and abuse as a problem that is the byproduct of other forms of bigotry & not tied to how the medical establishment works inherently.
it's not just "that doctor has internalized misogyny" it's that western medicine is, as in so many parts of our culture, deeply authoritarian. the patient is meant to be a passive problem to be solved by the active doctor. there is meant to be a stark harsh line between you and the doctor, where you are pure of any medical knowledge and simply report the raw data & let the doctor interpret it. this is how the system works. it fucks over marginalized groups the most because that's how marginalization works, but even a thin white abled cis man could get fucked over by this shit if he's unlucky.
female doctors will not save us! trans doctors will not save us! doctors of color will not save us! these are all GOOD things and we DO need more representation in the medical field, it DOES help. but it will not save us. the same goes with teaching as well frankly. these issues cannot be reduced down to simply getting more people from columns B C and D into the same fucked system. nothing can make up for the societal change of heart we really need.
#I'm biased because i work primarily with residents #but i really do think changing the culture of residency is the key to changing so many problems in medicine #if you're expected to work to the point and past exhaustion you're going to expect your patients to tough it out #if you're expected to treat your attending as an unquestionable authority then you're going to expect your patients to treat you that way #diversity is not going to fix the issue that doctors have to endure legitimate trauma to get their license #and are also discouraged from getting therapy for that trauma for fear of losing that license which absolutely happens #the fact that therapy is discouraged and can risk your job rather than MANDATORY for physicians is so backwards #i know what viewing all those pathology images did to me i can't even imagine what that does to someone working in clinical care #i think the way doctors behave make more sense if you realize that every single one of them has unprocessed trauma
(Tags from mixedmeter-wav)
Never read Baldwin before?
Nonfiction
The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)
The Fire Next Time (pdf download)
Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)
Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)
The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)
Fiction
Giovanni's Room (pdf download)
If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)
BONUS
Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)
Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)
Another Country (pdf and epub download)
Sonny's Blues (pdf download)
Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)
My next Black History Month request:
Pick one of James Baldwin's works and read it!!! The Fire Next Time is an excellent essay, most of us are familiar with the quote on gay white people from The Last Interview but not the rest of it. If Beale Street Could Talk even has a movie!
Naruto angst wanking while watching the videos he and Sasuke took while Sasuke’s away.
don’t get him wrong he’ll never tire of those videos but man he just misses Sasuke so much when he’s gone he just wishes he was in bed with him not even just for the sex but he misses getting to cuddle him and surround himself in his scent. he’s taken to hoarding Sasuke’s dirty laundry while he’s away so he can sniff it when the apartment stops smelling like him which is something he will never ever tell Sasuke.
Naruto is fine for the first like 48 hours. The videos are enough to keep him preoccupied in his downtime. He lays in his bed, his sad, cold, lonely little bed, and watches the screen inches from his face. He’s absolutely entranced by Sasuke’s soft expressions in the videos, the moans crackling through the speakers that he can hear in his head at almost crystal clear quality. He closes his eyes and remembers how good it felt, how warm Sasuke was, how his hand felt in his hair and his legs around his waist as he held him closer. Naruto finishes and falls asleep perfectly normally.
Then on day three he starts to get sullen. He’s tired, dragging his feet and spacing out. He’s not doing his missions nearly as enthusiastically or fast as before. He spends more and more time at home, which severely worried everyone around him. The place grows quiet and cold, barely a lingering trace of Sasuke’s energy in the rooms anymore even though it’s only been three days. Then Naruto turns his head and spots the hamper. It’s got a pile building up inside it, mostly Sasuke’s as Naruto chooses to leave his clothes scattered on the floor. All of Sasuke’s dark black clothes blurred into one another into this big vague lump that was distinctly not the usual brighter clothes of the blonde. Naruto pauses as he wonders if he’s really gonna do this…..fuck it. He’s desperate enough.
He reaches in and pulls out a shirt and instantly brings it to his face. It’s cold but still smells like him and Naruto’s shoulders instantly relax. It smells like petrichor and salt, like Naruto is standing at the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea he can also smell lingering traces of Sasuke’s deodorant in the pit of the shirt, clean and soap like. He huffs that shirt like it’s Sasuke himself, constantly shifting it around to get newer, fresher smells.
He reaches into the hamper again and pulls out some black briefs. For a half second he feels like a pervert before leaning in and pressing his nose to the fabric. It smells even stronger. He lets out an audible moan in the silent house and if anyone were around he knew he would never live it down. Naruto is hard and his heart aches at the same time. He tosses the clothes back in the hamper and picks up the whole thing, dragging it to his bed and dumping all its contents onto it. He flops down on top, burying his face into the clothes that landed on his pillow. He sleeps better than he ever has in the past few days.
Naruto spends those remaining days alternating between counting the seconds down and jerking off while nose deep in Sasuke’s clothes. It comforts him like nothing else. He rubs his face all over them until they start to smell like him instead. He’s chosen to slowly work his way down the line of clothes, sniffing them until he’s absorbed all trace of Sasuke and tossing them back into the hamper. He’s saving the man’s underwear for his quarter-daily jerk off sessions. He lays there in bed with Sasuke’s underwear on his face, nose buried into the crotch as he fucks his slicked up fist.
Playing behind his eyes is every POV he’s ever had of him fucking Sasuke; Sasuke bent over, on his knees with his nose in Naruto’s bush, facing him with one leg pressed to his chest while Naruto fucked him against the kitchen counter, his knees to his nose with one arm wrapped around them as Naruto folded him in half and fucked him like an animal. All the moans and whimpers and whines Sasuke lets out, noises only Naruto will ever hear, play in his head like a cacophony. He cums hard, groaning as one hand presses the fabric harder against his face like he wants it to be on Sasuke, like Sasuke will appear above him wearing them and Naruto can nuzzle his nose against his cock and get the scent straight from the source.
He cleans himself up quickly so he can rush back to bed and cuddle with Sasuke’s shirt, using it like a pillowcase so no matter what he will always have it close
fighting inner demons
Gaara— no. 1 Sasuke x Naruto hater
squeezes u
Sasuke's waist and Naruto's hips