autistic surrealist

not many people know about this Tumblr so I'll unapologetically be myself here :)) free Palestine 🇵🇸 free Tibet

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(updated 1/11/25)

Quick intro:

I'm Tristan, or Stoneman, or Stoneslate

Autistic Surrealist, Libertarian Socialist, Radical Buddhist, Limerent Outsider, Lover of the Grotesque

My only hobby right now is reading and gaming, but I want to get back into writing, drawing, animation, creating OCs, all that jazz

Likes: Surrealist, outsider and transgressive art, experimental and weird music, eroguro and horror manga, weird anime, philosophy, poetry, political theory

Dislikes: Commercialism, fools, capitalism

Favourite artists / writers: Shuji Terayama, Hiroshi Harada, Suehiro Maruo, Takashi Mizutani, Luis Buñuel, Francis Bacon, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Comte de Lautreamont, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Marquis de Sade, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg

Favourite bands / musicians: Les Rallizes Dénudés, J.A Seazer, Hijokaidan, Hanatarash, High Rise, Osees, Ty Segall, Coachwhips, Lightning Bolt, Suicide, Captain Beefheart

DNI: Stalinists, Zionists, Nationalists

I'll post on here whatever interests me at the moment (right now it's Shoujo Tsubaki), & I'll make the occasional political post every once in a while B)

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＜2026＞ STOP THE GENOCIDE, NO WAR, No Hate Speech

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The Outside of the Universe This scene depicts Harada’s fantasy that “the outside of the universe is a single atom.”

Drawing, music: Hiroshi Harada

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I would post more on social media but I don't know what to post or say lol

The two Shoujo Tsubaki photodumps got a lot of attention somehow, so thank you for that

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Just read: Lychee Light Club by Usamaru Furuya.

A brilliant eroguro work. I didn't think I would get emotionally attached to a robot anytime soon, but this of all works have changed that. (lol) Religious symbolism, search for eternal beauty gone (EXTREMELY) wrong, nice stuff.

The art is just delicious, raw and detailed. Highly skilled work.

And a bonus: I got a high quality French edition of Rose Colored Monster by Suehiro Maruo. It's really surreal to have a physical object from this man after exclusively reading scanlations of his work online. One of my favourite artists of all time, I'm glad I finally have this in my collection.

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"Sometimes entertainment is an overrated function of art. Sometimes being made uncomfortable is the point. Sometimes being repulsed by something is the point."

Simon Pegg in the Criterion Closet

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“write whatever you want, unless it’s…”, “draw whatever you want, unless it’s…” no, actually, when I say write/draw whatever you want, I mean write whatever you want, draw whatever you want. no buts. no “unless it’s…” censorship has no place in art.

art can be about taboo subjects. art can deal with something socially unacceptable. art can disturb and disgust. art doesn’t have to be for everybody.

tag your warnings so that people who might be triggered by your art don’t accidentally get exposed to it and you’re all good.

and if people try to shame you for the art you create because it’s “problematic” then you can tell them to fuck off and mind their own business. they read the warnings. they choose to read and engage with your art on their own free will. that’s not your problem.

dark fics and macabre art do not—have never, and never will—reflect artists’ in-real-life moralities.

harassing artists, real people, over fictional things will never make you “morally superior”. it only makes you a bully.

again, censorship has no place in art.

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Just a reminder that the US is not a "free country" as many patriots and history teachers would suggest. Our prison system is designed as a loophole to allow for slavery. People are extorted for essential goods and services like healthcare and housing. Workers are exploited and underpaid. The government thinks it has the right to make decisions that interfere with one's bodily autonomy. Anyone who looks Hispanic enough is subject to being kidnapped and taken to a literal concentration camp.

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Photos from a screening of Shoujo Tsubaki at the Dark Night Phantom Paradoxa Festival, 2000

Photographer unknown, reposted from @g0reicide on Twitter

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Madge Gill (1882-1961) selected artwork. All untitled

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another drawing because I am BORED

Canon burn

Fuck you canon burn

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as much as I hate kanabun for his actions I kinda feel sad for him because he's a minor plus he's into bdsm (I think that's how you pronounce it) which is even more disgusting and sad when you think about it, and also he's in a relationship with Mr. Arashi (who is probably way older than him which is weird)

No I don't forgive him or anything

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real cuz he’s a bitch but he deserves better

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art dump again

I believe some of these never made it to the blog so it's worth sharing it with y'all

I also need to heal my ego because it's been hurt by other artists which I saw draw my fixations better than me and it happens every single time I have a fixation so don't mind this

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Repost from Hiroshi Harada's twitter

Another DVD or Blu ray release of Midori / Shoujo Tsubaki has been attempted for a while now, however no companies are willing to release a DVD due to the master data sent over being too low resolution.

Despite the original 16mm negatives of the film being found back in 2013, it is unable to be scanned in HD due to price issues. It would cost 1 million yen or around 5,000 euros to scan Midori in HD, which is too much for an independent artist like Harada.

It's painful seeing such a unique film by a talented artist be neglected like this. Granted this thread was from 3 years ago, there's still a possibility things have changed since then, especially since the release of his newest film Zashikiro.

While reading this I was reminded of a group called Kineko Video who specialises in scanning & restoring rare anime oddities in 4K, their most notable work being a 4K restoration of a lost Super Mario movie. It would be cool to see a group like that help out in properly archiving Harada's films, but given the graphic content and reputation of Midori I doubt most groups like that would be interested.

I hope Harada and his team Kiryukan will be able to give Midori the restoration it deserves sometime.

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References to Shuji Terayama in Hiroshi Harada's films

Both Hiroshi Harada and Suehiro Maruo were heavily influenced by avant-garde playwright and filmmaker Shuji Terayama in their work. If you're a Shoujo Tsubaki fan, I highly recommended you watch Terayama's film Pastoral: To Die in the Country released in 1974. Without spoiling it too much, you will be able to tell where Maruo got his inspiration for Shoujo Tsubaki (and aside from all that it's a really good movie).

Most of Terayama's influence is seen in story patterns and certain aesthetics in Maruo's work, and for Harada his influence can be seen in how he released and screened his films. However, while watching both their films, I did notice stone direct references to Terayama's films in Harada and Maruo's work. This post will be a short collection of stills that show these references I spotted. I recommend you watch the films themselves, as it's hard to portray these in stills alone.

1. Pointing Hand Symbol

2. Portrait of person is crossed out with black X

3. Owner of freak show scares aways kids trying to get in without permission

4. Acts in freak show have intercourse in front of protagonist (Pastoral: To Die in the Country & MIDORI / Shoujo Tsubaki; due to Tumblr's guidelines I can't show the stills for this reference)

5. Strange announcements to the audience (The Audience Seats 1971 play & The Death Lullaby; the strange announcement at the beginning of the Death Lullaby was inspired by The Audience Seats, a play by Terayama that utilized unusual announcements and requests for the audience)