Aesthetic Ho

Quiche/22 I'm obsessed with a lot of shit

[jennerallydrawing]

this is a real scene in the movie. i-i think.

[perilegs]

why hasn't no one posted the kringlefucker yet. you guys used to love the kringlefucker.

[commander-ledi]

fixing this injustice by slapping it on your post

[perilegs]

yaay! yippee!

[mayoiayasep]

t-shirt that says i watched i saw the tv glow and all i got was this ache in my chest from an emotion i cant put the name to

[scramratz]

[uncleromeo]

if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

[lemonade-drlnker]

What are we, Some kinda Dune: Part Two (2024)?

[neon-ufo]

i, too, wanted to redraw the bride and the ugly ass groom

[alivehouse]

can someone hire me as a lighthouse keeper. my grip on reality is soooo stable and i will behave so normally under conditions of extreme isolation. and i promise i wont try to fuck the light

[amrogersart]

A little journal about finding stuff at work! Might add to it in the future

[souvenirpopcorn]

It's us!

[nnebuchadnezzar]

why doesn’t it work for me !!

[theotherendcomics]

[renthony]

The history of the Disney company is so fucking fascinating and complicated that I could spend the rest of my life studying it.

I hate the company. I love the media. I want it to burn. I was profoundly shaped as a person by some of the art its workers have produced. It's evil. It's beautiful. It's an eldritch horrorterror personified as a charismatic mouse. It's a nightmarish example of capitalist hell. It destroys as much as it creates. It's a flaming trainwreck. I can't look away.

It's the goddamn Elephant's Foot of media studies.

[arealbonecracker]

It’s honestly fits perfectly with who Walt ultimately was. A brilliantly intelligent manipulator terrified of the inevitability of loss yet incapable of costing himself as he lashed out at his friends and workers over basic workers rights, driven to obsession over a theoretical town where he was basically a pleasant Uncle dictator who could determine the lives of his citizens right down to what appliances they use.

[renthony]

#Disney ruined copyright law#because Walt never really died#He’s in the genetics of the company#And that is far worse than being a frozen head in an urban legend

You. You get it.

[renthony]

#hot take#i think we just need to find other media#i didnt grow up with disney and i dont feel like i missed anything

Look, you can do what you want, but Disney as a company has wormed its way into everything, and as someone whose JOB is researching and analyzing media, Disney is incredibly important. Evil in many ways, but important. Disney studies are so wrapped up in the history of American film and television that you just straight-up cannot study the field without studying Disney.

Hell, even if you're studying more broadly than just American media. The cross-pollination of Disney and anime is massive. Osamu Tezuka, the Father of Manga, was famously inspired by Disney movies in his own art, to the point where it's discussed on his Wikipedia page.

That's not even getting into the fact that the company buys up everything it can get its hands on, the fact that the theme parks are deeply wrapped up in the economies and politics of the cities they're in, and the fact that Disney is a big enough entity to be a major political force in the USA. Hell, American copyright law is so twisted up in Disney's bullshit that you can't separate them. You HAVE TO talk about Disney if you're talking about US copyright law.

"Just find other media" is such a holier-than-thou response to a post that's about the field of media studies. YOU don't have to be invested in anything you don't want to be, but to respond "just find other media" on a post about my field of work is...quite irritating, actually.

This is my field. I don't need to "just find other media." I am quite familiar with plenty of other media, thank you.

[eggwraith]

opens box that reads "i wanna draw again". inside lies a note. the note says, "mental illness and difficult circumstances have taken years of interest, accessibility, and skill away from me. i want to forgive myself for that. i want to heal my relationship to my hobbies. i want to feel connected to something that once made me feel good, but the cyclic discouragement is difficult to overcome." i turn over the note. on the back it reads "wannta drawe sexy bodies awooga"

[eggwraith]

seems like this one really resonated with the artists who dont do art fandom

[chestnutroan]

The Thang

[alternative-snake]

make a Beast

eyes

wings

legs

teeth

bioluminescence

spikes

fur

nose

claws

scales

height

length

Voting ended onJan 22, 2024

i must ask you reblog this so said beast, you know. actually has attributes

[dysphoriaposting]

[remnantglow]

fun discovery from today's internet rabbit hole:

the first lesbian magazine published in the US, Vice Versa (1947-48), was entirely hand-typed by one Edythe Eyde (better known by her pen name Lisa Ben - yes, that IS an anagram for lesbian). she worked as a secretary with a ton of spare time on her hands, and her boss would tell her he didn't care what she was doing so long as she "looked busy"... so she decided to use her free time to type out copies of a home-made periodical for lesbians, writing most of the content - editorials, book/film reviews, poetry, short stories, and more - herself!

overall, the magazine ran for 9 issues, 16 hand-typed copies of which lisa would mail to friends (well, until one of them advised her she could be arrested for sending "obscene" materials) and distribute at lesbian bars :)

[remnantglow]

all issues of Vice Versa are digitized here! (the website also has a scan of a great article on Lisa Ben ❤️)

a lot of the issues of the first widely distributed gay publication in the US, ONE magazine (1952-1967), are also available online on JSTOR. there's also this article detailing the magazine's ups and downs and general history, it's v fascinating!

furthermore, a solid amount of The Ladder (1956-1972) - one of the other earliest lesbian periodicals in the US, published by Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian rights organization in the US - is also available for online viewing thanks to the Internet Archive