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Sai | they/them | one of those black non-binaries | this is the corny aesthetics blog i follow ppl from. sorry 4 the confusion (main blog: @ black-kurapika)

[jetix]

“Sky Box” by Parker Parrella, 2025 8x8 Acrylic on canvas

[jayyyneotai]

"Hang Your Robes" by d33d33draws

[euphorictruths]

Ponder, Loci- Helvetica Blanc; 2021

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez

[gracklesong]

From Criselda Vasquez's Instagram (3 April 2026):

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[weepingwidar]

Michael Gao (Chinese, 2002) - Rolling of the Sea (2024)

[archivearchangelica]

Unsure, 2008

[namiinaomii]

Adore this

[onionpainter]

Blue Starry Bull Oil on linen 16"x20"

[angelsaremathematical]

This one goes out to the leopard seal fans. Isn’t she beautiful?

[sumohd]

四股, Shiko

[redlipstickresurrected]

Arete Nani (based Japan) - Untitled, 2025, Paintings: Digital Art

[0xw]

[ymutate]

Olivia Clifton-Bligh

'I am borne by the wind'

linocut

[yugsly]

Painting again... maybe this is how new planets are born

[jareckiworld]

Tomiyuki Kaneko — Kurikara Dragon King (mineral pigments, acrylic, transparent watercolor, pen, foil, japanese paper, on panel, 2021)

[tinyuglyworld]

Agadir Tissint, Morocco 🇲🇦

[beguilingcorpse]

the thing about labubus to me is that i genuinely do think the design is appealing and i love things that are uglycute and if they were lowkey or more niche i think it would be super cute to have one. but the fact that they are mainstream and trendy sucks all of the fun out of it for me

[beguilingcorpse]

this isn’t just “durr hburr mainstream thing Bad i need to feel Cool” it’s just that like. collecting ANYTHING popular is such a slog to me. i love pokemon cards and i love collecting them and i love playing the tcg and i’ve been into pokemon cards for like 15 years and i think they are fun. but the recent wave of “buy them, invest in them, flip them, resell them, snatch up a whole store’s stock” is soooo exhausting. because you literally cannot avoid it as part of the hobby. it is an awful time to try to get into pokemon cards or tcg because you cannot physically get your hands on new cards. and the ppl paying hundreds to thousands of dollars to buy up new releases and restocks are not into pokemon cards for the cards - they want the monetary or social capital that comes with either (a) having extremely rare graded chase cards or (b) ‘investing’ in unopened packs that will purposefully sit in storage for the next fifteen years until they balloon in value. it’s not about pokemon it’s about profit. it’s not about the thing it’s about how to harness the idea of the thing for personal gain. you can’t engage with the Idea without necessarily inviting the Meta Idea.

going back to labubus. no one is actually into labubus. very few people care about the design or the character or the artist or any of it. labubus aren’t cool but HAVING a labubu is cool. it doesn’t matter what your opinion is about labubus but everyone has an opinion about having an opinion on labubus. if you like them you’re vapid and following a craze and trying to fit in. if you hate them you’re trying too hard to be contrarian and you hate fun and you’re being silly because it’s just a toy. you cannot win except by purchasing the thing that everybody can’t stop talking about talking about. and then you get articles like this:

and it’s like ohhh. okay. it was never about a hobby or the doll or even about the trend. it has always been about money. ok got it. thank you.

i’m so tired.