Oh Beans

Rats - they/them - just figured out I can travel half an hour forward in time but it takes about thirty minutes to get there

[gusstelier]

"It's impossible for you to stop being the rose bride, isn't it Anthy?"

[ryrolie]

bead neuron!

[ruderubicante]

A Love for Ignorance

[ladyoftheharbour]

you don't like bajo? 🪕? plunk plunk?

[ladyoftheharbour]

damn ok owned

[homunculus-argument]

Goths aren't "true to seed" in the sense that the biological offspring of two goths do not necessarily grow up to be goth, though inheriting the inclination for it from both parents increases the odds significantly. That is not how goths naturally reproduce.

The process is actually quite sophisticated, and requires the presence of a full-grown goth to trigger it. A pupal-stage proto-goth, at this point completely indistinguishable from any other small human child, only needs to encounter a mature specimen once - and while the initial imprinting that ensues will only take seconds, the incubation period often takes more than a decade, even several.

The first visible step of the transformation is triggered when the dormant goth suddenly gains awareness that they have free will and can do whatever they want with their appearance. While the progress may be gradual, or seem like the transformation happened all at once overnight, the initial seed was planted years ago. And now, in full bloom, a fully-fledged mature adult goth may finally be happy.

And that's why it's important to sometimes look goth as fuck in the grocery store. You might be seen by small child who had previously hoped to die before adulthood because everything they've heard about becoming a grownup is just pure misery, who will then consequently think to themselves "actually nevermind, that's what I want to be when I grow up."

[marlynnofmany]

One of the many benefits of being weird in public is possibly saving -- and definitely improving -- a stranger's life without ever knowing.

[tinyuglyworld]

“Construction Worker” by Vladimir Serov, 1964

[laminatednewspaper]

Fifteen days of friends at the table day four, Saplings! My heart always goes out to Chital, the very first sapling

[oneheadtoanother]

[pineconebastardart]

Owen, you come to me as a long lost friend whom I once picked apples with in papa’s orchard

[weatheredcopper]

i love vultures they're like coworkers to me

[weatheredcopper]

also a version w/o the chromatic aberration :)

[jareckiworld]

Bill Miller — Feathered Canyon (pieces vintage linoleum on panel, 2024)

[shiftinghorizons]

An Ode To Fictives

(Double page spread and closeup images under the cut)

[humanmorph]

FatT pin-up week prompt 6: spooky

ghost hunt ! ghost hunt !

[fairycosmos]

fucked that you can’t fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

It is kind of crazy how often Batman stories raise the question of “is Robin ethical?” and ultimately come to the conclusion that Robin isn’t really a child. His trauma and experiences have transformed him into something else, something that looks like a child but isn’t, or only is sometimes. It’s no longer necessary or even possible to treat him as though he is a real child. Some fundamental essence of purity has been lost; further trauma and harm may heaped on the Un-Child indefinitely.

Obviously Robin is about punching clowns and telepathic gorillas, so whatever. But it betrays certain attitudes about children that are really pervasive in our culture—that children are definitionally innocent, and that innocence is a product they produce and perform for adult consumption. If that innocence is lost, damaged, or imperfect, their value is lessened and the need to protect them becomes a need to protect other children from the contamination they might spread. The Un-Child becomes a sort of contagion, a threat to the harvest, who is conditionally allowed access to childhood if they can convincingly pretend at innocence.

[the-bittern-cold]

a moment alone in the woods

[vortmort]

metamorphosis congrats to jon archivist sims for coming out as eldritch horror