[ilovemolly]

My favorite Miguel adrover look ever <3

[epiphainie]

people get so mad when you tell them that their lowbrow entertainment they enjoy is actually lowbrow

[epiphainie]

everyone wants their self-indulgent romantasy to be considered high literature and whatever new mainstream pop boy/girl to be treated as the next beethoven and their gay fluff show on streaming apps to be revolutionary art changing the world and like, they're not. and that's okay. i'm literally watching the stupidest show right now and it's fine. it doesn't have to be more.

[epiphainie]

there's also the argument of how pop culture used to be the trickle down from high culture for the longest time but now it's an ouroboros eating itself as access and willingness to engage with high culture have been systematically destroyed and diminished through the last decades so your popcorn flick moviemaker now only gets inspiration from other popcorn flicks when their foreparents used to actually read literature and see art of all kinds and your pop musicians used to listen to all sorts of new and old music rather than just their contemporaries/competition and maybe this absence of any sort of culture outside of our easy algorithms is why everyone's so defensive of what they passively consume and so attached to it as a part of their identity but that's a discussion for another day

[havingapoemwithyou]

Essay on Crying at Night by Ken Chen

[comeslowdiscoveryzone]

[thoodleoo]

reading about the participation of children in rituals as a form of play in ancient greece and came across an incredibly charming story from julius pollux's onomasticon where a flood prevented the adults from reaching a sanctuary to sacrifice a ram to heracles, and the children solved the problem by....sticking a bunch of sticks in an apple to give it "legs" and "horns" and offering it as a sacrifice instead. it's such a charming thought and i can perfectly picture kids these days also pretending at sacrificing an apple "goat" at recess

[thoodleoo]

catch me on the playground playing sacrifices

[kristina100000]

me in a dance competition if there was ever a theme called “a dyke and her 32 y/o gay guy”

[slowlikehoney1996]

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

[mournfulroses]

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

[symeonae]

The Hunger Artists, Maud Ellmann

[nigelgraz]

do you trace your references? some of these are identical like the 20s lady fur coat on the bed.

Hi! I don’t trace them, sometimes i sketch a loose silhouette from my references (including real photos) to get the proportions right, then delete the layer and rebuild the anatomy from scratch using the sketch as a guide♡ it’s a common technique for structure and accuracy, and has rlly helped me with my observational skills. I just like keeping things precise and proportional, not bc i can’t draw them myself but bc i get a bit obsessed with accuracy sometimes. It's actually related to an ocd compulsion i have that i've been trying to fight for a long time haha

[nigelgraz]

figured i'd share a few process pics from my drawing last night to show what i meant and how my workflow looks like!

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: The carp leaping over the dragon gate 鲤鱼跃龙门 is a classic Chinese folk symbol. It stands for people overcoming hardships to achieve success. We often use it to wish others a bright future and smooth progress. If you spot a carp leaping over the Dragon Gate, good luck will come your way.

[nigelgraz]

Btw most of the time when you start feeling like you're the laziest, most useless unproductive artist on the planet is usually because you're consuming art wayyy more than you actually create it yourself. Get offline and draw NEOW

[palesystemmalfunction]

“Heartbroken” 1895 Ignacio Diaz Olano

[grilledpeachh]

Tia Mason @green_t444

[voidcreations]

Look at my birthday cake...

[apocryphics]

“My brother used to ask the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless, but it is right; for all is like an ocean, all things flow and touch each other; a disturbance in one place is felt at the other end of the world…”

Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov

[internetarchivistt]

overcome with emotion over memories of döner…relegated to my past…