lenax

local cryptid and occasional artist, she/they, 24

[crimeboys-deactivated20250719]

god i love making animatics in my head i wish drawing was real

[lenaxart]

*shows up a day late and with outdated refs* so, artfight anyone???

[lenaxart]

"it's tattered and it's broken but it's mine" and other completely sane and normal things to say about the random guy you tortured one time in 1973

alt version:

[lenaxart]

ok. I've decided that I'm going to try to resurrect this blog and turn it a proper place to post all my art and sketches. let's see how long it lasts,,

[berlogauwu]

lobotomy and anxiety

[papayajuan2019]

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

[derelicthousefootage]

[chilewithcarnage]

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

[wizardnuke]

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

[oldshrewsburyian]

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis

[arthoesunshine]

i like to pretend i already died and asked god to send me back to earth so i can swim in lakes again and see mountains and get my heart broken and love my friends and cry so hard in the bathroom and go grocery shopping 1,000 more times. and that i promised i would never forget the miracle of being here

[arthoesunshine]

— our town, thornton wilder

[classicalcanvas]

Ophelia (1889) by John William Waterhouse

[granstromjulius]

Guercino

[swagvo1d]

i think i'm gonna die in this house

[heavyrain-dc]

Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are many things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling… knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go… But, of course, ceasing to be in love need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense - love as distinct from being in love - is not merely a feeling

C.S. Lewis

[olecap]

my design of Aphrodite!!

the background is inspired by the works of Alphonse Mucha

[grozat]

chasing green

[emcheeseman]

spring dogwood, summer oak 🌳

[osteophagy]

Did a little scene between stuff at work.

[191195-deactivated20240210]

this obliterated me

[violentthunder]

Antigonick, Anne Carson

[folk-melody]

Punishment, Rabindranath Tagore (Translated by William Butler Yeats)

[tunisian]

weight, jacqueline woodson

[sajirah]

Just gonna leave this here since a lot of people seem to be missing the point of this thread.

[boonbeenblade]

@artanogon

[metamorphesque]

to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die

from John Keats’s love letter to Fanny Brawne Tristan and Isolt (Death), Rogelio de Egusquiza The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet, Frederick Leighton Death of Francesca de Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, Alexandre Cabanel