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French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

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If i were an animator for wha, i too would fall in love with brushbuddy and give it more screentime

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brushbuddy doodles <3

(commission info // tip jar!)

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Heard a car horn today that was tuned to a fifth. Fucked up, kinda delightful

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I want people to understand how jarring this was. Most car horns are either a single tone or two tones somewhere in the neighborhood of a minor third apart:

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Pretty normal rush hour sounds, yeah? But this thing sounded something like this:

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Fucked up! Didn't even realize it was a car horn at first, I didn't know what the fuck it was! It was weird as hell!

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[artmagine]

The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

[kingfucko]

i went to his website and saw even more great art! sharing some more which i particularly appreciated

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Happy pride!

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This kid is so fucking good holy shit. I love how into it the audience is, too

[lepidopteranodon]

Welp I was doing a bit of late-night research for my current project, which involves animals, and I came across an excerpt from a 13th-century bestiary by Pierre de Beauvais describing how, when hunted, the beaver bites off its testicles and throws them at the face of the hunter, who then picks them up, stops the hunt and leaves.

"In the same way, a man willing to follow God's commandments and live a pure life must sever his testicles, that is all his vices, and throw all wrong actions onto the face of the hunter, that is the Devil, who constantly hounds him." (Rough translation mine, it's late, quality doubtful)

Yes there is a 13th-century drawing of the beaver biting off its testicles. No I don't know why this is the particular passage which Wikipedia decided to highlight in this very short article on Pierre de Beauvais. Pierre. Pierre. Lay off the spiced wine Pierre.

Time for bed, right? Right

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EVERYONE STOP TELLING ME HOW OLD YOU WERE IN 2008 I DONT WANNA HEAR THAT SHIT

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SOME OF YOU SHOULD BE AT THE OPRHANGE

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preschool. I meant preschool.

[hellenhighwater]

Well those are allllmost done

[codebreakerblue]

question. why do you have 7 featureless grey monoliths in your driveway

[hellenhighwater]

There's eight actually but the last one is still in the garage

[jackfromthefairytale]

question. why do you have eight featureless grey monoliths

[hellenhighwater]

They're actually a really dark purple

[fishofthewoods]

question. why do you have seven featureless really dark purple monoliths in your driveway and an eighth in the garage

[hellenhighwater]

Some of them do have features though. There's holes and hinges and stuff, so I can put secrets in em

[nobodywasneverhere]

question. why do you have 8 really dark purple occasionally featureful monoliths

[hellenhighwater]

The heart wants what the heart wants

[fred-the-dinosaur]

this reads like a muppet sketch

[fred-the-dinosaur]

see? See!??!

[hellenhighwater]

You're not wrong

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This post is less than six months old.

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World Heritage Post

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...ah.

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Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life North American; United States, pub. 1994

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'The Little Mermaid' by Hiroaki Ikeda, 1971

[disaster-magnet]

Theres currently some crows nesting on the building opposite us, and they still remember that we used to put out bird food years ago (had to stop because of too many neighbour complaints of loud jackdaws in the garden), and have managed to work out that they need a sneaky way to get food without alerting all the other birds.

This has had the consequence of me having to inform my flatmate that if he hears a polite knock at the kitchen window he needs to feed the crows or they WILL start trying to steal our cookbooks.

[disaster-magnet]

I wonder who could have done this. Surely not an innocent lil fella like this one

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Adolf von Becker (1831 - 1909) - The Cat on the Pillow.

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I chainsaw'd in two the old stairs that were in the barn, and placed one half between my house and the greenhouse, where the steps I carved into the slope every year kept disappearing - but my new stairs got claimed by Nature in record time.

I decided to let nature (and snails) have this half, and placed the other half next to it so there could be stairs for humans.

...

The second half was immediately claimed by cats. I find a cat on a step every time I try to get to the greenhouse—you'd think this could be a multi-user space, but the cats insist on lounging across the whole step or else it’s not worth it—and if I bother them they make it abundantly clear whose stairs these are.

[monstermonger]

Friend in an alleyway | my wife sent me this photo the other day and said "you HAVE to draw this." and I agreed completely <:

[monstermonger]

oops I was told you can only see the photo if you have a bsky account, so here's a screenshot of it!

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