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cat • xxvii • she/her • italy gaming sideblog: @ghil-assan

[expressions-of-nature]

by Spenser Sembrat

[raylangivins]

has everyone seen the website that gives you a rothko for your local weather?

[dreadwedge]

[humanoidhistory]

Early color photographs of Antarctica, circa 1915, by Australian adventurer Frank Hurley.

[donatoarts]

Catching up on art posts, very honored and proud to share this oil painting which went live this past Friday, a work created for Elliot Lang's 'Character In Context' show at the A.R. Mitchell Museum in Trinidad, Colorado. Opening is June 5th (sorry, I will not be there) Link to the on line catalog with the few dozen talented artist's contributions with preliminary studies and final paintings in the comments below.

Precipice

20" x 16" Oil on Panel, framed, 2026

A part of my series of works in dialog with our mythological fascination with space travel and our place in the universe.

Character in Context

A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art

150 E. Main St.

Trinidad, CO 81082

June 5 - July 31, 2026

[urgetocreate]

Emma Haworth (British b. 1975), Under the Trees, 2016, Oil on canvas

[wolfythewitch]

My piece for the Sing O Muse zine! Its coming out in July so keep an eye out for the tag :]

[jellogram]

I should be doing more to appreciate the lack of marvel movies in today's popular culture. I once yearned for marvel movies to have this level of irrelevance. They used to feel almost ozymandian, like an empire that had no beginning and no end. and now tony stark iron man is naught but two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

[dappledwithshadow]

Vincent van Gogh Still Life with French Novels and Glass with a Rose 1887

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[toskarin]

ahaha you sly dog! you bastard! [getting a little too comfortable] you wretched fucking animal

[lestogrifoni]

it's national conference of germanic philology time and they've all been telling me I'm the future of germanic philology but they don't know about my 5 open tabs on applying for admin work in antarctica

[ahotknife]

YOU don’t have to be perfect to be loved. but I do

[tredekim]

[woodrider]

ma'am, I'm going to place you on a brief hold while I look for a reaction image

[hippiedippieblondie]

Male loneliness this, male loneliness that. Have they tried lobotomies? Tranquilizers? Being fingered by medical professionals? Tearing the yellow wallpaper off the walls of the attic room where your husband keeps you locked up?

[pmamtraveller]

Gustav Klimt garden paintings

[classicalcanvas]

Etretat, the Beach and the Porte d'Aval (1883) by Claude Monet