it's just posts my dude

blessedly unburdened with the complications of a university education. (heads up: terrible at tagging things. don't say I didn't warn you) Goy

[marypenelope]

What do you guys think the Eridians do with Grace's body when he dies?

[lexicals]

Hi! May I request some fluffy Blupjeans? Or Carey and Killian? Thank you!!! (Congrats on 1k~)

Thank you!! Here is some blups for you! (Sorry this took 57 years for me to get to gosh)

Don’t worry about it barry…….

[Image description: A monochrome drawing of Barry and Lup from the shoulders up. Barry is a middle-aged man with short hair and glasses, wearing an open-collared shirt and holding a mug of coffee as he leans over Lup’s shoulder to kiss her on the cheek. Lup’s hair is half up in a bun with the rest falling down to her jaw, and she’s wearing a lab coat and a pair of dark goggles. She’s holding a book in one hand and a wand in the other, and looking at something in front of her with a smirk as she says “Babe I love ya but you’d better back up ‘cause ch’girl’s about to light this thing the fuck up.” End desc.]

[pitviperofdoom]

I try not to fall into the "I never liked their work anyway" ditch when an artist/creator reveals themself to be a terrible person

BUT

a feeling I do have and will stand by is "While I enjoyed their work overall I did have some gripes that I overlooked out of affection and whimsy, but now that my loyalty is gone and my affection tainted there is nothing holding me back from enumerating my many grievances, to which the revelations of the creator's shittiness may or may not provide a new and infuriating context."

[wosp-reactivated]

Christian babies have so far not found a purpose or use outside of baseball

[json-derulo]

earlier I was coming back up from skating and one of the starstruck little kids from across the hall asked me, “how are you allowed to drive on the inside?” (referring to the fact that I carefully skate in the hallway and elevator, because swapping shoes on and off for the one-block commute to and from the park is a massive pain in the ass), and I swear to god the dialogue options that flashed up on my heads-up display were

[] Nothing in the lease explicitly says I can’t, and all uncodified rules are merely suggestions

[] I’m probably not, but the only people in this building who are fast enough to actually stop me are the maintenance guys who are all charmed by my kind green eyes and adorable dog

[x] I ate all my vegetables and did my homework so my mom said I’m allowed to do whatever I want

[anarchopuppy]

sometimes being a fan of something means not wanting them to make any more of it

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[ecstasemen]

im developing cataracts in my right eye and ill be getting surgery for it on sunday so art might be paused for a bit next week ...

[butch-witches-deactivated202412]

to help OP out for each day it is healing I will invent a new minion hybrid.

day 1: if a minion and shrek had sex that produced viable offspring

[ecstasemen]

that's okay. you dont need to do that actually

[k-mraz]

Pros of vampirism: cool commissions from over 100 years ago. Cons? You have to pay to see them.

[hailed-marys]

i got maybe the most darling comic commission request from @castielrisingabove, who wanted to see grace failing to do pushups under the combined weight of some very enthusiastic pebbles! he's okay guys, don't worry, he's just... taking a break

[darkandstormydolls]

I was talking to my mom about John Green today and I mentioned that “he’s still on tumblr” and she asked why that would be weird and I said that no one is on tumblr these days, “except him and I guess me”

So

I don’t know what all of you guys are doing here, because clearly this website is occupied only by me and John Green

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

just the two of us / we can make it if we try.

[philcollinsenjoyer]

Thank you divorce for all you've done for music

[prettyboyhere]

sister post to this

[fantasmadelaciudad]

i'll be honest thinking about las vegas makes me nauseous.

[fantasmadelaciudad]

like this shouldnt be possible.

[sillyspirit]

Every part of Vegas feels like it's pulled out of fiction and is Incredibly off-putting. It's a major city in the middle of one of the world's most inhospitable deserts

Its famous for recreating other world landmarks on a small scale. It uses this as a trap to bait people into making life ruining decisions. It's motto is essentially "never speak of what happened here". Fucked up

[notsotinyblob]

We don't need a coupon. We're the government.

[sixohsixoheightfourtwo]

The Art of the Deal

By wearing this watch you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor

The Fence has published an exposé on Stuart Semple (of Anish Kapoor 'feud' notoriety) which they have been working on for six months.

investigation reveals Semple / his studio / his partner Emily Mann (who's described as acting as his 'enforcer' in his business) :

mishandled £400k grant of public money intended for a public gallery, allowing the money to flow freely between the public project, his own personal studio and personal projects such as Culture Hustle (his online business selling paint etc)

underpaid or failed to pay many of his assistants to the tune of several thousand pounds each.

former assistants have taken him to court and he simply hasn't bothered to show up and he's threatened to sue former assistants who asked for their back pay

repeatedly funds ambitious projects that never see release eg Abode, an 'Adobe-rivalling' suite of creative software (he claims he still intends to release this)

encouraged a cult-like atmosphere at his studio in Bournemouth

was frequently in debt and having to negotiate with bailiffs etc for his debts while at the same time crowdfunding various projects

ran fake social media accounts boosting Semple and his work

The portrait that emerges is one of decades-long scam artistry tbh and someone who's juvenile, manipulative, narcissistic.

The Fence btw is a decent fairly small-circulation quarterly magazine from the UK which specialises in satire, investigative journalism, culture, and fiction. You can read the piece in its entirety if you register (which is free).

a few links:

The Fence's newsletter from April discusses this article & how Semple has tried to muddy the SEO waters

Semple threatened to sue The Fence for publishing this story - many of you are American so here's the relevant UK law on defamation.

& the subreddit r/culturehustle is worth a look to get an idea of just how badly run his paint business is

[prismatic-bell]

Holy fuck.

I had a feeling something was up with him, but like, I assumed it was going to be something slightly sketchy, not...this.

[beowulf22121]

I got some of his paints when he first announced the mirrored paint.

The first thig that put up a solid red flag was the shipping material. It's cool that he has custom boxes for his studio, it looked really neat. Then I opened it and sae things like "Not for bean boy" printed all over the inside of the box.

Between Mirror, hyper pigments, and black 2.0, none of them were as extremely out there as the videos on his site made them seem. The colors are vibrant, the black is dark, and the mirror is shiny. But the level the videos showed them at are not levels I can recreate.

So like, he exaggerated as an advertising scheme. Alright, shame on him.

But reading that... Yeah. I don't expect him to sell anymore stuff.

[risenshiney]

Paint’n studies I did on my Wii U gamepad earlier in the year.

[sony-official]

on your what

[estera-shirin]

Suzani for a dowry, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, date of creation unknown