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Makes comics, paintings, also writes.

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Study of Michelle Yeoh for The Sunday Times Style Magazine

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Study of ASAP Nast for Lacoste

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Study of Daniel Craig for Belvedere Vodka

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[glowcowboy]

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

[its-your-mind]

the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw

[beautifulterriblequeen]

We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.

[dear-ao3]

night sky continues to get brighter. theres always people here for you

[iseo58]

Bangladesh

[kaijuno]

This is so wholesome

[joetastic2739]

Polle Says: "Don't Vandalize Company Property!"

Nobody is going to believe Jimmy when he wakes up.

Just a stupid idea I had that what if Polle came to life and beat Jimmy up. Voice acting by https://x.com/Seigi_VA

[pulpsandcomics2]

Bus Stop

[airenrts]

full reference sheet

[vamptits]

they want you to make fried rice

[memser]

who is "they"

[vamptits]

the wok left

[mayuzane]

well if they already left then we shouldn't have to worry

[b0tster]

i forgot to remove one reference to 'echoes' in nightmare kart

[twistcmyk]

year 4 of posting this! HAVE FUN

[margaery-tyrell]

did anyone ever tell the Backstreet Boys why

[aimmyarrowshigh]

My FAVORITE quote, of all time, is from the like, 2008 VH1 Top 50 Best Boy Band Songs special when AJ was commentating this song’s #1 win and he said, “I’ve never understood this song. WHAT WAY do I want it? And why DON’T I want it that way if SHE wants it that way? What’s the way? This song makes no sense. But man, they paid me to sing it.”

He was so distressed about his confusion, and I loved it. I love this song. It is truly the song of all time.

[caseuoiseau]

The songwriter, Max Martin, has written or contributed to the lyrics for a huge number of pop hits since the 90s. Max Martin is Swedish, and English is not his first language, a fact which feels incredibly obvious once you know it.

It’s not my intention to mock him for this–his English is miles ahead of my Swedish!–but this sincere vagueness and novel interpretations of English grammar are a noticeable quirks of his songs, especially his earlier work, so much so that trying to tease apart the individual words and phrases of the songs is a task designed for a Greek tragedy. His songs are the aursl embodiment of “no thoughts just vibes.”

Citation: Slate’s 2014 article/highlight reel of some of Martin’s most baffling lyrical Decisions:

Why the Lyrics to Ariana Grande’s New Single—And So Many Pop Hits—Make No Sense

The grammar police were out in full force on Monday after Ariana Grande released the Star Wars–inspired lyric video to her ­new single, “Bre

They don’t bring it up in that article, but Martin is also responsible for Britney Spears’s “…One More Time,” and I’m sorry to anyone in whom something was awakened with those lyrics, but our good friend Max thought “hit me” was contemporary American slang for “call me.”

I feel like this adds a thin, waxy coating of surrealism in a genre whose worst examples can lean hard toward bland vapidity, and I love that Backstreet Boys lyrics are still making people question their sanity 25 years on. But mostly I can’t get over the thought of all of these singers–many of them already really big before they worked with Martin–puzzling their way through these lyrics enough to figure out how to sell the shit out of them.

[drawnsnake]

What if there was a kid stomping on an anthill and the ants built a kid-sized mecha to fight him

[gsirvitor]