Waxing Philosophical

Professional solver of vaguely money-related problems. Trained in Thought As Such. True word rotator. Adjacent and sanepunk. I am credentialed to give financial advice but that means I'll charge for it.

[montyspiddr]

there are some things that are true

[seren-starlight]

that's true

[arinewman7]

The Connoisseur

Norman Rockwell

1962

[argumate]

lol is this how someone who wants to experiment with abstract painting but is shy about it slyly turns it into a pointing soyjack meme

[femmenietzsche]

During an interview with the Smithsonian American Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, collector Steven Spielberg said: "The Connoisseur is a fascinating painting for me. ...Rockwell actually had to do a Jackson Pollock. He had to get that drip effect on that canvas. That means he had to completely change the paradigm of his style to accomplish a Jackson Pollack and a very convincing Jackson Pollock, before going back to his sort of conventional human characters. For me that represents how an artist can suddenly change his style and be unrecognizable in one form in another medium and then return to the style that we're familiar with." - Steven Spielberg

[argumate]

it's a flex! 90% of art is a flex!

[moggiem]

My new favourite GLaDOS character trait is that, as per her announcer pack for DOTA, she thinks high fantasy is stupid and doesn't make any sense. Her refusal to engage seriously with anything she isn't familiar with really drives home the fact that she's literally just an old woman.

[killhitleragain]

[iamjapanese]

FUDEZUKA Toshihisa（筆塚稔尚 Japanese, b.1957）

1. Shining Water 2  輝く水  2015  etching  21 × 15 cm  2. Rain Song 4  2015  etching 15.5 × 21.5 cm  3. Rain Song 3  2014  etching  25.5 × 39 cm   via

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

maybe the problem is that people care about other people too much. so if you say, here's a political agenda that'll make you rich, they'll be like, wait, won't this also make other people rich? i don't want that. i'd rather have the other people be poor. i'm very sensitive to the condition of other people, you understand, such as people i read about in the newspaper, and people i hear about on tiktok – and i want them to be poor! ideally i'd be put in charge of making sure that the other people are poor, but someone's got to do it. whereas if you don't care about other people you're like, shit, i want to be rich! sign me up! what's the next thing that's as useful as the refrigerator, i want that. why isn't energy too cheap to meter, i want energy too cheap to meter. i want every disease to be cured because otherwise i might get one, et cetera. and the most politically viable way for me to get what i want is for the political order to make everyone else rich also, which i don't care about

[sticksandsharks]

Johto Beginnings, Myths & Legends

[lesbianbloodritual]

when i was a young woman on tumvlr ten years ago everybody liked american football, tigers jaw, ajj, and teen suicide. and we all had a little tin plate with a candle on it, and we needed to be careful not to let the candle go out because we needed it to read the posts. one time a mutual told me they were scared of their candle going out while their phone was charging at night. the dashboard didn't have the overhead fluorescent lights yet. and we had fan mail, and we liked that comic where the girl is a possum. and the stock market crash hadn't happened yet. i made a lot of money selling my tunblr stocks and i bought a boat. i would take the boat out to sea and lie down on the deck and go on tumbr and answer fan mail, but i had to use the candle to read the fan mail, because we didn't have lights yet. it was very dark back then, and one time i fell into the gap between two posts and twisted my ankle. and some people liked elvis depressedly, also, but i can't say that i was one of them.

[makrustic]

Whole Summer Solstice ☀️ 'Falling right there by the sunset, falling right there by you' Prints | Ko-fi | Patreon | Bluesky ⭐

[vethbrenatto]

GAME CHANGER 8.05 — “Count the Rice”

[fipindustries]

help ada palmer is making me feel emotions and break into tears over nicholas machiaveli.

the poor man, he grew watching civil war ravage italy, he grew up monarchs and court intrigue and blood feuds and corrupt popes and all he wanted above all was stability, even if a tyrant had to bring it.

i mean fuck, thats like 3/4 of all the sci fi/fantasy that i read. machiaveli was the og lesbian space atrocities.

[fipindustries]

im not joking whenni say i broke into tears over this

[maocin]

Telemachus

Little it profits that

princes-as-afterthoughts --

only the larvae of 

warrior-kings --

manage this blamelessness,

centered and common and

tender and decent and

useful for things.

Have I discerned to this

labor before me by

simply attending the

day of my birth?

Nothing we built here was

quite as compelling as

maritime suicide,

so. What's it worth?

Father he gallivants,

Ithaca's abdicant,

mother's despondent and

wasting away;

Worked I my work, and in

prudence I realized how

little attention I

needed to pay.

Higgedly piggedly,

off with his majesty,

Ithaca needs not the

prince, but the crown.

So, when they come for the

son of Ulysses, I

pray to Athena to

never be found.

[misterbrick42]

hey guys i made the tumblr default pfps but they're looking directly at you

[chocolatey-umbreon]

@anonymous-leemur

[mochlus]

Disney is doing crazy things in the japanese mobile game sphere rn

[mochlus]

you may be familiar with disney twisted wonderland, the gacha game in which various disney villains are used as direct inspiration for handsome anime boys. well that game was so successful that disney is trying to do it again but this time they're just animeboyifying whatever

here's mickey, goofy, donald, and chip & dale. yeah they turned mickey & friends into anime boys. they're an idol unit or something. they're technically not anime boy versions of the source characters, they have different names. mickey's guy is "Neo Michel". not michael, michel, like he's french. chip & dale are "Ruska Moncrief" and "Ranka Monk", they have different last names, they're not brothers anymore so that they can be yaoibait instead, anyways this post isn't actually about these guys I'm just setting the stage for the actual humanizations I wanted to show you

They also did monsters inc. And. Well it's obvious from the designs who mike and sully are. but you will also notice. the blonde one on the left. with glasses. monsters inc is kind of famously about just the two guys so they didn't really have a lot of other non-villain characters to take anime boys inspiration from, I guess, so, well,

Yeah it's her. they made an anime boy version of the mean receptionist slug. her name is roz btw, as all of boygachagame twitter has become extremely aware of in the past 3 days as we speculated prior to the release of the full image who tf the third guy was. the anime boy's name is "noah slugger". at this point no parody of the types of things gacha games will make gijinkas of will ever be able to live up to what disney is officially spending their own real money on designing

[card-designers-without-borders]

[cloudmancy]

need to become a guy who exclusively does evil commissions. like this

WILL DRAW ✓ mecha ✓ gore ✓ furry ✓ nsfw

WILL NOT DRAW X ocs X fanart X simple backgrounds

[cloudmancy]

great question and I'm glad you asked. in this case I would only draw:

real people, places, or objects

art of media that neither of us are really a fan of

unoriginal characters

[cyborgized]

Self-Awareness by Katsuhiro Õtomo