mug of goblin soup

Pea (they/them/she?) 25/queer/autistic/boreal forest cryptid

[pansylair]

Some more ceramic critters from earlier in the spring! A few more posts and I'll finally, briefly, be caught up on the sold work backlog 😅

[lesbiansforboromir]

You actually cannot skip to being good at a creative endeavour that you haven't put much practice into. You cannot trick your way out of the 'knows that your work is not what you want it to be but don't know how to improve it' stage by planning or reading or talking about it really really hard. At some point you just have to craft through it until your brain finds it's own unique way back to the 'everything I make slaps' stage and be prepared to start the cycle all over again. You just have to make that project you're excited about slightly less good than you want it to be. (Says this standing in a pool of blood and covered in blood and also coughing up a little blood)

[murphysletsdraw]

Here's some more of my paintings and their respective reference photos! murphysletsdraw on inprnt if you want to buy prints!! It's my bday month so if you buy some prints I could maybe buy myself a lil gift hehe

[emmaklee]

Nishimoto Ryota

a piece of wood carved to fit perfectly into a zippered plastic bag

[insectapologist]

obsessed with this exchange in the replies

[headspace-hotel]

Understanding a lot of art is about looking at it and thinking to yourself, "Someone made this. Why?"

[seat-safety-switch]

Scientists still can't figure out why painting is both the single most pleasurable human activity, and one of the most torturous. Even the minor act of getting just a flick of pigment a few nanometers off of its intended target can destroy a full-grown adult instantly. And yet, we persist, because watching it get shiny and then dry on the surface is pretty awesome. Until you brush it with your thumb. Dammit, that's gonna need a re-do.

This love of painting is innate. You can hand a baby a bunch of finger paints and they'll bang something out, delighted at their ability to alter their little corner of the universe. Just don't let them go for too long, because then they'll develop performance anxiety about having screwed up the simplest goddamn composition I mean I am eighteen months old, I should be past this kind of mistake.

Folks since the dawn of history have been enjoying smearing brightly-coloured shit on darker shit. Or maybe you're supposed to be going light to dark. I can never remember. This feels right, and if it looks right, it is right. At least, that's what I'd say if anything I made looked right. Either way, that's how we got cave paintings, which everyone really likes to look at. Everyone, that is, except for the original artist, who if they were alive today would probably be dying of embarrassment at how many obvious errors in anatomy they made.

So if you're looking for something to do this weekend, why not smear some paint on a surface? You'll probably love it, or you'll hate it, which is kind of the same thing.

[feefal]

If you’re a fruit, make sure to NOT ferment your natural sugars into alcohol before your work interview.

[feefal]

Inspired by this diva

[important-animal-images]

[moniquill]

'Borrowing the Tiger's Majesty' by Yuzu Kato

[vamptits]

okay yay. I made a million mistakes but I get it now. small bird 🙂‍↕️

[vamptits]

mindset-altering sentence.

[insert-some-url]

It's really funny when people think Iran is a desert cause we literally have forests in the north?? The Caspian sea is right up there?? Buddy they're still shoveling snow in Sabalan lmaoo

Visual reference:

Sabalan mountain, Ardabil

Masal, Guilan

Saravan forest park, Guilan

Caspian sea

[insert-some-url]

Iranian mutuals mentioned that other provinces like Kurdistan and Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari are missing so here you go ;)

I'll try to list other provinces later but feel free to add your own

Uramanat, Kurdistan province

Sirvan lake, Kurdistan province

Saraab cave, Shar-e-Kurd

Gandoman lagoon, Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari province

[griffonatrix]

i was gonna just leave this in tags but i felt i needed to add the picture: it's wild how people don't get how big iran is, obviously it's racism people just don't care and assume "ah must be a bunch of primitive desert huts" or whatever but like, imagine writing off this whole area as probably some desert because there's a desert in the middle and ignore the whole ocean and two mountain ranges and all the forests and whatnot like even if it was just as big as california that's pretty huge and diverse as climate and geography

[knitmeapony]

It's embarrassing how many people in the US think the whole 'Middle East' basically looks like the opening scene from Aladdin.

[ruhaniya]

the moon is the one rock i cannot collect, so instead i am looking respectfully

[xanaxfarts]

Kiki Smith: 'Constellation' at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (1996)

[xanaxfarts]

Bill Mayer

[bestiolin]

Catstronomy - Lim Heng Swee.

[sandmandaddy69]

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

A "salad" of radishes on the side would make this dish perfect.

[emwrote]

You could add mozzarella pearls to the radish salad. Soften the pepperiness of radishes a little.

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

Do they sell mozzarella balls that small?

[emwrote]

Yeah, they're sold as mozzarella pearls. The idea is that you can throw them into a salad, instead of shredding a normal sized mozzarella ball.

Some stores have mozzarella in a tube shape and it's firmer. You can slice pieces and put them on pizza and they keep the shape better.

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

Yup, balls and bricks are what I'm familiar with.

But yeah, more spheres for the sphere menu! xD

[itsthebrokenheartthatdecides]

could have mochi for dessert

[mrcloudyfun]

At the Tumblr Ball Pit Diner

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

You can't just hide this in the notes @theadveragecanadian! xD

[ilajue]

smoking that shit that makes you cry about the horrors of car-centric infrastructure

[ilajue]

hey yeah i get it but youre harshing the vibe rn nobody wants to hear about the irreversible damage that cars have done to North America and the whole world by proxy

[ilajue]

showing your girl pictures of nasty ugly parking garages at the function

[ilajue]

i misspelled hindrance real bad, guys

[ilajue]

this is not a joke or exaggeration but a cry for help btw I've been watching 3 hour youtube videos about concrete like I'm somebody's autistic dad

[ilajue]

pov i turn to you in between sets

[ilajue]

yeah no sorry I can't go out tonight I have to read the rest of the 2023 Ford corporate sustainability report no not for a class I'm just nosey

[ilajue]

no babe I thought it was hot that you got into and won a debate with my dad about the viability of high speed rail in north america

[ilajue]

listen I'm sorry that your dad went home, researched highspeed rail, and started the argument with you again when I wasn't there umm no I'm not going to apologize no I actually umm yeah I've been brushing up on my talking points sorry but bob doesn't stand a fucking chance he can meet me in the market place of ideas

[ilajue]

pov you are my captive audience

[isopost-headquarters]

how is this not astronomically popular

[idlelizard]

silly salt cellar

[sci-universe]

Amazing aurora spiral captured by David Cartier.