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“I’m just, you know, kind of happy in the doing of things. Even just having a great cup of coffee is happiness. Getting an idea, or realizing an idea. Working on a painting…working on a piece of sculpture, working on a film. One thing I noticed is that many of us, we do what we call work for a goal. For a result. And in the doing, it’s not that much happiness. And yet that’s our life going by. If you’re transcending every day, building up that happiness, it eventually comes to: it doesn’t matter what your work is. You just get happy in the work. You get happy in the little things and the big things. And if the result isn’t what you dreamed of, it doesn’t kill you, if you enjoyed the doing of it. It’s important that we enjoy the doing of our life.”

— David Lynch

#gonna print this out to put on my desk #art #writing

chase-solidago

One of the things I've found very frustrating about Douglass Tallamy's Nature's Best Hope (2019) is that he repeats a very old-fashioned perspective on the relationship between people and nature over time.

Nature, or broadly, the non-human world, is something you fight, something out to destroy you. Our genetics were passed down despite nature, not because of it.

Contrast, Kimmerer (2012):

Which of these two passages reflect a future where people and plants can co-exist?

A guy on bsky is losing his goddamn shit at me over this. "Tallamy is just telling history! What does that have to do with anything????" Both Tallamy and Kimmerer are deeply involved in some form of restoration, making changes to landscapes to make them reflect pre-settlement America. This matters because how you understand the past, defines the landscape you build in the present.

#THANK YOU #i put down the tallamy book within 20 pages because it was just insulting -- we will get no where with such an attitude #i'd heard so much about him but tbh deeply unimpressed #robin wall kimmerer

alexriesart

I had the pleasure of designing the dust jacket for Adrian Tchaikovsky's 'Alien Clay', a book I had actually read and adored BEFORE I received the job offer!

Keep an eye out when this Subterranean Press edition comes out; more illustrations by an amazing artist within...

#oh this is so lovely --- you caught Kiln beautifully!!!! wow!!!#alien clay

javarisx-fightingthosedemons

#mmm #MMMMM #!!!!!!

enchantedbook

"The Challenge" by Agnes Miller Parker (1934)

#mmmmm such shapes

dungeonlust

Art by • Frank Frazetta

coldcrashpictures

I think about this quote two times a week:

#okay but that deltoid tho too

bark-barkley

I WANT TO LOOK AT THINGS MADE BY HUMAN BEINGS

softwetmoss

And also occasionally by pufferfish

theconcealedweapon

maarvarq

Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.

theconcealedweapon

Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.

tiny-space-whale

No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.

#any time he comes up i say 'but he didn't do it' with the frustrating consistency only autism provides

snailychan

Reflecting

#gorgeoussss shapes

venndaai

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

venndaai

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

fluorescentbrains

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

muffinlance

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

wifegideonnav

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

#lol i do the 'want me to call it' too

pooblet

SOURCE

I SAW THIS & IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF @shrimp-bird

gallusrostromegalus

@montereybayaquarium

finished ME1 for the zillionth time the other day and actually paid attention to the credits music instead of mouthbreathing my way into ME2 and now "M4 Pt II" by Faunts has been on repeat. Does it make me think of Mass Effect characters? No, it makes me think of Tron characters because that's the flavor of black mold in my brain

"I have wondered about you / where will you be / when all this is through" -- Uprising-era Tron yearning for estranged friend/god/??? Flynn?? it is to me

"if all goes as planned / will you redeem / my life again" -- what do you mean this fits in perfectly with my "Flynn reuploads Tron every time he derezzes, but post-coup Tron is no longer a demigod" hc

"and i need you to recover / because i can't make it on my own" -- putting a mental pillow to my mental mouth so i may mentally scream without disrupting the mental peace

#it fits with this fledgling wip so well #and yet #it is so much nicer to just think about writing it than actually do it lolllll

girlsludged

please consider writing to Prarieland defendants Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris, they are both trans lesbians incarcerated in men's prisons for protesting an ICE facility

prosecution established affiliation by way of defendants having fucking anarchist zines, the kind of shit you see in a punk house. this is what they want and are willing to pursue for all of us who aren't willing to lay down and die, imprisonment and torture and the absolute stripping of our dignity (the govt gleefully included their deadnames in a press release yesterday; Morris' public defender has consistently deadnamed and misgendered her despite her legal name change)

there is no one who will protect us except us, and if our sisters are lost to us and forgotten as soon as they are grabbed by the prison system (ie if the system is allowed to work as intended) then we are failing, and we are woefully unprepared for a world where they start taking more of us

Autumn is a loving wife and is interested in religious history and mythology. Write to her at FMC Fort Worth.

Meagan Elizabeth Morris is loved by her wife housemates, and dogs. Her name was legally changed in 2007, but the federal complaint used her

mathsbian

How to Write a Letter to an Incarcerated Person - Innocence Project

morggo

2026 - 2025 - 2024 - 2023

in spite of it all, happy 2026 pride.

you can download current and past hi-res versions of these over at my ko-fi (ok to print for personal use): https://ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/shop/freedownloads

you can also snag shirts here which go to various orgs: https://mxmorgan.threadless.com/collections/pride

these get reposted a whole lot from here to reddit to twitter to tiktok and on and on, and i don't personally care whether or not i'm credited. i made these for everyone to use, enjoy, and find meaning in them. i appreciate folks who do credit me, but if able, please at least link to the threadless shop in the previous post - folks can get an official shirt where 90% of earnings go to trans led orgs focused on mental health (which is an important matter in general, but very personal to me) and not from a scam bot site selling AI-churned maga garbage where you probably won't get one anyway. i also suggest downloading the files from my ko-fi - they are free/PWYW and you can use them to make your own shirt, patch, embroidery project, whatever. tips are always nice, cuz i do like a pizza now and then, but never required for download.

final thought - breaking the pride tradition and more than likely won't make a new piece. the top one from TDOV is all i'm making this year. i have my focus on other projects currently and i don't want to force a poster design. these came from a specific head space and my current head space is Very Tired lmao so i wanna work on other things. 👍

#every single one of these is GORGEOUS