Itty bitty buffalo

Métis, Two-Spirit, Artist, Weirdo

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

I love revoking people’s access to me like actually no you don’t deserve to know me anymore :-)

[nobrashfestivity]

Paul Elie Ranson, Tiger in the Jungle (Tigre dans les jungles), 1893

[petaltexturedskies]

To seek a true feeling among the chaos of the unfeelings or half-feelings of life, to recognize it when found, and to accept the consequences of the discovery,

Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

[claws-in-my-back]

so who’s ready for loser queer summer

[dk-thrive]

You can only see in others what your nature allows you to see. The range of your vision depends on the extent of the personal development. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualize. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive instruments of discovery.

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931–1934 (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966)

[dominiqueramseyart]

When I tell you that you have to be leery of who critiques your art, your life will depend on it. The wrong person giving you critique can have you fighting with your own creativity leaving you mentally unwell. Especially if you do not have enough people around you telling you how much they appreciate your art.

You will begin to doubt yourself not in just art, but every other aspect of your life. If expressing myself harmlessly is not encouraged, then what other harmless thing am I doing that is wrong? Once you stop believing in your own self will it's joever.

It has taken me nearly 4 years to shake this.

[1264doghouse]

Robert & Aline Crumb

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[redlipstickresurrected]

Martin Ålund (Swedish, b. 1967, Skellefteå, Sweden) - Chemistry III, 2014  Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[thatonesuheirhammad]

Dora Maar, Untitled (Fashion photograph), c. 1935

[gardenxkisses]

I'm genuine with everyone and I've come to realize how rare that is these days

[eddysonline]

The original flag, by Gilbert Baker, June 25, 1978.

[ends-2-beginnings]

"All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky."

~Kazuo Ishiguro—Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer.

[godkissedme]

It’s important to me that my nonsense remain high quality

[pangur-and-grim]

I think some of the loneliness of autism is that you feel like you hurt people just by Interacting Wrong, but you don’t know how to Interact Right, and the more effort you put into it, the more exhausted you are and the more artificial it comes across (with the end result of people still being upset with you). and it’s not anyone’s fault for not liking Being Interacted With Wrong, and it’s not your fault for doing it so wrong, but it is very, very lonely.

[majestativa]

My inquisitive desire permeates your flesh. Into your muscles, every muscle of mine melts. Fiber to fiber. My nerves are braided with your nerves. My eyes are opened in the depth of your eyes. My brain coils around your brain. Now, I am You. Here, a new consciousness awakens. […] I love all that you love. I dream all your dreams. My memory is filled with your secret past.

IWAN GILKIN — La Nuit ✣ “Promenade”, (1897)

[dk-thrive]

“What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’re entirely themselves, they’ve got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it’s authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.”

—David Foster Wallace; “Infinite Jest: Reviews, Articles, and Miscellany,” interview from The Charlie Rose Show on PBS (via ampliflyahhhh)