Science is neat. Love is neat. You are neat.

Hi, I'm Marco! | Way too gay for my own good | Taurus | Dhampir Tendencies | Into astronomy, chemistry, biology, physics | Part of a system | Legend of Zelda, Diablo and Soulsborne enthusiast | A Latino trash bag | Icon credit to @carlosmanofscienza/@grimdarkmatt | Side blog

[lunarlicorice]

talking to animals as wolf link was my favorite thing to do when i was like 7

[escuerzoresucitado]

[bekgoldblog]

New work uniform

[uphillfarmers]

life could be a dream…

[sleeping-archivist]

did a little wtnv cover doodle!! big fan of the glowing lines and arrows in the sky <3

[lolavagabonde]

the blade of frontiers

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[vyvilha]

the thing is if you can excuse colonialism imperialism and genocide when it's perpetuated against people who are homophobic/transphobic/misogynistic/etc you are excusing ALL colonialism imperialism and genocide. there is no nation on earth free from bigotry. you should be against colonialism imperialism and genocide not because it's perpetuated against the Most Pure Accepting People Ever but because colonialism imperialism and genocide are inherently and fundamentally evil.

[roseworth]

the feature i really need tumblr to add is to have your moms phone number on your profile so if you disagree with me i call your mom to tattle on you but then your mom and i get to talking and we realize we actually have a lot in common then at the same time we say “maybe we should continue this conversation over dinner” then we both laugh and that night your mom and i meet for dinner and i bring her flowers and pay for her food and we have a beautiful evening together that leads into an even more beautiful night on a beach under the stars and i turn to your mom and say “i know this may seem a little fast but i’ve never felt this way before” and she says “i was thinking the same thing” and we kiss under the moonlight and we realize in that moment that we want to spend the rest of our lives together so i move in with her and fall in love more every day and we grow old together and she passes before i do but luckily i’ve come to think of her children like they’re my own then years later i’m on my death bed and you say “you were like a second mother to me” and i say “hey remember when you disagreed with me online 50 years ago well L + ratio + i fucked your mom LOL” then i die having got the last word in

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[damazcuz]

I say "oh don't worry he doesn't bite" and you're confused because you don't see any dog but then you notice a single inchworm moving purposefully across the floor towards you at an alarming pace

[takavasen]

A Welcome to Night Vale acrylic painting! That is supposed to be Carlos doing science at the front there

[bnunybusiness]

[Video Descript: Excited bunnies running around to Don't Stop Me Now by Queen]

[ryebreadgf]

i hate to be this person because i used to roll my eyes at people who told me this but finally making myself go through uncomfortable situations for the possibility of joy has resulted in me being happier than i ever could have imagined being. i do think that you should always listen to yourself but i prevented my own happiness for a long time by not knowing how to tell intuition from overthinking and being too afraid and sticking to negative what if’s when i should have been sticking to positive what if’s. not every venture outside your comfort zone will result in some revelation that moves the earth under your feet but the probablilty of it is zero if you never venture out

[trashcannie]

[tallteenturtle]

I know tumblr has fun with this post but the amount of misinformation and fact twisting contained in it makes me mad everytime I see it. So I removed the reblogs so if you dont like what I have to say then at least you won’t have to scroll too far to read it.

Basically, the entire premise of this feud is flawed. Anish Kapoor did not buy a color he bought a product. It was the company that made that products choice to sell it to him.

Nothing was stopping other people from making their own black paint. To me Stewart Semples reaction was an obvious bid for attention, which while understandable when success is measured in popularity, isn’t the hero move this post portrays it as. Especially in light of Semple continuing to profit and gain recognition off of this feud. His continued put downs of another artist in order to raise himself up are distasteful.

The hatred of Kapoor is also way overblown. I admit to disliking him somewhat by default based on the fact that he’s rich but I don’t think the fact that he wants his art to be called the called the name he gave it (cloudgate vs the bean) is unreasonable just silly. And while its true he did copyright its image the only instance I see of him going after anyone regarding it is when he sued the NRA (good for him) and won. Im aware he doesn’t really need me defending him and that is not my intent, I just cringe to see misinformation being spread for some sort of weird petty schadenfreude. Theres a lot of accusations of him being elitist or hating poor people in this post and maybe thats true (I dont know him, and to be honest I never heard of him before this post made him public enemy number 1) but I haven’t seen it come up elsewhere just from tumblr.

In regards to Semple…he’s not the “power to the people” hero tumblr seems to think he is and aparently doesn’t even pay his staff properly Source - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/artist-stuart-semple-in-row-with-assistants-who-say-they-weren-t-paid-9132088.html im not equipped to do a deep dive on him right now but I would advise against putting him on a pedestal like I see some of you doing.

Basically…theres more to this story than what this thread of reblogs is telling you, and I wanted to throw my 2 cents in. Ignore, believe it, do your own research…up to you.

[gehe-lihiyot-androgynos-varda-d]

As another Jew of Indian heritage the way people talk about Anish Kapoor always stings in a very particular way. (I’ll also stress the particularly cruel anti South Asian racism in Britain)

There are not many of us in the world and interesting works of modern public art around the world, especially cloud gate but also his other mirror installations, that are freely available to the public. Should be something that remind us of the survival and success of members of our community, but instead have become a focal point of antisemitic rhetoric spread across wonder bread levels of colonial racism, that people are failing to critically analyse because they’re caught up in the communal joke.

He is not the only wealthy pompous artist, but he is likely the only one who’s name you know, alongside another wealthy pompous artist Stuart Semple who has managed to mythologise his character, and build his brand through the use of age old antisemitic and anti-indian rhetoric.

The Jew is rich and he is greedy, the Indian is a thief.

If you have reblogged this post in the past because it was funny, you should reblog this.

[gehe-lihiyot-androgynos-varda-d]

Stuart Semple is a serial wage thief and labour exploiter, manipulating the facts to manufacture a controversy to sell his personal brand of pigments…. And you are all of you swallowing it, complete with the racism and antisemitism.

[camembertlythere]

Stewart Semple also did not hesitate for even a moment to get immediately into shilling NFTs during the height of that grift. No scruples, just good PR.

[mizgrownnonsense]

Yes, AND Stewart Semple has made some incredibly important work at earlier stages of his career. Namely, his work combating stigma around HIV and homophobia..

[gehe-lihiyot-androgynos-varda-d]

Nobody is saying that Stuart Semple is evil and he’s never had well intentioned projects, he can be an excellent pigment manufacturer, and an exploiter of his employees labour, the creator of thoughtful and hard hitting activist art pieces like his 2020 Gay Blood inks, and dive head first into the NFT grift, not consider himself racist or antisemitic, but be using racist and antisemitic rhetoric.

People are typically more complicated than simply good or bad, and I want people to recognise that he is disingenuously manipulating the facts, and his behaviour does not make him a hero of any kind. A feud requires tit for tat, when it’s one sided we call it obsession or harassment.

People in the comments who know very little about Anish Kapoor referring to him as a “conservative” and that people like Semple are an example of how to deal with “people like them” is extremely troubling. Kapoor is a lifelong campaigner for public education, he is a fierce critic of conservative politics both in Britain and in India. He is wealthy, but his wealth is not the product of failure to pay employees their contract wages unlike Semple.

I also want to draw attention to the fact that Kapoor’s installations are regularly the target of antisemitic graffiti.

The anti-kapoor mania you are seeing and (as a community) creating on Tumblr does nothing but add fuel.

In a world of rising antisemitic violence, it is distressing to see the excitement with which you are all hating one Jew who you are told stole something that was never available to the public in the first place.

[polyphonial]

👆👆 these guys

[Image ID: A digital mostly uncoloured monochrome four panel comic of Cecil Palmer and Carlos the scientist. Cecil is a thin person with a long face and shoulder length hair. She has a moustache, wears cat eye glasses and has visible eyelashes. She wears a shoulder-less top with ripped sleeves (one of them in sequins) that says "Believe" on it, a spiky shoulder-piece, cargo pants, knee high converse and earrings which are small candles. Carlos is a fat man with curly hair in a short low ponytail and some facial hair on his chin. He has large square glasses behind which you can't see his eyes. He wears a shirt with a ringed planet print and a lab coat.

In the first panel, Cecil (simply drawn) walks in joyfully into their home, a bag and her telescoping cane hanging from her elbow. She walks out of an open door, saying: "Hi Carlos~ Guess what I got-" before she cuts herself off.

In the second panel, Carlos stands in the kitchen, over the sink. He is holding a mango in his hand, his sleeves rolled up. The lower half of his face, as well as his arms up to his elbows are covered in mango juice. He has a blank expression. Text next to him reads: "devouring his fourth mango".

The third panel is the same, except Carlos smiles and says: "Hey Cecil".

The last panel is a close-up of Cecil's face. She has cartoonishly large and sparkly eyes and smiles widely with hearts around her. The thought bubble next to her reads: "G-d he is so beautiful and perfect" with a heart symbol at the end. End ID.]

[kobithedragon]

https://www.are.na/block/5491592

Cyclosophoroheneicosaose

[whatthewonder]

[helloitsnico-yt]

I HATE this hand… but have this thingy.