[Clever Blog Title Goes Here]

Started this as an art blog, but it's become more of a plain old blog heh. I'll still try to post sketches or other things I draw every so often though!

[sarcasmprodigy]

Making women up like it's a job

[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

[myfairynuffstuff]

Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.

[cosmopoliturtle]

Goblet Grotto

Made for Indie Game Splash #01!

[captain-price-returns]

Top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

[the-elf-draws]

Summer commissions are here!! Now even with a skrungly sale!!

Please DM for more info, or send me an ask!

[blizzardofjj]

12,000 people harmonizing Hey Jude at Pentatonix concert in Des moines

[wholesomepostarchive]

2/2/2023

[faustandfurious]

There’s something truly exquisite about stories where the real tragedy is the price you paid to stand on top of the world

[faustandfurious]

Hollow victories … sacrificing your humanity on the altar of what you perceive to be the greater good … the loneliness of godhood … regret for the person you used to be … the realisation that there is no way back … *chef’s kiss*

[vanilla-extraction]

[mysharona1987]

I did not understand I grew up in a concentration camp until I left Gaza

Growing up in Gaza, I didn’t realize that the siege I was living under was unique or that others didn’t face a constant threat of death. It

[startrek-themed-barmitzvah]

Its a "concentration camp" where people go to school and get married and eat pastries and buy new furniture to furnish their nice homes 🤡

literally every fucking claim out of gaza is so patently and self evidently fake, and the holocaust inverting and coopting language so disgusting

Its honestly just so deeply fucking embarrasing that so many westerners buy all this taqiyya and bullshit

[snarkleharkle]

Those famous concentration camps where you can just...leave and move somewhere else.

[mysharona1987]

Unless you had enough money, education and connections (and most people in Gaza didn’t, they lived in poverty) it was very difficult to leave or get a passport.

This was long before October 7th.

Like, that’s the crazy thing about the situation: Israel wants the land, but then they’re stopping everyone from leaving, even the ones that genuinely want to.

So, they just expect everyone to get depressed and commit mass suicide?

(For the record, That’s maybe what it is.)

[phinarei]

As a Native American who has lived on a reservation, a concentration camp doesn't need walls and fences. It just needs sick fucks with guns who don't want people leaving.

A concentration camp is a restricted area where a group, ususally an ethnic group, are forced to live on threat of torture or death while giving their oppressors plausible deniability to the rest of the world.

"Of course they can leave!" they said about the reservation before shooting my uncle in the back for being off our land. "They have such nice things!" they said, while most of us lived in homes with no floor or electricity and only the lucky had any modern conveniences. "They have schools and get married!" they said, while never showing the rest of the world the decrepit schools or talking about the secret weddings that would be disrupted with white men with guns if they were held in the open.

I've spent the last few years growing angrier and angrier. Watching the lies get thinner and thinner.

You don't like Holocaust comparisons? Okay. Fine. Palestine is a reservation and Israel is the murderous federal government trying to exterminate them and violating every promise of peace they make to them. Yes, there are good people working in good faith. But the majority are currently turning their backs to pretend they don't know about the atrocities happening so they can take land that isn't theirs without guilt. "It doesn't matter. They're not real people, just savages. This is a necessary evil."

Been there, seen that. It's a lie and it always has been.

Signed,

An actual survivor of an ongoing genocide.

[mysharona1987]

[mayleeillustration]

Rosé wine and mediterranean coast… 🪸🐚

[atrusovaartist]

Acrylic on canvas 50*40 cm «Summer Sketch No. 1»

This year I’m choosing small, quick paintings instead of large projects.Three children, summer holidays, everyday life, travel, and work leave little room for long studio sessions — so I’m painting moments instead.The first sketch in the series: a glowing summer sunset.I hope this summer brings all of us a few more warm evenings and a little more light.

[8pxl]

a study! more digital painting practice…. messing with textures etc

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[abyssalaquarist00]

pick up that non-fiction book

[abyssalaquarist00]

not all of us can live in fantasy 100% the time like i see some people on here do and it's refreshing to learn something new. its been philosophy, essays, and history for me and i feel much more at home on planet Earth for it knowing that people have been struggling and wishing similarly for millenia.

its not that fiction doesnt have its place, its important and healthy to exercise the imagination, but non-fiction can do so much to boost and supplement that. if not for yourself, for your art or for the people you're around

[abyssalaquarist00]

"representation matters!" but you wont read or engage with non-fiction works about any demographic outside your own

[abyssalaquarist00]

this version of the post doesnt seem to be getting much traction but this is arguably the most important reason why we should be reading nonfiction in addition to fiction

[tlirsgender]

My most diagnosable take is that honestly. As much as people in social justicey spaces talk about exercising your empathy ... there's also value in being able to turn it off so you're not extremely susceptible to emotional manipulation. Sometimes you have to be able to recognize "oh, this is bullshit propaganda trying to tug at my heartstrings" and stop giving a fuck about like. Colonizer feelings or whatever. Vibes can't override your principles

[tlirsgender]

Like idk being niceys is a good start but your politics can't begin and end with 🌈 kindness 🌈 or you're gonna get taken advantage of. The worst people on earth will be like "but what if........ I have a sob story about it 🥺" & you Need to be able to tell them to Fuck Completely Off

[tlirsgender]

There's a certain strain of ... Everyone Is Valid 🌸 style pseudo leftism that ime invariably caters to whoever throws the biggest tantrum. And this is a Problem interpersonally & it's especially bad if you let these people dictate your opinions. Not everyone is valid some of you are racist

[orihhiro]

[frankhermann]

actually annoyed by long distance friends again. i want to go for a walk i want to get drinks i want to sit in the grass and write i want to go to the fucking store together