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everydaylouie

cat game

hajima-7

as the snake sheds her skin 🐍🩸

c0mm i did of Dafni and Eirini, from M G Katsibouri's upcoming book!

martapreliy

Last year I rewatched Utena and drew this poster. And... I think it's time to show it?? 🤺

hiboudeluxe

@tyrantisterror

oliviawhen

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

blessedandwholesome

#panda content

diet-poison

Don't talk to me or my son or my son or my [upside down] son ever again

smallrituals

MY OWN THOUGHTS by Helena Minginowicz (Polish, b. 1984)

acrylic on paper towel, 23x48 cm, 2026

ritual-and-chaos

I am the only grad student in a class of undergraduates, a contemporary art class.

I made reference to an artwork - “oh, it’s like that piece thats three feet of air above a pedastal that contains a curse or a blessing from a witch.”

I sure baffled a bunch of students, right then.

Tom Friedman, “Untitled (A Curse),” 1992

They are required to pack it for shipping with room for the curse.

cyclesofmystery

Clare Victor Dwiggins, 1908

I was amused by this rather “freaky” bit of Edwardiana, especially since I always got the feeling that Charles Dana Gibson, when drawing the Gibson Girl, was at least partially fantasizing about being stepped on or something.

rowanclair

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.

swinecity

holtztiger wild boar & young boar

662607015

having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing

662607015

oh one source of bad information by robert bly we're really in it now

night-dark-woods

transcript:

One Source of Bad Information

There's a boy in you about three years old who hasn't learned a thing for thirty Thousand years. Sometime it's a girl. This child had to make up its mind How to save you from death. He said things like: ``Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk.'' You live with this child, but you don't know it. You're in the office, yes, but live with this boy At night. He's uninformed, but he does want To save your life. And he has. Because of this boy You survived a lot. He's got six big ideas. Five don't work. Right now he's repeating them to you.

End Transcript.