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"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level

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since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"

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“Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?”

— Donna Haraway, A Manifesto for Cyborgs (via incomprehensiblescribbles)

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A good night

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eliminate the word 'content' from your vocabulary and become free

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Hi this is absolutely killing me, could someone please point me in the direction of that video of the guy in like a train station who’s pretending to be a street preacher but he’s reading the Very Hungry Caterpillar like it’s the book of Genesis

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I would love to see a iron man comic tackle right to repair. I feel like Tony would have a vested interest in everything he builds / uses to be repairable, even if he’s in the middle of no where and doesn’t have specialized tools (especially if he’s in the middle of nowhere and doesn’t have specialized tools)

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Enchanted Steve - Disney parallels

Enchanted (2007) and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

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Dream of transformation -Steven Arnold

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when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all

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May Sarton, The House by the Sea

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what is your favourite shape?

whatever's going on inside red cabbage like. i see god in this thing

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In light of recent events

"You have to signal you're a safe individual to be trusted" is dangerous rhetoric and one that is easily used by predators to take advantage of people. Neil Gaiman was one of those individuals who "signaled" he was a safe person while sexually abusing women (and even his own kid) behind the scenes. So fuck anyone who parrots the "you have to signal you're a safe individual" bullshit. Abusers can be, and often are, charismatic people who use said charisma to trap and take advantage of others.

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Made a new poster! :)

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Here's my (probably only, sadly) post for Solarpunk Aesthetic Week! Originally made for Andrewism's 2023 Solarpunk Art Collab!

This digital painting depicts the Southern Great Lakes Ecoregion, within the Interior Plateau & Southern Great Lakes Forests Bioregion, within the Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forest Biome.

I chose a suburban setting for this piece because I've not yet seen a Solarpunk artwork that features this. I'm aware of the problems with the suburbs, but it seems to me more sustainable to try to adapt them than to demolish them and start over. So instead of lawns I've depicted beds of native Indiana plants, including but not limited to:

Amsonia Tabernaemontana (Eastern Bluestar)

Spartina Pectinata (Prairie Cordgrass)

Echinacea Purpurea (Purple  Coneflower.

The roofs of the houses are either white to help reflect heat, or green roofs. Some of the houses are equipped with solar panels on the south sides, and one is shown with a greenhouse on that side as well.

While perhaps not explicitly ecologically focused, I have shown there to be more art in this setting than is usually found in american suburbia. The sidewalk has a mural painted with hydrochromic paint, which only appears while it is raining. The houses are painted bright colors (white or greige is  considered  'Normal' ) and are occasionally decorated with murals.

This particular area is among the cloudiest in the so-called U.S.A. To reflect that, the weather is overcast and it is currently raining.

Hope y'all enjoy this, and Happy Solarpunk Aesthetic Week!