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🎀 MADOKA ⭐️ MAGICA 🎀

I sculpted the best magical girl ever 💖 made with polymer clay and acrylic paint!

(sorry for the very long hiatus, I've been working hard on some cool figures!! <3)

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Cooked with this

Edit: forgot to include the panel it was inspired by:

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what it says on the tin! I offered to throw together something on drawing raw meat (in a mouthwashing server, naturally) so here it is in case someone finds it useful

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At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

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sometimes i feel like im climing up this incline again alone but thankully sisypus and the itsy bitsy spider and here with me

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My crk ocs: London Fog Cookie and Golden Apple Cookie!

ive been infected with cookie run brain rot- i blame viola for this (and the twitter algorithm)

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refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

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I love “pest” species so much ❤️❤️ idk what it is about them but I just find them so endearing. Like it’s a horrible little guy everyone hates! A beautiful little menace ❤️ keep causing chaos you wonderful little creatures

Australian ibis my beloved. Parktown prawn my beloved. PIGEONS MY BELOVED

They’re so cute and I think they should be allowed to be as annoying as they want

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au where the computer ghost gang is in a horror dating sim/visual novel style game. you have three options to romance (chester, norris, and old man augustus, who look suspiciously like jon martin and jonah) and they're all very strange. the game regularly glitches (the characters ending up in locations (like a tower or infinite foggy beach, among others), them saying bizarre things they should not Know or looking visually Wrong, asking you to Let Them Out (especially augustus he does that a lot), ect). there appears to be a fourth unromanceable character who is, ah, pulling the strings for the program, one could say (it's annabelle she's chilling). much like reading a statement once you begin playing, you cannot close the game until you hit an ending, and there is a slim but ever present chance the game will eat you too. this happens to colin when he tries to delete it off the oiar systems and accidentally opens it instead. oops.

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Poob is really the Goncharov of companies

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So when you "can make him worse" it's fine, but when I, Lord Henry Wotton,

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One of my Dorian Gray hot takes is that there was absolutely nothing in Dorian and Basil's relationship that was healthy. I keep seeing posts like "Basil's love for Dorian was so pure, that's why the portrait was so pretty and the real villain of the story is Wotton because he corrupted it"

As I see it, yes, Wotton did corrupt him, but saying Basil's feelings for Dorian were pure is simply inaccurate to the story. Basil says himself he merely sees Dorian as an artistic ideal [Dorian Gray is to me simply a motive in art. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. That is all; ch1] and admitted he (a 10 year older man, who had power over him) tried to isolate him from other people and "keep him to himself". Furthermore, Basil also plays a big role in the way Dorian sees himself and his beauty, by painting him everyday and not maintaining any conversation with him, he's indirectly reaffirming what Wotton tells him: people only care about you because you're pretty and young. There is also this scene from the second chapter:

Dorian Gray turned and looked at him. "I believe you would, Basil. You like your art better than your friends. I am no more to you than a green bronze figure. Hardly as much, I dare say.

The painter stared in amazement. It was so unlike Dorian to speak like that. What had happened? He seemed quite angry. His face was flushed and his cheeksburning.

"Yes," he continued, "I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself."

Hallward turned pale and caught his hand. "Dorian! Dorian!" he cried, "don't talk like that. I have never had such a friend as you, and I shall never have suchanother. You are not jealous of material things, are you?-you who are finer than any of them!"

Dorian is even dealing with a suicidal ideation over what Wotton has told him and the way Basil sees him, he needs emotional validation, he's asking to be told there's more than him than that, and Basil's reaction is just─ no. You're prettier than any other object (indirectly comparing him to one, too).

Basil's view of Dorian influences how he sees people as much as Wotton's. For example, to Dorian Sybil was only what she pretended to be, he loved her performance, her acting, how she did exactly what the public wanted (which can apply to Dorian himself), not the real her. She was only an artistic ideal to him, she meant to him exactly what Dorian meant to Basil. He ignored her desires, pain and everything not related to what he wanted to see, since that's what he's been taught he must appreciate.

I also disagree with the interpretation of the portrait as a "pure" reflection of Basil's love (I would personally rather describe it as an obsession, though) and Dorians soul because it's not. At least not entirely. Part of the point of the book is that everyone only saw the part of Dorian they wanted: the portrait represents Basil's idolized version of him, what he wanted to see and how he refused to see Dorian as a person instead of an artistic ideal. That's why he tried to make him redeem himself, because he hated seeing his version of Dorian shatter into pieces. It was never Dorian entirely, not even after aging terribly because that's the result of Basil and Wotton's influence. The portrait was not his real soul, it was a modified version of it other people played with because nobody cared about the whole thing, and the influence was so big those parts became his whole being. It was just an idolized, molded version at first but turned into his real self with the time and the sins. Dorian's soul (the portrait) was constructed upon what others appreciated about him, so when Wotton motivated him to sin, because Dorian's potential to be terrible was what mattered to him, it became ugly and terrible. There was absolutely nothing pure about that portrait since day 1.

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Book complete. That sorta felt like a magnus archives spiral statement to me. Or possibly stranger? Good soup.

I’m reading “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” (project Gutenberg my beloved) and I fucking. Have a hate love relationship with Lord Henry

His friend is like, “you’re always saying such mean stuff but you’re really a good guy idk why you present yourself like this” and he’s just like

“lol. Lmao. Anyway I’m gonna give this 20 something an existential crisis cause I feel like it and also badmouth my wife 15 million times”

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Henry has been divorced, as he should be

I’m reading “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” (project Gutenberg my beloved) and I fucking. Have a hate love relationship with Lord Henry

His friend is like, “you’re always saying such mean stuff but you’re really a good guy idk why you present yourself like this” and he’s just like

“lol. Lmao. Anyway I’m gonna give this 20 something an existential crisis cause I feel like it and also badmouth my wife 15 million times”

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Why is there so much French in this book

I’m reading “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” (project Gutenberg my beloved) and I fucking. Have a hate love relationship with Lord Henry

His friend is like, “you’re always saying such mean stuff but you’re really a good guy idk why you present yourself like this” and he’s just like

“lol. Lmao. Anyway I’m gonna give this 20 something an existential crisis cause I feel like it and also badmouth my wife 15 million times”

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Ok so I was not expecting murder!!

I’m reading “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” (project Gutenberg my beloved) and I fucking. Have a hate love relationship with Lord Henry

His friend is like, “you’re always saying such mean stuff but you’re really a good guy idk why you present yourself like this” and he’s just like

“lol. Lmao. Anyway I’m gonna give this 20 something an existential crisis cause I feel like it and also badmouth my wife 15 million times”

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Anyone else keep getting that Google ad with the asmr on YouTube because I do and I hate it so much that I hiss audibly