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hey i was just wondering does anyone want 2 be romantically and creatively intertwined for about five or ten years and then have a historical falling out togethur👍

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sometimes i think about how when i was 9 i showed my dad a drawing i did of myself and his only feedback was that it looked "kinda dykeish"

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John Constable

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sheepish is a really funny word. fuck im so nervous (turns into this)

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all-timer

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The Return of Ralsei Rancher

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I was commissioned to make an art quilt inspired by a photo of the HMS Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's antarctic exploration vessel.

Here are my reference photo (taken by Frank Hurley on August 27, 1915) and some process pictures!

I printed a scale copy of the image, then used it to create an applique pattern and to trace the rigging onto water soluble fabric so I could free motion quilt over all the lines. (FMQ is essentially freehand sketching with your sewing machine by manually moving the quilt under your needle in whatever patterns you want to create with thread.)

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Teeth weak as fuck why can't you be like bones

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as a delicious snackytreat

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Favourite way to have your skull caved in?

i love the social space i've cultivated where i can be asked questions like this out of genuine curiosity and not as an intended threat. anyway it's gotta be steel toed work boots (NOT military) brought down directly on my face with lethal force. i bet it'd be really satisfying.

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we found bugs in a hopeless place

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A creamware pitcher with transfer-printed decoration of the signals of the Portland Observatory (photo mine, taken at the Portland Museum of Art).

The Portland Observatory is often mistaken for a lighthouse, but is in fact a maritime signal tower, and the only remaining such tower in the United States.

Due to the many islands in Portland’s harbor, ships weren’t visible from the wharves which made it difficult for merchants who needed to prepare for the arrival of their cargo. Built in 1807 on Portland’s Munjoy Hill by Captain Lemuel Moody, the tower used signal flags and telescopes to alert shipping merchants when their ships were sighted. Moody charged a $5 subscription to these merchants to have their signal flags stored in the observatory.

The tower was functional until 1923, when communication by radio made it obsolete. Today it is a museum open during the summer months.

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I’m fixated

gouache, 2022

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hm. the princess requires her most scariest & biggest guards to start kissing each other.