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been selling spells on etsy lately. $50 a pop and i just send the customer a photo of a burnt candle. thank you mentally ill women 🙏🙏🙏

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God what’s that one poem abt homosexuality. Of all definitions of homosexuality I’ve read not one mentions love. That one

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the quickest gateway to anti-capitalism is understanding that the making of and engagement with art should not be considered a luxury

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The Four Discoursemen

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wasp girl captured under a glass. slide the paper under there

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new reblog game actually put in the tags what the blog you reblogged from tastes like

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i cannot get mad at myself for not being good at answering texts and dms n emails n returning phone calls when i know in my heart that human beings were never meant to receive this much correspondence. even half as much would make you a busy person. like its ridiculous what we’re all doing to each other. smash your phones

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No one had imagined that the Union government would bomb its own territory. “It took us by surprise that the government had the courage to deploy jet fighters to bomb Aizawl that it dared not fly inside China or Pakistan,” said Remruata, a village council member. “Well, charity begins at home.”

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Militarization exacerbates both public and private patriarchies, by both state and non-state actors. We, as Kashmiri women, find our selves constantly navigating the complexities of speaking about the everyday violence in our lives as women, without being seen as strengthening statist narratives, within Kashmir. At the same time, the intensive militarization of our lives and how it deeply affects every aspect of our relationships, communities, and identities remain unwritten in ‘feminist’ narratives about gendered violence in Kashmir.

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I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it // Jeanette Winterson.

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It's so important to remember that tumblr is bad. Has been bad. And will likely remain bad for the foreseeable future. And that is vital to our survival. If Tumblr was a good website that worked, it would get turned into a corporate hellscape like every other site. It's so important that Tumblr is broken and poorly run and impossible to effectively navigate. It's all that's keeping us safe.

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such a bitter irony to how everyone knows art doesn’t pay. nobody respects artists if you want to make money you need to go to tech school. I have a degree in what I like to call ‘the art school of tech school’ because a good third of the people enrolled including me had considered art school but ended up going for the promised employability of tech school instead and this particular degree boasted of being the most creatively oriented so that’s what us art school candidates flocked to. my dad got accepted into art school and they told him he wasn’t gonna make money with it though so he declined and studied AI instead.

but once in and out of tech school many techbros, the ones who never even considered art school because artists are airheads who should get a real job, inevitably find out sooner or later that they need art. not even necessarily to make the website for their latest startup look like anything other than shit but just to make the cataclysmic experience of being alive bearable. however they don’t respect artists because art doesn’t pay so they rack their brains for a way to make art pay the only way they know how, by running it past the increasingly less immutable truth that “tech is what pays”, and that’s how we get bulled shit like NFTs and AI art. look, the computer can do it too! us computer wranglers still provide more valuable contributions than those deadbeat artists who don’t make money!

maybe they don’t even consciously look down on artists. or maybe they do, I went to the art school of tech school so my sample population is biased. but either way the reality is that tech is losing its shining future and its trying to save itself by clinging to something they’ve always looked down on as having no future. it pisses me off, it threatens my livelihood as artist, but even more than being mad about it I have to pity them because all of us and them were promised futures that don’t exist anymore and perhaps never did. its unfair to the artists but it’s not fair to the techies either. none of us should have to be in the situations that lead us here.

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“Karl Marx is most famous as a critic of capitalism, but at the heart of his critique can be found a desperate plea for the transformation of work. People, he argues, express themselves and create the world through creative and collective activity. This natural tendency is twisted into something unrecognisable in work under capitalism. He didn’t just think work around him was bad because it took place in noisy and dangerous conditions, or for low wages and long hours. The problem of work was a fundamental one: under capitalism, work takes something human and turns it into something monstrous. The forces of capital become ravenous, eating up all that is human, sucking on the very lifeblood of society.”

— Amelia Horgan, Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (via probablyasocialecologist)

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anyways

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it is absolutely anti-intellectualism to speak with authority on something you blatantly do not understand while simultaneously refusing to learn any more about it. that’s like a hallmark of anti-intellectualism. it doesn’t matter if you’re talking about horror or climate change lmao it’s a fox news ass approach to discussing ANYTHING

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The Birth of Venus by Botticelli figure/bjd

Part of The Table Museum collection by Freeing

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It’s super breathtaking: