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I wish there was a better cultural shorthand for enjoying a work for it's badness while also making it clear that it comes from a place of deep love, and a recognition of the self in the other. Consider the relationship one has to the art they made in middle school.

It's often poorly constructed, embarrassingly revealing, poorly aged, etc. You don't want to denigrate it, because it's good and necessary that amateurish art exist. But also sometimes it sucks in ways that are funny and genuinely charming.

For example, I love the Backrooms Wiki. It is clearly a bunch of early teenagers doing their own spin on the SCP format. It is objectively not well written, fails to understand what made the original greentext interesting, etc, because it is made by literal children experimenting with flash fiction for the first time. So many of its entries are The Evil Smiler Who Fucking Gets You. Which rules. I want the backrooms wiki kids to keep writing forever. I remember being at that point in my writing career! I hope these kids continue to write!

But sometimes I mention the backrooms wiki and people say "why are you hating on these kids?" and I struggle to explain that I am not hating, I genuinely love it. Sometimes it feels like people don't believe me! I feel like people have grown so used to kiwifarms behavior that an offhand expression of love for amateurish art is interpreted as malicious hazing. That makes me sad! I wish there were better words for this sort of thing.

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Please buy my prints 🥺

I have three jobs that are all unstable. I live in complete poverty as a sole provider to a family of three in the global south. I am on maintenance medicine for hypocalcemia, type II diabetes and hypothyroidism for the rest of my life. My mother is a full time wheelchair user with very low movement, my father is managing a chronic kidney disease, and my sister is autistic with a low frustration threshold. I am their sole provider, and now dealing with nerve damage post surgery- a quarter of my face, and nearly my entire neck has not healed properly- its numb and painful and makes it hard to work for me as it limits my own movement somewhat. If you've ever taken joy from my art or little posts, I would love your help. I am grateful for this second chance at life, I would like to stay healthy and keep living. Thank you so much!

More than 400 exclusive / early access drawings on my patreon!

If you would like for me to bypass the immense fees on inprnt and patreon and would just like to send me a direct tip, It would mean the whole entire world to me!!

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Björn Weckström - Kopf (Head with pursed lips), 1984 [Bronze, black patinated]

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reblogging because this is having a Moment. >> still a few prints available! <<

to say that I’ve enjoyed this show is……………… an understatement

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keeping things whole by Mark Strand

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marked down some of the smaller chicken stickers!

new stuff in my shop FINALLY. Why does taking product photos and writing listings take 100 thousand billion years. We got new zines, new chickens, new dragons, new bondage even! >>> CHECK IT OUT <<<

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normally any of my art that's older than like a week causes me to shrivel up and die when I look at it, but I was looking back through Job Satisfaction issue 3 (for reasons) and I was like hey. this looks all right

here's some nice Connie hands

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bro i have got to stop inventing new ends of the candle to burn

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can you think of anything better than dragons. no you can't. this is because dragons are the best thing ever forever.

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An Inuit otter amulet. Engraved and pigmented ivory, c.1870-1880.

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I love when household beasts are like whoa. You were gonna piss all on your own? No backup or companionship or anything? Babe. I got you. I'm right here. You don't have to be alone during this difficult time (pissing), and you won't be. Ever. This is not a discussion.

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ANHEDONIA REMEDIES!

GET YOUR ANHEDONIA REMEDIES HERE!

if you are lost in the rut, i am begging you to read this essay by Sasha Chapin suggesting what, essentially, my take, are potential jump-starts back into living life in real time. like actually experiencing experiences

do it now! don’t lose months, years, or decades! there is a life beyond doomscrolling, and it’s finite (sorry. sorry. i know okay)

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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Raven Steals the Sun a glass collaboration sculpture by Tlingit artist Preston Singletary and David Franklin.

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Renovated River House

here's what she used to look like btw

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can now report that harvesting from the garden by flashlight does feel a lot like a first person pov veggie-based horror video game