#Unique Expression

[turiyatitta]

A Symphony of Gratitude

Embracing Acceptance and Celebrating the Interconnected Tapestry of Existence In the intricate dance of life, where every step, every encounter, and every moment is a note in the symphony of our existence, there lies a profound space for acceptance and gratitude. As our dialogue on Guru Viking with Steve James drew towards its close, I found myself enveloped in a deep sense of gratitude,…

[mischievous-thunder]

Logan a week after moving in with Wade:

[fictionadventurer]

I'm getting more and more scornful toward the idea of art as self-expression. Why would I want to express myself? Why should you pay one millisecond of attention to "my identity"? I want to express truth! Point toward something outside myself. Work with you to explore something universal rather than sucking you into the black hole that is me me me.

You're going to express yourself as you make art. That's pretty much unavoidable. Even if you blatantly copy something else, that's going to express the kinds of things you're obsessed with. You've got your own background, your own experiences, your own influences that have shaped your assumptions about the world and what you see as true. This stew of influences is something that is going to be different from everyone else's, whether you know it or not, and it's going to make your art naturally unique.

The real trick is to use that personal perspective to provide a new angle on something universal. Show us truth. Bring us beauty. Enter a conversation with your audience. It's not supposed to be about you. It's about something bigger than you.

[theartingace]

A question for the centaur back-pocket, but what, if any, do your centaurs do when it comes to courting and romance? Do they have any particular traditions that stand apart from the mixed rider or non-centaur cultures?

always love a back pocket centaur question for when I inevitably wheel back around! So thank you! I don't have TOO much specific thoughts when it comes to courting centaurs, as the main two-ish cultures in my world generally have pretty loose courting rituals that vary primarily a lot by individual and culture. The Merchant culture in particular is pretty rangy and depending on location and social status it's going to look very different- higher echalons of city folk are most often poly while successful outlying settlements are matriarchal holdings with migratory bachelors, those lower on the totem poles are usually more human standard monogamous but larger groups are preferred so families are often heavily blended. Riders are more family and rider-pair oriented in regards to customs with romance and creation of children largely left to individual preferences and just fuel for the family spinners to gossip about while watching the goat-pull games. There's not so much many hard rules in the overarching cultures? The only one that probably WOULD have stricter rules around courting would likely be the mountain folks, who are a bit more conservative and structured in their daily lives and lovers of rituals- but they don't like to tell me of such private things, i need to get to know them better!

The one thing I do know across almost all centaur cultures is that courting always involves some measure of dancing!

In my mind dancing is a large part of centaur culture at large, with large syncronized dances being at the heart of most large celebrations, and those dances are a PERFECT place to show off to the hotties, establish new bonds, and generally connect with a crush!

and then synchronizing steps and movement is the base of centaur dancing, like dressage but with multiple horse bodies in a small area, so it's generally regarded as a way to get your body in synch with a partner along with your mind and heart!

It's not just for lovers, like us it's for self expression and connecting with other folks, and definitely some centaurs really like dancing and some hate it! But overall for my centaurs it's an important tentpole of all their cultures and a large part of that is it's role in connecting folks to both a partner and their community

[kyurochurro]

top 10 spongebob lines that remind me of M*A*S*H:

i dont know why I did this LOL i just think the line is funny and wanted to draw Trapper reaaally badly!

[bunnieswithknives]

I feel bad for neglecting Hazel so much, I do have many thoughts about her.. and also a mermaid au that im probably not going to do anything with

[flickering-nightfall]

Experiments with pupils and mouths that devolved into shenanigans :)

[fighting-naturalist]

-let it go. -no. not this time.

Or: three different attitudes to starting a bar fight

[atalienart]

If I hear "live action" once more I'll lose my mind

[fox-guardian]

[ID: A digital illustration of the cast of Mouthwashing in the style of a Christmas family photo. They are all posing, holding onto each other, and wearing ugly Christmas sweaters. Jimmy is the only one not holding onto anyone, hand shaking near Curly's waist. Jimmy and Swansea are the only ones not smiling, and Swansea is also holding up a large figure of Polle who is also wearing a sweater. Text on the image reads "Happy Holidays, from our family to yours!" in cursive. end ID]

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it's almost not christmas anymore but whatever. company mandated tulpar family photo

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts & Kingdom Hearts 2 Spooky Heartless

[mischievous-thunder]

That's how multiversal superhero soulmates flirt

[skullbird]

An older sketch page, trying to figure out how his face works.

[hephaestuscrew]

I was just minding my own business listening to the latest episode of World Gone Wrong podcast and thinking to myself "I'm getting big Empty Man vibes from these random bizarre but ominous messages, sent from a powerful source of authority, warning about the coming of a mysterious threat. I bet the writers were influenced by Wolf 359, it's fun how you can spot little influences like that..." And then I get to the end of the episode and only then do I learn it was written by Gabriel Urbina the man himself. I feel like I've fallen for some kind of trick. He's hiding in plain sight. He's The-Empty-Man-ed me in two separate podcasts. The empty man is coming for me and apparently his name is Leonard...

[dimeadozencows]

We aren't talking about moments that broke us? Can we talk about moments that broke us? Can we talk abou

I'm never doing the weird route

[rronikaveterr]

the illusion of free choice😔😔😔😔 /hj