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Prayer to the memory of a cow, from a man sewing leather

O you beast who is now my shoes, dyed with my blood, as the needle punctures my skin as well as yours. Gentle you were in life, you have the right to be vengeful in death.

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i kno its not rly a popular statement and it sounds dismissive but you'll be miserable for as long as u deny ur own agency in ur own happiness

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whenever i watch these doomed-to-ruin mentor/mentee movies about obsession and ambition i'm always like man i bet it feels good as fuck to be a terrifying authority figure's chosen protege this guy must've been bricked tf up the entire time shame about the ruin though

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Up the down staircase, Nicola Bertellotti

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fnv doodles

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THE GAME WAS RIGGED FROM THE START I was so glad draw New Vegas again, I missed it so much…..

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I wasn’t crazy about this piece so I wasn’t intending on publicly posting it again, but it keeps getting stolen every five minutes so I figured I’d put it here so people at least know who to attribute the original thing to lmao

[Digital illustration, Procreate App, 2020]

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gorgeous stairs in an abandoned farmhouse

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“Encountering an artichoke, one might wonder how the first person to eat that vegetable ever got past the exterior spines and the interior core of throat-raking needles to discover the sweet heart hidden within. Many foodstuffs present similar mysteries, such as rhubarb, whose poison parts surround succulent stems, or vegetables and meats whose toxins require hours of careful flushing before they relinquish edible substances. The vast family of peppers can burn the tissues of the mouth, eyes, and nose so painfully that they are sometimes used as punishment, yet they also have become immensely popular in the diet of many peoples. None of these examples represents bounties of the earth immediately inviting to the palate, and given the sheer difficulty of finding the nutrients to be had from fierce, dangerous, or toxic substances, we might well wonder that human beings ever learned to eat anything beyond the first fruits of the garden of Eden - one of which proved to be the most dangerous of all! (…) The remarkable thing is not just that we managed to eat, but that we managed and continue to manage to take considerable pleasure in foods that present us with challenges to both our senses and our sensibilities.”

— Carolyn Korsmeyer, ‘Delightful, Delicious, Disgusting’, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 60, no. 3 (2002)

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thinking "whatever happened to good art collectives" lately but so many of my peers are atomized and obsessed with making art that is only reflective of their "lived experiences", their specific intersections of identities, and being idiosyncratic to the end of making sure they don't speak for anyone else or at least speak so abstractly that they speak for no one. like listen to me i'm an authentic voice no one else can speak for me to the point of no connection. bastardized ideas about consciousness raising that turns collaboration and constructive criticism into moral vivisection or platitudes. there's no curiosity here. you can't be in conversation with other artists when you're so anxious about being a closed off identity

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no one appreciates that i could be a million times worse

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You know what's a good word? Abject. Deeply horny, deeply pathetic, each because of the other. 10/10, one million words of notes.

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“the Pam to my Jim” “flirt to roast ratio “fluent in sarcasm” “not political” “hobbies: travel” “debate me: the office or friends” “just here for your dog” “like Chandler and Monica” “girls on lexapro” “helen keller wasn’t real” “looking for a goth mommy” “pineapple does not go on pizza” “i’m a slytherin”

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Glenn Barr, Something In The Room

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 20th Anniversary Group Art Exhibition

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You should be able to say “don’t touch me” to anyone ever in any context and not have it be considered in the realm of surprising or insulting imho if we ever needed to normalize something it’s this