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CHAINS THAT BIND

2023

48" × 60"

Oil on Canvas

Working off of the name CHAINS THAT BIND, this painting was an exploration into the bonds between queer people.

Bonds forged from struggle and hardship, the molten steel has hardened into a chain that will not be broken.

Queer folk are often likened to animals by those who do not understand the nuances of gender identity. In perhaps an effort to reclaim what is used to demean, there is a large overlap between the queer community and furries. Put eloquently by music artist Patricia Taxxon, in a video essay titled "On the Ethics of Boinking Animal People," she spits back at those who have ridiculed her for engaging in the furry community and her nonhuman identity. "You treated me like an animal all of my life, why are you surprised I like being one?"

QUEER SOLIDARITY IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD.

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guy who gets increasingly confused when an 80’s song fades out so he turns it up louder and louder and gets blasted so hard by the next song starting that he dies

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Women Holding Strange Creatures by Quentin Blake

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Christian Weber, Assuring Protection, 2012

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Dotss [available at Quintal]

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Agents make do

The approximate emotional state of everyone is picked up by external sensors. Prior to insertion, C&A calibrates to each agent via direct and remote biometric observation over a short period. C&A is thorough so they tune for arousal too. It doesn’t happen too often but when simultaneous agents start showing markers, especially on multiple occasions, something is up.

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besides, if you'd never found out, it wouldn't have bothered you.

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1 / 2 / 3 by Relanoy [pixiv] [twitter]

♡ reprint permission was granted by the artist. 

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love that doesn’t eat you alive but lives and crawls inside you like a parasite. aka madohomu for valentines

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Blank Room Soup

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A very experimental art for me, i want to try out some new style. ihnmaims radio drama got me in a chokehold and possessed me to draw this.

Also I'm giving Ted zero gyatt cus that man did not deserve it.

Note :

- the binary translates as "HATEHATE" on repeat.

- the pair of punchcode tapes representing AM's talkfield, are from the original short story. The left one is "I THINK, THEREFORE I AM" and the right is "COGITO ERGO SUM".

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Update : I posted a timelapse here!

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day 5

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RW art month day 8: The Rot

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Realising I can post these all together HEHEH