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@the_higher_self__

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when james baldwin said “you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. it was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” I felt that big, big time

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cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

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Art by Kan Liu

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The history of corporate propaganda.

'Nobody wants to work' fails to mention the poverty wages and horrible workplaces.

Reframe the narrative: Capitalists refuse to pay thriving wages.

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Spirited Away by T 5

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i love the third mates so much…🥺

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never should have left the shore

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Serafine and some business to tend to. I’ve not really done much with ink and halftone before, but I kind of like the look.

Originally a Patreon piece! (There’s extra stuff there!)

#lackadaisy #LackadaisyCats #cats #anthro #1920s #gangsters #illustration #art

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Art by Mosh Art

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Art by 宋大能

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il rito - Roberto Ferri, 2016.

Roberto Ferri - Sigillum.

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Colonist Militia by Oliver Odmark

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maybe if you take a hot shower. cook something. eat a little soup. feel a little sunshine. make something with your hands—it doesn’t have to be big. maybe if you stretch your body and draw a silly little picture and get some rest, the world will feel like something your hands can still hold

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I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

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Wolf Moon, the first full moon of the year over Ely Cathedral in the morning

l VeronicaJoPo l Ely, Cambridgeshire, England