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The chosen one

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me, seeing art and iconography of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, trying to prevent a stupid little lamb from falling off a cliff or something: haha that’s so me coded am I right

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me, seeing art and iconography of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, trying to prevent a stupid little lamb from falling off a cliff or something: haha that’s so me coded am I right

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Bye Sweet Carole is a hand-animated horror game inspired by classic Disney movies.

Wishlist Bye Sweet Carole on Steam

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Also apparently Galileo didn’t get put on trial by the Catholic Church just because of heliocentrism, apparently he got put on trial because he was an asshole about heliocentrism, didn’t have all of the evidence he needed to actually really prove heliocentrism (apparently one of the big hangups at the time was “why are the stars so small if the heliocentric math says they should be big?”, and they didn’t have the tech yet to explain “it’s because the stars are really goddamn far away”). Apparently one of the Popes at the time, who was actually Galileo’s friend, actually did let him write about heliocentrism on the condition that he talked about the pros and cons of the theory instead of the aggressive “this is real and you’re all dumb!!!!” he’d been doing. And Galileo, high intelligence/negative wisdom/negative charisma dumbass he was, doubled down on his arguments and also insulted his friend the Pope by representing the Pope’s arguments via a character named “the Simpleton”. And it was this idiot move of shittalking his now ex-friend the Pope that got him on the big bad trial we all know now, not helped by the fact that he apparently burned all his fucking bridges with everybody else who could’ve saved his bacon too (apparently one of the people in charge of his trial was a guy he plagiarized too). It was never about actual religious faith or heresy, it was always just. The stupidest, pettiest politics fight.

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I see a lot of people who tell young people–especially young people who are heading into college–that they should “do what they love.” And they’re right. You should do what you love.

But there’s a world of difference between doing what you love for you, and doing what you love for a paycheck. 

I went to undergrad for graphic design and 3-D design–art and more art, I usually say–and I loved it. You know what I didn’t love? Trying to collect my fees from clients. Trying to meet unrealistic, over-simplified or over-specific briefs from people who didn’t know what they were talking about. Coming home, having worked creatively all day, with no creative juice left for the things I wanted to do.

You know what I would tell you instead? Do something that you can be interested in, with people you like.

You don’t have to love it. Loving your work can be a lot, and it often means you have to live in your job 24/7. Some people can do that. Not everyone can, or should.  But if you can find work that’s interesting enough that it doesn’t feel tedious, and people you can enjoy spending your 9-5 with, and you can make money, that’s great! It means you can do the things you love for you.

I’m in law school now. It’s interesting work, and difficult, and I like doing it. I like how complicated it gets, and I like the stories it tells. But I don’t come home and read law journals for fun. I come home, and I sculpt, and I draw, and I paint, and I read. I do these things for me.

And I love it. 

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Man’s capacity for inhumanity is staggering.  Beware the lies when they surface.  Speak up against them. Without fear.  Don’t give up an inch. Not. An. Inch.  Never again.

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I still like the idea of Bruce Wayne making a point to take each of his kids individually out to movies, even though there’s a movie theater in his house, because he needs all of them to experience a joy that’s permanently beyond him which is “going to the movies with dad and having him still be alive when you get home” and it usually isn’t until they get home and talk to their other siblings that they realize why he was white-knuckling a blackjack for the whole 20-foot walk from the movie theater doors to the back of Alfred’s towncar

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“no one’s ever mad at me unless they tell me so” is the best assumption i’ve ever made

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Origami knight made from a single piece of paper with not cuts or tears.

Video of how it was done below

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Easter bunnies (aka chabbits, skvaders, or boultry) are GMO designer pets turned practical livestock from Runaway to the Stars. Each breed has a distinct egg color! They are popular choice for small spacer colonies, since they’re quiet and produce eggs and meat on a completely vegetarian diet.

PATREON | STORE | Runaway to the Stars

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kindness is more important than being right ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨ ʚɞ ୧⋆ ˚｡⋆

Not really: say a 65-pound skeleton comes up to you and says "Everyone keeps bullying me and saying I'm anorexic, but I keep telling them I'm fat and need to lose weight; you're with me, aren't you? You agree that I should listen to my heart, follow my dreams and diet too, right? If you don't I'm just going to cry and scream and never speak to anyone ever again."

Do you comfort and validate her feelings and so let her keep on starving to death? Or do you tell her the truth, and so save her life? Is it kinder to support her delusions or to try help her against her will?

If you attempt to live your life by that shortsighted mantra of placating someone's feelings being more important than remaining in line with reality, you allow yourself to be exploited and manipulated by anyone who comes along and frames their insane and destructive demands as simply an issue of kindness and 'tolerance', which practically anyone can do.

The cost down the line for the population at large can be that we end up living in a fascist, communist, theocratic or genocidal regime, simply because we kept silent when we could have taken the time to weigh up the actual validity of what was being claimed earlier on and spoken out in favour of truth.

Kindness is essential, but not at the cost of going along with lies.

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This carpenter creates a folding chair from one single block of wood

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This is the artwork used on my new business card. A way of declaring my love for both stained glass and barn owls. :D

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Personally I don’t know how anyone reads any Greek myths, particularly the Iliad and comes to the conclusion “the gods are good and worthy of my love and worship.” Seems counter intuitive. I don’t even think the Greeks liked doing that, it was more like lip service to a crime boss. They just didn’t want their gyro stands burnt down.