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Marble Hornets - Entry #68

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photos from a "private birthday party" at Kansas City's The Colony

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one of the great texts of the modern era

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WHISPER OF THE HEART (1995) dir. Yoshifumi Kondō

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Gentrification creates a stifling homogeneity in urban areas that makes it less suited for the everyday lives of the lower class and more suited towards the leisure and tourism of those with expendable income.

An old, decrepit laundromat gets replaced by an upscale bakery? And people are mad? It’s not that the poor hate organic vegan cupcakes, it’s that most of us don’t have a way to do laundry in our own home.

Run-down corner stores replaced by hand-made designer clothing boutiques? We don’t hate your eco-fabric shawl, but I can’t eat that for dinner after work like I could have a can of beans I grabbed from that corner store when I don’t have time to take the bus to the real grocery store after work.

What gentrification brings in and of itself is not typically bad, it’s that gentrification brings institutions of leisure and pleasure and makes it so that the poor have to go farther out of their way for basic necessities. It turns low-income living spaces into local tourist attractions. It can even create food deserts by putting restaurants, grocery stores, etc. in that the majority of the lower class cannot afford.

Imagine if someone totally renovated your house and turned it into a mini theme park - they took away your sleeping space, where you prepare food, where you clean yourself and get ready for your day, and replaced it with things that will please people who are visiting, who have their own homes they can go back to, who are here not for their entire life but just as a distraction from their otherwise mundane existence. It’s not that you hate theme parks, it’s not like you’ve never been to a theme park and vow to never visit one again. It’s just that you need to live! To survive! And the leisure of those who have more than you should not invalidate your existence.

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thats not a “zine” that is an “art book” and you are scaring the hoes (discouraging people from zinemaking by associating it with hefty sleek professionalism instead of extremely diy no resources low cost artistic communication) by mixing up these words

#go take 1 piece of paper any size color or shape fold it up make a zine out of it THAT is more a zine than any $35 professionally bound book #queue

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i've got a series going here

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#yotsuba #cicada #same

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Isabelle Albuquerque: Orgy For 10 People In One Body: 5 (2020)

Using herself as a model for her sculptures, Albuquerque states that she is interested in our relationship to the body, our alienation from our own bodies, and the obscene. "I'm very interested in the obscene. I'd much rather revel in a ions of feral, obscene body than in one that is under illusions of control. And I don't see the body as something to be feared but rather as a site of transformation embedded with birth, death, eroticism, information and power."

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everybody wants to be the perfect victim but the truth is that abuse and trauma make you a worse person (and that's okay). we can all readily admit to depression and anxiety but what about exaggerated self importance in the form of neuroticism, or how believing in your own victimhood makes you think your feelings are more important than others'? what about envy and jealousy, and constant distrust? what about volatile emotional reactions, however you justify them to yourself? these things actually hurt real people who matter. i am guilty. i want to change.

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yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad

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girl help I'm getting they/them'd by well-meaning people who don't know what a tomboy is

#thinking about the way that I’m nonstop they/them’d day in and day out constantly every time I set foot on campus #despite the amount of times I say ‘those are not my pronouns; use he/him or use none at all’ #I’m not sure if The General Public has cottoned on to the fact that. using neutral pronouns for someone can still be misgendering

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Perfect Blue (1997) dir. Satoshi Kon

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I don’t care about it at all (I have carried its weight around like a rock on my chest since the very day it happened)

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After many years of loving Zim my oldest recently got into Johnny the Homicidal Maniac comics. They’re making dioramas, and I’m 100% here for this.

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Fucking the hole my girl punched in the wall

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#jjba #cosplay #queue