Charles Strickland, you grumpy genius. They want so much to sensationalise your life, but they don't know that you just don't care. The devil of art that possessed you could be satiated only by your complete nonchalance to any kind of grundyism and your monomaniac immersion into your art which so many describe as obscene, frightening. The beauty of your art is not the beauty of Michelangelo's frescoes, but the sublimity of something tremendously primeval. Your atavistic voyage and stay in Tahiti in a way redeems you from all your inhumanities to Blanche and Dick Stroeve and Mrs Strickland and your children. But what makes you stand apart so starkly is how you never indulge in the hypocrisy of the regular world but force everyone to accept if not admire your brutal honesty.
The narrator insists that he has known Strickland more intimately tham others, but there is a vanity in him for having known the origins of someone who later became known as a genius. His efforts to tell the readers the truth are in fact thinly veiled attempts to put himself on a kind of predestal too, to assure one that he is not a bourgeois philistine, but a learned art connoisseur who could recognise Strickland's misunderstood genius, which you cannot prove or disprove in the retrospect. William Somerset Maugham's novel is as impressive and entertaining as his plays and short stories, and it paints a sublime though fictionalised portraiture of the post-Impressionist/ Synthetist painter Paul Gauguin.
I was lucky enough to get commissioned by @synthetic-divinity to draw her mech “Wrath of Anat” this was so much fun to work on! Thank you again for trusting and working with me to make them come to life
I was rewatching Steven universe and couldn't help myself aararraar
No full au djjwjd just doodles and ideas djsjjdsj
After leaving home world, they both change their appearance. Idk to what exactly because that last doodle is just casual wear but they definitely have a set outfit they like. Moon's hair changes into a shaggy cut! He likes a more scrappy look. He keeps his hat of course jejsjsj
Whenever an existing faux product is described as "vegan product" my hackles raise.
It's not vegan leather, it's pleather.
It's not vegan butter, it's margarine.
It's not vegan cashmere, it's acrylic.
It's not vegan fur, it's faux fur. Also probably an acrylic or rayon blend.
It's not vegan silk, it's polyester.
We haven't gotten to calling vegetable shortening "vegan lard" yet, but given the butter situation...
Call a spade a spade and stop greenwashing! Just admit it's plastic! Just admit you've prioritized one kind of animal life over the other! Stop calling it vegan when it's just plastic, you're driving people to destroy the planet with the "more moral" option when it's NOT.
You can enjoy margarine, that's fine, just be up front about it being in the dish so people know what they're eating by a familiar name.