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#the weather is beautiful wish you were here

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Abolish the comic book industrial complex 🙂

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it's funny, I was talking to someone last night who didn't really know what an illustrator was. so when I introduced myself as one, he gave a speech that would've probably gone over well with a gallery artist, but which was precision-tailored to make any illustrator within a 50 mile radius go into eyes-glowing-red kill mode.

his speech was about how there is a difference between craft and art, and how people can practice craft (as in, skillfully execute a painting) without it having any artistic merit.

so I'm someone who gets paid to paint waffles for restaurant menus and dinosaurs for museums exhibits, and AHHHHHH! AHHHHHHH! you can't make art without it being something something you've made. does that make sense? like every illustrator I know has an individual way of approaching any given imagery that is informed by a lifetime of inspiration, and of passive intake of culture, and of the specific mistakes they make because of whatever their particular mass of grey matter deems as important thing to render or unimportant, just fuck it up.

I can make something that is informed by both a century of Canadian print-making and by my own particular neurosis, and it can also be commissioned commercial imagery that I regurgitate without care because I want to pay my mortgage. everything is art, nothing isn't art, art is something sticky and impossible to shake off of you.

anyway he got very wide-eyed and said "I'm sorry if I offended you," so today I feel a bit bad for having gotten so, uh.... excited.

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😭😭😭😭

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As a wheelchair user I'm trying to reframe my language for "being in the way."

"I'm in the way," "I can't fit," and "I can't go there," is becoming "there's not enough space," "the walkway is too narrow," and "that place isn't accessible."

It's a small change, but to me it feels as if I'm redirecting blame from myself to the people that made these places inaccessible in the first place. I don't want people to just think that they're helping me, I want them to think that they're making up for someone else's wrongdoing. I want them to remember every time I've needed help as something someone else caused.

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Person who really wants to be dominated by a strong-armed authoritarian in a snappy uniform, but also they want to keep their kinks ideologically pure, so they split the difference and fantasise about getting their ass beat by the inspector-general of the US Postal Service.

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Hey I just spent my drive to my support group thinking about the possibility of coffee with coriander and paprika, what are your thoughts

If we are friends and you are out somewhere and you see some horrible novelty food and you're like who would eat this the answer is me. I will. Buy that food and bring it to me. I'm a horrible gremlin who will be too curious not to find out firsthand what mustard flavored licorice tastes like. Bring me the horrible food.

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@black-crested-jaybird thank you! This was a very satisfying push after not really being able to do much of anything due to Broken Leggy.

Still mulling over how to wrangle putting up the black gauze bed canopy; if I do even 3M hooks on the ceiling, I definitely want to swap out the bulbs to LED due to Heat Dangers. Also thinking about building a frame to drape the canopy over too but that feels more trouble and expense than it is worth.

I got a new skinny cabinet for the corner of my bathroom! For free! from the book of Faces marketplace and it is perfect

But I need to pare out the random crap hanging around in my bathroom due to attrition, even if that does mean throwing away. Also I need to clear the dead palm out of the pot on top and find something that will do will up there in indirect light.

And because I got the skinny cabinet, the shelves that were there are now next to my bed

And I moved the bed (my leg is fine don’t worry about it) closer to centered in the room,

and pulled the chest of drawers out of the corner under the A/C and moved the cat tree over a little too

I have to go through the drawers and shelves of the nightstand(s) and get rid of things. I also need to find a decent container(s) for my sex toys and related paraphernalia (container suggestions heartily welcomed) because the shelves don’t have drawers and dust is a very real issue in this room so I can’t simply have them out

I also need to go through the drawers in the chest of drawers, which haven’t been opened in ages, and get rid of most of what is in them so I can put them to use

The Great Unfuckening continues

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does anyone remember that picture of Colin Farrell on the set of Alexander.

#big mood

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I got a new skinny cabinet for the corner of my bathroom! For free! from the book of Faces marketplace and it is perfect

But I need to pare out the random crap hanging around in my bathroom due to attrition, even if that does mean throwing away. Also I need to clear the dead palm out of the pot on top and find something that will do will up there in indirect light.

And because I got the skinny cabinet, the shelves that were there are now next to my bed

And I moved the bed (my leg is fine don’t worry about it) closer to centered in the room,

and pulled the chest of drawers out of the corner under the A/C and moved the cat tree over a little too

I have to go through the drawers and shelves of the nightstand(s) and get rid of things. I also need to find a decent container(s) for my sex toys and related paraphernalia (container suggestions heartily welcomed) because the shelves don’t have drawers and dust is a very real issue in this room so I can’t simply have them out

I also need to go through the drawers in the chest of drawers, which haven’t been opened in ages, and get rid of most of what is in them so I can put them to use

The Great Unfuckening continues

#life in the duchy #the great Unfuckening #experience the emptiness with me

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Sorry, my bad, it’s Davros and Davros

Fun fact: I have been mixing up two characters for YEARS and finally just realized which is which and a whole lot of confusing posts finally make sense

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im not a very patriotic woman but i nonetheless whole-heartedly support every drive-through employee’s constitutional right to be blazed out of their fuckin gourd

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Traditional ant names

Traditional ant names are based on one ant virtue as the first name and one ant “intimidating quality” as the last name.

For example:

Temperance the Absconder

Proportionality the Relentless

Synchronicity the Amputator

Alacrity the Calculating

Efficiency the Eternal Witness

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I just woke up from a dream that there was a 90′s horror movie simply called, for some reason, “International Waters.” The plot of the movie was three people trying to escape a partially flooded, capsized cruise ship as they’re chased by a murderous, swimming newborn baby because according to this film if a baby is born directly into seawater it unlocks ancient prehistoric survival instincts. One of the three people had actually given birth to the baby like right when the boat flipped over but she was really nonchalant about the whole thing like “well of course he’s going to kill us he’s a baby in seawater” looking at the other 2 like they were idiots for not knowing. I don’t know how it could kill people but the baby had black voids for a mouth and eyes, it was lightning fast in the water and it could speak full sentences in a child voice though I couldn’t make out anything it said.