A Cat and Rabbit Playing Banjos. Detail from a American Art Poster. 1896.
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i think that people should start using “in poor taste” as a descriptor again given it is often the most applicable and clearest phrase when discoursing about media and analysis; sometimes a piece of art isn’t actually THE most problematic thing of all time is is. just in poor taste (not JUST in poor taste as a reductive take on potential harm but/and as in regardless of intent the impact is this was an offensive or stupid take/choice)
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what about a time loop you don't want to break huh ? a good moment that you never want to end, the tragedy of it all. if you're stuck inside the most peaceful moment of your life are you really stuck ?
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Linocut prints by William Hays.
~ Dawn
~ After the Storm, 2016.
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academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”
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Never understood the collective vehement resentment of small talk lol i hate the painful grind of small talk as much as the next person but i think id rather shrivel up and die than be denied nuggets of joy found in standing in an elevator and having a middle aged woman compliment my nails or bonding fleetingly with a cafegoer over the city's temperamental weather it's so integral to nurturing & cultivating the soul i think
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Kentucky, Photo by William Gedney, 1972
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"Carnyx-Headed Dog"
Black Sakura pen on Sketchpad paper, 2024
I had way too much fun with this-
Going to make it into a Medieval-style thingy, maybe add some Latin too!
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Virtually every survivor of trauma, whether or not they experience diagnosable post-traumatic stress, returns to the regular world and quickly recognizes that things are not as they were. People behave differently. There is an element of strangeness, a sense, often uncommunicated, of being marked by a kind of scarlet letter, even if one has not violated any moral code. In fact, in these situations, one’s degree of innocence or complicity in events can seem almost beside the point, as if one’s luck or simple fate is what is at stake. Often this change of perception is expressed in physical, spatial terms, as if the scope of what has transpired is so vast that it serves to alter one’s material position in the world.
David J. Morris, The Evil Hours
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Mayfield, Kentucky movie theater after 2021 Tornado
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For a nonnie! <3
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