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if you’ve been following me for 4+ years i’m certain you could make a chart of every character i’ve gotten attached to and it would tell you more about me than any therapist’s notes ever could. but we don’t have the time for that. there are other things at hand. do not even worry about it. next exhibit. we’re moving along. we’re walking
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I’ve seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.
The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.
Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”
She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”
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A porcupine’s Halloween present (+ original sound effects)
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W o n d e r f u l _ 🔥 Full Process _ Vintage Style Engagement Ring
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
—ursula k. le guin
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I’m about 90% sure the economy is never gonna “improve”
this is capitalism in it’s final form
this is it honey
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Which wolf clipart?
this fucker:
I call it Lumpy Kiba and I’ve seen it used for car decals, stickers, clipart, traced with varying degrees of obviousness by artists of all skill/experience levels, I’m pretty sure I saw it in some small local company’s logo once.
here’s the original still from Wolf’s Rain (which is not a lot less weird-looking, but it looks fine in a stylized anime where it’s supposed to be), which I saw early in high school and ever since have had to live with apparently being the only one who knows that all these people just fucking traced an anime wolf.
it’s like the goddamn wilhelm scream of lazy art, once you see it you will never unsee it again, and it’s everywhere. and you can always tell because it’s frankly a pretty mediocre trace of an already wonky-looking wolf, so like. you can tell.
here it is on two different bumper stickers (two of MANY, just google ‘howling wolf bumper sticker’ and at least 70% of the fullbody ones will be Lumpy Kiba):
jewelry:
clipart collections that REALLY show off the Lumpiness compared to silhouettes referenced from actual wolf photos:
random art, including my personal favorite, a watercolor where the artist could just as easily have looked up an actual photo of a wolf but chose Lumpy Kiba instead:
a tattoo:
and THIS mcfuckery where he went through the whole process of sketching and refining to make it look like he was drawing a wolf from scratch (the gods know what you’ve done, jon harris):
anyway Lumpy Kiba is the bane of my existence but if I point it out I sound insane so I’m glad I had this opportunity to curse you all with the burden of this knowledge.
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i have some questions yet i find myself too afraid to seek answers
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Sea turtle launches attacks on a scuba diver cleaning his tank only to be foiled time and time again.
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Did you know you can use “commas” in tags‚ so long as you use the right unicode character? It might look odd, but this text post uses both the type you can use and can’t use. here they are together in a long line: ‚,‚,‚,‚,‚,‚,‚,‚,‚,‚,‚,‚,‚,‚, looks identical right?
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i hope this isn't a weird question but what's a cepo? as in your url
can i come live under a rock with u
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The Dangers of Petting Things In Space
“Alright, crew, before we head to Planet 67-BR, we are stopping at waystation Zeta to pick up humans looking for transport.”
“Oh shit, really? ‘Kay, guys, break out the ‘What Can Be Petted, and What Should NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES Be Petted’ guides.”
“Is that really necessary? Humans can’t be that bad.”
“No, Engineer Kreekul, the Lieutenant is right. Humans evolved to pet things to somehow make them less dangerous on their planet.”
“Wait, you’re kidding.”
“No. Craziest thing is that it not only worked, but it worked multiple times. The overwhelming success of the creation of animals like dogs, cats, domestic cattle, sheep, and so forth have reinforced the humans to try and pet literally anything. I saw a human try to pet a Zschuek once.”
“..Don’t those -”
“Have fifty rows of teeth and are bigger than a small cruiser? Yes. It did not deter the human. What’s worse? The Zschuek emitted a low frequency growl and the human went ‘Aw, it’s purring!’“
“What a way to go.”
“The human didn’t die. In fact, he’s now a top researcher into the Zschuek.”
“What the actual-
“Anyways, remember to tell the humans not to touch the Pomreq.”
“But those aren’t dangerous.”
“Their skin is toxic to humans, it’s literally the only thing that will deter them, and even then it’s iffy.”
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“Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.”
— Katherine Henson
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if our body replaces all cells every 7 years, then why tattoo stay?
the simplest version of that answer is- yes, you're right!
the cells containing the tattoo ink DO periodically die and get replaced by new cells, but the reason this doesn't destroy your precious skin art is this- those cells are actually carefully passing the ink particles along to their successors when they kick it, so each new generation of cells picks up the same exact ink particles from their elders in a cycle of inheritance that only ends when you die!
and the long version is, as soon as the tattoo gun fills your arm with ink, your immune system is on top of it; it sends a battalion of white blood cells called macrophages to the area, and they all gobble down the ink in an attempt to break it down and protect you! but. the ink particles are very large, and cannot be broken down by the macrophages, so once an ink particle is engulfed the macrophage that grabbed it is literally just stuck wherever it currently is in your skin and can't go anywhere or do anything else.
this is fine, the cell still gets nutrients and will live a normal macrophage lifespan, it just can't wander off and ruin your ink. but eventually, your trapped ink macrophages WILL die, and when they do they just kind of vomit their captured ink everywhere! whiiiich triggers your body's Intruder Alert defenses and sends a new set of macrophages to the area, who immediately just hork down the SAME DAMN INK PARTICLES and get stuck again. and on and on it goes, ad infinitum!
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