Something a little different today ā mossy rock studies! Ā I have a few paintings coming up that feature a lot of moss and I realized I wasnāt quite sure how to render that in real paintā¦and so I practiced! Ā Not sure if people are interested in my roughs and studies, but I thought Iād show some today! š
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do you think it'll all be okay?
I don't know. I hope so.
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being a writer is so embarrassing sometimes like awww no my feelings got hurt guess i'll go make up 90,000 words about it. ugh
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one of the reasons i love the murderbot diaries is how it doesnt flinch in trying to grapple with some of the Big Questions, such as "why is it that Humanityā¢ is the goal to strive towards for artificial intelligence if it wants to be acknowledged as a person?" and "What does it look like when someone is both undeniably a person but also unapologetically nonhuman?" and "what if the magic school bus had a gun"
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When Everything Everywhere All at Once said āThe only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we donāt know whatās going on"Ā
When the Good Place said āWhy choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlifeā¦ I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.āĀ
When Jean-Paul Sartre said āāHell is other peopleā is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also āHeaven is each otherā. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.ā
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I think one of the most profound forms of love is "I'll try that, for you. I may not like it, but I'll try it."
It's a confused middle-aged man in a pottery class, whose daughter is helping him with his clay's plasticity. It's a kid scrunching up their brow while listening to their mom's favorite music, trying to figure out why she likes it. It's a girlfriend who says "Yes, I'll go with you" and her girlfriend cheering and buying a second ticket for a con. It's a friend half dragging another friend through an aquarium, the one being dragged laughing and calling out "Wait, wait, I know we're here for the exhibit, but I haven't been here! Slow down!"
It's being willing to spend some of your time trying something new because it makes someone you love happy.
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My cartoon for this weekendās Guardian books.
p.s. my latest book cartoons collection is Revenge of the Librarians: tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
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angel in the haar
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" Ancient Trees " //Ā© Max Rive
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I want you to know your witch story delights me to no endā¦ and while Iāve only explored enough to find the first post + the sequel, Eindred and Severin are so dear to me. They r the gnarled worn oak and the leaves that dance in the windā¦ anyway Iām sending you every spare bit of writing inspiration and motivation I have (Iāve got more than enough to share these days) with the hopes that youāll make something incredible.
Also, Iād like to know if they have canon appearances so I can draw themā¦ perhapsā¦ I already had a very strong impression on what they could look like while reading anyway
Iām so glad! And thank you for the extra inspiration! Iām rounding out the last 20 thousand words or so of the final draft of the novel (I think itās going to end up being close to 100k š
), so Iāll take every bit I can get!
As for their appearances, there are some picture boards floating around, but youāre welcome to draw from your own impressions! The magic of stories is that everyone can have their own interpretation of characters.
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thinking about all the āsmallā art thatās ever existed. songs that were only ever sung in one village. stories written by children that got lost in the shuffle. personal paintings that didnāt survive the test of time. how they affected the lives of just a few, but still existed, still mattered to someone.
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still waiting for you
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Books & Nooks It rained yesterday, which never happens at this time of the year in California. Made me feel all cozy~
And of course itās raining on the insideā¦ where the books areā¦
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Wheat fields during golden hours š¾āļøāØš§”
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contrary to popular belief not everyone has an innate sense of internal gender or care to have one or seek a name for it, some people go their whole lives without questioning their occupation in one of two gender roles, but for some people, if pressed, they donāt feel that internal sense of āi am a womanā or āi am a manā, and in that case i feel the switch over to transgender vs cisgender relies on active identification of a gender other than the one they were assigned. if someoneās like āidk dude I just work hereā then thatās valid
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