peter sqloint + exandroth

gee, glad it's teto tuesday!

I made this because I didn’t know how to remove wearables from my pets

(Quiggler views all clothing with the same excitement as someone about to hold up two donuts over their eyes)

i love og soap too much. my stomach hurts. i don't feel good.

weird fish

They're all Watching fireworks! Well...some. How nice.

I do have a Version where you Can see The Firework light Illuminating on Them but I'm Not Too sure if I'm gonna Post it.

the way it feels when I want to write and/or make art:

Imagine if Kirby: Triple Deluxe got the Deluxe remake treatment like RtDL, but instead of the outlines and stuff, we got a paintery, storybook-looking remake to let its settings flourish, like if it were something lineless by someone like Suyasuyabi427 (not on Tumblr), @arcaidee, or @desultory-novice. And (assuming an Amazing Mirror sequel including this next part would be too much to ask for, even though that would be one of the greatest games ever) also Taranza's closure arc for the Epilogue mode like he's deserved for the past decade. Someone once said we should have the five stages be the stages of grief, and I agree with that.

That's it. There's my pitch. Hire me, HAL (maybe)

something about him

nosferatu is a beautiful movie, amazing choices by everyone involved---except the main actors. they were terrible.

hey man. hey. you're doing alright, okay? everythings going to be fine in the end. you can always DM your mutuals for assurance, im sure they'll be completely fine with that. they're mutuals for a reason, they've found you to be a cool person. if they didnt like you, they wouldn't be mutuals with you. you're gonna get through this man, i believe in you all the way. -🎃

anon i love you but most people followed me for like 2 or 3 funny posts i made i’m not gonna be the freak in their inbox like “👉👈 ermmm do you like me”

Feel free to. 😋

Me: I'm gonna stop procrastinating and create a Les Mis comic! Finally, I'll draw something related to the main story! Me: Okay step one is doing in depth research on the historical boats of the period (similar to the Orion), what these ships and their harbors would've looked like, and creating an extremely high-effort historically accurate 3D model reflecting that research-- Me: oh god. this is why Victor Hugo does all those history tangents...ive been in the fandom long enough to attempt to start making my own Digressions

quite truthfully my very personal highly self indulgent interpretation of the life series & it as a timeloop specifically is like. entirely 10000% shaped by orvs metanarrative so if you want access to this specific interpretation that like maybe 2 or 3 total people globally hold you will unfortunately have to read 551 chapters of a korean webnovel that only exists in full via awkward fan translation. but it sounds tempting does it not

Re: anti-intellectualism and those modern art posts floating around

Last week in my art class we discussed abstraction, both objective and non. The students had a pretty neutral reaction to objective abstraction (abstract art that has a tangible subject - think Picasso), but when we got to the non-objective abstract art (probably what pops into your mind when you think "abstract art"), things got heated.

They absolutely hated it. All of it. I showed Mondrian's Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow ("This is stupid. It's just lines."). I showed Jackson Pollock's Convergence ("I could do that. What's the point?"). I showed Robert Rauschenberg's White Painting (abject rage). Just to name a few.

Now, don't get me wrong. I love discussing this. It's perfectly acceptable to have a reaction to fine art like this. However there was NO understanding or critical thinking about the pieces, even when I explained the meaning and process and context for each one. They firmly believed that art like this was entirely pointless because it didn't have a subject or message. They weren't even open to the idea. I even had one student leave.

Flash forward to this week. We had a student return to class after being sick. She missed the abstract lesson and discussion, but had a previous piece that she completed for homework and wanted to share. It was a digital collage that sort of resembled a flower. She said "It doesn't really mean anything, I just made it and I liked it." And all the students were praising it during critique. So I asked them, "Last week you said that art without deeper meaning isn't really art. That there needs to be a clear message and purpose for it to be 'good'. So why is this one different?"

No one had an answer for me.

Capitalism has poisoned our minds into believing that the only art that has worth is art that serves a higher function -- to inform, to entertain, to sell a product. It has to be 'good', it has to be 'pretty'. There is no art for the sake of art anymore. And it's affected our ability to look at artwork from the past through an objective lens. It's much easier to call something stupid than to ask yourselves the tough questions -- Who made this? Why did they make it? How did they make it? What was the reception and what did that mean for art moving forward?

You don't have to like abstract art. It's not a question about liking anything, in fact I'm sure (I'm positive) many of the abstract artists expected their work to be hated. But the point is that sometimes the meaning isn't in the artwork itself, but rather how we react to it and where this art sits in regard to what came before it and what was created after.

What is art? What is the line between 'good' and 'bad'? And who are we to decide when and where to draw it?

𝒮𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝓌𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒹𝒶𝓎𝓈: 𝒜 𝒫𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝐿𝒶𝒹𝓎 𝐼 𝓈𝒶𝓌 𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝒾𝒹 𝒩𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇.

𝒮𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝓁𝑒𝓉 𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝒶 𝒸𝓁𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝓊𝓅 𝓋𝒾𝒹𝑒𝑜 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒹𝓇𝒾𝓃𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓊𝓅 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒶𝓇 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑜𝓃.