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hamletthedane · 3 months

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I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#shut up e #long post #Saturday thoughts #this has been in my drafts for a week haha #also this is the heart of why AI art feels so wrong #forget the discussion of copyright and theft etc - even if models were only trained on public domain they would still feel very wrong #because they’re not art. art is the labor of creation #even commercial art and art commissioned by the popes and kings of history: there is humanity in the labor of it #unrelated: I did not know living in the Bronx was now something to brag about. How the fuck do y’all New Yorkers afford this city???

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yuribeam · 2 months

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for whoever needs to hear this:

starting HRT doesn't have to be a huge momentous all-or-nothing decision. you can just try it like you would an antidepressant you've been informed of the risks of.

there won't be any immediate irreversible changes overnight. you can always stop, change your dose, change your delivery system, decide it's not the right time. you can even microdose if you want to.

you don't have to tell anyone. you don't have to announce it if you don't want to.

stop waiting for a perfect time in your life because it won't come.

stop waiting to reach a mythical level of certainty that never comes to anyone, for anything.

you've been thinking about it long enough. if you have the opportunity, just give it a shot. you're worth the courage it takes to make a change in your life.

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skittybot · 3 months

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at this stage i think its good to say, and i direct this to all of the trans women on this site:

you are loved. you are appreciated. your presence is valued.

ppl can do all they can to invalidate you, to drag you through the grime and do their best to make you nothing. and they can fucking try.

but it won't change the fact that we care about you. i care about you. and i appreciate you taking the effort to stick around in this world, especially as things turn awful.

big ass hugs for you girls.

we're still here 💙

#trans positivity #transgender #dedicating this to u avery #prolly wont be back on this site to see but w/e #also this post would be hilarious if i got deleted after posting it

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nipotazzi · 4 months

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#shitposting #my posts #splatoon #i made this #meme #portal #i have no mouth and i must scream #wall e #2001 a space odyssey #glados #commander tartar

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pineapple-frenzy · 2 months

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Book 2 au: sparring sessions and short hair katara

They like to have sparring sessions in order to keep their bending skills sharp. They allow themselves to go all out and not hold back at all cause they know if anyone got hurt, Katara could just heal them

But anyways, wouldn't it be kinda funny if Zuko accidentally burned Katara's hair tho? Aofkqldkkajfjd

The "I think we can save the hairloops" line is from @linnoya-writes thank you for that!! :>>

#zutara #zuko #katara #atla #book 2 au #my art #i mentioned in my last book 2 au post that i wanted to include short hair katara into it and y'all were so supportive of it!! 😭😭😭#so this is how i think it would go #it would happen as katara is trying to evade one of zuko's fire balls #she manages to avoid it but since her hair is long it still caught on fire #she'd be pissed so she water whips the hell out of zuko #and then promptly forgets about it akfhkakdkakdj #even after the sparring session she still hasn't remembered cause 'oh no zuko's in pain i have to help him!'#it isn't until zuko even mentions it that she remembers #zuko thinks she's more calm than i thought she would be after burning her hair so he mentions it to her #little did he know katara just forgor aldjlakdkaljd #n e ways zuko does feel bad so she offers to help fix it up for her #i think after the haircut katara would find herself looking in mirrors when there are any around cause 'zuko thinks i'm beautiful?? really?#zuko doesn't know this tho and he thinks katara is till sad about the unwanted haircut so he keeps telling her that she looks beautiful #and katara just keeps losing it aldjlakdlald #in conclusion they are idiots your honor

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mintypsii · 3 months

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what is this guy's issue 😭

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somerandomdudelmao · 2 months

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I made some colored refs for my comic ~ And also some sketches because can you guess who is my favorite haha

#marble sky #marble sky comic #still have no idea how to tag this #art #looks at the comments under the first marble sky post #wow Tumblr d o e s like aliens more than twitter #ahaha #I had a great fight inside my brain and at the end decided to put this watermark on the ref #because all my character desighs and refs always end up on Pinterest. Imma need all Pinterestians to know who made those #👍#marble sky refs #i guess #Marble sky ref

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dreagine · 5 months

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Ithinkweregonnahaftakillthisguy

#art shtuff #maybe #BATIM x UTMV crossover!?!?#😧😧😧🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯#n e ways I love ink and bendy they r the same #shout out 2 that one post where comyet said a batim song reminded them of ink #they would b friends I think #goodnight I’m sleepy #ink sans #ink!sans #bendy and the ink machine #batim bendy

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caruliaa · 2 years

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GET FUCKING CARULIA'D BITCHES !!!!!

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ohh... and also...

GET CASTIEL'D !!!!!!

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#OMG WAIT #gimmie a sec.#flappy rambles #im typing this tag so tumblr lets m e post this damm thing

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thefloweredblade · 5 months

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Vintage wlw will forever own my heart. We have been here for ages, and we won’t leave.

#wlw positivity #wlw love #wlw post #wlw #lesbian #aphrodite queen of lesbians #lady aphrodite #lord aphrodite #helpol #aphrodite deity #aphrodite goddess #aphrodite worship #aphrodite #e offering #lesbian pride #love worship #love

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mad-jesterr · 2 months

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Get ready.

It’s too big for your tiny hole.

I’m gonna ravage your cervix.

And you’ll love it. Squirting like the wh0re you are.

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bu99erfly · 14 days

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ANOK YAI wearing Swarovski Met Gala 2024 – Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion

#anok yai #met gala #dailywomen #dailywoc #flawlessbeautyqueens #chewieblog #useraashna #userbbelcher #2024 met gala #swarovski #fashion #99 #90 #*e #*1k #flashing #ive been trying to post these for a while #but tumblr is not letting me :/

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shweshishweh · 8 months

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I’ve had these concepts in my drafts for almost a year 💀

#life do be happening #they are all unfinished to varying degrees but I feel bad leaving them never to be seen #kh #disney #kingdom hearts #sora #wall e #kh4 #my art #apparently my art blog has been shadowbanned so for now I’ll post here rip

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futuristichedge · 8 months

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Team Dark as various tumblr posts

#sth #sth fanart #sonic the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog fanart #team dark #shadow the hedgehog #rouge the bat #e 123 omega #shadow #rouge #omega #my art #doodles #ill link the posts in a reblog #i just dont want tumblr to get all mad with links and prevent the post from showing up in search ^^

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wispurring-moss · 22 days

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kay I pinkie-swear I'm not gonna keep blasting y'all with constant wips of this thing but i s2g my heart demanded that I share this part Immediately at least, so... TwT enjoy some more SoftnessTM~ <3

#husk's pupils any time they're looking directly at angel be like: e n h a n c e #and i adore that for both of them hghbjgsfvgk #huskerdust #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel husk #hazbin husk #hazbin hotel angel dust #hazbin angel dust #jfc no there is No Way im gonna be able to do All of these tags Every Time i post lmfao gotta figure out which to narrow down to #my art #gif #wip

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zosanbrainrot · 7 months

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zosantober day 12 - spicy

mandatory supplies stop

#this was my first thought #then I thought maybe I should just draw them making out #but Im posting these on ig as well and uhh idk #tumblr makes it so much easier to get through to fandom people ig is just shouting into the void but also irl people are there #ANYWAY #compo could be better but I think I made it work #also why did inktober spell it spicey with an E inside #is there sth I dont know I tried googling but it just says its an alt spelling #never seen that before #zosantober #one piece #sanji #zoro #zosan #inktober #inktober 2023 #my art #one piece fanart

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