[sad tentacle noises]

nothing in the new fallout show will ever have the raw cinematic power of this bit

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bad week 2025 day 8 - ways of engaging with art

You ever hear a song so good you gotta restart it before it even finish

i actually write in american anarchist standard english which only really has three rules:

I once saw someone doubling down hard that one should not be naked around their pets, that it was sketchy behavior, and that one should not even watch them pee or poop, despite those being vital things to do so that you can make sure things are going okay. And this being the thoughtcrime site, I cannot be certain they were trolling.

made a depression creature. its name is wtf

being too on tumblr is a crazy experience bc you will think to yourself "man. cannibalism is so cringe now all the most boring people alive are obsessed with it" and then realize that that is a sentence from insane world

'you wouldn't pirate a-' i would steal anything from any company. anything in the world. i dont even want it i just hate you

The tragedy of my life is that I keep acquiring and displaying fetish art and having to be corrected by my friends.

Most recently, a friend came over my house and saw my computer background and went, "Wow, um, I didn't know you were into that." To which I look at the picture of the well drawn muscular female minotaur in historically accurate Greek clothing and I start geeking out about how I love the detail the artist did with the clothing and I point out the period appropriate folds and pins, how the artist even inserted the native plant that was used to dye the clothing this particular shade in the background, and even how the belt has technology AND historically accurate weaving patterns on it.

Then I start explaining how I love the muscular choices of the minotaur, that I was so impressed with the artist's anatomically correct depiction of the muscles converging into the neck. That many people get an upright cow's neck wrong because cow's don't have collarbones, so it can be very difficult to merge the upper arms and a chest of a human with a cow's body. I draw her attention to the beautiful way they've merged the pectoralis major so smoothly while also staying true to how muscular they've depicted the rest of the body.

I finish up with my thoughts on the artist's bold choice to depict the minotaur as a female, and despite the underlying themes of a minotaur being violence, child murder, strength, and muscles. I segue into how unlike bulls, cow are perceived as mothers. That they are the major source of milk in human culture, and that idyllic depictions of them in a field usually depict calves frolicking nearby, yet the minotaur kills and eats children.

I finish and there is a long pause.

"Urban, this is fetish art." and she takes me to the artist's twitter and god dammit it's fetish art, not a bold statement on cultural perceptions of women and violence throughout history. I have been tricked again.

You know it can be both, right? The fact that it is fetish art doesn't take away all of the beautiful thoughtful details that they chose to put in the art.

Enigmatic echoes of Sulfur’s tears, ‘Kawah Putih’ whispers the story of Bandung’s untouched volcanic lake.

André des Gachons (1871-1951), ''Le Livre de Legendes'', 1895 Source

pitch for my new tarot card “The Normal Dog”

my favorite compliment to get from a friend or lover.