untitled mixed media painting

sad part about sex being a taboo topic is that sometimes really funny things happen during sex or related to sex or at weird sex clubs and you cant tell the story to like 90% of people in your life because of the sex context. the contsext. do you ever wonder how many people have funny sex stories theyre just sitting on. its tragic.

Same for kink regardless of if there was sex involved tbh. Basically the only times I get to talk about things like “harmonica impact play” or “falling down a mountain during a sub hunt”, etc. is on the internet, in kink clubs, or with other trans girls regardless of how objectively hilarious any individual event was.

was literally having this conversation yesterday about how socially acceptable topics are always just the most inane and boring shit, like one of the guys in the group is in the process of building a padded cell for asylum play and management have decreed that he's not allowed to talk about this thing that brings him joy because it's taboo; it's tragic, and it minimises us as people

also I have 20 of these available. Each is a little different (variable edition) and they're each $400. dm me lol

It’s one plate with hand painted chine colle. Hard ground, soft ground, and aquatint. Not sure I’d recommend doing all that on a single plate with the chine colle. Was ultimately a huge bitch to print but the press and I learned a lot.

One day, in the future, this entire system of tiered passports and immigration restrictions and second-class citizenship will be gone, a relic of the past, and the phrase "Immigration is a human right, moving is a human right" will seem as quaint and obvious as "Aparteid is bad" in an old sci-fi episode

ngl im getting worried about my own future in regards to working in the field im studying

today at a seminar we were talking about how to succeed as an industrial designer, how to become attractive on the market, attractive to an employer

my idea has pretty much just been to make a killer portfolio (tho i have a very long way to go until i succeed with that), and a good resume and personal letter

i have been considering starting my own company, but that idea is extremely loose and i dont really have a plan for what i would do within this company, so I haven't exactly thought about how to succeed in that

but my classmates were very convinced that in order to get your name out there you have to use social medias. tiktok, specifically. and i just. i dont know if i can do that. i also dont know if i believe that to be set in stone, but who knows what the world will look like when i graduate

of course, theyre also convinced you have to learn AI and accept AI as a tool in the design process, an idea that i absolutely refuse to believe and accept. im never using AI lol

Reblogging this because tumblr ate my attempt to reply lol anyway:

This is a fallacy of not being in the rooms where decisions are made and thus only seeing these success stories when they happen in public forums (social media). Socmed is great if you are working towards private individuals - tattoo artists, small scale printmakers and crafters, patternmakers, etc. - but if you are working towards companies there are other ways. I don't want to minimise the work it takes getting into any creative industry: you DO need a strategy, which historically has meant being very intentional about your network and your internships but today might also involve socmed, but there are a number of ways.

Similarly, refusing to use AI might put you in a position where you will not be relevant for some clients or companies, but that doesn't mean your method won't have a space. Mass manufacturing didn't mean traditional bookbinding ceased to exist, but it does mean that the majority who work in printing do so in industrial scale and that those who do work with traditional methods, have to find strategies outside of the mainstream to reach a more niche clientel and adjust their prices accordingly.

You absolutely should be thinking proactively about your career path and if there are venues that are not interesting or doable for you, you need to take that into account, creating strategies either way. I personally still struggle with this. But just because one path is more visible and easy to access does not mean that that is the only way to do it.

Modern Tumblr has lost the art of removing exactly ONE annoying reply from a post.

The "delete all reblog comments" has its uses but it's so all or nothing.

Back in the day you'd see posts like this

do: | re: | | mi: | | | fa: | | | | so: | | | | | "Why'd the chicken cross the road? To get to | | | | | the other side!" | | | | I told this to my dad and he laughed so | | | | hard XD | | Literally Sam Winchester would say this.

do and mi have been stricken from the record for the crime of shut up

The Sam Winchester comment survived so you know whatever do and mi said was fucking dire.

Cemeteries are not wastes of space. Historical cemeteries ESPECIALLY are not wastes of space. The fact developers are continuously foaming at the mouth to destroy them and put a strip mall up in their place should make you even more determined to help maintain them. In urban areas, they are a haven for wildlife. They are a green space. If you are too afraid of death to utilize them for that purpose, that is on you.

David Hockney.

yesterday I had the thought "visual novel for normal people" (?) and halfway through making this image (which I thought would be really funny) I realized it was completely meaningless

who cares if you don't fully "get" the weird postmodernist novel on your first read, or if the experimental arthouse film is opaque to you on your first viewing? you are not being graded. you are not being scored. there is value in the attempt. every time i've read House of Leaves or watched Blue Velvet, I've gotten something new from it. the idea that you might not "get" something and therefore shouldn't bother with it is so silly to me

my corner store guy is a 50 year old man who's my best friend in the world and recently he was like "you're too pretty to be single I have some nephews you should meet. very handsome!" and I was like "a niece might be more up my alley" and he just got more excited and said "ah even better! I was overselling my nephews but my nieces are very beautiful"

OP the tags!!

whenever a white european gets on their high horse about “amerikkka” or whatever:

You know you’re always like “I wish I could wear my overalls but also my tulle dress”

Unique

Amadeus (1984)