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the point of art is not to be great but to make it transparently obvious that there is something wrong with you

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Please!

ok fuck taking the king to court for crimes against first peoples???? yes?????? YES????????

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ok fuck taking the king to court for crimes against first peoples???? yes?????? YES????????

#this time on goat tunes into the news for the first time in months

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#three way tie between #bader badger #le tierd #and scfifty five

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Ways to say "girlfriend" in Finnish

Tyttöystävä, tötsy ötsä, tötti pöddi, öödipöödi, tytti pyttis, tööttipötsi, ööli bööna, rönttö höttiäinen, tötö ödö, tötterö ötökkä, tyty ytty, töötti torvelo

#absolutely naming one of my gnomes/nisse öödipöödi

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A thing I love to do is telling prepper dudes that one of my disaster readiness skills is making stuffed animals. They never get it. Like, my dude, when things get very bad and we're all sharing overcrowded shelters, you're gonna want the power to comfort children. Trust me.

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#useful

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young artist posting your work online, heed my warning. im holding your face so gently in my hands, you have to stop caring about numbers right now and start caring about making the weirdest and most self-indulgent art you possibly can

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If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

#slab of precooked meat from the fridge #like a saussage or a schnitzel or something #sometimes with bread of some kind #breakfasting is physically very hard to do

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Ive noticed people drawing stick necks on fat characters and i must take a stand against it

#useful #very important

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The last time we were on a long flight, my wife and I invented a game we call "Little Guy."

You start a game of Little Guy by saying, "I'm gonna hand you a little guy." The little guy is some kind of baby animal you are imagining. "Oh," she might say in response, "Okay," and hold out her hands for it. I will then mime handing her the animal. This provides some clues as to the little guy's size, weight, and general ungainliness.

She then gets to ask questions about what kind of little guy this is, BUT NO QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS ACTUAL APPEARANCE OR SPECIES ARE ALLOWED. Qualitative questions, or questions about his behavior, are the only ones permitted. She can ask "Is he soft?" or "Does he seem nervous about being held?" or "If I put him in the bathtub, does he seem okay with that?" or "Would he like a lil grape?" or "Is he the sort of little fellow who would wear a vest in a children's book?" but not "Does he have fur," "Is he a reptile," "Is he from Asia," etc. Some questions are in a grey area so you have to follow your heart, but the point is not to identify the animal as fast as possible: the point is to guess the animal purely based on vibes + how he would act if he were in your living room right now.

And I'm not limited to yes or no answers! If she asks, "Would it feel appropriate to see this little guy in a propeller hat?" I can reply, "Oh no, he has a gravity to him. A bowler hat would be a more appropriate hat." Or if she asks, "Does this little guy have protagonist energy?" I can say something like, "he probably wouldn't be the main character in a children's cartoon. He'd probably be the main character's ditzy best friend who's always eating sandwiches, or something."

We're big Twenty Questions to kill time in a waiting room people, but Little Guy is more about the journey than the destination. It's got a different kind of sauce that's nice if "killing time" and "lowering anxiety" need to happen hand in hand.

#omg please

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been thinking a lot about anticipatory grief lately. i love you so much that i know losing you will devastate me. i haven't lost you yet but i already miss you. we still have time, but it won't be enough. i think about what i would say at your funeral, and say some of it to you now cause i need you to know how loved you are before you go. you will go where i cannot follow, but you will never really leave me. it won't make it hurt less but it is a part of healing somehow.

#i anticipated bridget going #did not anticipate demytr #very different feelings

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my older cat died yesterday night. Mum threw her in the trash and refused to get a whisker from her for me. They didn't tell me she had a stroke a few hours before that.

Last time I saw her she was so friendly and even let me pet her while she ate. She was very bony. She was such a cool cat and didnt like cuddles. Muscular most of her life, with a huge vertical leap to get to her favorite spot. She used to like shoving her face in my armpit while I slept, waking me up every time lol.

Demytr was really good. I feel horrible.

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be a wretched old man

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for anyone who remembers my fiveish years of being sick and barely managing the ten or so steps required to get to the barhroom;

I'm finally on insulin, my sugars are below twenty for the first time in *almost a decade*, I'm off the medications who's main side effects are gut related, I'm on lactose free dairy products, and I'm in a fairly stress less environment.

I'm still tired all the time, and can't concentrate, and my stamina and muscle tone are low, but I'm feeling so much better. I can walk to the end of the street one day put if seven most weeks, and I'm able to do small things around the house, and sit up for a lot of the time,, and talk to my loved ones, and I can physically go to the cinema! like that's huge improvement! I feel so alive again

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Look if there is absolutely nothing else you take away from the nonsense I am posting, it's this: Make Art.

Make art, with whatever you have. Use scrap cardboard and tape and build something; doodle in your notebooks, make a beautiful dinner, grow a plant, write, paint your nails. Learn to whittle, to knit, to cut straight lines, to sew, to cook, to run at a problem and not solve it the first time. Learn to try again.

Make things the wrong way.

If it works, do it again, better. If it doesn't, do it again, different. Draw badly. Look at the way the light hits something and try to figure out the colors it makes. Watch the way strangers walk and how the weight of them shifts in motion.

Creating art--beautiful things, ugly things, silly things--is not something that you should be leaving to people who are better at it or can afford the expensive materials or have a deep message or whatever. Do it anyway. Do it worse, do it cheaply, do it just for the joy of doing it. The work itself has merit. The work itself is rewarding. Make art.

And pet your cat.

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I wish there were a universal, low-brainpower, nonverbal way to communicate to my friends that says "hey I'm thinking about you but I don't have anything to say, nor do I have the wherewithal for a conversation right now anyway" via text message but I'm so so so upset that the original Facebook messenger Poke feature was the closest to anyone getting the right idea