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sleepysnk · 1 year

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gonna try and work on my wip once i get home 🫡💔

#summer speaks #it’s been in my drafts for a week #UGH #i need to work on it #not a lot tho

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hamletthedane · 4 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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uh-oh-kyber-is-here · 3 months

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From @evilbubblewrap , a song for each letter of my username

U - Unpronounceable by They Might Be Giants

H - Head Over Heels by Tears For Fears

O - Only Acting by Kero Kero Bonito

H - Hellboy by SWMRS

K - Knives, Guns, & Bed by Rare Americans

Y - Your Mom by THICK

B - Black Friday Rule by Flogging Molly

E - Eat Them by Lady Pills

R - Running on a Treadmill by Oingo Boingo

I - I’m Always Walking as Somebody Else by American Murder Song

S - Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2

H - Heart of Glass by Blondie

E - Echo Beach by Martha and the Muffins

R - Roadkill by VIAL

E - Everything She Wants by Wham!

Tagging anyone who wants

#oh I forgot about this #it’s been in my drafts for a week

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yekokataa · 1 year

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🔥 choose violence ask game 🔥

the character everyone gets wrong

a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom

screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

worst discord server and why

which ship fans are the most annoying?

what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

worst part of canon

worst part of fanon

number of fandom-related words you've filtered

the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

worst blorboficiation

that one thing you see in fics all the time

that one thing you see in fanart all the time

you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

there should be more of this type of fic/art

it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

part of canon you found tedious or boring

part of canon you think is overhyped

your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

ship you've unwillingly come around to

topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

#i made a poll about this terrible idea weeks ago and this has been sitting in my drafts since then #have fun???#ask game #choose violence ask game

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sparklingsora · 4 months

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doodle dump. give it up for WORLD'S WORST POLYCULE!!! (feat. my vox redesign)

you know how hermit crabs like form queues where they exchange shells from biggest to smallest. yeah these bitches do that but with shirts

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel vees #the vees #hazbin vox #hazbin valentino #hazbin velvette #staticmoth #voxval #idk what the velvette ships are called :(#or the throuple ship #if anybody knows lmk!!!#my art #huge shoutout to anyone who gets the nerdy prudes must die references #this has been sitting in my drafts for like a week now. i guess i'll finally unleash it upon the world

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azperja · 4 months

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Modern! Shadowheart ✨

God’s Favorite Princess + ink of her favorite flower

Closeups!

Links: Commissions Open | Twittter | Insta

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spocksjuul · 3 months

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My baby here on earth!!! Showed me what my heart was worth!!!!!

#I was like oh it’s a shame I didn’t have time to finish a piece for valentines day #and then I remembered this has been languishing in my drafts for weeks! lol #anyway I’m obsessed with Spock being more open/expressive as he gets older #old men giggling inappropriately at the diplomatic function my beloveds<3 #my art #spirk #kirk/spock #k/s #Star Trek tos

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josukespimphand · 4 months

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#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #geto suguru #gojo satoru #satosugu #stsg #stsgst #sugusato #my art #tariah23 #art from a week or so ago that's been sitting in my drafts for months sorry ahhh hope you like #for some reason tumblr is destroying the quality of the art??? oh brother!!!

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imclou · 1 month

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@head-in-the-icloud's Dawn and Dusk doodles from last week's magma. Drawing them is so satisfying istg, my hand cramped really bad but i held on til the end for that sweet sweet dopamine

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