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People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter

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A belly can be a "slut waist" too. If you're not a fearful little freak

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me in my me in my clown era

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I’m at it again

#my art #illustration #clown #oleg popov #soviet clown #soviet circus #circus #artists on tumblr #clowncore

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me in my me in my clown era

#honk honk #artists on tumblr #oleg popov #clown #circus #soviet era #soviet circus #my art #illustration #digital illustration

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John Salt (British, 1937-2021), Black Ford in Field, 1972. Oil on canvas, 48 x 72 in.

#wait what #art

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"SURVIVING"

#felt #being a people pleaser is wild #art

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some of my favorite paintings of all time are the dozens of self portraits this one dude in the 1800s made of himself in clown paint. like, there's so many. and they're all bangers

this isn't even 25% of them. check out armand henrion for more. yes this is all he ever painted hope you like it

#king #he is the vibe #clownery

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Do y’all know about Frédéric Thomas? He is a French parasitologist who heard a story about crickets in New Zealand leaping into the water even though they can’t swim, and immediately speculated this suicidal behavior was related to behavior manipulation from an internal parasite. This is before neuro-parasitology was a field at all, and before people really put much stock into parasite’s ability to control animal behavior.

Thomas was certain that studying these crickets would be a huge priority for the scientific world given the implications of a parasite controlling an animal’s actions in such an insidious way. Unfortunately, absolutely nobody would fund Thomas’ expedition to study the crickets, and his grants were all declined. In a wild move that showcases the balls to the wall, near- insanity level passion of a biologist, Thomas declared a hunger strike and wrote a letter to the president of France saying he would not eat until someone took the matter seriously and funded his study on the suicidal crickets. I feel like those of us in research can at least a little bit understand this impulse.

Well the French government actually got Thomas’ message and freaked out a bit at the negative publicity that could arise from a crazy worm scientist starving to death. So they send some government bigwigs to the university to pressure Thomas and his department heads into calling an end to the hunger strike. In the flurry of attention that resulted from this, a Swiss billionaire heard about Thomas’ plight and offered to partially fund the study. The French government was happy to get rid of Thomas and contributed funding as well so that Thomas could head to New Zealand to study his suicidal crickets. He was right about the parasites causing the behavior!

The hunger strike debacle is not even the wildest part of this story. I love biology so much

#oh wow #science side of tumblr #biology

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Did the USSR have circuses or carnivals of any sort? (what about modern Russia?)

Carnivals - not really, but the circus - hard yes, it was very popular in the USSR. Every big city had a circus with clowns, acrobats, and animals.

Some circus personalities were huge celebrities, for example:

Karandash (Mikhail Rumyanov) and his terrier Klyaksa [ink blotch] / Yuri Nikulin

Oleg Popov / Yuri Kuklachyov and his cats

Leonid Yengibarov / Vyacheslav Polunin

#in my clown era #in my soviet clowns era to be precise #soviet circus

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How DARE Tolkien omit in the final draft the information that the traditional hobbit marriage custom is to have unspoken vibes for years and then disappear without explanation for an indeterminate length of time!?

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shadowheart…..

#shadowheart #bg3 art #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #shadowheart fanart #poor poor girl #also i feel her #she is literally me #to be honest #my art

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My favorite fairytales growing up was Snow White and The Pied Piper.

I remember having seen different adaptations of these two stories and I always loved it

... Shrek being my favorite lol

#pied piper #snow white

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maybe i didnt come back wrong maybe i was just a weird freak when i was alive but i hid it and acted so normal and after i died i decided to stop pretending. maybe being resurrected was the perfect opportunity for me to be myself because i knew you would chalk it up to the horror of me coming back wrong. but the horror was always inside me. did u think about that

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orin the red

#tw blood #cw gore #orin the red #orin bg3 #bg3 art #bg3 #blood #bhaalspawn #durge #baldurs gate art #baldur's gate 3 #my art

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#ketheric thorm #orin the red

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Better get a cat to the camp next time 🙄🩸🦇

#astarion #baldurs gate astarion #bg3 #bg3 art #baldurs gate art #baldur's gate 3 #astarion ancunin #my art #blood