joan

"I hate gouache" "gouache is so hard to use" gouache is incredibly forgiving. not as overly forgiving as oils, not as fast paced as acrylic or acrylic gouache or as meticulous and layered as watercolor, but pliable and revivable and perfectly pigmented. she is your friend. she is a friend to practically every other medium and wants to help you. fuck the gouache haters. if gouache has 1000 fans, I'm one of them. if gouache has only one fan, it's me. if gouache has 0 fans then I'm dead.

I remember when I first found out the truth about “Somali pirates” I got chills because of how horrific the truth was and how insanely creepily well the media had twisted the situation. Every single fucking article making it seem like these “pirates” were just after money or something holding innocent people hostage and I never gave it a second thought, why would I? There was no indication that people were trying to legitimately fight off disgusting imperialism that left nuclear waste in their waters, that over 300 people have died from radiation sickness, that Europeans have been stealing Somalia’s seafood because they overfished their own waters and the indigenous fisherman are starving and so these “pirates” emerged to deal with those stealing their country’s natural resources. The truth is enough to make anyone sick to their stomachs.

This is a great article about the truth about Somali pirates, in case anyone wants a source.

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