aviary of mana

commission of Gaetana for @birdyaviary, thank you!

photograph by Gary Michael Flanagan

"Why must we Madonna/whore the vegetables?" is a phrase I just felt super glue itself in my lexicon immediately

anon I want you to know that I am always thinking about this

Charles Cushing, Pear Tree at 13th and Pine Streets, Philadelphia, 2023, Oil on canvas

" I didn't ask to be created."

I’m in love with this stupid shirt

like, yeah. obviously. real life women don't act like the women in romance novels either. it's a genre with extremely stylized and predictable character beats that exist to serve the romantic arc rather than to deeply explore or accurately reproduce human behavior. this complaint makes about as much sense as superciliously sneering that small english towns don't ACTUALLY have a murder every other week for the local eccentric to investigate.

source

𓅰 𓅬 𓅭 𓅮 𓅯 credit: racheeymarytravels