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“Evening Butterfly Catcher”

#art #acrylicpainting

Pepsi man

The YouTube algorithm

A radioactive coyote

Princess peach

The goblin king as played by David Bowie

Jeff bezos

Janet from Human Resources

Yami Yugi the pharaoh from yu-gi-oh

The sun maid raisin girl

The Marvel universe Loki

The giant mass of trash and pollution they removed from the seine river before the Paris Olympics

Your grandmother's collection of handwritten recipes and lifehacks

Papa Smurf

Ellen Ripley

Ignaz Semmelweis

Richard Stockton Rush III

Mommy Fortuna from The Last Unicorn

The Biting Pear of Salamanca (aka The LOLWUT Pear)

The Brave Little Tailor

The one guy who it turns out has won every single Elvis Presley imitation contest ever

Wacky waving inflatable tube man

Jeeves, from Ask Jeeves

Condoleezza Rice

Chairry from Pee Wee's Playhouse

A sickly victorian child

Dr. House, M.D., but from the bizarro universe, so he has a black, twirly mustache

David Lynch

The Tumblr Blog @theshitpostcalligrapher (not Mia, who runs it. The pact is with the blog, itself.)

The Black Mold your landlord refuses to do anything about

Thomas Jefferson (Hatsuni Miki Binder Edition)

The Raccoon that digs through your trash

Sentient Deck of Cards Against Humanity

The Fire that Billy Joel et al did NOT start

All the pigeons of New Your City

Big Vaxxed Papi (untouchable)

Any AO3 tag's search results

Schnitzel from Chowder

Unlimited Appetizers

False Advertisment

Statler and Waldorf

The High Geologist

The Only-One Bed

Blue (Blue's Clues)

Doki Doki Monika

Kevin McCallister

Emote-Only Chat

Fridge with Legs

Gandalf's left tit

Cunt (Fashion)

Harry Du Bois

Pizza The Hut

Gävlebocken

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Finally, this week, we have Magical World of Monsters (1992), a collaboration between artist Erni Cabat and writer Daniel Cohen.

I hadn’t heard of Cabat before I went on my spree of buying up all the Daniel Cohen books I could lay my hands on. Seems he spent most of his career in advertising and only began illustrating toward the end of his life (he was also a ceramics artist, collaborating with his wife, Rose, who had a pretty significant career of her own). In addition to Monsters, he produces Magical World books for prehistoric animals, carousel animals and dinosaurs, all in the same basic format. His style is rather hard to describe. I suppose I would start with “garish.” They’re a swirling combination of texture, pattern and unusual color choices that are difficult to visually parse. There is so much detail in the Medusa head, for instance, and the tonal range so compressed, that my eye can’t stop in any one place for long, to the point that it seems like her hair of snakes is perhaps really squirming. The sense of motion in all of these pieces almost verges on vertigo. They’re pretty amazing!

The selection of monsters seems mostly governed by what Erni wanted to paint. Cohen is there to provide the slightest bit of context. It all hangs together fine, Cohen knows who the star is here.

I can work through most of my migraine and pain triggers, though I probably shouldn't. I have learned to breathe through my anxiety and OCD triggers. My delusions were triggered BAD last night and I am surviving, even if I kinda wish I wasn't.

Ukraine: (Strapping C4 to a fencepost with a lawn dart on one end) Oh yeah, those are great.

Russians: … Fucking what‽

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

Do you think they just can't live without knowing I'm talking about them? Is that what's going on? Like this is some trump level shit right here. This is fucking pathetic.

But it's an emergency now and I can't fucking deal with it by myself 🙄

So I once again have to beg yall for money even though I legitimately don't fucking want to

Yall please help me

Like what is with these people? "Oh Queen Mihai isn't talking about us enough, let's attack her money again! Let's make her poor so she has to struggle to survive! Let's set up 50 meetings so she can't write her books and then claim she's not serious about writing her books!"

I know what's happening. I need a FAT check to get rid of this shit and the only *easy* ways to do it would be to find a donor who can donate like $10,000 so I can get rid of ALL this shit (and then I'm in that rich person's pocket forever, right?) Or to get an engineering job that pays more than my last engineering job; which if I did, would ruin my ability to continue writing my series AND fight for human rights.

And I can't say that anyone is even remotely doing anything on purpose because people don't call me by name almost anywhere

I guess that's what needs to start happening next

On top of donations, I think I need like thousands of people to start saying my name in YouTube videos and streams and in their art and I can't afford to keep being quiet about it because the people attacking me have way more power than me and I need to get a lot more Fucking power if I'm gonna fight back because, as I said, my ability to pay my bills is the only thing keeping me from financially spiraling down a drain because this system in Norway is DESIGNED to force you down the drain if you don't keep up. And keeping up is FUCKING expensive

Thank you all so much, yall have been miracle workers and you still are. Yall surprise me all the time and I will always appreciate and love yall

P.s. - for anyone who intends to say my name in a video it's Queen Mihai, pronounced (kween Mee-high)

Thank you all again