look at the skill and spirit

farseer is just an exercise in finding fun new ways to have your bodily autonomy violated by 🥹❤️uncle❤️verity❤️😇

Ohhh, I get it: the art of drawing and painting is the art of skillfully reducing your perceptions of a three-dimensional form to a cluster of shapes, lines, and colors that—in the representative tradition—build up as convincing an illusion as possible that the viewer of the artwork is seeing the object portrayed, or a “good likeness” of it. But the marks themselves are arbitrary, and the process of learning to make convincing ones is in part learning how not to see whatever is in front of you as a face, an apple, a cat, but instead to see funny-shaped areas of light and dark that, when committed to a flat surface, recreate the contours of the thing. It’s like literary translation in a way.

t shirt that just says WHATEVER YOU’RE READING INTO MY FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND BODY LANGUAGE YOU’RE MISINTERPRETING

Art forgery imo is a sort of carnivalesque of the art market, an essential part of the ecosystem of art is that whenever art becomes valuable there will be people who can fake that art and bring its value into question. The art forger is a performance artist in the mode of the court jester

This is so frustrating lmao sorry. “People who genuinely cannot read and are locked out of our entire society because of it” aren’t like a rhetorical point I’m making they’re my neighbors. It kind of feels really shitty that people are like well ACTUALLY it may be true that those people need help but have you considered law students also need help. Yeah I have! And they’ll probably get it!

Being a calm, gentle, non-reactive person is really hard work, which is probably why many people are none of these things. Personally I think it’s worth it but sometimes one does want to just roll around on the floor wailing at the top of one’s lungs

People in my notes who think I’m repressed or dissociating: you will feel better when you learn emotions are not a binary of Not Feeling It vs Being Overwhelmed By It

Go tell men to do this. Women are already told to do this by the whole of society while in every country there’s an insane percentage of men who beat up their wife or girlfriend.

Ironically radfems actually do need to be told this due to their violent reactivity to all emotional stimuli, despite their habit of associating such reactivity with the masculine gender