time of year i remind every cane user to get an ice pick so you dont fall and die
almost biffed it in a fucking parking lot so time for me to repeat this. if you are a cane user in the northern hemisphere its time to get an ice spike coming in the mail BEFORE the ice forms.
Billionaires bought our politicians and our media, then used them to fed the public fear-mongering and bigotry BS for years, and half of you found it tasty. That’s why we’re at where we’re at.
Look, I dont know a lot about saints and Catholicism, but I know St. Agatha is always depicted with her breasts on a plate, and that’s sure something
Just a few more. This is a big trend.
Things I learned from the comments
She’s a patron saint of rape and abuse victims
She took a vow a chastity
A low born guy demanded her to be with him and she turned him down
For this she was imprisoned and tortured. This is how she lost her breasts (details not required)
She was repeatedly raped.
The Catholic Church regards her as a virgin for her peity despite the rape. (No matter your views on virginity this is a pretty interesting statement)
She was sentenced to death to burn at the stake but was saved by an earthquake
In her holiday people make titty cupcakes
I didn’t know she existed and now I think she’s a pretty rad woman. I would hesitate calling her a protofeminist as some often do with amazing women in history but she is pretty cool. Also she’s still very relevant today as women are still treated the way she was.
other things i learned: damn historic artists drew a woman with her own tits on a plate with Cleavage and prominent nip nops???
when kafka said “all the love in the world is useless when there is total lack of understanding” and when richard siken said “if you love me, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because “tasty” means something tastes good. conversely, from the words “smelly” and “noisy” we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck
this is what ancient greek philosophy is like
False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.
The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.
I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.
“touchy” is also a word! however it’s mostly used for things that aren’t objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means “oversensitive and irritable” or “requires careful handling/wording, delicate”
i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.
therefore, the Default Object is:
beautiful
makes a horrendous sound
smells absolutely awful
is very fragile
tastes delicious
and i still cannot think of anything that matches this
I painted our guest room in winter ’21/’22. It took about 3 months and at least 5 audiobooks.
Trees are the best because as long as you taper your strokes you can’t really make a mistake. I didn’t have to bother with sketches or planning.
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Here are the Behr paints I used (but I didn’t end up using Dragonfly):
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Some progress shots:
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The canopy crown for the bed was black but I painted it and then detailed it with a sharpie to make it match the “distressed” white end tables.
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I’ve since learned more about trees and realized that a real forest would be more straight trunks and less tangly branches but I regret nothing because the tangles were the most fun to paint.
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