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i'm picaix/relle . no pronouns (i should probably draw more).....i write but you won't find it here. not exactly a warrior cat blog but its whatever. big mr bungler and field frolicker. doll enthusiast and lemonade drinker. my favorite color is pink. i don't sleep. i want to pet ashfur. do you think he'd like spaghetti? let me kno.
#hatred for a dreamer -- oc tag #sigh -- text #art tag
thinking "whatever happened to good art collectives" lately but so many of my peers are atomized and obsessed with making art that is only reflective of their "lived experiences", their specific intersections of identities, and being idiosyncratic to the end of making sure they don't speak for anyone else or at least speak so abstractly that they speak for no one. like listen to me i'm an authentic voice no one else can speak for me to the point of no connection. bastardized ideas about consciousness raising that turns collaboration and constructive criticism into moral vivisection or platitudes. there's no curiosity here. you can't be in conversation with other artists when you're so anxious about being a closed off identity
found this sick keyboard at the thrift store and the mouse that comes with it is sick too
I’m sorry, this is so ugly. Probably because of the Comic Sans. But I can dig that mouse.
shut your fucking face fuckface
She’s 30. To me.
I think it's so funny how we bred JOBS into dogs. I have two shih tzus and they were bred to be lap dogs. All they care about is looking cute and cuddling with people. Meanwhile my grandma has a border collie and that dog needs to feel so useful all the time, he acts like he will pass away if he doesn't have a job to do constantly
The thoughts of my shih tzus: Man I love the couch. Flip flops are so yummy. I wish it was nap time again
The thoughts of my grandma's border collie: I have been silently observing the pigeons up in the tree for 3 hours in order to gain every tactical advantage. I'm trying to engineer the optimal jump into the backyard pool. I wish I could play chess
I have a dog bred for water rescue and he will swim out to random people in lakes and oceans to check on them and make sure they're okay. We literally cannot let him in water when other people are there lest a giant dog swim up to them and bother them endlessly
surfers beware lest they end up at the mercy of my sopping wet beast
Pleaaaase he has done it to surfers and people in boats too 😭
My pointer points at everything including interesting bugs and suspicious shadows.
And because he was also bred to retrieve he brings me Useful Items all day such as shoes, dirty socks, spoons, any hat left within dog reach, many many sticks, and pieces of paper (because humans love pieces of paper):
Actually full disclosure until like a couple months ago I thought that Severance and Succession were the same thing. They're both three-syllable titles that start with S and from the scattered posts I saw on my dash appeared to involve mostly people looking very distraught in business-y environments. Eventually I started to pick up on the sci-fi stuff but for a while I was just like "Man, this family is even more fucked up than I thought!"
I did the same/opposite. I got a good few episodes into succession thinking “and this will all get so much worse when the memory wipes start” before I googled it
I might make an art blog cuz I wanna draw and post again. 2024 was shit for me and 2025 ain't looking too good either but at least I don't have "art block" anymore. Art block in quotes cuz it felt way deeper than art block. Anyway I should have made one sooner but this blog was originally an art blog so youknow.
Full moon Cats on rooftop by Paul Bransom, 1885-1979
Friedrich von Amerling, Liegender Setter (1836)
it has been interesting seeing the tides turn back from people criticizing the education system to making fun of individuals for lacking knowledge (eg. the meme like "actually, they told us about the scramble for Africa in hs, but you were too busy doodling.") have you noticed this too/ any thoughts?
i think that those points aren't very kind, but are in many ways not only correct but expressing rightful frustration at (mostly white) students' selective memory for historical events/general knowledge, contingent upon whether or not they believe said information applies to them. like, i'd wager the average high school aged kid in africa probably has more knowledge of the scramble for africa (though they may not know it in normative u.s. textbook terms) than many u.s. students, despite a nominally more "developed" educational system. why? bc when you're living in a multiply-colonized society facing the material impacts of said ongoing colonialism every day....this shit is not avoidable. you know it whether you want to or not. meanwhile, many of those living in the imperial core - at least for now - can literally and figuratively tune out the violent realities that they (we) are party to + beneficiaries of. in a choice between being razzed for not paying attention in school, and having my community razed, enslaved, and stripped of resources in order to satisfy colonial greed....well, i'm gonna taking the razzing any day, even if it seems mean.
i also think the age dynamics here are worth noting: people say this to each other from adult to adult, typically because the ignorant adult claims that the u.s. educational system alone is at fault for their lack of knowledge (always concentrated around issues of empire and white supremacy and, curiously, never about the fandom they happen to be obsessed with....). except...no. because they're adults with an internet connection - the accusation that they were "doodling in history class" is a gesture at a broader set of decisions to remain ignorant & incurious long after history class/high school has ended. maybe your school taught you about the scramble for africa (most likely it was at least mentioned) and maybe not. but in a conversation between adults on a global internet, with free resources only keystrokes away (and in many cases bundled and handed to us by public scholars) the choice to "keep doodling" is an active one and a political one, and the blame rests on the shoulders of the privileged who refuse to learn about empire's "Others".
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