Month: February 2016

February 20, 2016

If ONE MORE PERSON says “What if they’d medicated Van Gogh!?” I think I’m permitted to set things on fire.  If they’d medicated Van Gogh, he’d either have painted twice as much, or he’d have been happy and unproductive.  And you know what? Starry Night wasn’t worth a terrible price in human misery. It’s neat. It wasn’t worth it.

Sometimes I wonder if being an artist makes me jaded to ART. Because it’s not magic and it’s not mystical, it’s just paint or pixels.  And it can do amazing things! But you don’t owe humanity to be miserable just so you can move paint around in interesting shapes. Jesus.  Art is not some kind of Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas bargain where you agree to be miserable so everybody can go “oh! Neat!” for 5 minutes.

Ursula Vernon, dropping the mic.  [x]
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I remember, a couple of years ago, Radio 4 (I think) ran a selection of Van Gogh’s letters to his brother, and one of the things I remember most vividly about them was his frustration that his illness prevented him from creating art he really wanted to create. And he wrote about his works in progress, his ideas, his inspiration, the techniques he wanted to use. Starry Night and Sunflowers aren’t the ravings of a madman that just happen to be brilliant. His paintings may have been influenced by his illness, but they weren’t products of it. They’re works by an amazingly talented, disciplined artist who managed to create them despite the illness that was holding him back. If he’d been medicated, he may well have been even more productive, and even better. And, above all, maybe he wouldn’t have killed himself.

So, yeah… people who say stuff like this can fuck right off.

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oceanwrath: julietfoxtrot answered your post: oceanwrath: TAKING ONE OR TWO REQUEST…: nozdormu please NEVER DRAWN NOZDORMU BEFORE, HERE U GO

February 20, 2016 /

oceanwrath:

julietfoxtrot answered your post: oceanwrath: TAKING ONE OR TWO REQUEST…: nozdormu please

NEVER DRAWN NOZDORMU BEFORE, HERE U GO

illuminest: @eriene 

February 20, 2016 /

illuminest:

@eriene 

February 20, 2016 /

shoujobenedict:

stop making poe a jock in ur high school aus he’s obviously the hipster nerd who’s rlly into making bottle rockets and plane models. FINN is the jock who doesn’t wanna be the star football player anymore bye

hatey-mchaterson: timemachineyeah: a-spoon-is-born: funoftheday: You don’t say. For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to

February 20, 2016 /

hatey-mchaterson:

timemachineyeah:

a-spoon-is-born:

funoftheday:

You don’t say.

For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better. 

She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.

Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest.  Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear.  I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”

She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there. 

You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.

February 19, 2016 /

fiftythreecrimes:

It’s gross and disturbing that the judge referred to Kesha as an investment. She’s a human being for fucks sake. And she’s a victim. Today is another sad reminder that courts rarely protect victims. Fuck Sony. Fuck Dr. Luke. And fuck any artist who works with him and puts money and fame ahead of being an ally for survivors.

makkochi: check it out, its that cutie yaungol, Luulyn.an overdue commission for my tomodachi @burning-yaungol – thanks for helping me dude! luv ya MWUAHcheck out the fullbody pic here or on my dA

February 19, 2016 /

makkochi:

check it out, its that cutie yaungol, Luulyn.
an overdue commission for my tomodachi @burning-yaungol – thanks for helping me dude! luv ya MWUAH

check out the fullbody pic here or on my dA