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trying to access the train operator only newsletter.
GOT IN.
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Small Independent Deer Does Its Errands
Deer Does Errands Independent
Its Small
its small🤏
Joy and whimsy detected! This Small Independent Deer is joyful and whimsical!
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Mammal in a Sunday Dress, by Georgina M. Cox, 2026
Mammal in a Sunday Dress explores the uneasy relationship between femininity, civilisation, and the animal body. At first glance, the figure appears modest and withdrawn. Her posture is composed, her gaze seemingly lowered towards her bare feet, recalling the conventions of nineteenth-century portraiture where women were often depicted as passive objects of observation. Yet as the viewer moves closer, the illusion collapses. Her eyes are not lowered at all. She is looking directly back. The delayed eye contact transforms the encounter. The viewer approaches believing they are safely observing a woman; instead, they realise they have been observed themselves. The work refuses the traditional power dynamic of portraiture, denying the comfort of anonymous spectatorship. Looking becomes a reciprocal act. For Cox, the painting considers humanity's persistent desire to separate itself from the rest of the animal kingdom. The title quietly undermines this distinction. A "mammal" is not another creature—it is us. The Sunday dress, rich with cultural associations of femininity, morality, and respectability, becomes an attempt to distinguish ourselves from nature. Yet clothing cannot alter biology. Beneath lace and ritual remains the same vulnerable animal body. The work also reflects on the historical relationship between women and nature. Across art, religion, and philosophy, women have repeatedly been positioned as closer to instinct, emotion, reproduction, and the body itself, while men have been aligned with reason, culture, and civilisation. Mammal in a Sunday Dress does not reject this comparison. Instead, it questions why proximity to nature has so often been treated as something lesser. Chiaroscuro isolates the figure within darkness, allowing the luminous dress to symbolise the performance of civilisation while the bare feet quietly return the body to the earth. Neither is presented as more truthful than the other. The painting exists in the tension between performance and instinct, refinement and biology. Mammal in a Sunday Dress ultimately asks a simple but unsettling question: if every layer of culture were stripped away, what would remain? Not a king. Not a saint. Not a gentleman or a lady. Only another mammal, looking back.
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Bathing Suit
circa 1920-1930
“This bathing suit is made of maroon wool and has a maroon and white belt around the waist. There is a button embellishment at the neck and an embroidered swimmer on the proper left side of the skirt. This swimsuit ties at the back and has attached shorts underneath the skirt. There is also an interior label from Herpolsheimer's.”
Grand Rapids Public Museum
Complaining to @radioactivepigeons about how the application I submitted art night was a bad one.
She was unfamiliar with applications that require a resume and that misspopulsre the data so it takes more time to correct the application than it would to full it out and also ask questions you didn't expect
Apparently she hasn't filled out a job application in 15 years and wrote her own job description the last three times!
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this is how people on here describe the misogyny in supernatural and shounen anime when they say its so sexist it doubles back around to being gay
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only-cat-memes
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People have overused Catholic Guilt to the point they cannot recognize the clear and haunting Protestant Shame in front of their eyes. that character Knows they could have worked harder
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it was really funny to piece the details together when project hail mary started getting popular on here, just by context clues in text posts alone. because i've obviously not seen it, as i never watch anything that's currently popular. and anyway, grace is like a girl name, so i assumed he was a woman, and my only association with rocky is the stallone one. imagine my surprise then when i first came across fan art of the two.
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okay but we should talk more about edward miller's artwork for the locked tomb series. like. these are so beautiful. the only style in which i would like to see tlt adaptation.
illustrations by edward miller for subterranean press edition of gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir
illustrations by edward miller for subterranean press edition of harrow the ninth by tamsyn muir
illustrations by edward miller for subterranean press edition of nona the ninth by tamsyn muir
He's also pretty funny
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Source: tiktok.com
>#I love how this gag would be funny at any point since the third century BCE
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I'm not gonna lie the secret to success for a great many people is absolutely stimulant abuse
Wait hold on what was that
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Your hoarder grandfather dies and you gotta clean out his hoarder house but unfortunately he was a powerful wizard so you gotta clean out twelve tower floors of floor-to-ceiling cursed artefacts and expired mystery potions.
There's a rat infestation and you genuinely can't tell if they're natural rats or not.
He's got some really nice magical cupboards that lead to huge extradimensional spaces but those spaces are also crammed full of random bullshit.
You find like twelve magical ancestral swords in there. You're pretty sure that your family has a magical ancestral sword but you have no idea if it's any of these ones. You'll have to ask your mum but she refused to come to the tower so you're gonna have to lug all twelve of them across the country to her idyllic little village to find out.