I must confess that reluctance to use art supplies is still a thing I have trouble with sometimes. I have some books I made in bookbinding class in college that are still empty after 8 years, and I can't remember how long it's been since I've touched any of my nice watercolour paper.
But I'm trying to be better at putting scribbly crap in my new pretty teal 5 dollar sketchbook, and am succeeding so far! I've just filled a page with scratchy awful dandelions and I'm not going to show them to you!
Update: I have done a second page of dandelion doodles and you can't see those ones either. Heeheehoohoo.
Update: 3 pages of dandelions. Still not posting them, for the same reason theatres don't sell tickets to rehearsals and television stations don't air the first script reads! it's not what they're for!!
Page 4 now, and this dandelion is so much nicer! So I am posting it. It's an art nouveau dandelion because I was looking at a lot of art nouveau embroideries on pinterest yesterday.
The crucial thing is that this dandelion owes its niceness entirely to the mess on the preceding 3 pages.
(Normally I keep this blog strictly for silly dinosaurs, and post all my other work on @vincentbriggs, but this time it's directly related to the use-the-sketchbook dinosaur from a couple days ago.)
Alright it's almost 1pm, goodnight!
Friend wants to embroider the dandelion onto a cushion, so I made a border to go with it!
Edit: Here's the outline layer in case anyone else wants to embroider it.
gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"
12/22/2023
At the dragon boat races they were giving out free ice cream and these two kids came up to me and showed me their ice cream and said it is very cold! And then one of them put their ice cream on my arm so I could see for myself. He was utilizing an advanced technique called. Backing up your claims with evidence. Which many of you could learn about
i need crossword puzzles to stop giving me sports clues. dont ask me about football stars and nba championships and baseball team names. im the kind of nerd who chooses to do crossword puzzles why would you expect this of me. cruel and unusual.
all you have to do is post literally one time defending jewish people and antisemites will just automatically assume you must be jewish and that's actually pretty chilling because if i posted being like "actually, i think it's crazy to hate black people just because they're black." that would not immediately signal people to assume that i'm black. jewish people are so inherently ostracized from every side of the political spectrum that even the mildest defense MUST only be coming from another jew because who else would ever bother.
Do the AI people know that the rest of us who never got on the bandwagon are still doing everything the same way we always have
The AI boom has changed literally nothing about my day to day life except I now have to work harder to get access to reliable information, all the important admin work is being done wrong, and I keep getting DMs letting me know the perfectly ordinary and plausible photo I liked was actually a fake image generated by a fascist to generate views and churn out ad money for the purpose of funding their tree-powered puppy-flushing toilet
"But how are you living life WITHOUT Doctor Leroy's Magically Invigorating Nerve Tonic? I can't imagine getting anything done without it!" <- old-timey 1800s guy who has been drinking crank and goat piss daily for the price of a shiny nickel
I hate cigarettes so much I hate that smoking is becoming cool again I hate that we're becoming contrarian hipsters about this disgusting habit that has literally killed so many people and destroyed so many lives I'm so serious we need to become absolute killjoys about this again it's time to go 90s scolds on cigarettes until the scourge is wiped out entirely.
someone accused me of feigning a sexual attraction to spiders for clout. there's easier ways to get clout, man.....
Someone once called my 22 minute hand sewn 18th century buttonhole tutorial video "Empty, clout driven content" so I think some people will just say anything.
Had a soul-searing moment where I sat unblinking trying to figure out what a "hand sewn 18th century butthole" could be for, until I read that again.
I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.
The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”
1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.
Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.
