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Wriggly Jay 'Sticky Creeblers' Wikkewyn

@blujaydoodles.bsky.social

DnD gremlin and occasional doodler. Nature enthusiast and spider advocate. Gnome Ponderer. Can't and won't shut up about my own OCs, sorry not sorry. she/her blujaydoodles.tumblr.com/ https://www.patreon.com/blujaydoodles

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@mossworm.bsky.social · 5d ago

I wish my executive functioning worked better. I'm like a zoo animal - aware something is wrong, but powerless to affect the circumstances. Discontented roaring

Blue@kaylaskritterz.bsky.social · last wk.

The three para buddies all done! Needing to find homes for all of them. These are the last of the Teddy style dinos, all of their legs can be posed and they can stand on their own. If you'd like one Ill provide a free ride home if within USA! Adoption fee is a simple flat 80

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Victoria Maderna@victoriamaderna.com · last wk.

Wood. Gouache on paper. 5th one for #septembera. A sort of mock cover for a story of a girl that becomes a dryad. Got a bit overambitious, got away from me for a moment, took a bit more sweat and a bit more tweaking than usual. But I think it worked out in the end.

Painting of a girl / dryad holding a floating, glowing magical seed.
Boze Herrington, Library Owl@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · last yr.

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]
Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2w ago

What happened to the crazy inventor making stuff in his garage trope? When I was a kid in the 90's it was so common It seemed like a legit career path, now you hardly see it anymore and I feel like theres a darker reason for that shift. In modern media science is done in a lab owned by a corporation

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Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2w ago

Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be."

The disconnect between last Tuesday’s monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a “cowardly” attack on “civilization” or “liberty” or “humanity” or “the free world” but an attack on the world’s self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word “cowardly” is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid. Our spirit is unbroken, although this was a day that will live in infamy and America is now at war. But everything is not O.K. And this was not Pearl Harbor. We have a robotic President who assures us that America still stands tall. A wide spectrum of public figures, in and out of office, who are strongly opposed to the policies being pursued abroad by this Administration apparently feel free to say nothing more than that they stand united behind President Bush. A lot of thinking needs to be done, and perhaps is being done in Washington and elsewhere, about the ineptitude of American intelligence and counter-intelligence, about options available to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, and about what constitutes a smart program of military defense. But the public is not being asked to bear much of the burden of reality. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy. Those in public office have let us know that they consider their task to be a manipulative one: confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the politics of a democracy—which entails disagreement, which promotes candor—has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen. “Our country is strong,” we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be.