mural i painted in april. this shed will be torn down soon, but i had fun. don’t fear making art that won’t last. draw on shitty paper, paint where it will be covered up, use your handmade mug until it breaks. life is to be lived.
waaoaaahahh all grown up
#thinking abt them specifically as they get older i think they went complete shaved head for a while grew their hair all out again and then#went back to the half shaven thing bc they wanted to get a skull tattoo#whichim not sure what it would actually be of. i know their sleeve is just like florals and vines and thorns#ocs#doodle
i want to play a video game. ok and i also want to beat the game really fast. ok well i did that so what if i also beat it really fast but i also got all the fun optional stuff u can do as well. ok well i did that so what if i fight the bosses all in a specific order based on something within one of the dlc boss rush modes in the game. ok well i did that well what if i beat the game, but this time i dont actually really care if i go fast because what i really care about is limiting the amount of times i grab onto stuff in the game (platformer) as much as possible. and i especially dont worry about going fast now because i can save a few grabs if i just leave the game running for 118 hours until it breaks something in the area, and i have to do this in multiple areas. ok i did it and it took three weeks yay ^_^ enjoyment fulfilled
truthfully human enjoyment is all about setting arbitrary goals for yourself and then achieving them
i donated blood to get a t shirt recently actually so saying i would give up blood for something is actually not very drastic. i would be willing to be inconvenienced mildly and then get a drink of apple juice afterwards to own the german patho box set
every time i go to irish dance compeitions i just think god damn i need to learn how to play violin again
thinkjng about this drawing of them again
WHAT IN GODS NAME ARE WE DOING TO OUR CHILDREN HERE!!!!!!!!
i've seen this with urls but not with icons, so...
I think people forget that punk didn't just get reduced to an aesthetic by the kids on tiktok or whatever. Like don't get me wrong I hope kids do learn about punk and its roots in homeless and working class youth and the music that basically is at the root of punk as a subculture, but like lol people act like kids today are to blame for that. Kids today are introduced to punk through an already prepeocessed, hyper consumptive lense as a result of punk becamin an aesthetic via the fashion industry and corporate interest making it into a pop culture phenomenon for a profitable market that essentially ended up stripping it of its counter cultural or sub cultural nature.
Fashion industry is essentially what caused a great divide between punk's subcultural aesthetic with deep roots in poverty and resourcesfullness vs punk REDUCED to aesthetic with stereotypical hallmark pieces with more popularity amongst the general public as said aesthetic following its decline in media hype. What we know as iconic and quintessential punk looks and templates, like say the Vivienne Westwood tattered sweaters that Sid Vicious wore, her breast t shirt or anything in her and McLaren's famous shop SEX that was used by the most popular punk bands of the time etc were already highly curated, already expensive pieces actual kids in the punk scene could not afford. She is literally credited as commercializing punk lol
Theres a huge fashion culture of creativity and socio political history based entirely on these poor and homeless youths that has often been overshadowed if not just straight up forgotten as a result of how much attention and how much credit designers like Westwood have gotten as like pioneers and shapers of punk fashion and the culture itself which is like ludicrous if you think about it.
Not to mention so much of corporate interest in punk as a profitable music market ended up really dulling the teeth on a lot of artists music. There were still an edge of politics in it but I think there was so much refinement to a lot of the most popular bands that signed with labels that most punks started seeing that as selling out, and what sold out was what became pop culture and started being seen by people within the subculture as anything BUT subcultural.