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Impotent thrashing

@driftingform

The light is tearing me to pieces.

I found a print of this at work and fell in love. Its called "A Pleasant Duo" by Tom Strouss. He's an artist who started painting after an injury left him disabled. The difficulty of creating art has been one of his big motivators and that really spoke to me. Jumping back to the painting, it gave me big Ichi-go ichi-e vibes. Two lines that meet nicely at one point and then go their separate ways.

Tardigrade corn maze at Treinen Farm in Wisconsin.

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theres something deep about such a small animal being drawn on such a large scale like do they know does the tardigrade know of their own portrait that is comparable to thousands of universes in length on their scale? a portrait drawn by beings that they know nothing about, but whom know so much about them? beings who live in an entirely other world, yet still admire the small tardigrade? admiration enough to give a tardigrade a glimpse of a micro and macro world in mirror, to let the tardigrade feel what is felt by those who know them? im not crying about the tardigrade cornfield, im not 

the moon tardigrades are looking down on this and smiling

will graham is so cringely self-aware.... nervous smile whenever he says something just a tad too honest about his mental state... that folding inward reaction when exposing himself just a tad too much...

i think the reason he falls in love with hannibal/accepts his friendship so quickly is because hannibal is also cringe, and self-aware, but also embraces his cringe... hannibal is cringe but free and will envies that so hard