if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in the midwest, this is it. 

You missed some of the best ones

the best part about it is that the art installation isn’t actually called the Bean. It’s called Cloud Gate, and artist Anish Kapoor (yes, THAT Anish Kapoor) hates that we call it the Bean.

But i mean, look at it. It’s a bean.

How could you forget this one though

I HAD NO FUCKING IDEA THAT THE BEAN WAS CREATED BY ANISH KAPOOR.

someone help me why is anish kapoor important what did he do?

Alright sit down for some Art World Drama bcause this is what I live for.

So, sometime last year (?) science invented Vantablack, which is the darkest possible shade of black. Art world got incredibly excited. But as it needs to be very carefully made in a lab, it’s hard to get a hold of, and is extremely expensive. Enter Anish Kapoor, aka FuckFace McGee. Anish Kapoor buys the rights to Vantablack. He is the only human being on the planet that can legally use it, and he’s kind of a prick about it.

Art world is not thrilled with that.

Enter Stuart Semple.

Stuart Semple is an artist, and also makes pigments to sell in his free time. Stuart Semple is astoundingly pissed about this Vantablack nonsense, and Anish Kapoor’s dickery. Stuart Semple makes a new pigment, the brightest shade of pink ever, called Pinkest Pink, and puts it for sale on the internet. To be bought by everybody except Anish Kapoor. Literally, to purchase, you need to confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, do not associate with him, and will not sell or give the pigment to Anish Kapoor or his associates. Art world has a good laugh, everyone buys Pinkest Pink because it’s awesome, and damn it we deserve something.

Anish Kapoor however is a penis, and will not take this lying down, because HOW DARE he not have literally everything.

Anish Kapoor gets his London associates to buy him a thing of Pinkest Pink, and being such a classy human being, posts a picture to instagram of him with his middle finger covered in Pinkest Pink, captioned with “Up yours. #pink”

Everyone flips shit, because. Y’know. Fuck that guy. Especially Stuart Semple. For context here, Anish Kapoor is one of the richest artists on the planet, and has repeatedly been referred to as everything wrong with the art world, and the epitome of the art worlds elitism problem. He’s a giant douchebag. Meanwhile Stuart Semple makes pigments just to get them out there. He turns 0 profit from his now enourmously popular pigments.

Stuart Semple launches an investigation as to who the fuck leaked Pinkest Pink, and plans to strike back. He does so by releasing two new products. First is Diamond Dust, which is a glitter made from glass, so that a painting is still visible after it’s applied, but glitters like a mofo. It’s the most reflective glitter out there, and is available to everyone who isn’t Anish Kapoor. And it being made of glass, if you stick your finger in there, it’s going to hurt quite a bit, so that was Stuart Semple’s way of saying “shove your middle finger in this, asshole, see what happens”. Except without saying that, because he can get an insult across while still being fucking classy.

He also releases Black 2.0, created with the help of over a thousand artists worldwide.

Black 2.0 is the answer to Vantablack. Black 2.0 is a slightly less black black, but looks functionally the same to the human eye. It’s completely safe, smells like cherries, and costs four pounds. Vantablack is highly toxic, potentially explosive, needs to be applied in a special laboratory and sealed properly, can’t be moved across borders, can reach 300 degrees celsius if you’re not extremely careful, and costs thousands of dollars. Anish Kapoor is the only human being who can use Vantablack. He is the only human being who cannot use Black 2.0.

So I think we can guess who got the better deal.

And thus the feud ends, Kapoor defeated.

…But not quite.

Kapoor, in this entire afair, has made exactly two comments to the public. The first being his charming message about aquiring Pinkest Pink, the second being claiming to Buzzfeed that he and his small army of lawyers will be suing Semple, an extremely poor artist who cannot afford a lawyer.

No lawsuit has been made yet, fyi.

The point is, Kapoor is a prick, and doesn’t like talking to the lower classes. So one day in July 2017, he decides he needs another floor on his London studio apartment, and starts making arrangements to have it built. His neighbors are fucking pissed, because this will ruin the light of their apartments. They call to Semple to save them, or at the very least piss Kapoor off some more.

Semple answers to the call, and releases two new paints, Phaze and Shift, as always, banned to Kapoor. They change colours, Phaze with temperature, and Shift is just iridescent. Shift needs to be painted over Black 2.0 to work, and Phaze just works on its own.

So that’s been the art world for the last two years.

Basically, get fucked Anish Kapoor your bean sucks and so does your vantablack.

Stuart Semple is organising a bean-kissing event for Anish Kapoor’s birthday.

Reblogging for “By attending this event you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated with Anish Kapoor, you are not attending on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information, and belief this event will not be attended by Anish Kapoor.”

ALSO HE JUST POSTED THIS!!!!!! LIGHTEST LIGHT!

I know this isn’t my art blog but this entire post gives me life

im sorry is that man holding a real actual miniature star in his hands

Y’all missed the best part about the lightest light, called aptly ‘Lit’. This is from their product page:

Two things:

1. “Anish Kapoor is however a penis” is the best line in this post.

2. I wish to be half as petty and half as awesome as Stuart Semple

I hope Stuart Semple is making a lot of money. What a good person.

Go support him the paint’s are pretty cheap and you get the added bonus of being one of many to help piss off Anish Kapoor

He is my fucking role model for pettiness oh my god

It got better! I’m also excited because he just released biodegradable glitter in non plastic containers! How amazing is that?! Stuart Semple, good guy for the planet and artists, fighter against the rich elite artist like asshole Kapoor.

An older project, but he also did this:

(x)

oh dude hes metal as fuck 

Every addition to this post is better than the last.

Be a Stuart Semple in 2020. Use your petty to inspire and drive you.

Y'all Love Square shippers genuinely scare me. Like I know for sure that not all are like this but when you are looking at pictures for a different ship you like, like I was doing for Lukanette and you see comments and passive aggressive pictures put on the picture in response it's jarring.

Especially when they say things like Luka should die and everything would be perfect. Or that Kagami and Adrien won't last and even if they did get married it would be an unhappy marriage and lead into divorce and that Marinette and Luka's marriage will end because Luka will die and Adrien as Chat will finally have a chance with Ladybug.

Like in what world is that romantic? Is that really how you want your ship to be together? There were people getting mad that people weren't being "loyal" to the Adrinette ship.

As you all know I'm a multishipper and I was a big Adrinette shipper, and while I like the ship, it's not high on my list anymore and it's due to the how the show writes it. There's no romantic chemistry, they make amazing friends! Like that's no question, they seem to genuinely like having one another in each other's life, but no matter what side of the square, I just can't feel the romance at this point. Lukanette had more chemistry in the few episodes it was shown in. Like I could genuinely see a relationship happening, and that's one of the reasons I love it and ship it.

Don't get me wrong I like Adrinette too, but like the fanon version I guess, but I don't like this putting other ships down man. It's sad.

Honestly feel bad for the REALLY young kids growing up watching Miraculous on Disney Channel.

They don’t need the trauma of a watching two of the dumbest characters take 800 seasons to get together.

when i was in therapy i once expressed to my therapist that i really struggle with having pretty much zero idea of who i am as a person + she whipped out a piece of paper and suggested that we write down different aspects of myself. and i had no idea what to say bc ‘myself’ is a concept i’m not very familiar with so she started saying about my interests and how that’s part of me + i was like okay!! that makes sense!! so she clicked her pen and was like “you said you like video games before” and i was like sure bud :) and watched her write down, in capital letters ‘GAMER’ and i’ve never had so much terror struck into my h

They’ll say you could do anything, they’ll say that I was clever.

more mlb doodles

You know, this is why content creators end up abandoning their works, right?

80 likes compared to 10 reblogs means that only 12% of people decided that what you did is worth showing other people.

If you like the thing, reblog it. You don’t even have to add tags, just spread it so that a) other people can see it, and b) the creator gets recognition for what they did.

Obviously, those numbers are never going to match, but the divide should not be that huge.

It’s even more important right now, because tumblr is garbage and they’ve stopped allowing anything with an outside link from appearing in tags. Writers/artists cannot tag things to their twitter/store/writing website. That can cause a significant drop in views, especially for newer creators.

Like… we aren’t asking for much. A few reblogs. Reviews/comments. No creator should have to beg for that much.

+this site is a reblogging platform

Its whole purpose and systematics are based on that fact. What you do is killing the site.

@ all the i’ll like but won’t reblog ppl, If you don’t wanna reblog stuff and credit content creators for their work and effort + if you won’t appreciate them… Go :) to :) another :) site :) like :) instagram :)))))

i also just want to add that 90% of the people who say “reblogs don’t matter. we owe you nothing.” aren’t content creators and therefore have no idea. 

sure, you don’t owe us anything. but don’t be surprised when we stop making shit for you to look at, read, appreciate, or ~share~ via other platforms. 

fact is, you’re on tumblr in the first place because you’re interested in this kind of content so its kind of dumb to act like ~oh we don’t owe you anything~ bc sis, this content is what makes tumblr what it is. 

and again, if you didn’t think so - you’d instead be on twitter or instagram.

Reblogging these every time. You can even just queue it!

wanna know the reason i gave up posting my writing on tumblr? now you see it. at least on AO3 i get some comments. yall have no idea how heartbreaking it is to put something you’re really proud of on here and get like… 20 likes and no reblogs. because it feels like not a single person cares enough or enjoyed it enough to share it and show other people. and that hurts, man, we put heart into these things

I’m getting to that point myself…..

it´s funny, sad and confusing how these kind of posts get more reblogs than likes ( 33607 likes and 41458 reblogs at the moment ) but art and written fanfiction or original novels doesn´t. Something is wrong with this site, seriously. Like it says above, this is REBLOGGING site, it depends upon people to keep reblogging shit or this site will eventually die as no one wants to post their work here anymore because no one bothers to reblog them. This is why I have stopped posting my work here.

According to this book from @flashflashitsash, Adrien was born on October 13.

ML, according to astruc, is set in 2014-2015.

Adrien is somewhere between 13-15.

October 13, 200 was a Friday.

Thus, Adrien was born on Friday the 13 in October of 2000.

Explains a lot, doesn’t it.

@strangerahne

I know I’ve talked about this in a few fics recently but like

As much as I like to make fun of Adrien “she’s just a friend!!” Agreste, I think he is aware of how much he likes Marinette.

However

I think Adrien’s picking up on how everything he loves about Marinette is something he loves about Ladybug. And instead of thinking “they must be the same person”, Adrien assumes that he’s projecting his love of Ladybug onto Marinette. That the only reason he is romantically interested in Marinette is because she reminds him of Ladybug.

So he tells himself that no, he doesn’t like her like that. She’s just a friend. And falling in love with her because she reminds him of a girl who rejected him is, quite frankly, completely unfair and a disservice to how amazing Marinette is in her own right.

Nino to Adrien “she’s just a friend!” Agreste: Dude, who exactly are you trying to convince with that shtick?

Adrien “she’s just a friend!” Agreste: *stares directly into NIno’s soul* Myself. Who did you think this was for? I know how amazing Marinette is, how kind and creative and generous and brilliant. But there’s someone else I’m in love with and have loved longer, and Marinette especially deserves more than to be just a replacement or a rebound! She’s a very good friend, and that’s all she can be to me unless I can be sure I’m actually over that other person.

(Bonus points: Marinette is just out of sight and has overheard the entire thing.)

Excellent points, I’ll add another: Remember Animan?

In the English dub, Adrien tells Nino “FYI Marinette’s never going to fall in love with a statue” (I’ll pass on the irony, if only he knew), but in the French dub, what he says translates into “you know, you’ve been eyeing Marinette quite a lot lately”

Adrien is super loyal towards his friends, and his words suggest that Nino’s had a crush on Marinette for a while: I think the boy might have “learned” to ignore his feelings for Marinette during his first months at school because he didn’t want to step on his first real friend’s toes - yes he might be attracted to her, but he’s also got Ladybug, and Nino’s in love with her only.

Then as to why he doesn’t make a move later when DJWifi become a thing, your theories make a lot of sense !

to be fair he’s. not lying

6am doodle of my og fav because i went ape after seeing the leaks

“Cartoons? Isn’t that for kids?” I look up and smile “ Yes it is” Suddenly my appearance shifts and shrinks as I become a child. All my money turns to monopoly money and all my bills are gone. My adult responsibilities vanish, finally the spell is broken, and I am free.

new york special deleted scene

Not anymore he does

He crying nooooo

Take.My.Hand

now the first origin episode has aired in french i can finally stop hiding that i made this

I am literally on the floor rn

magical girl i-

This was the funniest hour of my life

At the end of the panel we gave them a round of applause for being so brave in trying to write straights and cisgenders

Especially Jasika, who got very emotional about her childhood with straight parents

types of comments on this post:

-straight people saying :/ love is love :/ gay or straight why does it matter ://///

-gay people saying wait no really i’ve never written a non-lesbian pls help

-people pointing out that even straight people don’t know how to write straight people without unnecessary romance

the truly impressive part of this panel was how for an hour, a FULL hour, they talked about writing straight characters like the st8s talk about writing queer characters and they did. not. break. It was the most amazing piece of improv comedy i’ve ever seen. 

FOUND THE LINK: https://castbox.fm/episode/How-to-Create-Straight-Characters-id1117790-id62875239?country=us

t h e l i n k

[image: screenshot of the PodCon 2017 schedule listing for a panel entitled “How to Create Straight Characters”, moderated by Gaby Dunn of Bad With Money with participants Cecil Baldwin of Welcome to Night Vale and Jasika Dunn of Alice Isn’t Dead. (not shown, but identified in the Castbox link for the panel recording: panelist Brie Williams.) the panel description is below:]

So often straight characters are defined by their romantic relationship with someone who is a different gender. How do you keep a story from being overwhelmed by the sexuality of your main character? Is it possible to have a straight character in a story without having a romantic relationship in order to demonstrate their straightness? And how does an LGBTQ storyteller include straight characters while remaining true to their own values and ideals?

Wayback Machine saved the link at some point before it 404ed, but not real usefully. happily, Past Alex saved the audio!

…I don’t suppose anyone is up for transcribing the audio?

Mr.good boy is GONE

How they run Adrien’s instagram account now:

this is the best thing ever to happen to the fandom

“not everything has to be gay” it does actually

How about we just enjoy things for what they are!!! 

It doesn’t have to be gay or straight.

shut up please and thank u everything has to be gay. it has to be <3