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Edgar he/him 19 🇺🇦 art -> @glitteredball
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"i'm not triggered or upset by or even ideologically opposed to it, i just associate it with something so bad that i can't enjoy it anymore" is such a frustrating relationship to have with a piece of media

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Orpheus.  1998. John Woodrow Kelley. American. 1952-    oil/canvas.  http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

People who had to teach themselves how to be decent people, how to interact with the world, because their parents didn't set an example, deserve so much recognition.

If your parents' example was reacting to everything with anger or passive aggression, seeing the worst in others, being self-centered, driving people away because they refused to compromise, if they taught you to feel like you weren't a person and you had to fight to be whole again and feel love and not be ugly -

You deserve the world.

"I can only draw cats, that's not hard" – Valerian Yablochkyn.

We don't know much about him. We have some information from the memories of other artists, like Mykola Murashko, or from magazine articles. He was in Kharkiv in 1877—1883. Yablochkin called himself the "Raphael of cats." He spent two years in Kyiv with Murashko.

Mykola Murashko had a lot of cats in the house. And that is when Yablochkin became obsessed with cats. Cats became his models. From Kyiv, he moved to Putivl, Sumy region. He continued to paint cats for a couple of years and then died there.

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why is explaining a villains sad backstory always taken as an effort toward excusing their actions. why does the conversation need to involve the question of excusing anything rather than just making their present behavior way more interesting by complicating their feelings or their motivations. why is acknowledging complicated feelings or motivations taken as apologism in and of itself. why is everyone so incredibly boring