"little" And "freak" Are My Favourite Adjective Noun Combo. Like Not Only Are You Peculiar In Nature

This is from a self-parody that Paul Kirchner did of his own Dope Rider comic, used for National Screw magazine’s March 1977 issue. Wise, too. Backwards spelled wrong IS gnedfludap.

i am a being capable of immeasurable love and whimsy

“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

I'm going through everyone I followed on Art Fight and checking them out on their various socials so if I just followed you that's why. This blog is new, and I'm posting my art on @polyedron but I'm still sort of setting up my blogs atm. Slowly trying to actually start using them.

fundamental to bioessentialist and zionist ideology is a refusal to recognize that victimhood is situational rather than ontological

The Hidden Isle Kickstarter is now live!

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The Hidden Isle is a pen and paper RPG that uses Tarot cards instead of dice, set in the 16th century on the secretive island of Dioscoria. It focuses on roleplaying and collaborative storytelling.

This is a game about swashbuckling adventures across Europe and the Middle East, stealing forbidden texts from oppressive regimes, protecting an island of outcasts using ancient magic,and toppling empires with just the right speech at just the right time.

It will run for 30 days, until October 28th 2023.

promise me you'll stay on this site for 10 more years okay?