signal-boost!

surpassingly has been forced to quit her job because the rampant homophobia and racism. Her partner has been trying to find work and they just need a little extra coming in for this hard time.

surpassingly is an AMAZING artist. So, to help with financial stuff, she is offering commissions! You can see samples of her work on her DeviantArt and they are all just gorgeous!

You could also send her your support via her Patreon.

Alternatively, you can also purchase things—posters, pillows, tote bags, iphone cases—from her Redbubble shop.

(text above swiped from everbright with permission)

This artist is totally top of the list of "the minute I get my first post-promotion paycheck, I am starting to support this artist on Patreon". Her work's simply stunning.

also I'm cold. :(

no brain no brain NO BRAIN.

I do not want to play the game where there is so much to do and I cannot prioritize so I do nothing. Or the game where there is so much to do and it is a series of mountains in my path so I do nothing. These are not favorite games.

ta. fuckin'. DA.

tada:
retake of A-roll of Translucent Kickstarter video
laundry in washer
empty dishwasher
load dishwasher
wash dishes that sister was supposed to have washed last night
laundry in dryer
QS critical response 1
QS discussion responses 1, 2, 3

stop the carousel, I want off

NO BRAIN THIS IS NOT A FUN GAME.

December Days 27: things that make me happy (balsamandash)

Time to just sit and read. Time to just sit and crochet. Time to just sit and watch a movie or TV show.

I don't have a whole lot of time these days.

And what I do have, I seem to squander by spending hours refreshing all the things in hopes of new content, instead of doing things I need to do or enjoy doing and then going through any new DW/FB/etc content that appeared in the interim...

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Intriguing-looking Indiegogo. The intriguing-looking part is actually the backer rewards—compare the two $19 reward levels, then the two $25 reward levels. It seems the author wants people to vote with their pledges on how the romance and action plots of the series play out.

I mean, the rest doesn't look bad either, but.

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I think I am putting down Art on My Mind: visual politics by bell hooks and I don't know if I am picking it up again. It's the same problem I have with all talk-about-visual-art pieces that don't have, y'know, visuals of the art: I am missing a fundamental piece necessary to make sense of the text. And, okay, there is a visual here and there? But not all the pieces discussed have photos and all the photos [I've seen so far] are in grayscale. A grayscale image of a full-color piece tends to lose something.

I do want to flag up this quote from the introduction, though:

[M]ost black folks do not believe that the presence of art in our lives is essential to our collective well-being. Indeed, with respect to black political life, in black liberation struggles—whether early protests against white supremacy and racism during slavery and Reconstruction, during the civil rights movement, or during the more recent black power movements—the production of art and the creation of a politics of the visual that would not only affirm artists but also see the development of an aesthetics of viewing as central to claiming subjectivity have been consistently devalued. Taking our cues from mainstream white culture, black folks have tended to see art as completely unimportant in the struggle for survival. Art as propaganda was and is acceptable, but not art that was concerned with any old subject, content, or form. And black folks who thought there could be some art for art's sake for black people, well, they were seen as being out of the loop, apolitical. Hence, black leaders have rarely included in their visions of black liberation the necessity to affirm in a sustained manner creative expression and freedom in the visual arts. Much of our political focus on the visual has been related to the issue of good and bad images. Indeed, many folks think the problem of black identification with art is simply the problem of underrepresentation, not enough images, not enough visible black artists, not enough prestigious galleries showing their work.

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chocolate: the anti-dementor medicine!*

* actual efficacy unclear, but damn it sure is tasty