Amelia

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I have several paragraphs bear w me: I’m first to call bullshit on brain science because it’s reductive eugenics 99 percent of the time but I was listening to an interview w a neuroscientist who studies creativity (and voiced appropriate scorn towards pop/science brain narratives)

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(And also creativity does not necessarily mean whatever you’re doing is like, good or interesting. Have you ever talked to a person who’s stoned as hell? Or seen art by white women w dreadlocks?)

So if you struggle to be creative stop thinking about yourself and the perception of yourself for five fucking seconds this is science ™. Thank you for coming to my podcast tldr

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Is this confirming my biases? Absolutely lmao. But also I know I choke artistically (and just like, in general) the second I think about being perceived as the person making the art instead of just being the person making the art

(I’m also using art as a shorthand for all ways creativity manifests not just a literal painting but in thinking and in relationships and in communication and in politics)

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This is also true in studies done on ppl who do a shit ton of mushrooms or are big into transcendental meditation apparently. So basically an area of the brain that reminds you that you are a discrete you, call it ego, or self conception whatevs, is un-prioritized in oxygenation during a flow state

Paired w artists describing that flow state as something coming from outside the self, ‘divine inspiration’ etc, kinda seems like to be meaningfully creative you have to climb out of your own asshole for five fucking minutes

And she was talking about how in MRIs done on jazz musicians and free style rappers while improvising a region of the brain associated w the conceit of the self receives less blood flow (as large un-granular shorthand for synapse use)

SCREAMING HEADS AND SUNSET OVER SPHAGNUM BOG CAN I GET A HELL YEAH!!! I LOVE OUTSIDE!!!

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Get married to a sicko you’ve loved for 12 years so you can have someone who knows exactly what you’re invoking with a painting without you having to explain it. And also if they’re short they can check you for ticks after a hike. Follow me for more wife pro tips

Unfortunately there is a very real and literal art duct and if I don’t express it daily it gets all turgid and inflamed and itchy and I get really bitey

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Need a blanket Canadian cigarettes type warning on all art I post THIS ART MAY BE BEAUTIFUL BUT IT IS ALSO ABOUT DEATH. ARE YOU MOURNING YET? So the ppl who don’t know me and like the post don’t start thinking I’m cottagecore

My emotional support tedium (WIP gouache on big ass Arches)

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They should make fan art that is more about the art itself and the artists making it than the IP being fan arted <- another definitionally impossible pearl of wisdom from my mind oyster

Ough my grief #mygrief

I’m rlly excited for the day Jane Schoenbrun makes a movie that isn’t about identity as mediated through shit you watched as a child

They’re good movies but it does kind of send me in terms of their oeuvre that the more money they’ve gotten the bigger the ‘shit watched in childhood’ media is

The last like ten mins of I Saw The TV Glow is some of the most affecting shit ever made but gonna be honest I’m a We’re All Going to the World’s Fair truther

Mae was like I’m gonna take a picture of Ictus w your deer skull lol and I was like you’re taking a picture of Ictus with all of our skulls thank you very much

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we can't quite figure out why three (or more) bookstores put us in the designated "Spooky Section" this october... any ideas?

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we can't quite figure out why three (or more) bookstores put us in the designated "Spooky Section" this october... any ideas?

I am not on the up and up re what artists actually post on Bsky (and also hypocritically like never post anything I’m working on) but can a bitch get handles for artists that make work that is cool and good here that isn’t predominantly fan art? Or that French woman who only draws waifs lmao

I wish I had the gene that made me experience cooking with my loved ones as a sweet and tender experience and not one that immediately makes my eyes glow red anime style the second I have to watch someone else try to dice a vegetable

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My dog died on Monday 900 miles away. My high school friend’s dog had puppies and Rumo was mine since before he opened his eyes. He was the best hiker and the best dog and now there’s a hole in the universe and in my heart shaped like him. Our last hike and a pic from 2017.

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That reminds me, I wrote an essay on this feeling (and the work of Leslie Feinberg) pretty recently. “I write this because I want to bring disability, pain, and illness into the image of butchness and I want to show that it has always been there.” butchanarchy.medium.com/butch-abilit...

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I’m sorry but every time Trump does something hideous or gauche or obscene to lauded historical government buildings I’m kind of cheering. Trump is America happening to America

You show your wife one news story about a toilet weasel because you were looking up dead weasels and it popped up and then you’re painting a dead weasel and your wife asks if you’re painting the toilet weasel…. Hell of my own making

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Any other chronic painers fantasize about some kind of device that would briefly transfer your bodily experience to another. For both torture and empathy reasons. There are some ppl I’d love to watch fall to their knees

Took my meds too early this morning voice ‘I have got to get a HAM radio license’

Photo of some asshole shortly after being asked by a passerby how far it was to the next waterfall during the salmon run who will bask in their vibe being confirmed as a person who seems like they know how far it is to the next waterfall for the next several weeks. Courtesy of wife

*eyes glowing red* I need to make a horny bog bodies comic

Someone should invent a being fat that isn’t both de-gendering and hyper-gendering. I’m doing my part but good lord

Coyote vs Acme was awesome tbh and Road Runner censored Nobody Speak actually did me in

Pointedly waited until literally yesterday to listen to any songs off Brat and let me just say: Kamala Harris really was Brat

Rlly moved watching Ictus pop up at retailers unfortunately it is sending me how many of them are including it in Halloween line ups. I did not consider that it could be construed as spooky that is Thursday to me but god bless

Imagine a game lovingly illustrated wetly by me that’s a field dressing a deer simulator marketed heavily as cottage core. I’m not going to make it but just imagine it. Hashtag cozy games etc

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Actually chewing my arm off trying to get decent in focus more or less colour accurate agate photos but believe me when I say this was a HUGE TRIP FOR ROCKS