Everything is horrible, but I finished writing a story, submitted it. Submitted my unagented novella, too. Bannable works, but we need to keep voicing our defiance. Art is powerful, threatening to the establishment. We endure because art endures.

"Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, what is real?"

Philip K. Dick

Netflix recorded an interview with Dr. #JaneGoodall in March, set to air only after her death. In it, she says she wishes Trump and Elon Musk could be blasted into space.
Her final message: “Don’t lose hope.”

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6:53 pm.

Busy printing and assembling zines for distribution! 🤓

Untitled Series (4 of 6 prints), 5x7”, mixed media, monoprint on a gelli plate and acrylic

#mixedmedia #monoprint #mixedmediaacrylic #markmaking #meaningmaking #acrylicprint

I’ve finally finished revising my novella. Taking a break before I write new material. In the meantime, I’m reading Carlo Rovelli’s Anaximander, painting, marinating ideas, and living. The reward of writing IS writing and learning through the process, not some imagined recognition or publication.

We are dying every day, so live.

Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

I’m so glad I got got rid of Hulu six months ago. ABC cancelled Jimmy Kimmel, cancel Hulu, ESPN and Disney. That’s the appropriate response to that. Cancel culture goes both ways. Can’t allow an evil conglomerate to win against the people it’s extracting from.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

This year 6 of my longitudinal portrait project (2020 to date). The mutual witnessing between mentor/mentee, photographer/subject and, now, friends is both compelling and intimate. For more information, please go to mariebismonte.com.

for my fellow #severance heads, just saw this on tumblr

the back of britt lower’s acceptance speech 😭😭 god i love her #emmys

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Congratulations to Tramell Tillman who has won the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series award at the Emmys 2025 for his role as Seth Milchick in Severance

An historic award as he is shockingly the first Black man to win this category since Emmy Awards began in 1949
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#Severance #Emmys

Severance and Hacks! 👏👏👏

I had a busy weekend—photoshoot to move my portrait project forward, writing, and work—but today I rested. Finally got a Nintendo Switch 2 and started playing Persona 4 Golden. Also played around with Zelda Notes. Not bad. I’m loving the Switch 2! Can’t wait for the Stardew Valley update.

Remember this today.

Final zine in displacement trilogy: call center agents forced to scam elderly Americans to survive. Based on real experiences. Angel sees too clearly what others have learned to blur. The system always wins. Hand-bound, limited edition. #literaryzine #displacement #migrationstories #callcenteragents

I exported my LiveJournal entries from 2004-2005. I found a list of goals I wrote in 1997, which I reflected on in 2004 (on LJ). It made me cry in 2025 for the girl in 1997—she knew where her life was going. I did every single thing on that list, as in all. I’m now living the outcome of that list.

"Get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human—however imperfectly—and fully embrace the pursuit that you've embarked on.” — Marcus Aurelius

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Marcus Aurelius

A friend said she admires my grit in both my personal life and artistry. I stepped back to see my life from her POV. Though it may be a Sisyphean task, I have a NEED to keep pushing the boulder up in this eternal present I live in—where uncertainty makes imagining a future impossible. #artistlife

And scene. The sunset brings my summer to a close and I couldn’t ask for anything more than quality time spent with family. Now, I’m back to my life of grit and grinding. I’m thankful.

Meet me at the end of the world

🎶🎵: Ný Batterí by Sigur Ros