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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 1h

during covid lockdowns I used to go for night walks in the park and one night I heard this huge bird up in a tree going 'boink. boink.' in this weird pvc pipe echoing cistern voice. to this day I haven't figured out what it was.

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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · May 8

WILKES BARRE TIMES LEADER, MARCH 13,1909

THE LANDLORD WHO PROMISES TO
FIX THINGS UP A BIT, BUT - WELL, YOU KNOW HOW IT IS.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 15h

bumpdorp

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 15h

i don't mean to be hyperbolic but bluesky is the single worst My Little Pony fan forum i've ever used in my life

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 15h

pwmpkims

Axe Marnie @axehandle.bsky.social · 15h

I'm so excited about my next patreon posts aahhh. I may have taken slightly more on that I realised but. It's fun.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 15h

whatever, listening to ghost stories and batch processing psds. life can be dream despite it all.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 15h

too many things really but I'm most excited about getting back into painting! I've been doing some conceptual stuff, making my own pigments and working on some lighthearted stuff about the relationship between image, process and social framing. I Think It Will Be Cool.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 15h

cosigned all of that tbh. also death to makeship.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 15h

I'm not willing to build my public presence as a working artist in a context where I can't be open about those things, and if that makes me a bad person then fine. I guess I'd rather be a bad person with a fulfilling relationship to art than a good person who can't pick up a pen without puking.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 15h

I tried a lot of things to rebuild my relationship with art. it's still nothing like it was, I still struggle to share work in public. work I used to sell for a living! but what helped more than anything was repairing my artistic identity, unapologetically owning my personal priorities and my taste.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 15h

there was a span of years where I didn't make art at all. I went from drawing and painting daily, experimentally, compulsively, to having anxiety attacks any time I picked up a pen. a lot of it came from the rapid commercialisation and professionalisation of the amateur space I'd been working in.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 16h

I think the online atmosphere for anyone outside a very very narrow genre of art stinks right now. taking risks feels unsafe. expressing even milquetoast critical positions feels unsafe. talking about how hostile the room is feels unsafe! what can you do except be inclined to leave.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 16h

...but people started piling on her for working with AI and leaving snotty comments on everything she posted and after one attempt to explain her work that was similarly dogpiled she just deleted her blog. no idea if she's still working. I'm still furious about it.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 16h

like the way a lot of artists have taken to talking about AI has been one of the biggest turn-offs for me in the last year. I used to follow a really cool painter who trained her own very basic GAN on a bunch of her own sketches and photographs and would paint from its dreamlike outputs...

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 16h

it's the moralisation of all these clashing precepts that gets to me. it's not enough to be like "my way of doing things is just as valid and meaningful as anyone else's", it also has to be good and socially important to a degree that demands other people get on board with your outlook.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 16h

I'm Not An Artist I'm Just Caremad

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 16h

I was talking to someone recently about the concept of 'art career'. I don't think mine is a career. I just do the things I want to do and find ways to squeeze rent money from the stone along the way. I can bullshit that it's all strategic but it's not. it's just stubbornness.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not going anywhere because more than anything else I am stubborn and I genuinely love what I do. I have a thick skin. it's fine I guess. I Fucking Guess.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 17h

no I've been feeling it for years and trying to wrestle it back but looking for the community that used to (?) exist has just been leaving me more and more nauseous and demoralised. I have great art friends but they're all scattered and offline and tuned out of. all this.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 17h

I have never wanted to be a bill watterson type vanish up the mountain cranky art hermit. I love working with others and learning from them and bouncing ideas and feelings off each other. but the people who made that worthwhile are largely the ones who have vanished up the mountain over the years.

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 17h

feeling extremely hopeless about the state of art discourse lately. don't know what to do about it. everywhere I go, online and offline, is dominated by culture that leaves me feeling more alienated in its midst than I do just working in isolation and trusting that people who get it are out there.

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Axe Marnie @axehandle.bsky.social · 1d

accidentally made a cursed pendant on the harvest supermoon. that's on me.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 23h

Tiger in the rain (ink basically)

Small tiny drawing of a sad looking down tiger with a pink cloud raining grey raid, dip pen and ink, spare and simple

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 23h

cooking

a test map featuring yellow-green scrubby vegetation and cracked mud with blackened rocks

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 1d

??????? circle ??? the toxicity of ??? posting about bloodborne and mahjong mangas ???????

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