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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara)

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Tired. 4 decades and counting. Chicago born, PNW raised, Minnesota transplant. Approximately 3800 Roborovski hamsters in a Carhartt jacket and they are all trying very hard. ICE GIT OUT YA fuckin DUMBIES

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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 01/06/2026
This feels more and more like the "Bluesky Petty Vengeance Tour" update, the further I scroll down.
A photograph of a fashion atrocity displayed behind glass somewhere in the bowels of Rochester's Mayo Clinic subterranean complex.  The headless mannequin is wearing a white long sleeved dress shirt, black slacks, and a gray and black diagonally striped necktie that is also an apron. It stands next to a plinth with a wine bottle, glasses, and a cheeseboard on it.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 30/05/2026
Yaaay now I know names to faces. The land acknowledgement was DFL Treasurer Lindy Sowmick, and the Reverend was Luke Stevens-Moyer.
A piece of paper stating who did what at the beginning of this convention. 

(Text) 2026 DFL State Convention Opening Ceremony 

Flag ceremony : DFL Veterans

Black National Anthem : Community Sing

Pledge of Allegiance : DFzl Veterans

Land Acknowledgement: DFL Treasurer Lindy Sowmick 

Invocation: Rev. Luke Stevens-Moyer 

Convention Co-Chairs: Sen. Scott Dibble, Ann Friedrich

Assistant Chairs: US rep Betty McCollum, Sen. Erin Murphy, JP Batone, Bernie Burnham, Marge Hoffa, Tim O'Brien, Briana Rose Lee, Shivanthi Sathana Dan, Eugene StandingCloud, Fan Thomas-Commins, Quentin Wathum-Ocama
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 30/05/2026
Oh thank fuck. *Frantically starts reading*
An entirely unstaged photo of the 2026 DFL state convention info pamphlet.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 06/04/2026
are you SERIOUS do you know how many amazing artists I loved as a kid were popping tf off in '35?!?! *sigh* Fine. Here, an M.C. Escher lithograph that doesn't get enough love imo:
Escher hung out in Italy and then made some lithographs of the magnificent cathedrals he experienced. They describe the atmospheric perspective, the lighting, and the textures of stone, marble, and foliage so impossibly well for a black and white monochrome image I want to throw something every time I look at them.

I tried to emulate shit like this as a kid with pen and ink and COULD NOT get it to look RIGHT no matter how carefully I applied correction fluid, and nobody I asked knew how it was done, they just said lithographs are a kind of fancy printing technique for rich assholes and left it at that and I can't blame them because I certainly wouldn't have trusted me with etching fluid and metal plates either, but I was so flummoxed by this WITCHCRAFT that I rage-pivoted to drawing anime cat-girls for several years.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 12/02/2026
pinksea.art/did:plc:wpb6evzmpho5b7n… #pinksea
Tired Furry doodle
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 08/02/2026
I dunno if we're moots but I need to share my sweet clever gentle little man. This is Comrade Boris, the Trilling Void. In his country, cat adopts you.
Black cat with a clipped ear and a red collar, lounging on a white fuzzy blanket.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 03/02/2026
Took a mental health day from social media for a bit. I'm kinda back. Tentatively. Also, here's Comrade Boris.
Black cat with a red collar, flopped on side with his paws arranged just so.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 25/01/2026
Re-blogging this with an alt text that fully lists the companies.
Companies scared to death of a general strike who are still both-sidesing this nonsense:

3M, Allianz,   Alina Health,   Ameriprise Financial,   Anchor Paper Company,   Anderson,   API Group,   Best Buy,   Boston Scientific,   Blue Cross/Blue Shield Minnesota,   Cargill,   Carlson,     CentraCare,   C.H. Robinson,   Children's (Minnesota),   CHS,   Delta Dental,   Deluxe (with a red x),   Donaldson Filtration Solutions,   ECMC Group,   ECOLAB,   Essentia Health,   Fairview Health Services,   Faribault Mill,   Gardner Builders,   General Mills,   Gillette Children's,   Greater MSP Partnership, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation,   Health Partners,   Hormel,   Kraus-Anderson,   Land-O-Lakes,   Marsden Services,   Mayo Clinic,   Medica, Medtronic,   Minnesota Business Partnership,   Minnesota Chamber of Commerce (lol),   Minnesota Timberwolves,   Minnesota Lynx,   Minnesota United FC,   Minnesota Vikings,   Minnesota Wild,   Mortenson,   New Horizon Academy,   NVent,   Patterson Companies, Inc.,   Pentair, Piper|Sandler,   Prime Therapeutics,   Red Wing,   Ryan Companies,   Securian Financial,   Sleep Number (lol),   SPS Commerce,  Target,  Tennant Companies,   Thrivent,   The Toro Company,   UnitedHealth Group,  US Bancorp,   Winnebago,   and Xcel Energy.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 25/01/2026
Okay timeline cleanse -- Comrade Boris.
Black cat completely sacked out in a bed.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 19/01/2026
No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
Some sort of truck stop at night. The logo is of a happy man in overalls and a cowboy hat, holding up a gas nozzle and sweeping a hand down out of the circle to draw the eye down to the company name, in large red letters: DUDE STOP
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 15/01/2026
I tried to draw and uh. Nobody psychoanalyze me on this one, I'm perfectly capable of psychoanalyzing myself.
A drawing on a post-it of a person framed by constricting squares, going "UGH."
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 13/01/2026
These two. Right now, I'm chilling next to the Mississippi.
Map of the Rogue River Watershed, in Southern Oregon
Map of the Willamette River Watershed in Northern Oregon
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 02/01/2026
*triumphant gremlin noises*
A can of extra large pitted, canned black olives.

I need to go get more sometime.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 01/01/2026
My disgruntled orbs ❤️
My chickens are in their run, under about six inches of snow. They have poofed their feathers up and achieved maximum circumference.

They would also like to see my manager about these conditions. Their grievances, sir, they need somewhere to lodge them. With extreme prejudice, if you please.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 01/01/2026
*crying* she's just so Round
Madam Oh, my English Orpington. She is a disgruntled Orb in the snow.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 01/01/2026
Boris the void has been given painkillers for his hurt and swollen legs, and we got a farm cat discount on his rabies shot and vaccinations. He is in high spirits now, blissfully unaware of our plans to overthrow his Romanovs and capture the family jewels.
A black cat, perched photogenically in front of a window with plants and a yellow curtain in a darkened room. Outside it is bright, snowing, and large icicles are growing from our pitifully insulated roof.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 30/12/2025
I have no idea why the Void is a Marxist. My dumb fluffy baby Peechy was a transphobic Republican surrounded by queers? He has fantastic lil black beans tho.
A low resolution photo of The Void, getting ear skritchies and blepping, biscuits half-kneaded, back paws in full display. Kinda sad I didn't get the one of him stretching out the beans.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 30/12/2025
*sighs* Meet Comrade Boris, the Howling Void. He limped up to us just before the snowstorm. This is the 4th cat this year. I need to find whoever it is in our neighborhood who keeps these polite, perfectly well socialized, flea-ridden UNFIXED OUTDOOR CATS I just wanna talk
A handsome void, male, unfixed, probably about a year old, lounging photogenically on our Landlord Beige carpet.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 03/12/2025
So I'm basically transgender Puxatawney Phil. Nice. (Link is anisota.net/harvest/)
A map showing what my most frequent words were for 2025. There's a big ol' TRANS, followed by much smaller 'myself', 'shit', 'reading', 'remember', and 'looks'.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 23/09/2025
It's been a minute since Wisconsin has poleaxed me with Culture Shock. I was beginning to think my West Coast ass had acclimated.
A plastic shell in a cold case with twelve uh. Objects in it that the label on the lid calls 'Wisconsin Sushi.' it appears to be deli sliced ham wrapped around a pickle that's been wrapped inside a layer of cream cheese.

The display label to the bottom left describes the ingredients and the price, $5.99, in chalk pen.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 03/08/2025
@theonion.com I'm helping clear out an old friend's house and we found this free campus publication from April 1991.
A rumpled, aged issue of The Onion. Front page reads "Super vandals cause $37 million damage to Residence Hall" two UW freshmen sentenced to lifetime of dorm cleanup activities.

There are some Pizza Hut coupons which expired in 1991.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 04/07/2025
*squeak* I love it when they become a steamer basket full of fluffy dumplings.
Five chickens in a wire enclosure are sitting contentedly together in feathery lumps. Dainty, the chicken nestled between her two reddish sisters, has spotted a bug and it has her full attention.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 04/07/2025
Today was rough. Like, "Met someone at work who is happy the bill passed and has no idea what this is gonna do to her loved one at the assisted living facility I work at and then wanted an apology from me when I fled her presence to clock out" rough. Please enjoy my 7 week old chickens with me.
My girls are enjoying their evolving chicken run - we put another level on it last weekend.

Dainty is the small brown chicken perching on the upper level - she was struggling with a piece of grass that is much bigger than her beak can accompany but she is determined.

Madam Oh is the white chicken, watching me take pictures with great suspicion. 

Behind her is Red, who was taking a dust bath but got performance anxiety.

Grace is the white and brown speckled chicken next to her. She was ALSO interrupted from her bath.

Orange and Blondie are in the next cubicle, looking for bugs.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 30/06/2025
Rah and I built a second level on the coop we've frantically slapped together for our six week old chickens. The girls were so chuffed to have NEW perches! And then they got to eat all the grass clippings.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 20/06/2025
I wonder which recession indicator this is.
Photo of a cold drink rack at a small town grocer's, where all the Liquid Death flavors live. Dead Billionaire (basically an Arnold Palmer iced tea/lemonade variant) is entirely out of stock.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 19/06/2025
I lost one of my queer elders today. I've been thinking about what it would be like to be 8, 11, 15, or 22 right now. What an older trans person could say that might've helped me. But words fucking suck right now. So here's a clip of baby chickens dust-bathing. Watch as many times as you like.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 14/06/2025
I absolutely intend to - it is my reward for getting through tomorrow xD However, I leave you with these shots of Madam Oh. She's a mottled English Orpington and the largest of her flock.
A white chicken who resembles a large meat bun sitting in a white lady's hands. She (the chicken) looks perplexed.A large white mostly fledged pullet nest to/overlapping a small brown pullet. Comparison of Dainty (smallest) and Madam Oh (A Most Earnest Lorge) A young white chicken looks up from the feeder as if caught in the act of being unladylike. Two brown hens look on in the background, shocked.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 14/06/2025
TGIF. I have baby chickens, and they're my doomscroll propaganda firehose antidote of choice. I feed them seeds and sorrel and watch them bask under the heat lamp, and it keeps me sane. I mean, I made report cards for them, so sane is relative.
Six not-quite pullets are exploring their surroundings. Two are perched on top of their cage. The others are pecking at seed.Close up of a hand written report card. In red ink, the words 'Im cheering for you!' are written at the top and a little cat cupcake sticker is on the top right corner. 

The grading system:
A = SCREAM!! 
B = SCREAM!? 
C = SCREAM ?? 
F = [judgemental silence]

Name: Madam Oh
Grade: Spring 2025

SUBJECT: 
Perch = F/see me
Poop steppin' = A
Step on sister = A
Scream = A
Identify Food = F/see me

BEHAVIOR:
Madam Oh struggles to keep up with her peers, but she doesn't have to struggle to get along with them!
Despite walking all over her sisters (literally) and pecking at fresh poop, she is well-liked, and missed when absent.

Teacher's comment: The most earnest chicken I've ever met.I made six report cards, one for each chicken. All stellar and promising young ladies, I assure you.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 26/05/2025
*Looks wearily in at the Rectangle Of Horror* I know. I know. But even so, Baby chickens.
A photograph of our sun-dappled and lush backyard, with a close up of a wire cage with water, food, and five baby chickens. The cage is held closed with a stick. The biggest chicken sleeps alone and the other four nap in a pile against a windbreak made of a pile of straw. My wife went to Runnings to get a wheelbarrow and DEET and came back with baby chickens. She has wanted a coop for a decade and city life has always denied her. But this year? This year she has a permit and a plan.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 03/05/2025
Weekend Library Comics Haul. *Unbearably smug* The Librarian got excited when he saw what I was checking out.
Four comics spread out in a diamond on a red beanbag. From left to right: Clover, by CLAMP, Galaxy by Jadzia Axelrod and Jess Taylor, Gender/Queer by Maia Kobabe, and On a Sunbeam, by Tillie Walden.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 28/04/2025
=^=
An inked sketch in my journal of a low battery display.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 28/04/2025
This image from Pope Francis's funeral is circulating, but it doesn't have alt text so I fixed it. I am not even a little bit Catholic, so I don't know if all these men in red coats are Cardinals or what I just know that COM👏PO👏SITION! Man what a shot.
An overhead shot from Pope Francis's funeral. I am Profoundly NOT Catholic, so I'm not going to hazard a guess at what these costumes mean - but there are a bunch of men in bright crimson robes and pink hats, their backs to the viewer. And then there's one man in the upper center of the image in a white robe, with a gold emblem, and he is not wearing a hat. It feels like the framing on a movie poster, or a comic book cover.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 28/04/2025
Oh Goddammit. Now I remember who John Lithgow is. Roberta Muldoon, you will always have a place in my heart. Pity about the actor who played you.
Still screenshot of Robin Williams and John Lithgow playing as Roberta Muldoon in "The World According to Garp."
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 21/04/2025
I rummaged around @ lunch and got lucky! None of these bleed through at all, and it appears that a sort of dry ink in a platinum 03 doesn't feather!
Pen test on Archer and Olive journal with a platinum preppie (unknown Ink), and the firm and soft tombow fudenosuke brush tip pens.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 17/04/2025
My wife is a ferrier's daughter, so I had to show her the Mind Horse thread. After she was done cackling, she drew hers. Mine is on the right.
A sketch of a horse's backside, with a ferrier working on it. A sketch of a horse in profile, head turned to look at the viewer. It does NOT look nearly deranged enough.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 17/04/2025
This gave me so much anxiety when I got to the legs. I was SO NOT A HORSE person.
I drew a horse from my mind, no ref. I was NOT a horse kid so I had no idea how this was gonna go. Biomechanics how? Where??? Legs do whut?
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 12/04/2025
#getwrecked.com
A photograph of a pink car and a blue car on a white showroom floor with blue shadows and a blank pink background. They've crashed into eachother, and the blue car's front end is all crumpled up.  There's a pink and blue shield centered over them.

I absolutely just...searched the internet for "Transgender auto insurance" and scrolled through images till I found this.  Original site is here: https://www.mychoice.ca/blog/third-party-liability-car-insurance/
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 12/04/2025
*Squints at this thoughtfully* *Scurries off for my T scrip!* I'm also on an every-two- weeks dose, and I knew it'd be different but it feels kinda wild HOW different. This is p. Much the same dose I've had for 13 years.
Testosterone Cypionate, 200ML every 14 days. Single dose.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 11/04/2025
Alas, I am catless at the moment. Here, I scribbled some blorbos. And it did make me feel a little better.
Photograph of a very rough pencil sketch depicting a bare chested kitty cat man flopped on his back with his legs tucked up together, head resting in another man's lap. The kitty cat man is purring and making biscuits. The other guy is looking over his glasses at kitty cat man. He has a fond, indulgent smirk on his face and an open book he has been successfully distracted from. The date is scribbled under kitty cat man's fluffy shoulder. Both are lounging in unarticulated space.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 09/04/2025
Part of my everyday carry.
A small red booklet containing the Constitution of the US, a US Passport, and a pen for scale, spread over an open journal.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 05/04/2025
I was fondly reminded of the Clandestine Insurrectionist Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) today.
A picture of an Anti-authoritarian Clown using a plastic rainbow feather duster to clean off the helmet of a cop in riot gear while being loaded into a bus that's already stuffed with Rebel Clowns.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 31/03/2025
Then you're not about equality. 

Transphobes and misogynists want an excuse to make girls and women display genitals to their coaches before they're allowed in the gym, and an excuse to harass female athletes for their appearance and/or aptitude in order to force them to conform to narrow ideas of "proper womanhood". Y'all are the ones being out of line, not us.

Trans people were deliberately used as a wedge issue by republicans in the "election wars", who are currently working overtime to criminalize existing as a trans person. Throwing trans people under the bus will not win over an imaginary centrist base. We did not cost the Dems those votes, but pretending we aren't under attack probably did.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 31/03/2025
Couldn't Not.
French Knight from Monty Python's Holy Grail, being uncouth. Impact font meme captions read "IN UR BOOB-FORTRESS, BEIN' ESTROGEN"
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 31/03/2025
The paid actor does indeed appear to be very excited. I preface this screenshot of my longer response with the confession that I do not know anything about Robosen.
I'm picking up what you're putting down.

Company price too many, smell like scam. Man too excited. Him dump in undies. So sad.

So let's guilt the company, because the guy is entirely relatable. I didn't even like Transformers but I played with the toys with my brother - and I adored Bumblebee. This sparks joy.

Like, I might TRY and play it cool if I saw this in person, but if someone put a radio shack controller in my hands and the little yellow bug's lights clicked on and went zoom-zoom, and then it transformed effortlessly into a wise-cracking robot, my inner seven year old would come out with such exuberant force it would punch its way outta my chest like I was Matt Skerritt, grab the controller, and make me the George to its Kuato until they hauled me off.

To each his own, I guess.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 31/03/2025
*sighs* I really dislike microblogging platforms. Here, I made a screenshot and alt-texted my response to this because I feel like it's important not to chop myself up to fit right now.
(Screenshot text)...Oh, that wording sets my hackles up. 

We get to decide how long we're going to put up with this bullshit. We HAVE that power. Right now. Nothing is decided, certainly not for us, unless we let it.  

Yeah, Fascists are famously against any Art and Art History that doesn't support the Great Man Narrative they're frantically slathering all over the media.  They will only teach what seems to inevitably lead up to their Glorious Empire.

It's fairly likely that they will try to create another Degenerate art moment where all unsanctioned art and artists are villified, (Already happening with the AI bro bullshit) the field is artificially dominated by straight (passing) wealthy cis white men, pornography and obscenity laws will ban subject matter that makes Dear Leader's pp feel unimportant, and/or many artists will go underground, creating and sharing work outside the law. We always do. 

But they cannot STOP Artists from Happening.  And Art History will eventually discover itself, over and over. Epistemicide is a real threat, so prepare for the future you wanna fight for.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 28/02/2025
Starting today with this book.
A paperback copy of The Stonewall Reader by Edmund White on a messy drawing desk.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 25/02/2025
...xD look in my defense this is a two-person pile. Also I still can't lift more than 10 pounds. This was incremental.
A stack of 21 books on a key lime green couch-thing. The library halls stretch into the background behind it.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 07/02/2025
A victory is a victory. I reached 400 thumbnails of this story today. Each of these pages has 8. 51 pages out of a 60 page sketchbook! ...I don't know how many I have left to do, and I'm not going to psych myself out. I've got a lot of scenes left to thumb.
My bedroom floor, with 51 sketchbook pages neatly arranged in a grid.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 06/02/2025
The fact that the eyes on mine are slowly protruding is both hilarious and worrisome. Maybe the fact that there are five to share the curse is making it easier on all of them individually?
Five dessicated luck pigs with protruding eyeballs made of clove. It is REALLY dry where I live, it seems. They're basically mummifying.
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Grimm (Probably Not Escaping Samsara) @gdi.wtf · 04/02/2025
They are. I'd always make some and bring them to big family dinners when I lived closer! (The tea eggs were also tasty.)
Homemade saffron raisin bread in a basket and a colorful bowl full of tea eggs.
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