Fear and Loathing at the Gender Clinic

Every single day I’m in the office

A couple of years ago, when my college age Goddaughter was coming to NYC to visit, I made "Auntie MK’s Broke Young Person Guide to NYC Culture – Free Museum Days in Manhattan edition." - She used it to plan her time here while staying with me. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A robust comms strategy. Whatever substrate of phone/chat/zoom forms the baseline, do not neglect the magic of the post office for sending objects at imprecise times. It is I think impossible for a postal correspondence to get into a rut. Surround and be surrounded with material fragments!

The art school goofy observational drawing of your classmate is eternal apparently

2/2 Peace: burial at sea. By J.M.W. Turner, commemorating the burial of his friend & colleague, artist David Wilkie who died on the way home from Jerusalem in 1841.

Thrill of catastrophe: flames materialize on canvas as J.M.W. Turner (born OTD 1775) depicts the burning of the Houses of Parliament ,1834.

fucking trans women — mira bellwether (2013)

Oh blahaj, we're really in it now

Genuinely hate that I was born too late to try Dr. Nut, the regional almond soda of New Orleans that went out of production in the 70s.

Looking right at you: a goat (possibly demonic). With a kid (non-demonic). By today's artist, Jacob Cuyp of Dordrecht. Portrait specialist & father of Aelbert Cuyp.

Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp of Dordrecht. Painter of portraits, animal and human. Here, his own jolly twin daughters, in their little chairs & holding their teethers.

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Tell me kid

Beautiful falling diagonal in this early luxury still life by Jan Davidsz de Heem, 1634. He was born on this day in 1606.

I never drew Madeline and have to correct that #iwtv

Hey fyi way too many, even leftists who should know better, effusively praising the papacy is making it way, way more difficult to organize against this. This trans healthcare ban is literally going to cost trans people's lives but yeah, woke pope made a statement or whatever.

Cave of forgotten dreams cannot be hyped enough, as far as I’m concerned

2/2 Catherine Carey's dog, also enjoying getting his portrait painted by Steven van der Meulen in 1562.

it is good for the spirit to be friends with addicts, transsexuals, and psychotics

especially since you’re all pretending it’s over.

Reminder that the Pope is the head of 20% of the hospitals in the US, and those hospitals will deny you your HRT and will also misgender you directly by enforced policy. So maybe stop pretending he's a good guy, yeah?

This wonderful 1805 book exposes the reality behind various tricks and illusions of the day, beginning with arguably the most enigmatic of the tricks listed, that of the “Learned Pig”, or as the excellent frontispiece refers to it “The Pig of Knowledge”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

2/2 Enter the butterfly. Action! Three peaches on a stone ledge, with painted lady butterfly, 1694. By Adriaen Coorte, whose day is today.

Man idk how to express how demoralizing it is to see people doing joke support for the Pope as the Catholic Church implements the most draconian trans healthcare ban anywhere in the US. It's a FULL ADULT TRANS HEALTHCARE BAN!!!THEY KEEP BUYING MORE HOSPITALS!!!!!!! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

HRT and Mom Jeans are a really good supergroup, like the Travelling Wilburys.

who decided to call it muffing and not a nutjob?

Cat on the ledge, outside the artist's studio, in 1657. By Gerrit Dou. Today is his day.

Here you go Smackdown October 17th 2002

Berceau-Fleur/Flower Cradle by French artist Philippe Pradalié for Atelier A, Paris (1971)

Side-eying her eyes: Saint Lucy, painted by Francesco del Cossa of Ferrara. Today is his day.

Nothing says Friday like thirty 1950s bus tickets from Milwaukee. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g... A typographic carnival.

just in time for pride month, happy to announce I designed the Hot Dog flag

Teaser: whose portable dragon?

YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN DRAW YOUR FAVORITE THINGS. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN DRAW BAD AND ITS OK. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN TRY DIFFERENT MEDIUMS. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN DRAW YOUR FAVES FUCKING NASTY. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WI

if anyone is on Lex and can repost for me lmk (i can abridge the post to fit character count). (Lex banned me because i tried to find help with medication 🙄)

Remember:

Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Joos van Craesbeeck, painter & baker of Antwerp. And smoker! Here, in first and last of these roles, 1635.

Do you think Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud ever explored each other's bodies?

Ogres - Strippers - FFS Surgeons Will all grind your bones to make their bread

Misgendered! By Miss deathly hallows to another coworker in front of my face

I do not get enough credit for not becoming the joker