Martin Wong (Chinese-American, 1946-1999) - Chinese Laundry (A Portrait Of The Artist's Parents) (1984)

words from anything by adrianne lenker

Art by Lily Seika Jones

My Brother’s Cicadas on substack

Time for a new long post. A group of some of my favorites I’ve done in 2024 already.

Natalia Rybka - Jest więcej/There's more (oil on canvas), 2020

Gordon Mortensen (b.1938, American)

Spring Flowers

Tohru Honda: a Subversion of Shoujo’s Nice Girl Trope

Fruits Basket absolutely nails subverting your expectations of character tropes in anime. 

Momiji is introduced as the cute childish boy but boom we are slapped with the fact that he a mother who hated him so much she had her memories wiped of him. Shigure right off the bat looks like the typical perverted uncle of anime when in reality he is one the most manipulative characters in the series. Ayame is the flamboyant, boisterous one whose bravado hides his regret and desire to repent for his past neglect of his younger brother. Which ultimately brings me to the protagonist of Furuba itself, Tohru Honda.

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Richard Siken

day 1604

a totally normal tomato... maybe i will become a vegetable drawing blog instead