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Morning Mist
Did you miss the morning mist
Were you still asleep
I watched it as it rolled on in
Whilst you were counting sheep.
I know there was a halo
It came and disappeared
A luminescence of light
That slowly reappeared.
It was a magic moment
A veil of obscurity
It felt just like a blanket
A second of security.
And then the daylight came
Sneaking like a thief
Here one second then gone
All so very brief.
Moisture clung to foliage
Silver dewdrops fell
Quietness soaked the morning
Tween the hill and knell.
Brown horses stood like sentinels
Out on the milky ground
Standing there in silhouette
Hardly made a sound.
I felt the minutes moving
Across the earth and sky
I watched the mist you missed
As it flew on by.
Did you miss the mist this morning
It rolled like an ocean wave
A blanket of opportunity
I saw but couldn’t save.
David Rudder on #musestr
https://image.nostr.build/3c3839e216345fe0eb475feefe1b0c7b982ccd3342e797cb5aaa13ac1ac6d9cc.jpg

2023-09-27 04:48:10

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💜🙏

2023-09-27 02:06:12

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The nymph Arethusa momentarily loses herself in a portal to Meow Wolf
https://image.nostr.build/afbafff61d976005bbb8baa127759ddb69e5d1e0435ec194e0a1b49ee3c5b4b6.jpg

2023-09-27 00:18:46

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keep going until you burn it or it burns you

2023-09-19 22:10:16

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yes 💜

2023-09-18 19:12:22

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lovely 💜

2023-09-12 23:59:34

I.
Arethusa arose
From her couch of snows
In the Acroceraunian mountains,--
From cloud and from crag,
With many a jag,
Shepherding her bright fountains.
She leapt down the rocks,
With her rainbow locks
Streaming among the streams;--
Her steps paved with green
The downward ravine
Which slopes to the western gleams;
And gliding and springing
She went, ever singing,
In murmurs as soft as sleep;
The Earth seemed to love her,
And Heaven smiled above her,
As she lingered towards the deep.
Percy Bysshe Shelley on #musestr
https://image.nostr.build/86ed08621d47a697e9380947f8980a294706101988378cde1d024306e9002370.jpg

2023-09-11 18:51:18

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💜

2023-09-11 15:51:36

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gm onyx

2023-09-09 21:42:18

love in space #fashstr 11/11
https://image.nostr.build/a49d08f7dceae44e4b8efe5abe58c8b357ca7620767df8b31df0b082f9e14a6e.jpg
#note1n62…x9zv

2023-09-09 21:39:09

love in space #fashstr 9/11
https://image.nostr.build/950b1b1975dfdf1f8970482c7dd2a992503d092263ea5a5a580e4af2cec6faba.jpg
#note1n62…x9zv

2023-09-09 21:30:01

love in space #fashstr 5/11
https://image.nostr.build/cacb2b2a9be978d36da324d8fb9bd53807ab16efc3bf7c45850c0dc27d10a3e6.jpg
#note1n62…x9zv

2023-09-09 21:28:10

love in space #fashstr 4/11
https://image.nostr.build/ff1414dcdd1b750bbb4099aae8a7439cfa62b0a7f595384aee291c768618085a.jpg
#note1n62…x9zv

2023-09-09 21:19:02

"Everything on the walls of the space station is covered in Velcro, so you could take advantage of that by velcroing one partner to the wall. You have to get creative in this space."
Root Wolpe on #musestr
#note1n62…x9zv

2023-09-09 21:16:58

https://www.dw.com/en/lets-talk-about-sex-in-space/a-59202194

2023-09-09 03:57:50

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I love it. Incredible

2023-09-08 16:34:23

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i.e. the geriatric leadership moves from congress to hospice

2023-09-06 04:27:23

"My love, she's like some raven at my window with a broken wing."
Bob Dylan on #musestr
https://image.nostr.build/c470b3793a5902a364a233c7f6a2e95b3a7382dee7cad7cca750ca640a8a52de.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/258481c150c12fa50011e97f30cb5c0e690871f2de914b10e235c6a090277f29.jpg

2023-09-05 20:34:06

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time to fly south

2023-08-25 18:57:04

Tonight
I dared to crawl
beneath the sheets
to be nailed down
around me,
waiting for my lover, she
who enters
without knocking, she
who will unstitch
my every seam
along my thigh,
my side, my armpit.
She who carves
a heart out of the heart
and drops it
down her throat.
Sweet surrender this
slow death in sleep
as I dream
the love-making
is autopsy. How else
will I be hers
completely? Be her
treasure box I said:
a trove of pearls
and stones, the ding
of coins cascading
through her fingers.
The bird over her shoulder
not a parrot, but an owl
to be my mirror
when I close my eyes
and shape a moon-white
bowl out of my face
where she can wash
the hooks of her caress.
Rigoberto González on #musestr
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/4cfd91f62c6cea40d8a39b6f52477fa4830717877c8826f39d264e8f1b9a5656.jpg

2023-08-24 16:02:23

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not to be deterred by a little setback he did the one thing that would ensure either people leave him the fuck alone or fight him till his dying day ;)

2023-08-24 15:35:21

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you've brightened my day 💜

2023-08-24 15:34:19

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Very happy any time I see a story like yours. I have family who have survived and family who have not, and anytime someone beats cancer that's a true victory💜

2023-08-24 15:13:14

"You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too lazy to learn to love. As for ideal and tragic love, that I don’t doubt you can do marvellously- and all honour to you. Now you will learn to love a little in an ordinary human way."
Herman Hesse on #musestr
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/53b0a5d1a58fa77a90378b245820d0d4849c2be605c50d6b49056bc5009e6ee7.jpg

2023-07-24 09:33:50

"I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced."
Anaïs Nin on #musestr
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/c1c44707db0ad2e3e538fe849e46a120721f08d1f3ad2d3bed0d853595eecb32.jpg

2023-06-29 08:22:00

my eyes will remember
how to love the world
under changing skies.
when the light changes,
so does the view.
– Lindsay O’Connell on #nomadstr
https://nostr.build/i/52c09c2ec6af4e0320eaeef6127269ad767374a63ad9159e40f8c922fff2c9a1.jpg

2023-06-21 00:11:44

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It's awfully hard to stop once the variations start
https://nostr.build/i/6e0a62b33f517f2146da6aa02260222816da9cff918fd45a49edb60878ed74f4.jpg

2023-06-20 22:37:20

"The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today."
Alexander McQueen on #fashstr
https://nostr.build/i/3334fbb7e746f8b988a1a65baf1be3629e8dc7231933f3448e551f9865eefc52.jpg
https://nostr.build/i/041ae14f335a25edea2fdb17e71f26c1306acc609745f8b88a5cc1a9fff633b2.jpg
https://nostr.build/i/f06c683101de21921a1f66693b716cc47778a906f50838def20faeb1e05845de.jpg
https://nostr.build/i/fa51561b8dc9bf5ce301af7e5662a165dbbb9e490fa362d46cdd73bc4f94d43c.jpg
https://nostr.build/i/c2eef5a4a4016f300f3955e4081edd6ff2980d4d4603002cd69bf43df2c0f70f.jpg

2023-06-19 15:45:42

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💜 Lovely. Would love a tour of your tattoos one day.

2023-06-16 21:49:08

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well said 💜

2023-06-16 14:14:08

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💜 damn

2023-06-15 14:57:15

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💜 gm!

2023-06-14 23:23:28

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haha oops

2023-06-14 22:17:55

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damn

2023-06-14 21:56:05

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haha everyone in the comments, “why wait for Saturday?”
lol
#musestr
https://nostr.build/i/3e194986d120e0ebe2b99c12650a87f33348101f165f56a6b0162686fc579690.jpg

2023-06-14 19:46:48

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💜

2023-06-13 16:35:35

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what does PWA stand for?

2023-06-11 04:08:10

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incredible color

2023-06-09 17:11:09

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I love this, so playful! How did you find your favorite medium to make art?

2023-06-08 04:46:15

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oops, same one twice

2023-06-08 04:45:31

If you have a chance to see Marilyn Minter’s paintings in person, take it. They are incredible—and incredibly large.
https://cdn.freeyork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/MarilynMinter00.jpg
https://arrestedmotion.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Marilyn-Minter-Salon-94-AM-101.jpg
https://i0.wp.com/graveravens.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Marilyn-Minter-HD-Oil-on-Canvas-7.jpg
https://cdn.freeyork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/MarilynMinter00.jpg
https://image-cdn.hypb.st/https://hypebeast.com/image/2016/05/marilyn-minter-pretty-dirty-exhibition-orange-county-museum-of-art-2.jpg

2023-06-06 22:09:51

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💜 these are gorgeous, but yeah, getting control of your own vision takes some input from you beyond the text prompts for sure. Does Midjourney provide a way to do that? I haven’t really dug into it.

2023-06-06 21:55:56

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Mostly it’s a process of sketching, prompting Stable Diffusion in image-to-image and then digital painting over outputs and going back and iterating. Anything I’ve put out here has been through several iterative transformations. It’s still a lot of work to get something good. I’m ready to share about 1% of the images I make.

2023-06-06 21:43:36

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Let’s call it Stereo-erotomy, the idea was born from Andrew Bayer’s excellent music video for his Immortal Lover https://youtu.be/vfiL-tyMHyI

2023-06-06 21:31:28

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https://nostr.build/i/6c700c0f836669a788d0044b0e3a9470250a0cd53f2166eab8e5ad6254d0e988.jpg

2023-06-06 17:21:50

Daughters of Aglaurus bathe in Arethusa’s waters https://nostr.build/i/8d48faead605f5af83b0a5563d51a529edac047d2bf945f7b63de2a696625320.jpg

2023-06-03 02:21:09

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hats off all the same for the aesthetic prowess

2023-06-02 05:29:56

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can you imagine if nostr didn’t exist at this time? that place would still feel normal.
“The quality I look for most is optimism: especially optimism in the face of reverses and apparent defeat. Optimism is true moral courage.”
Sir Ernest Shackleton on #grownostr

2023-05-31 16:18:49

“We demand of a work of art that it should transcend technique in the pursuit of lyricism. The only way of transcending technique is to permit a descent into - I use a word which may seem paradoxical - uselessness.”
Carlo Mollino on #artstr
https://www.casatigallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Portrait-of-Carlo-Molino-flying-on-a-plane-with-Googles-e1569975349531.jpg

2023-05-26 21:30:44

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wow, I thought it was a perspective thing but yeah that’s a sizable drink, cheers!

2023-05-26 21:05:24

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that beverage has a few straws in it

2023-05-01 17:50:11

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Like anyone here is probably a normie compared to a secluded mountain village that speaks 15th century Spanish somewhere in the Ecuadorian jungle, or a cargo cult priest,
But vs. a 3D graphics nut hooking it in Jburg or someone who reads the Guardian every day, working a corporate job as a middle manager... but then that manager might be a furry into bdsm in some dungeon by night, so