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A screenshot of a poll asking "Which best describes the degree to which rape is present for you in narratives?". There were 86 respondents with the following results: I avoid all stories about characters who have been raped. (5.8%) I don't consider a character to have been raped unless prompted by the story. (75.6%) I assume the characters in stories have been raped unless stated otherwise. (12.8%) If a character is not raped within the story, I envision their future rape. (5.8%)

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Paintings visualizing the sounds made by marbles as they fall on a tufted rug, bounce on a hardwood floor, and roll in a cupped palm.

Cricket-sized glass

A beetle dressed as a hunter walks through the woods with a pet ant following behind. He has both a shotgun and the corpse of a different beetle slung over his shoulder.

A sick and injured beetle lays in bed while being tended to by a nurse. In the corner, a friend or family member weeps.

A hercules beetle easily lifts a barbel over his head.

A cricket merchant travels through the night with a bundle of wares heaped atop a wheelbarrow. Alongside the path, atop a tall stem, is a lightning bug illuminating the way like a lamp post.

Illustrations from Josef Lada's children's book "Brouci a hmyz" (Beetles and Insects).

A sculpture of Tittens, an overweight calico cat, gazing up at you with trust and affection.

A photograph of Tittens looking content with a green blanket draped over her body.

A world without Tittens.
(2010-2025)

Assorted letters to the editor from various fetish magazines (1950s-1990s). Sources and transcriptions: seven-meds.tumblr.com/post/7580130...

Pepper the cow has icy blue eyes and a black and white coat

Dawnbreak the fawn has both the bright orange colors of the rising sun and the deep blues of a starry night

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Hilltop the camel has earthy tones and grows flowers on his hump

Trout the duck has the green and pink coloring of a rainbow trout

Bones the crow is warm white with pink eyes

Bunches the bear is yellow and green, like a just ripe banana

Very small animal sculptures I left in public spaces to be found.

Digital collage of mid-00s websites featuring car accidents, traumatic brain injuries, and dog attacks.

Digital collage of an html coded gallery of car accidents with the phrase "HEY, THIS PREDICTION STUFF IS DEPRESSING!" superimposed.

World Wide Web

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A sculpture of two dogs having sex

They still do this, in the Age of Information

Series of filthy linocut tests featuring a pig corpse with the phrase "PIG LICKER" displayed on its belly.

Pig Licker

A cat's eye marble showcasing at least five colors of glass ranging from pearly white, through rich browns, and into a fleshy pink-red. The spun veins inside are in rippled sheets spread thickly rather than the more common sparse, fine spools.

An interesting Akro Agate multivein cat's eye. Haven't come across another with such meaty colors and patch-like swirling before or since.

Drawings of MGS3 Snake covered in leeches; including those inside his mouth and on his eyeballs. There are also schematics of the leech nervous system compared to a human's.

Leeches will sometimes attach themselves to you if you spend a long time in the water or the swamp.

A half painted clay sculpture of a cow giving birth and, in the background, an obscured second sculpture of two dogs

Works in progress

Series of found photographs fixed on colored paper; women holding mirrors, bats, and mole rats.

Faraway woman
(Found photography / Mixed media)

Clay sculptures of a monkey, tiger, and boar.

Animal toybox

Simply-shaped linocut stamps of common animals

Animal stamps

A picture of two ivory millipedes named Lace and Eyelet

Two girls from an ancient lineage

Ideal position for eating fish flakes

Lace bravely climbing the sticks in her home.

Ten seconds of Lace

Lace

Mountaintop butcher

Meat Church

Field dressed

Skinned and delivered

Swan Attacked by a Dog (1745) by Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Hare

Studies from a collection of preserved wetlook fetish videos from the 1940s-1960s. Here's a short explanation and link to the video: seven-meds.tumblr.com/post/7555781...

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