seeing worlds in words @aladygrieve - Tumblr Blog

It's here: the image that has been in my head for the last eight years.

Join Festus, a tailor of thoughts as well as threads, as they try to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to destroy their home. Featuring magic, mystery and mutual pining, FAULT & STITCHERY is a gaslamp fantasy audio drama about memory, regret, and the choices you don't want to make Episode 1 streaming now wherever stories are told.

Art by @cohav-muzar

#audio drama #fault & stitchery #podcast recommendations #audio drama recs #fantasy

everythingfox

Crumch

#emergency cute #video #red pandas

everythingfox

He’s having a pedicure

#emergency cute #dogs #video

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

#I LOATHE that word #have since it took off

sr-roto

audio On 😂😂😂

theygender

For blind/visually impaired folks: The instruments being used to recreate these songs are two kazoos, a plastic shopping bag, a metal colander pot, a basting brush, an empty water jug, and a thin sheet of plastic, all being played by two people in an empty parking garage for the acoustics

For deaf/HoH folks: The songs being played here are near perfect renditions of the 20th Century Fox theme, the Pirates of the Caribbean theme, and the Mission Impossible theme

interestingmistakes

I can't get over how he just grabs her head and shakes while she plays kazoo to make the opening trill to the mission impossible theme

#oh this is fuckin neato #the mission impossible one in particular is ACES #video #music

sunnyonline

Much Ado About Nothing is literally so fucking awesome. The drama, the intensity, Beatrice saying she would eat Claudio's heart, when it's played well it just has such a powerful sincerity to it, the emotions and the drama dialed wayy up. And the verbal footwork, like a fencing with words, it's so good!

I watched it for the first time the other day, and it's like, ohh, I think I get it now, why people love Shakespeare. When it's done well, when the actors give it real energy and life and emotion, when it's not read monotone in an English class, it is fucking good. 👏

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Like, I think I get it now. It's fucking good. No wonder people have been performing these plays for literally hundreds of years. They're good. They're fucking good.

sunset-diamond

@lizzibennet

lizzibennet

when ur in high school u hear someone say like oh shakespeare has to be watched not read and ur like lol pretentious much.. and then you get to watch a good rendition of it and ur like. ✨i am having an extracorporeal experience✨

#shakespeare

latinotiktok

escarabangel

Translation: "Chancho! I'm leaving now dude, i'm leaving to go work now dude."

"If someone breaks in dude, you beat the ever-loving shit out of them real hard dude, you beat the shit out of them, Chancho, you hear me?"

"You just beat the shit out of anyone who breaks in!"

translation notes:

The dogs name is 'Chancho', a slang word for a pig. Basically, its like the dog is named 'piglet' 🥺

aspec-woomy

I fucking can't with his little face

#eeeeeeeee #emergency cute #puppies

angeltiddies

IM SO SORRY

#loooool #supernatural #destiel

the problem with calling people terminally internet-pilled is that it outs you as also terminally internet-pilled

#tumblr #puriteens

mycroftrh

Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

chantylay

Se also "he DID say that and he was LYING, and somehow you didn't notice."

#media literacy

home-and-having-tea

You ever think about how unified humanity is by just everyday experiences? Tudor peasants had hangnails, nobles in the Qin dynasty had favorite foods, workers in the 1700s liked seeing flowers growing in pavement cracks, a cook in medieval Iran teared up cutting onions, a mom in 1300 told her son not to get grass stains on his clothes, some girl in the past loved staying up late to see the sun rise.

quecksilvereyes

there are scriptures all over the world painstakingly crafted hundreds of years ago with paw prints and spelling mistakes or drawings covering up mistakes. a bunch of teenage girls 2000 years ago gathered to walk around their hometown, getting fast food and laughing with their friends. two friends shared blankets before people lived in houses. a mother ran a fine comb through her child’s hair and told it to stop squirming sometime in the 1000s. there are covered up sewing mistakes in couture dresses from the 1800s, some poor roman burnt their food so well past recognition that they just buried the entire pot. there are broken dishes hidden in gardens of people no one even remembers anymore

theropoda

children eleven thousand years ago enjoyed jumping around in puddles made from the footprints of a giant sloth. children loved muddy puddles so long ago there were still megafauna alive

captainlordauditor

There’s a record of an emperor of Japan in the 9th century talking about his cat - how pretty it is, and how it stalks birds and curls up in a circle and meows mournfully for company and escaped its collar. All completely normal ordinary cat things. And then it ends with him saying “it is superior to all other cats”. I am delighted to be united across 1200 years with this fellow cat owner with exactly the same feelings about his cat that I have about mine.

mchug

Whenever I look at my little dog I think of the ancient Roman dog eulogy

“My eyes were wet with tears, our little dog, when I bore thee (to the grave)… So, Patricus, never again shall thou give me a thousand kisses. Never canst thou be contentedly in my lap. In sadness have I buried thee, and thou deservist. In a resting place of marble, I have put thee for all time by the side of my shade. In thy qualities, sagacious thou wert like a human being. Ah, me! What a loved companion have we lost!”

#we have always been us