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This page from one of my history books looks like a lesbian utopia.
Source: Reclaiming Lost Ground by Neale McGoldrick & Margaret Crocco
Very similar vibes - this 1899 illustration from Puck of butchy (for the time) lesbians looking like the coolest, hottest women to ever walk the earth
I've not even logged in for four years
Man, the times have changed.
This painful clench of your heart is brought to you today by Lewis...not unexpectedly.
“In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. Now that Charles is dead, I shall never again see Ronald’s reaction to a specifically Caroline joke. Far from having more of Ronald, having him ‘to myself’ now that Charles is away, I have less of Ronald. Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, ‘Here comes one who will augment our loves.’”
—C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Unionised truckers in South Korea kicked off their second major strike in less than six months on Thursday, threatening to disrupt manufactu
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basics for dry skin.
1. makeup/sunscreen remover — opt for balms or oils over micellar water. my fave is tatcha’s camellia oil.
2. non-stripping cleanser — if your skin feels squeaky clean after cleansing this means your cleanser is way too strong. good options include: glossier milky cleanser, stratia velvet milk, or la roche posay hydrating cleanser.
3. moisturizer — this step should sink into your skin and not sit on top of it with a greasy film. i like yttp’s air whip for the summer and biossance’s repair cream for the winter.
4. oil or ointment (PM only) — this locks in the moisture from your previous steps. cerave healing ointment is a cult favorite, and i personally love yttp goji berry oil.
4. SPF (AM only) — stick with american or japanese made sunscreens as these tend to have stricter standards on quality. ALWAYS wear sunscreen, even when it’s cloudy. my esthetician gave me face reality’s 30 spf which i’ve been loving, but you may also like supergoop’s options.
NOTES:
• if you have very dry skin, only cleanse at night. cleansing in both the AM and PM will make your skin soo much more dry.
• don’t let your skin dry out completely after cleansing, you want your moisturizer to go on when your skin is still damp.
• PAT on your oil or ointment at the end of your routine, don’t rub.
• consider getting hydrating facials once a month.
• if you are showing signs of premature aging (fine lines), dullness, constant flaking, and breakouts, then your skin may also be dehydrated. this would require extra TLC and gentler products. check the skincareaddiction subreddit for info.
• taking supplements like vitamin e, omega 3, and vitamin d helps.
complaints about millennials from ancient greece and rome
ungrateful, wait with eagerness for the day of their fathers’ deaths (seneca’s de beneficiis)
travel everywhere, take up agriculture instead of letting nature provide (tibullus 1.3)
carp at their parents, praise evil-doers and their violent deeds (hesiod, works and days)
spend too much time talking about philosophy and pretending to be greek to fight wars (plutarch, life of cato the elder)
bad at riding horses (horace, odes 3.24)
can’t lift boulders (homer, iliad 20)
still can’t lift boulders (vergil, aeneid 12)
8. spend all their time declaiming about pirate-chieftains and tyrannicides and oracles commanding human sacrifices and what kind of preparation is that for the real world? (Eumolpus in Petronius, Messala in Tacitus’ Dialogus, a bunch of others)
9. only care about snappy one-liners and ignore good periodic Ciceronian prose (Quintilian, IO 10)
9. take up stupid trendy fads like vegetarianism (Seneca the Younger’s father yelled at him about this, apparently)
10. use philosophy as an excuse to avoid the duties of a Roman senator (Tacitus, Hist. 4.4)
Tag yourself, I’m #8
Caspar David Friedrich (1774 -1840, German) ~ Gebirgslandschaft mit Regenbogen, 1809-10
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@is-the-19thcentury-man-okay ?
Rating: CUTE!
19th century men, not unlike wild bears, have a sense of the sublime beauty of nature. This Romantic fellow is enraptured with the natural landscape of the painting, which dwarfs him in the composition. Nonetheless, he appears to be wearing suitable clothing and carrying a walking stick on his excursion. This is a wonderful form of enrichment for a 19th century man, particularly if he is feeling upset about the industrial revolution and needs to reconnect with his imagination and sense of freedom.
“I think there’s a rich ream of horror, from The Haunting of Hill House to Ghostwatch, that delves into the idea that certain places can simply go wrong – and once these bad environments have been established and ostracised by society, they can’t be exorcised. They simply keep accruing power through the individual stories that play tragically out in their shadow.
“I mention a real-life example of that kind of bad architecture in one episode; the Pope Lick Bridge in Kentucky, a place that looks and feels so sinister that it developed its own local folklore about a goat-man who attacks people who stray too close to the edge – and which has ended up resulting in deaths as visitors peer over the side trying to get a peek at the monster.
“I find this kind of stuff fascinating, because it plays into my own paranoia about environments, and my dislike of ghost stories with explicably human antagonists. Like David says in the first episode, people aren’t frightening. Places are frightening.
“If I’m sitting alone at home on a dark and stormy night, and I glance nervously up towards the bedroom doorway, my fear is not that my house is being haunted by a spirit called Mabel who died in the 19th century at the age of fourteen and is constantly seeking her favourite teddy bear… because all of these details both humanise her and make her ridiculous.
“My fear is that there will be something standing in the doorway, because the doorway is where things come to stand.
“Because unoccupied spaces, in our imaginations, must find something to fill them.”
— Jon Ware, from “The Saturday Interview: ‘I Am in Eskew’ podcast”
not to be a nerd but it’s so crazy how he (Bernini) really did that from cold hard stone……. truly a spectacle, truly breathtaking, an honor to behold
I think you should know he was 23 when he finished this and the ass gets a lot of attention but the hand on Persepina’s side/tummy is also exquisite
before i saw the caption I knew that HAD to be bernini.
I try not to make sweeping statements but I think there’s a case to be made for bernini as the greater sculptor there’s ever been.
here’s his bust of costanza bonarelli
here’s apollo and daphne from the front, where she’s mostly human
from the back, where she’s mostly tree
and details
this is the one art form I genuinely just cannot get my brain to accept as real. I’ve watched sped-up videos of it being done, read about it, seen in-progress marble statues and I still just can’t get it to sink in or stick. My mind doesn’t want to believe that any person has ever been able to start with a big block and break little bits off of it until it looks like a finely detailed person. At some point it has no recognizable shape and they still know where and how deep they should take a chip out of it that’ll still be the right decision 50,000 fucking chips later?!?
me every day, beginning A Task: agony! despair! woe! every moment on this wretched earth is filled with suffering! death! death! death!
ten minutes later: man, i'm so glad i washed the dishes & i was so normal about it
holy shit i just learned about the “proxy strike” tactic in france in which radicals blockade or occupy a workplace, allowing workers to strike without losing their wages. that’s brilliant, wow
How does that work, exactly?
if you and your coworkers say “we’re striking” and occupy your workplace, your boss won’t pay you, but if your friends and your coworkers’ friends occupy it for you, you say “sorry boss shit’s occupied” and you still get paid because you’re not the ones striking
the 5,528 people who have reblogged this post as of right now could probably paralyze a decent chunk of a city’s economy using this tactic lmao
Proxy strikes work really similarly to sit-ins in terms of logistics! I highly recommend learning about both if you want to try and organize one.
Abortion Clinic Employee Shares How Some Pro-Life Women Act When They Come In As Customers
I am not surprised that anti-choice zealots would hypocritically obtain abortions, but I am thoroughly fucking shocked that they wouldn’t even attempt to hide their anti-choice views when doing so.
Read “When the anti-choice choose,” a collection of anecdotes from abortion providers about serving this kind of patient.
It’s a slippery slope once you start lying to yourself
oi lads if you haven’t already voted in the Broadway World Awards would you do yer ol parasocial pal Abi a favour and go ahead and vote for her in that???
- I’ve been nominated for Best Lead Actor
- My play, The Prince, is up for Best New Play
- and Mary Malone & Tianna Arnold are up for Best Supporting Actor
I’m currently in 2nd place behind Jodie Comer and it would be sick to win it lmao
To vote, fill out the little form with your choices then DON’T FORGET to click the confirmation link in the email they send you afterwards
Thanks!
https://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/voteregion.cfm
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C. P. Cavafy, tr. Rae Dalven
when christian artists change the line in hallelujah from “maybe there’s a God above” to “I know that there’s a God above” >:c
#idk why i’m so unreasonably angry#maybe cuz it’s my fav line
it’s also because Leonard COHEN (!) was Jewish and this is a quintessentially Jewish line, and changing it to that level of Annoying Certainty is stripping it of its Jewish meaning and imbuing it with that particularly American smug evangelical Christian attitude that makes me tired, so very tired
THAT IS EXACTLY WHY
I don’t think I’ve heard any cover artist sing my favorite verses You say I took the name in vain I don’t even know the name But if I did, well really, what’s it to you? There’s a blaze of light In every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah I did my best, it wasn’t much I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you And even though It all went wrong I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
um woah
I will always hit the reblog button so hard for Hallelujah but ESPECIALLY mentions of the elusive final verses which are just about my favorite lyrics ever. Why do people always omit the best part of the song??
In Yiddish
In Hebrew
In Ladino
Yeah, I wonder why the verses that reference specific Jewish mystical and chassidic concepts that aren’t readily understood by American “I love Jews, you know, Jesus was Jewish!” Christians never get any airtime. Funny that.
You say I took the name in vain I don’t even know the name But if I did, well really, what’s it to you? There’s a blaze of light In every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah
These are specifically about Chassidic Jewish theories of the holy language, how each letter and combination of letters in Hebrew contains the essence of the divine spark and if used correctly, can unlock or uncover the divine spark in the mundane material word. And of course, there are secret names of God which, when spoken by any ordinary human would kill them, but if you are worthy and holy and righteous can be used to perform miracles or even to behold the glory of God face-to-face. The words themselves have power. Orthodox Jews often won’t even pronounce the word “hallelujah” in it’s entirety in conversation, because the “yah” sound at the end is a True Name of God (there are hundreds, supposedly) and thus too holy to say outside of prayer.
None of this is to mention how David’s sin in sleeping with Batshevah (the subject of much of the song, with a brief deviation to Shimshon and Delilah) is considered the turning point in the Tanach that ultimately dooms the Davidic line at the cosmological level and thus dooms Jewish sovereignty and independence altogether. From a Christian perspective this led to Jesus, the King of Kings, and that’s all very well and good for them, but for the Jews, the Davidic line never returned and is the central tragedy of the total arc of the Torah. Like, our Bible doesn’t have a happy ending? And that’s what this song is about? There’s no Grace - you just have to sit with the sin and its consequence.
Of course, Cohen is referencing all of this ironically, and personalizing these very high-level religious concepts. Like the point of this song is that Cohen, the songwriter, is identifying with David, the psalmist, and identifying his own sins with David’s. The ache that you hear in this song is that the two thousand year exile that resulted from one wrong night of passion and Cohen feels that the pain he has caused to his lover is of equally monumental infamy. Basically, in a certain light, the whole of Psalms is a vain effort for David to atone for his sin and I think Cohen was writing this song in wonderment that David could eternally praise the God who would not forgive him and would force him and his people into exile. But he ultimately gets how you have to surrender to the inexorable force of God in the face of your own inadequacies and how to surrender is to worship and to worship is to praise - hence, Hallelujah. You can either do the right thing and worship God from the start, or you can fuck up, be punished, and thus be forced to beg for His forgiveness. It’s the terrible inevitability of praise that’s driving him mad.
Like honestly, I identify with this song so strongly as an off-the-derech Jew, I sometimes wonder what Christians can possibly hear in this song, as it speaks so specifically to the sadomasochistic relationship that a lapsed Jew has with their God. It’s such a different song from a Christian theological perspective it’s almost unrecognizable, man. This song continues to be a wonder of postmodern Jewish theology and sexuality from start to finish. Don’t let anyone give you any “Judeo-Christian” narishkeit. This is a Jewish song.
(Sorry about the wild tangent it’s just 2AM and I love this song so dang much, you guys.)
holy shit. woah.
This.
That last bit from @stoneandbloodandwater, that’s a great articulation of the well of feeling, memory, storytelling, and culture packed into one of the most Jewish songs ever to get real famous. The song is both surrender and defiance, and that those are actually a single path together, not two opposite choices.
A small addition: This song is such a deeply resonant Jewish touchstone that every synagogue I have ever attended uses its melody in services from time to time.
It is so important, so powerful, so spiritually resonant that we use it in prayer.
If memory serves me, the cover we most often hear came about specifically because Jeff Buckley was like “man, this song is badass but I don’t know that I can do its concepts justice” and Leonard Cohen was like “you need different verses? Here, I wrote over eighty of the fuckers, pick what you want to use” and so Buckley put together verses that spoke to him as a non-Jew about sexuality and this idea of a failed relationship.
Which wouldn’t be an issue if Christians didn’t then take his adaptation (done, I emphasize again, with Cohen’s blessing) and rewrite it in ways THAT DO NOT COME FROM THE ORIGINAL VERSES.
