appreciating-apricity

apricity (n). the warmth of the sun in winter

[dragonologist-phd]

the thing about heavy handed symbolism is that sometimes. it's fun.

[dailyclassicart]

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Julie Manet with Cat (detail)" (1877)

[existential-celestial]

“I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing; when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.”

— Tove Jansson, “Moominvalley in November” 

[throatoftheworld]

Land of Root by Hitomi Murakami

[t4tstarvingdog]

“start your free trial now” what if i told u i am already experiencing trials. and the cost is more than i can bear

[apixasflora]

In love with pretty stained glass designs🪻༉‧₊˚. ‧࿔

[tonsimonsi]

Need some fables AESOP

[strangledplanet]

[redlipstickresurrected]

Clotilde Olyff (Belgian, b. 1962, based Brussels, Belgium) - Stone Alphabet, 1994. She collected these over a 14-year period from the banks of rivers and oceans.

[storm-of-the-swarm]

Having a really long-term hyperfixation that has since faded is terrifying yes but it's also so embarrassing. Hi I used to think about Scrimblo Splungus 25/7. Yeah, for 2 years straight. Nah, I don't think about them anymore except for with a vague sense of melancholy as I recall how they used to make me feel. Anyways this new one, Blimpkins McGee? I'm gonna think about them forever and the cycle will NOT repeat in 2 years. Trust me guys.

[pmamtraveller]

Clare Turlay Newberry

[herpsandbirds]

An update on weevil pants!!

3/4 weevils completed!

AN UPDATE ON WEEVIL PANTS!!!

[cornflakesdoesart]

althought I wanted to finish these while it was winter , it’s still snowing here so  here, some warmly dressed folks!

[sexybritishllama]

just finished this month's book club book, went skimming goodreads reviews afterwards as you do, got my breath taken away by this absolutely brutal ending to one of the multi-paragraph 1 star reviews

[priezpourlui]

[minotauri]

by Gisela Jané

[kisxmesoft]

[partywithponies]

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

[partywithponies]

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

[partywithponies]

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

[dizzyghoast]

i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.

I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case