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Physically, I may be here. But mentally I am in a small coastal village in New England, it's late afternoon in autumn and I am wearing a flannel and drinking apple cider. I'm sitting on my back porch, surrounded by trees, and the only sound is the faint sound of the waves crashing onto the shore in the distance.
kitties….love’em
im sad pls show me your kitties
kelsier for you! he said to me he loves you but it’s a secret
please enjoy my murderous kitten, blepping to make you feel better
Here you go, here are Toothless and Jim being insufferably cute.
this is matches, otherwise known as “the demon”
Here’s Cowboy & Milo!
Bingley! (in early morning fight-mode)
My precious little Bingley (who’s already grown so much in just over a week).
I did a thing today. Welcome home, little one.
enemies to friends to lovers 200k slow burn but it's me/the victorian period
actually me, tho
nobody:
me: in the show crazy ex-girlfriend’s opening song, “west covina,” rebecca says that west covina is “the pride of the inland empire,” when, as rachel bloom attests in the live musical episode, west covina is not, in fact, part of the inland empire but the san gabriel valley. in the live musical episode, rachel adds that she “should have taken 5 seconds to google that before [she] wrote the first song of the television show.” however, rachel’s nïavity about the actual location of west covina lends to rebecca’s own cluelessness about west covina as demonstrated elsewhere in the same song in which claims that west covina is “only 2 hours from the beach” when it’s actually only 30mins from beaches such as long beach. neither rachel or rebecca understand the location that they’re singing about. in this essay, i will demonstrate that both rachel and rebecca’s cluelessness about the reality of west covina’s location creates a nuance in crazy ex-girlfriend’s locational specificity that makes jokes only accessible to people actually from southern california, and, in particular, the greater los angeles area’s suburbs. even within a show that speaks to misperceptions about the greater los angeles area, these locational nuances speak to a larger disillusionment about the location by those who live there and display the tension between those who see these suburbs from the outside and those who actually live there...
to be up front here: I’m a day late turning in one of my seminar papers and I might be later. Prioritize your mental health, people.
i picked some wildflowers on a walk the other day and they’re really brightening up my end-of-semester blues.
I am now (nearly) on my second mug of matcha of the day–which I switched to after I felt like I’d drank too much coffee. I’m trying to finally get this darn paper done that I told myself I would finish on Friday, but then my parents showed up and I did things with them (friends, parents visiting finals weekend is a very not good idea), so I didn’t get anything done. It was really nice to see them and show them around the area where I’m living (my mom also got me a gorgeous mug at the farmer’s market we stopped at), but now I’m in panic, I-need-to-finish-so-much mode.
Of course, NOW is the time my brain decides to come up with three good novel ideas. pro: almost summer. con: freaking focus, brain.
I am now (nearly) on my second mug of matcha of the day--which I switched to after I felt like I’d drank too much coffee. I’m trying to finally get this darn paper done that I told myself I would finish on Friday, but then my parents showed up and I did things with them (friends, parents visiting finals weekend is a very not good idea), so I didn’t get anything done. It was really nice to see them and show them around the area where I’m living (my mom also got me a gorgeous mug at the farmer’s market we stopped at), but now I’m in panic, I-need-to-finish-so-much mode.
it’s that time of the semester again 😴
my roommate’s cat looks so picturesque sitting on my desk.
I never shared this info, but I got an academic thing I applied for the other day!! which means I’m doing a thing in the summer that they’ll give me monies for!!
guys, I just realized that I have 3 weeks to complete 3 seminar papers. i’m going to die in writing purgatory. it was nice knowin’ ya.
a handful of french billionaires have pledged 600+ million euros for Notre Dame in less than 12 hours. let that put into perspective how easily billionaires could end world hunger, poverty, lack of access to healthcare/clean water/education but choose not to. 600+ million in twelve hours from just 3 people
I’ve seen people upset about the fact that this money could have been used elsewhere (yes. please help people have access to healthcare/clean water/education, etc.), but funding the arts is also important. I’m more concerned with the fact that these billionaires could have donated to Notre Dame’s restoration project beforehand. Notre Dame had a HUGE budget for their restoration project, that had been difficult to raise funds for. It’s also notable that it’s probably this same project that caused the fire. It’s possible that if they had these types of funds, the fire wouldn’t have been caused in the first place. But, as that second article points out, people only donate when things go wrong. We need to support projects to maintain these monuments, not just morn when they’re lost. This isn’t just limited to restoration projects of these monuments, but we need to give funds to help maintain and study any of these types of cultural landmarks (architecture, art, literature, music, etc.), or they will burn or whither away before future generations get to see or understand them.
After the burning of Notre Dame de Paris just a year after the burning of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro governments and people around the world really need to reconsider the treatment we’re giving cultural heritage.
I can’t find the whole excerpt now, but I once read a quote that said that, after all, the 21st century will be remembered for the greatest loss of human cultural heritage ever (including but not limited to the fact that 90% of languages are calculated will be extinct by the end of the century, the death of many other intangible cultural traditions), even though most people don’t give it much thought now.
It would seem that at least tangible, material heritage was safe. At least those buildings built on hard stone and which had been standing there for centuries. But apparently not even that. We aren’t managing to destin enough resources so that they can be well preserved and restored.
This is not the first time it happens and it will not be the last one either if things don’t change. Humans have made so many stunning achievements (in painting, architecture, literature, oral tradition, dance, philosophy, etc). It’s a responsibility to transmit these wonders to the future generations, and yet all kind of culture-related budgets are always way underfunded. We need a big change.
Great point ☝🏼
“the 21st century will be remembered for the greatest loss of human cultural heritage ever”
UNESCO world heritage sites include also natural landscapes and local food products, which are under the growing threat of climate change, so these issues are closely intertwined
THIS IS WHY THE HUMANITIES MATTER.
