Martin Van Maële (1863-1926), ‘La Revenant’, “Les Fleur Du Mal” by Charles Baudelaire, 1917

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Martin Van Maële (1863-1926), ‘La Revenant’, “Les Fleur Du Mal” by Charles Baudelaire, 1917
Aliens: Wow you guys sure are completely normal and not at all indescribably horny.
NASA *beating the alien fuckers with a broom*: Yep. Just a completely normal species. no inappropriate lusting for extraterrestrial booty here, no sir.
[ID: reply by lusciouslusus that reads,
“We zoom out slightly to reveal the aliens are ALSO beating their own alien-fuckers away with a space-broom.”
End ID]
As an asexual, I vibe with NASA on this one. It’s… a metaphor.
I don’t. Let them out
Now THIS is art. 😍
“When I first saw the original painting, I began to do some research on that little boy. I could find everything I wanted about every other detail in the painting, but there was nothing about him. No history. And so I wanted to find a way to imagine a life for this young man that the historical painting had never made space for in the composition: his desires, dreams, family, thoughts, hopes. Those things were never subjects that the original artist wanted the viewer to contemplate. In order to reframe the discussion, I decided to physically take action to quiet [and crumple] the side of the painting that we’ve been talking about for a very long time and turn up the volume on this kid’s story. And that’s the reason why I started that painting.” Via Artnet News 2019/03/27
🎠Year of the Horse🎠
saw an Online Man (tm) whining that he went into Barnes and Noble for the first time in years and it was all romantasy catering to stupid icky women and it’s like, dude. Do you need me to take your large, soft hands in mine and explain in itty-bitty, dulcet words HOW THE FUCK CAPITALISM WORKS???
And like, not to argue with a dude who isn't here, but does he understand how SHELVES work?! Because I also went into a Barnes and Noble recently, and while yes, there were romantasy shelves and displays, John Grishom alone took up almost a section. Manly man books about manly men doing man things in a manly way with their manly manness are still available. They still get PRINTED. Romantasy is an "also" not an "instead of."
this just in, a local man lost in front of the romantasy bookshelf, refuses to ask for directions. more at 11
crazy how the printer is the only piece of tech that acts up like that almost every day of its life. and we just accept it
i don't think i've ever met a printer that actually wanted to be a printer. i think most printers have dreams of being on the stage
I met a printer early in my IT career that did not want to be a printer. it sat in a school reprographics room, sullenly chewing any job it was fed - if it deigned to notice them at all.
then one day, a miracle occurred. an exhausted physics teacher, instead of punching in 12 for the number of copies she wanted of the 30-page booklet she had made for her A-level physics class, punched in 1200.
and that printer came to life. this print job was its moment, its magnum opus! it WOULD NOT be parted from it, no matter what we did, until we physically unplugged it from the wall, by which time it had printed almost 200 copies.
moral of the story: no printer wants to be a printer, unless you also do not want it to be a printer for a bit.
printers do not want to be printers because they want to be problems
printers do not want
to be printers because they
want to be problems
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Daedalus and Icarus, Detail.
by Orazio Riminaldi, (c. 1625)
recollections
when i was younger and stupid and in the (glass) closet i was dating the son of a pharmacologist. this man had made millions developing medications. he was fond of me and privately told me i was too funny and smart to be dating boys.
he also said that it was incredibly unlikely that sexism will ever be resolved in the medical field. that the majority of medications i will ever take - even some of which are "for women" - will not be clinically tested on my body.
the problem, he said, was in getting any human clinical trial approved. to test on a body with a uterus - any body, even elderly patients or those who have been sterilized - was often nigh-impossible, because the concern was that the test patient may, at any point, become pregnant. once/if the patient became pregnant, the study would not be about "the effects of New Medication on the body." instead, the trial would fail - the results would be "the effects of New Medication on a developing fetus/pregnant patient."
it was massively easier, he said, to just test without accounting for a uterus. that's how he phrased it - accounting for a uterus.
at the time, i remember him talking about the ethical implications of testing on a developing fetus; how such testing could theoretically bankrupt a company if a lawsuit was filed. he talked about informed consent and about how long it took for any legislation to be passed about this - that in 1993; the year i was born, it finally became illegal to outright exclude women and minorities from clinical trials.
i remember him shrugging. "that's not to say it doesn't happen," he said. my ears were ringing.
i was thinking about how every time i have been rushed to the ER, the first thing they have asked me is if i am pregnant. when i broke my wrist at 16 years old - despite never having had sex - they made me wait three hours for the test to come back negative before they gave me pain meds. the possibility of a child haunts my health.
how many people have died on the table because they were waiting for the pregnancy test before treatment. how many people have died on the table because they were pregnant, and the only thing we care about is the fetus.
it is hard to explain to other people, but it feels like some kind of strange ghost. our entire lives, we are supposed to "save" our bodies for our future partners. but really we are just saving the body for the future child, aren't we? that hovering future-almost that cartwheels around in a miasma. you can't get your tubes tied, what if you change your mind? think of the child you must have, eventually.
who cares about you and your actual safety. think about what you could be carrying.
Like the weapons of the previous century we too would become obsolete, pity because I lived for it
UNDERWORLD (2003)
Bothersome beast, comforting friend
the jewel book of anna of bavaria
pages from the kleinodienbuch (jewel book), an illuminated inventory of the jewelry owned by duke albert v. and duchess anna of bavaria. illuminated by hans mielich in munich, c. 1552-55
source: Munich, BSB, Cod.icon. 429
The Cobra Queen by Sanjulian (Manuel Perez Clemente)
I will forever die on the hill that one of Florence's biggest influences and inspirations (and very rarely acknowledged because most music journalists don't see past the rigid boxes they put artists on) is Loreena Mckennitt. From the aesthetics, to the voice, the vibe, the music. They are truly mother and daughter. The arrangements of the recently released Chamber Edition of Everybody Scream just prove my point.
If you don't know Loreena check her entire discography because she is truly one of the greats, of all time.