Omidă

the general strangeness of things. Mostly just use this space to (re)blog art, photography, quotes, articles, and the occassional stray thoughts and observations. Not really a fandom kind of person. *Generic disclaimer that I will insta-block any blogs promoting racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia/TERFism, Zionism, and edgelord contrarianism etc etc etc*

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[buxina]

The part about it being envisioned specifically as a "village" is relevant, I think, in that these kinds of people romanticize small rural villages as this ideal form of close-knit community to which we must retvrn, in contrast to the hard, alienating city life. But I'd argue that sure, dense urban environments can be alienating in certain ways, but they're also in many ways more utopian simply in that they force people to learn to peacefully co-exist as a community with others very different from themselves. The rural village appears to live in idyllic consensus because everyone who did not fit in has either been ostracized away, worn down into conformity, or has voluntarily fled to the nearest big city as soon as they were old enough.

[buxina]

The annoying part about having secretly rich friends is that you find out they're secretly rich when they invite you to their lavish parent-funded wedding and casually expect you to spend a small fortune just to attend.

[despazito]

I don't have time for tumblr discourse they're calling the very hungry caterpillar degenerate art over on twitter

[despazito]

good art is when something looks like real life, the more real it looks the more better the art. abstracted figures give my trad children nightmares, one time they were exposed to cubism and couldn't go outside for a week

[buxina]

I think one thing that became very clear to me as I got older and really clarified my politics is that, unfortunately, most people do not want to live in a more just world. They want to live in a more narratively satisfying world. And If more people suffer in that world, it's justified in the service of the narrative.

[sivavakkiyar]

you’ve gotta give bolaño props for this opening

[buxina]

I was altering some clothing with my sewing machine today, then took a break for dinner. Finished some leftover wine with my meal, but then realized I was a bit drunk and that I'm too intoxicated to operate machinery. So my sewing project is officially postponed. I don't know why this is so funny to me.

[thirdity]

“Without the reading, there is no possibility of writing worth the name, skillful, creative, or otherwise.”

— Samuel R. Delany, “On Creativity and Academic Writing”

[thunderstruck9]

Kingsley Dzade (Ghanaian, 1989), Can’t Wait, 2024. Oil on canvas, 152 x 152 cm.

[captain-price-returns]

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Lydia Pettit

[lilkakow]

Valley of the village of Vaga. Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1985.

[vieneinpace]

William Etty's Male Nude, with Arms Up-Stretched (1828) revamped by Astra Zero

[journoeil]

what bothers me most about Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights is the discourse that continues to be propagated (often by women themselves!) that because it was written by a woman, the novel must reflect the kind of relationship the author secretly dreamed of, that she was quirky, dark, perhaps secretly romantic in a morbid way. if it had been written by a man, everyone would say: “oh, the author is analyzing toxic relationships through these characters. he’s criticizing them.” it always bothered me that Brontë was immediately branded as a weird lovelorn woman, when in reality there is not much in her biography to attest to that. she was just a very intelligent writer who thought about a very intelligent subject like any of her male counterparts.

the canon always sees men as universal observers and geniuses who undertake social studies, but when it comes to women, they are reduced to being mere subjective chroniclers of interiority, supposedly recording their personal romantic fantasies.

many novels contain a romantic thread. among other things, Wuthering Heights opens with one. but most of the book is about revenge, cruelty, trauma, inheritance, generational damage etc. and yet, because it was written by a woman, only the love story is treated as significant.

if Wuthering Heights had been written by, say, F. Scott Fitzgerald, critics would likely praise the ruthless anatomy of obsession. I am just so sick of this. I sure would love to see the day when The Great Gatsby is marketed as the greatest love story ever told, overflowing with loose erotic scenes, rather than the highbrow social critique it’s usually presented as. the idea that women write “from emotion” while men write “from intellect” is still too deeply sedimented in how we talk about art.

[pierrotsoup]

This is the most beautiful picture I have ever seen .. bowhead whale why you got the eyes of an antique polychrome Buddha statue ... Just like wow

[hexjulia]

by Steven J. Kazlowski: "The eye of a massive 48 foot 8 inch bowhead whale Balaena mysticetus caught by Inupiaq subsistence whalers during spring whaling season Chukchi Sea off the coastal arctic village of Barrow Alaska. Whalers can tell the age of a whale by the number of rings in its eye much like the rings of a tree"

[inganikki]

First tweet: “I saw a piece of fabric? on the floor of my room so I went to pick it up but it was actually the moonlight that entered through the window lmao”

Quote RT: “1000 years ago this would have been a poem, not a tweet”

[buxina]

I get so irritated with people who earnestly believe that any interpersonal conflict can be solved with healthy communication. Even in the best case scenario where both parties are approaching each other with good will, some tensions are simply irreconcilable because you're different people who inhabit different worlds and the cost of trying to breach that gulf can be more than it's worth. It just is what it is.

[tearsofrefugees]

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

[hagiomoto]

I wanted to point out that both Google and Apple have already erased the names of those villages from Lebanon’s maps, and they should be held in contempt for it.