chères petits yeux noirs

camille // 24 // je suis cadienne //

[astrocorvus]

David Byrne is literally just a pipe cleaner in a big suit.

[cryotrash]

A true story from 1928 with a few artistic embellishments.

(And starring my disaster boys Jack and Al, of course)

[cajun-moon]

spike spiegel loving hours this fourth of july evening

[hakobe-art]

"A Sorrowful Mystery"

I have been meaning to do this piece for awhile now and I'm happy to see it finally finished.

[teathattast]

Brave little kitty

[ce1erywheat]

[heroofthreefaces]

poor girl must think she’s seeing the light of heaven

[hopepunk-humanity]

So I went to an art exhibit recently, a collection of Native American art from pre-colonial times to the present. As you might guess, there were a few pieces whose artist was lost to time or erased. But instead of the usual “artist unknown” credit, the curators instead chose to label the artists as “Name Once Known”.

I think that’s amazing. It says, “we don’t know your name any longer; we’ll never know who you were, exactly. But you were a person once, and you mattered. You had a name, and you were loved, you had a life, and you made this art. And that means something. Your name was once known.”

[calamitys-child]

The word garbage sounds like it should mean clothing

[fremedon]

It does! Or rather, it does come from garb. Garbage originally meant the small fabric scraps left over from tailoring–all the tiny bits that were too small to cut a pattern piece from.

Back when you generally bought fabric by the yard from a draper and then took it to a tailor to be made up, keeping the garbage was the tailor’s perquisite. Unscrupulous tailors were accused of deliberately cutting to maximize the garbage, which still had various uses in tailoring–as padding, or for backing buttons–and could also be sold for making paper.

[calamitys-child]

That is DELIGHTFUL information oh my god!!! Oh that’s my new favourite bit of trivia thank you so much

[chromaticabrasions]

if only there was a way to stop my back pain

[chromaticabrasions]

(this is me btw)

[woodrider]

Bruh this coffee I bought is so good I'm so fuckin alert rn I could probably do a math problem

[woodrider]

I don't know

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

soft reminders:

you have value even when you can’t get out bed.

you will always have inherent worth, unaffected by your level of functioning or productivity.

you are deserving of love, kindness and time.

you are worth the ‘burden’ of getting help and recovering.

[strawbee-png-deactivated2022080]

I was trying to explain Howl’s Moving Castle to my dad and what I ended up saying was “it’s about a wizard who makes his house walk around to avoid the draft” and that’s simultaneously not what it’s about at all and exactly what it’s about

[headspace-hotel]

Also people act like autistic people would have been, like, left in the woods to die or something as kids for most of history, but as i said i’m researching islamic saints and in both islam and christianity there’s an awful lot of just, like, “Yeah that guy decided to go live in a cave by himself and wore one (1) article of clothing and sometimes he would walk around and scream randomly, it meant he was closer to god than everybody else”

[headspace-hotel]

I’d have to research this, but I kinda feel that, what with how much the eugenics movement pervaded everything for a huge chunk of recent history, our narrative of how disability was for much of history has gotten a little warped.

I feel like I always heard “yeah they assumed people were possessed by demons Back Then” but actually researching religious history? I’ve found a lot more of people seeing a person showing signs of (what we would call) neurodivergence or mental illness and being like “hm. yea that’s god.”

[headspace-hotel]

It’s also definitely like…in the US anyway fundamentalism has absolutely decimated a lot of AWARENESS of what Christianity specifically can look like.

american evangelicalism is based a lot on Belief in your religion as axiomatic Fact and at the same time a very buddy-buddy view of god where Jesus is like, your cool dad. Both of which are not very good for allowing the numinous and divine “mystery” to exist

So I think we assume people throughout history would default to “things I don’t understand are of the devil.” when very often they would instead be “things I don’t understand are of God.”

and they would see someone speak in strange sounds or move his body strangely or respond differently to the world and see something divine in it, and there are instances of this across many religions

[headspace-hotel]

@invisibleoctopus There’s this fascinating book about the cultural aspects of how mental illness presents called Crazy Like Us by Ethan Watters that is not without its flaws, but that (among other things) discusses how schizophrenic people do significantly better in cultures where there’s a precedent/religious or spiritual explanation for people ‘hearing voices’ and such, because for one thing, they’re not treated as social outcasts for it. Those environments are better equipped to help and accommodate those people on the basis of being able to keep them integrated into a community. At least according to the Ethan Watters guy.

[grison-in-space]

The thing about imagining that autistic children would have been left to die for most of history is just… it’s so lazy. And it betrays a huge failure to understand what autism looks like for autistic people and what daily life looked like in history at the same time. It’s very frustrating.

There’s this weird idea that autistics only develop special interests in this very narrow stereotypical STEM-field domain of life, also, which is total nonsense. Of course religion autistics are a thing. Judaism, too, has a lot of room for autistics: you develop very deep spheres of knowledge, about which you argue constantly, and prayer is sung and you get to move back and forth during it rhythmically.

The other thing that gets me is that it’s not just that there’s historical room to interpret weird behavior as Godly, it’s that autistic people are relatively likely to come up with unusual ideas about people and how people do and should work. If you’re talking about any theological tradition that involves contextual study and argument, you often find a very autistic sort of perspective writing the theology.

[laylainalaska]

Also, just as a general data point: my stepdad, who is in his mid-70s, grew up in a rural farming community, and was never diagnosed with anything, is Obviously Autistic to anyone who knows what autism is.

He can only tolerate about 2 different fabrics against his skin.

And can only eat about 5 foods for obvious food texture reasons.

He hums softly and continually.

He never looks at people.

He has a bunch of other people-related sensitivities, like the inability to tolerate a lot of sounds and nearly all perfume smells.

He has about 3 topics of conversation, which are a) tractors, b) agriculture, and c) Rottweilers.

And you know what? He has had a nice long life of being a Rural Farmer and gets along great with other old farmer dudes who want to talk dogs-tractors-farming with him. 

I mean, it’s generally understood that he is Weird, but also that he knows Really A Fucking Lot About Tractors. Which counts for everything in a rural farming community.

[katiekeysburg]

It goes beyond lazy into a type of downright cruelty.   No matter how autistic people did or did not fit into their communities in the past, chances are someone loved them.  When they were little, someone found the clothes they could tolerate and food they would eat and something they could do that matched their interests and abilities.   And people married some of them and had children with them.    Maybe not all of them, but some of them at least were loved.   

We know this because archeology shows over and over again a great level of care and because these traits are still present - they had to get passed on somehow.  And we know it because we too feel love for others, despite them constantly failing to live up to any ideal whatsoever.

Anyone who approaches other people with this attitude is only seeking to perpetuate an excuse to be cruel to them.  It has nothing to do with what happened in the past and everything to do with what they hope they can get away with in the future.  They discount the love that must have existed because it can’t be used against us.

[transmasc-wizard]

rb this and tell me what ur accent is. this has no purpose except the fact i just realized i could have like… mutuals with cockney accents or newfoundland accents or something and thats just wild

[southfarthing]

the one dimensional woobification of faramir & girlbossification of eowyn is my villain origin story actually

[southfarthing]

faramir didn't perform so many shrewd and heroic deeds and literally blame boromir's death on his own father only to be treated like a poor abandoned puppy in desperate need of love and affection and eowyn didn't say she wanted to be a healer and love things that grow only to be treated like she's only interesting when she has a sword and she's trying to die valiantly in battle because she can't see a better path for herself

[cajun-moon]

the mortifying ordeal of logging on to tumblr for the first time in like a year and trying to figure out who’s who because half of the people you follow changed their url. who are you people

[whispering-roses-deactivated202]

Illustrations for Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese by Margaret Armstrong, 1902.

[evilsanlang]

ermine stoat weasel mink ferret polecat the genus mustela just keeps on giving

[i-am-fert]

you go girls!!!