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My several and diverse obsessions. And other things.

[jaielvis]

It's time for sun and sunflowers

[enchantedbook]

"Black Cat Dance" by J. DeLancey, 1916

[lonely-night]

Riot Women 🤨🌈❓ [2/?]

[laetitia-falco-lattea]

Where is my home? Watercolor on the paper. ⊹₊⟡⋆

Prints ♡ Instagram ♡ Patreon is open

[mybeingthere]

Diné Weaver Venancio Aragón

"From researching historic twill patterns in museum collections to dyeing wool with Kool-Aid, Diné (Navajo) weaver and instructor Venancio Aragón interlocks research and experimentation to expand the visual and technical vocabularies of Diné weaving. Working on the Diné upright loom, Aragón is part of a generation of Diné weavers who reinterpret ancestral knowledge through experimentation, carrying the medium forward on their own terms. As he stated in our interview with him, “I am not a purist.”

Based in Farmington, New Mexico, Aragón is trained in cultural anthropology and Native American and Indigenous studies, currently teaching at Diné College, the Navajo Nation’s tribal college. Before transitioning to full-time weaving and teaching, Aragón worked as an interpretive park ranger at the Mesa Verde, Aztec Ruins, Bandelier, and Petroglyph National Monuments, where he led tours and developed public education initiatives. He was born to the Tó’aheedlíinii (The Water Flow Together People) clan and born for the Naakaii (Mexican people). His maternal grandfather is of the Tsénahabiłnii (Sleeping Rock) clan, and his paternal grandfather is of the Naakaii (Mexican people)."

https://hyperallergic.com/dine-weaver-venancio-aragon.../...

[zoesupreme]

yeah idk man it might be time to throw everyones phones in a big smelting pot

[drchucktingle]

classic way

[ceruleanheaven]

religion is so fucking funny the world is just too beautiful there must be a higher entity behind all this. lets oppress women

[semperintrepida]

If you think of any worthwhile novel—its intersecting arcs, its intertwined themes and metaphors—no one is clever enough to do it. When you have crammed your head with data, you have to take your hands off and see what shapes the story forms. You must trust the process, and that can be difficult, because you have to quell anxiety; the task is to get out of your own way. I think this is true for all worthwhile fiction, not just historical fiction. At the centre of your work is an act of faith in the novel form. You employ what Keats called "negative capability"—you must endure doubt and follow paths without signposts.

—Hilary Mantel, in an interview with The Guardian

[loveboatinsanity]

[dubiousculturalartifact]

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

[anyroads]

Miss Piggy tied to the mast while Statler and Waldorf heckle her from the sea

[mindovermuses]

But who is the single human cast member in this tale? Who gets to put in an Oscar-worthy performance alongside the Muppets and what role are they to play?

[muffinflarp69]

There’s no single human, everyone is a Muppet except for one scene. Circe, played by Janice, turns Odysseus’s crew into humans who still behave animalistic and are all played by Academy Award winning actors.

[visenyaism]

Honestly fuck AI for making me have to go on and on defending the dignity of toil like I’m some kind of protestant

[kosmogrl]

[hiramslodge]

so truly genuinely we need to get more funding towards freaks and perverts to make weird horny movies and tv and art i would rather watch someone’s barely disguised fetish with an interesting point of view than another soulless corporate shell with boring beautiful actors and nothing to say

[ritualvirtuality]

from the Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh (Book of Cookery) written by Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq in the 10th century

[burins]

i loved this so much i did go find the book in question (Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyār Al-Warrāq's Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook, trans. Nawal Nasrallah.) it is 900 pages long, which is absolutely a delight for me.

mostly i wanted to find out what binn al-sakārij is– apparently a spread made with fermented bread, which sounds, frankly, delicious. right after this sandwich recipe is a chapter on the humoral properties of various fermented foods (binn is hot and dry.)

also i have delightful news for everyone about the number of poems in this book. medieval baghdad was Real big on poetry, particularly court poetry, and there was a lot of extemporaneous composing of odes on various subjects. here are a few of my favorites

this is just in the first 200 pages of the book. oh to be on a pleasure boat eating fava beans and listening to music!!!

[c-schroed]

I also went to find the book in question, and fortunately my university's library had indeed a copy! And not only do I now know how binn is made - from bread that is left to rot ferment for 40 days. And I might even try this one day, as soon as I find some ash to bury my salty bread in.

But until then, I have good news, as the glossary of Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens offers some nice life hack for everyone who does not have 40 days at hand:

One can just use Tahini. And you know what? I did just use Tahini.

And it was gorgeous.

Didn't really know what kind of bread to use, so I went with some simple Pita bread. And I also had little clue about the cheese, so I chose some mild turkish cheese. The rest of the recipe I could follow quite easily. And it was gorgeous, did I mention that before? Because it definitely was. It was gorgeous.

Slathering an egg yolk all over the sandwich. They had me at "Hello".

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

I wish sports betting apps could feel pain

[nemfrog]

Sleeping cats. Child's good night book. 1943. Margaret Wise Brown.

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