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adult woman, marxist, library patron. asoiaf blog

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It will crinkle up even more after wet finishing but I finished!

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wet finishing today!!! I wove in all my ends as I went AND hemstitched each end on the loom so I only had to weave in a single (1) thread with a tapestry needle and then straight to the soaking bucket. WHAT A RELIEF. I do enjoy how each project I learn how to make life easier for myself

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Girl photographed by Hugh Magnum c. 1909

Magnum’s photographs are notable for their informality, which was unusual for the period. I just adore the series of this girl, she’s such a beauty.

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new dream motifs are unveiling themselves which is quite disorienting, I've had a pretty regular dream ecosystem for the last 5 years or so and now I'm quite literally on completely different land

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Videos of babies tasting lemon for the first time are so funny but unethical so the next best thing is videos of adults tasting their first martini

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It will crinkle up even more after wet finishing but I finished!

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Hemstitching on the loom is soooo satisfying look at my adorable little bundles

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Cortadito to lock in for the final weaving class of the summer

[marenostrum-ac-dc]

The eye of a marble statue from Herculaneum, with surviving paint. Roman before 79 AD.  

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My most "classic" psychoanalysis experience is the time I was walking into analysis and thought I saw a lost dog in the forest next to where my sessions are so I texted my analyst that I was in the gully trying to get to this lost dog and asked if she would help, and so she comes out and we go tramping in the woods trying to find the dog so it doesn't end up hurt or running into traffic. Well, turns out it was a coyote.

[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s so fresh and cutting-edge that you think freud was full of shit. oh and also a pervert? groundbreaking. would you by any chance describe his work as oversexualized? dangerous? degenerate? interesting interesting. on a scale from one to jeopardizing the souls of the german people please rate the contributions of sigmund freud.

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In layman’s terms, an epiphany is a eureka moment. But in literary art, we associate epiphany primarily with the short story form rather than with the novel, and most particularly with James Joyce. In Joyce’s stories, the epiphanic moment is not usually a moment of understanding, however, but one that introduces a shift of perspective. A kind of partial turn. It’s more often a disclosure that knowledge itself is precarious. Some meaning may arise, precipitating the ending, but it does not mean closure. The word epiphany itself comes from the Koine Greek word ἐπιφάνεια, epipháneia, meaning manifestation or appearance, derived from the verb φαίνειν, phainein, meaning to appear. It is usually applied in Ancient Greek contexts to three things: the first is dawn, the second is the appearance of an enemy army, and the third is the manifestation of a deity. The third one is obviously what led to its use in the Bible and subsequently provided the meaning that the Catholic-born James Joyce subverted, detheologizing it in his writing. But it’s the first two—dawn, and the appearance of the enemy army—that are interesting to me, because they suggest something appearing beyond the horizon, beyond the field of vision that your subject position allows, with the revelation of threat and light.

Isabella Hammad, Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

[kata4a]

Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so, And spedde as wel in love as men now do.

chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde c. 1380

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glossary: eek also and even tho at the time prys great value wonder a cause for astonishment nyce stupid spedde succeeded

You know the form of language, too, can change. Within a thousand years, even the words that were most precious then, seem strange and foolish to us; yet they spoke them so and did no worse in love than we now do.

[aura-eden]

Jan van Eyck, The Annunciation, detail - 1435

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Tanizaki’s body of work is a prolonged and intense examination of erotic obsession and ruination then he pauses from that to write a beautifully moving reflection on sisterhood and growing up as everything around you changes and the specter of war and fascism looms and then he goes back to the foot fetish stuff it’s really so incredible

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Henri Matisse, La Blouse roumaine, April 1940

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sometimes the ancient, crumbling, ivy-covered mansion with sprawling wings and hallways that lead to nowhere and a falling-down tower that's been boarded up as long as anyone can remember is a 900 sq ft 2 bedroom apartment that was built in the 1970s. and the ghost haunting it is a very alive 19 year old cat :-) and his name is Smokey!