[lelif]

grieving the person you used to be

marian keyes// ?// bigger than the whole sky, taylor swift// fiona apple// @inkskinned// would've, could've, should've, taylor swift// father, the front bottoms// @inanotherunivrse// ?// memento mori, crywank// @dakotajohnsongf// @ryebreadgf// quote: deathless, catherynne m. valente edit:? // bojack horseman s6 e16// a pearl, mitski// would've, could've,should've, taylor swift// ?// ?// ?// @heavensghost

[manticoreimaginary]

It doesn’t look that exciting, but this linen is from the New Kingdom (ca. 1492–1473 B.C.)

Thinking about it for too long makes me feel absolutely insane.

[manticoreimaginary]

The description on The Met includes the line ‘The cloth was repaired and laundered in ancient times’ and that also makes me feel light-headed.

It’s so beautiful and so simple and so so old

[arpeggia]

Andrew Moore - Room 348, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (top); Restoration Room, St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (bottom), 2000-2004

[realfits]

Anna Brown Ehlers (right) and her art, made using Chilkat weaving techniques. Ehlers is Tlingit, born and raised in Juneau

h/t twitter.com/womensart1

[blatantescapism]

Chilkat weaving is the absolute pinnacle of fiber art, and Anna Brown Ehlers is *the* master weaver.

Japan has a system where skilled traditional craftspeople and performers are recognized as “Living National Treasures”. These are people who have mastered their art and ensure that traditional techniques are kept alive and passed on. The tangible objects they create are masterpieces of great value, but their intangible skills and knowledge are priceless. It is a great honor to be a Living National Treasure, and the Japanese government has a specific grant to subsidize these artists so that they can continue to create and enrich the culture of Japan.

Indigenous artists deserve this level of recognition and support. Anna Brown Ehlers and Jennie Thlunaut were both awarded heritage fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, but that is really insufficient recognition for the work they’ve done to preserve and revive and teach the art of Chilkat weaving. Not only the weaving technique, but also the art of formline design itself.

I have very strong emotions on this topic.

[holdoncallfailed]

me when i'm on the schoolbus at 6:43AM listening to fake plastic trees on my ipod touch and thom yorke says "it wears her out.......it wears her out" in the saddest most exhausted-sounding voice and i'm fully convinced i'm being crushed by the entire weight of the world and all human suffering because i'm in the seventh grade

[justscotland-deactivated2021011]

Scotland

[hedgehog-moss]

I like to think there is a parallel universe where reading comment sections is known as a soothing pastime because everyone on the parallel Internet is as kind and polite as the commenters on yourdailypoem.com:

[pervocracy]

After you’ve been steeped in online culture for a while, it’s genuinely hard to summon up the vulnerability and honesty to leave comments like this.  But it’s worth doing when you see something that you love, or that speaks to a good part of yourself.

[birdblogwhichisforbirds-deactiv]

tag yourself I’m “So easy to picture this wonderful bird!”

[cmdalaigh]

“Even if you come home late and I’m already asleep, just whisper in my ear one little thought you had today. Because I love the way you look at the world. And I’m so happy I get to be next to you and look at the world through your eyes.”

— Theodore Twombly, Her (via suspend)

[businesshag-deactivated20160606]

[romanhollliday]

The Bathing Pool, c. 1753. Hubert Robert

[cmdalaigh]

“People who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book  (via wordsnquotes)

[lgbt-history-archive]

“RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD.,” suffrage activist, Washington, D.C., c. 1917. Photo c/o @librarycongress. #HavePrideInHistory #WomensMarch #Sunday (at Washington, District of Columbia)

[mulletlove-deactivated20200811]

[gahdamnpunk]

American Girl stories were the best tbh

[that-catholic-shinobi]

Dude, read the books, she and her mom freed themselves in Book 1. We don’t disrespect American Girl in this house

[allthefandomss]

Don’t you dare disrespect Addy, or any of my girls for that matter. American Girl used to be legit. Good stories, good dolls, good movies.

[smugkoalas]

Felicity’s story was set in the beginnings of the American Revolution, and addressed the conflict that she faced when her loved ones were split between patriots and loyalists. It also covered the effects of animal abuse, and forgiving those who are unforgivable.

Samantha’s stories centered around the growth of industrial America, women’s suffrage, child abuse, and corruption in places of power. Also, it emphasises how dramatically adoption into a caring family can turn a life around.

Kit’s story is one of my favorites. Her family is hit hard by the Great Depression, and they begin taking in boarders and raise chickens to help make ends meet. Her books include themes of poverty, police brutality, homelessness, prejudice, and the importance of unity in difficult times.

Molly’s father, a doctor, is drafted during the Second World War. Throughout her story, friends of hers suffer the loss of their husbands, sons, and brothers overseas. Her mother leaves the traditional housewife position and works full-time to help with the war effort. They also take in an English refugee child, who learns to open up after a life of traumatic experience.

American Girl stories have always featured the very harsh realities of America through the years. But they’re always presented honestly, yet in ways that kids can understand. They just go to show that you don’t have to live in a perfect time to be a real American girl.

[chaos-in-the-making]

Dont you fucking dare disrespect the American Girls in my house. ESPECIALLY Addy!! That was my first REAL contact with the horrors of slavery, as I read about her father being whipped and sold and her mother escaping with her to freedom, but also how freedom was still a struggle.

A slave doll. Please. Read the books.

[ironwoman359]

Don’t forget Kirsten, the Swedish immigrant who had to deal with balancing her own culture and learning the english language and customs of her classmates, or Kaya (full name Kaya'aton'my, or She Who Arranges Rocks) , the brave but careless girl from the Nez Perce tribe, or Josefina, the Mexican girl learning to be a healer.

And then there are the later dolls, that kids younger than me would have grown up with (I was just outgrowing American Girl as these came out), like Rebecca, the Jewish girl who dreams of becoming an actress in the budding film industry, or  Julie, who fights against her school’s gender policy surrounding sports in the 70s, or  Nanea, the Hawaiian girl whose father worked at Pearl Harbor.

These books, these characters, are fantastic pictures into life for girls in America throughout the years, they pull no punches with the horrors that these girls had to face in their different time periods, and in many cases I learned more history from these series than social studies at school. And that’s without even mentioning the “girl of the year” series where characters are created in the modern world to help girls deal with issues like friend problems, moving, or bullying. We do NOT disrespect American Girl in this house.

[thatkindofwoman]

“How do I stop carrying everything that has ever happened to me?”

— Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak (via buttonpoetry)

[humansofnewyork]

“Clammy hands.  I’ve always had clammy hands.  Can’t help it.  It’s a medical condition. You could be the nicest person in the world, but the moment you feel these wet hands, you’re going to make a face.  People always ask if I’m nervous.  Women wipe their hands on their jeans after meeting me.  High school was brutal.  It was like walking around with permanent peed pants.  My boys wouldn’t let it die.  Now I’m the assistant director at a middle school, and those eighth graders have a lot of jokes.  They spend a lot of time on the internet so they know some gross shit.   But I try to turn it into a teachable moment.  I tell them that I never let the hand thing hold me back.  Never let it steal my thunder.  Never got shots.  Never got Botox.  Don’t even use the organic chemicals that my sister got me.  I’m the wet hands man.  It’s my superpower.  Ever need to lick your finger to open a zip lock bag?  Don’t worry about it.  Just give it to me.”

[installator]

“30 August 1898, Rembrandt’s Night Watch is transported from the Rijksmuseum to the Stedelijk Museum ….” (arthistoriesroom.wordpress.com)