relentless

25 • he/him These are reblogs and random musings.

[professor-winter]

ɢᴏᴅ ꜰᴏʀʙɪᴅ ᴀ ᴍᴀɴ ꜰᴀʟʟꜱ ɪɴ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛꜱ

[time-incantation]

when I think about you…

(1998), directed by Mike Smith, based on the illustrations of Yoshitaka Amano, and inspired by the Tales of 1001 Nights.

[shisasan]

Roberto Ferri, L’Amore La Morte E Il Sogno, 2017, detail

[shisasan]

Tennessee Williams, The Selected Letters Volume I: 1920–1945

[dnlfelix]

Oh, how I miss when hoping was so easy.

And oh, how I wish hoping could still be easy.

[animentality]

[ryan-sometimes]

It’s so sad that students are now relying so heavily on AI for writing essays because they’re missing out on the best part of writing an essay which is when you’re a few paragraphs in and you just reach that flow state where your thought process becomes one with the essay and you’re slamming the keys so hard that you’re on the verge of destroying your laptop. I used to get high off of that shit

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[cadejpeg]

here’s a list of opinions I have of random more niche animes ☺️ (plz be nice) also tell me ur opinions i’m nosy!!

[somerabbitholes]

some essays to fill your time

Just a bunch of things I've read recently.

The Authoritarian Roots of India's Democracy by Tripurdaman Singh

Why is Everything So Ugly?

Casual Viewing by Will Tavlin

“You are Next”: Unmarried Urban Women in India and the “Marriage Talk” by Shilpa Phadke

Crossing Days by Thomas Dai

Inside the Indian Manosphere by Lhendup Bhatia

Optimism and Desperation by Camilla Grudova

Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College by James Walsh

Blunt-Force Ethnic Credibility by Som-Mai Nguyen

When My Authentic is Your Exotic by Soniah Kamal

The discontent of Russia by Joy Neumeyer

On anti-political projects by Kat Rosenfield

'Correcting' historical wrongs is a slippery slope by Manu Pillai

[somerabbitholes]

some more:

Social media and the collapse of ritual

Where are Lucy's friends in Materialists?

Sociologism Literature by Harry Schiller

Passion and Palestine by Derek Penslar

New TV Novels by Lisa Borst

From Progress to Catastrophe by Perry Anderson

The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser

The Trouble with Friends by Weike Wang

[somerabbitholes]

and more:

Is There a God-Shaped Hole at the Heart of Mathematics?

How China Carved up Myanmar

How the Left misread Gramsci

Wildness: Feminism, identity, and the willingness to be defeated

There are no pure cultures

The desperation of the Instagram photo dump

Rethinking maps

[coolthingoftheday]

Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare.

[jumpingjacktrash]

the reason it’s rare is because without chlorophyll, the plant can’t get energy, and dies shortly after sprouting unless it has some other source of food. so if you see a plant as big as the one in the picture that doesn’t have any green in its leaves, it’s getting its nutrition from the roots of a neighboring plant of the same species, feeding on the sugars created by the other plant’s photosynthesis.

albino plants are basically vampires.

[heywetotheotherworld]

For a long time, scientists thought they were parasites, and couldn’t figure out why the bigger plants didn’t release chemicals to kill them.

Turns out, the lil’ ghost redwoods benefit their hosts by filtering toxins and acting as a sort of backup immune system.

They’re vampires, and they’re commensal, symbiotic mutualists!

[carnivalseb]

this is super cool! I had no idea

[monticellomarshmallow]

This is among the coolest things I’ve ever seen.

[weaselle]

we’ve already discovered forests where trees share nutrients with young or disadvantaged trees and forests where trees can ask their neighbors for some extra food (they literally send a signal requesting aid, via the web of fungus that connects their roots) and forests where surrounding tees will keep a tree alive even when it has been reduced to a stump through some tragedy…

so, while i love the playfulness of “vampire” and i commend the specificity of “commensal, symbiotic mutualists” i think it’s worth considering, at this point, if “member of the community” might not be at least as apt

[waneella]

Silent Night

2022

From Patreon archive

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[waneella]

Two moons

2021

[soranatus]

Short comic by John Cullen! Jorge Jiménez is winning in the “art vs. artist” challenge.

[dankmemeuniversity]

[wwwaaalllllp]

[dnlfelix]

Tired

I often reblogged other people's posts. Starting today, maybe I can use this space as a way to talk about my life. I know not a lot of people care, but there's no harm in it. This is one of the few internet profiles I have that are detached from my complete identity, so that helps.

Life has been getting more tiring each day. I started getting therapy, but the hurt goes much more than that. The news is depressing, too. I feel like I've been on edge for so long that I don't know how to relax.

[tomorrowusa]

Nobel Peace Laureates are not Only Journalists – They are Champions of Democracy

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 was awarded jointly to journalists on different continents.

Maria Ressa is co-founder of the Philippines news site Rappler. At a time Philippine authoritarian President Rodrigo Duterte was trying to hide his excesses and corruption from voters, Ms. Ressa was fearlessly shining a spotlight on them despite the danger to herself.

Dmitry Muratov is the editor-in-chief and founder of the Russian paper Novaya Gazeta (Новая газета). Mr. Muratov has exposed human rights abuses and corruption in Putin’s Russia. Mr. Muratov is also in danger because of his work. One of his colleagues was assassinated in 2006.

Rappler is mostly in English and maintains high journalistic standards. With the term-limited Duterte leaving office in mid 2022, this would be a good time to start following Philippine politics. The Presidential election takes place in May.

Rappler

Novaya Gazeta is published in Russian. From my fragmentary knowledge of the language I can see how they would annoy corrupt authoritarians.

Новая Газета

Both Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov stand as examples to journalists around the world. Where there is a free press, authoritarians cannot fully triumph.