we made wings of our oars

for the mad flight.

[xenaslayerofgods]

[questionabletastetheatre]

The show about two people who altered the fate of the world.

[yesterdaysprint]

The Illustrated Book of Manners: A Manual of Good Behavior and Polite Accomplishments, 1866

[archatlas]

Tiny Intricate Treehouses for Houseplants

Los Angeles–based artist Jedediah Corwyn Voltz is a prop-maker for TV and film by day who has a charming side business making tiny treehouses for potted bonsai trees, cacti, and succulents.

“Building miniatures for stop motion always leaves me with a huge bin of scrap balsa, basswood, various fabrics, etc. and I found myself making little fantasy constructions out of that stuff during my downtime,” Voltz told The Slate in an email. “Those little scrap forts led to me building some more serious ones in little diorama settings, and last year I built my first living treehouse.”

The tiny treehouses will be on display (and for sale) at L.A.’s Virgil Normal starting April 23. Voltz is available for commissions in L.A. and is developing DIY miniature treehouse-making kits that he hopes to make available next year. Check out more of his work here.

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[judedoyle]

Progressive

Let’s start, this time, with a story. This is about Hillary Clinton – everything I write seems to be about her these days – but it’s about me, too. It’s about what it means, to be a feminist, or a woman on the left, and whether it matters. So before I get to her, let’s give you a good look at me. 

I’m at a job interview. It seems like I actually have a shot at this one. Someone who likes me knows the boss here, and has talked me up to him in person. I can show him my most recent performance review, in which I’m described as “a joy to work with,” that “my editors fight over who gets to edit my pieces,” and where the “places for improvement” section mentions they actually have to “wrack their brains for something I could do better.” I’ve come prepared to talk about my strong, built-in reader base, which I built from the ground up; the fact that I’ve led several social media campaigns that received national or international press attention and raised substantial funds, one of which was enthusiastically endorsed by several pro-choice members of Congress; my award for social media activism, from a prestigious women’s media organization, which I won by popular vote; the fact that I wind up at or near the top of my magazine’s “most-read” traffic list every time I publish a new piece.

I can mention other things, basic work-ethic things. I can mention that I have not voluntarily taken a vacation day or a sick day for the past 18 months, and that the last sick day I took was only because I was hospitalized. (I do have to take the day off on federal holidays, but on those days, I usually write for fun.) I can mention that I have never been late filing a piece. I can mention that the copy comes in clean, doesn’t require much editing, and gets turned around quickly, with maximum co-operation. I can talk about all that, at my job interview. Those are the questions I’m prepared to answer.

I’m not prepared for the question they ask.

“We’re a progressive site,” the man across the table begins, “And our readership, as with most progressive sites, is mostly men. You’ve focused a lot on women’s issues. Would you be comfortable writing something that men would be able to read?”

Keep reading

[svaartpractice]

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Franz Kafka  (via svaartpractice)

THIS.

as I write about and research obsession, I have also begun to encourage and feed obsession amongst my students— I prefer the term monomania to obsession,as it speaks more to a specific mania- single-mindedness. The ability to be single minded in a society built for the plural or the hyper is a kind of super power… at the least it is a dynamic and powerful catalyst, obsession/monomania, fueled by failure is the engine of more

(via sevenknotwind)

[winter-capricorn]

[theladyintweed]

Tiaras that once belonged to mary, Duchess of Roxburghe 

[elizavieta]

Books I have read since Christmas

3. The Assassination of the Archduke, by Greg King and Sue Woolmans

2. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, by Carrie Brownstein

1. The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro.

[elizavieta]

Books I have read since Christmas

Someone suggested that I keep a list of books I read during the upcoming year and it’s not a terrible idea and this tumblr is sitting around near-to-unused these days so:

2. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, by Carrie Brownstein

1. The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro.

[ceciliewriteswords]

Somewhere a teenage girl is making a street corner holy by promising To the brick and the pigeons that she will never love again. Never, in a million years, ever. She pounds into the bricks with her shaking fist. This is also an altar, this is also an offering. And the next year, her mouth will taste like sacrilege.

Streetlight Blessing - Cecilie K (via ceciliewriteswords)

[atlasobscura]

Harvington Hall

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests

[weirdvintage]

“A threatened woman wields her bumbershoot against a masher.  Here she is deftly “Stopping a blow aimed at the face,”  Swinging the umbrella up, she jabs the ruffian’s jaw.  Alternatively, she finishes him off with a well-aimed kick to the knee.“– Around the turn of the 20th century, single young women were joining the workforce as "lady typewriters.”  But being around men outside the home caused need for self-defense manuals that depicted moves such as the one above.  (From This Fabulous Century: 1900-1910, scanned by weirdvintage)

[elizavieta]

Prague of a hundred towers with the fingers of all the saints with the fingers of perjury... with the burning fingers of women lying on their backs... with the fingers that touch the stars... with the fingers of a windmill and a lilac bush... with the fingers of the rain, cut off, and the Tyn cathedral on the glove of the dawns

Vitezslav Nezval, City of Towers

[atlasobscura]

Metelkova

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat

[visual-poetry]

by maria anwander (+)

[mrstallis]

[in-the-middle-of-a-daydream]

Keira Knightley as Anna Karenina (2012)

[ge3ksquadgangbang]

Sarah Silverman is visited by Jesus Christ

[narputo]

This is one of the best responses to men against abortion ever

[anyroads]

Reblogging again because hi