Earthshine

I want to hang your name up in the corner of the room Like a rich cloak that stuns heavy in its beauty Like a secret that everyone has seen But yet belongs to me to speak of first ———— 💙

[uservik]

- v. hugo

[heedra]

really losing my patience for any 'feminist' statement to the tune of 'we need feminism because women fill a fundamentally different and necessary role than men and will be better at doing x y or z'. like actually i think we need feminism because it is an unbearable death of the spirit by inches to exist in a world where you are not seen as a fully realized human being because of a single cultural determination, and because a world that enshrines such things creates systems that are fundamentally sick to the core

[liberalsarecool]

"That’s what makes Zohran Mamdani’s election in New York so unsettling to the old order. New York City is not just another municipality; it’s a sovereign-scale entity. Its population surpasses 38 states. Its metropolitan GDP trails only Texas and California.

It is, by any metric, a small country masquerading as a city.

It governs more lives and more wealth than most nations. If democratic socialism — housing reform, public banking, equitable taxation — functions here, it obliterates the myth that such governance can’t work at scale. The fear isn’t ideological. It’s empirical. Because if Mamdani can keep the lights on, reduce homelessness, and maintain economic growth without catering to Wall Street, then the capitalist gospel collapses under its own dead weight.

What terrifies the establishment isn’t failure. It’s feasibility.

If it works in New York, there’s no reason it can’t work in Nebraska. If it works in Queens, it can work in Kansas City. And once proof exists, belief becomes irrelevant. The ship of democracy, fully refitted, will keep sailing — and no one can claim it isn’t American."

- Jackie Summers

[arthistoryfeed]

Petit Lenormand Divination Deck. Culture: French-German cartomancy tradition. Origin: Paris, France. Date: circa 1890 AD. Publisher: likely Ch. Didot, Paris. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

[erikkwakkel]

Medieval book transport

You are looking at two ‘wraps’ (top), the outside and inside of a box (middle), and a leather satchel (bottom). What they share is not just their old age (they are all medieval), but also the purpose for which they were made: to transport a book from A to B. The actual reason for transporting books in these objects varied considerably. The wraps are late-medieval girdle books, which were hanged from the owner’s belt by the knot. The text inside - which was often of legal or religious nature - could be consulted quickly and easily: just unwrap it and read. The box (and the ninth-century book inside) had a more exotic use: the package functioned as a charm for good luck on the battlefield, where it was carried in front of the troops by a monk. The satchel, which also dates from the ninth century, was just a bag to transport a book while on the go - it was popular among monks. Read more about these fascinating devices in my blog post “Medieval Books on the Go” (here).  

Pics -  Wrap at top: Stockholm, Royal Library (16th century, source); Wrap below it: Yale, Beinecke Library, MS 84 (15th century, source); Box: Dublin, Royal, Irish Academy, D ii 3 (8th/9th century, source); Satchel: Dublin, Trinity, College, MS 52 (Book of Armagh, 9th century, source).

[segamascott]

[plumslices]

Hand-painted Hilma of Klimt nails by @nailedbytav

[hymnostic]

zac efron on the verge of tears after eating pasta is both extremely relatable and also incredibly sad

[abratsworld]

Hollywood is so toxic with men's "body goals". Society is so toxic with men's mental health. This is heartbreaking to see. I really hope we change the view point of these things.

[fullymechanized-consoomer]

Zac Efron’s show is an accidental documentary over one man’s lifestyle deprogramming. Almost every episode ends with him having some kind of revelation over just how fucked the culture he belonged to is and relearning what normal living is like. 

[theweirdwideweb]

[brienneevenstar]

“quiet isle wedding too fanficky for germ” what about the jb cinematic universe bear pit rescue jaime hitting ronnet made u think germ is above tropey romance

[greenbloods]

society if we had this playing out on our screens and the people knew brienne as they knew dunk

[stupidlittlespirit]

This is so silly but I'm watching a short video essay on sincerity in cinema and the creator is talking about how he watched Lord of the Rings for the first time at 17. He explains that he'd grown so used to the 'ironic' meta style commentary in the movies of the 2010's that as he was watching the opening narration of LotR, he spent the entire time waiting for the joke to come. For someone to take it all back with a zinger line. He listened to Blanchett describe and explain the backstory, and he waited for the other comedic shoe to drop.

And he kept doing it. Scene after scene.

He spent the film expecting someone to make a joke about how unserious things were or to break the fourth wall or do some other self referential type thing.

Now, maybe I'm just at that point in my cycle or maybe I'm too delicate in general, but I literally teared up hearing that. Straight up cried a bit. It is so fucking sad that sincerity and genuineness is being bred out of people.

People say all the time 'this generation can't take anything seriously!' and really, is it any wonder? Younger people have been trained out of it. You are no longer encouraged to be genuine or show emotion or be honest. You are actively punished for it. In fact, you are almost guaranteed to suffer for it.

That is so fucked up. I'm sorry to go on a bit of a random ramble rant but it's so fucking gut wrenching to see younger people lose that element of themselves. You can't express your passion without being told you're 'crashing out' or 'cringe'. You have to live in this neutral state of fear of perception, and god forbid anybody step outside of it!

You're told you should only consume and succumb and be ironic and emotionless and cool.

Listen, if you're following me and you're like.... 25 or under, let's say. Please. I beg of you. Do not fall for this rhetoric. Please, for the love of all things, feel. Feel and create and be honest with yourself. Indulge in things that make you happy. Be sincere. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Do not let this hyper-capitalistic, hyper-consumerist, self-centred, individualist culture take that from you.

Bleed yourself into the work you create. Live. Don't fucking let anyone tell you different.

[lizzybennets]

"Oh, hush. Not all of us can afford to be romantic."

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) Dir. Joe Wright

[rosieandthemoon]

Lucien Gaillard, 1907

[talonabraxas]

"The human body is the temple of God.

One who kindles the light of awareness within

gets true light. The sacred flame of your inner shrine is constantly bright. The experience of unity is the fulfillment of human endeavours. The mysteries of life are revealed." -Rig Veda-

Temple of the Ancient God Mac Baconai @Macbaconai

[gnomebutch]

Some men use the fact that they are more likely to be in the trades as discernible proof that society would crumble without them but if you are a woman who wants to enter proper blue collar work then you will face an amount of constant sexual harassment that is genuinely unparalleled and if you ever react negatively to this then you’ll essentially be blacklisted. If men weren’t misogynistic dipshits then the gender ratio would be far more equal sighhhhh

[violet-moonstone]

Something that bothers me about septas in ASOIAF is that a woman becoming a septa is often (if not always) depicted as her kind of just disappearing from public life and relinquishing any power or autonomy she might have had otherwise -- meanwhile in the time periods and cultures GRRM takes inspiration from, nuns from noble backgrounds could hold immense power and influence, especially if they were abbesses.

Sometimes it feels like the sexism in the series is kind of a combination of the worst of a variety of time periods all mashed together just to make it extra terrible. And I think historical fiction and historically-inspired fantasy makes this mistake often -- assuming that all forms of sexism in all institutions and social interactions were equally bad at all times "in the past" without any sense of nuance.

Maybe writers do this because then we get to feel morally superior to historical people, even in cases where it's not quite warranted. I'm sure there's other reasons why -- perhaps enjoying watching depictions of oppressive societies and feeling the need to justify it rather than just admit to enjoying dark things for the sake of it?

I don't know enough about the Catholic church to speak with strong authority on this, but it does seem to me that reforms over time have contributed to nuns having less power in the church than they once did.

I understand creating a dark world to critique its flaws, but sometimes it gets to a point where it's revelling in cruelty with the false pretense of critique or allusions to some sort of historical inspiration.

Anyway...it is entirely possible that there's a really influential and interesting septa in the asoiaf world that I'm simply forgetting or not aware of, but I can't recall any septas that arent: meek, being punished, humourless nun stereotypes, or not powerful enough for their lack of conventionality to be an issue.

[violet-moonstone]

also this reminds me of a post I saw where someone was complaining that the women in the historical drama they were watching seemed like they were written to fit in the madonna whore complex as either servant-like or a sex object -- and the overwhelming response they got was that it makes sense because of "historical accuracy"

nevermind that in the civilization this show was about, women could own property in their own right, and abbesses could rule over double monasteries -- making them higher ranking than the male clergy in the area

the real sexism that existed in the past was already bad enough. Why do writers feel the need to make it worse? What does that achieve for the stories or characters? Were the real experiences of these women not compelling enough because their suffering wasn't shockingly disturbing enough? (again, I know asoiaf is fantasy but I'm sure fans would explain this away with historical references)

anyway

I wish more writers were able to reference historical sexism without inadvertently making the writing itself participate in the sexism

and also I wish the faith of the seven had more to it than being fantasy catholicism lite with more gods (or whatever the 7-part equivalent of a trinity is)