[PRODUCT OF CIRCUMSTANCE]

🥵 98765 🌻 year of the tree 🫘 🍳 king's jester 👑

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Imogen Cunningham

Ruth Asawa's Wire Sculptures and Their Shadows (1956)

Vintage gelatin silver

[miamaimania]

English Art Deco Sterling Silver Coffee Service (1932–33; tray 1935–36) ⏢ Charles Boyton, London

[trinklied]

Visit Original Link

[werkaetzchen]

Einstürzende Neubauten - Trinklied

Nächtens ward ich trunken

In einem selten Loch

Bin gleich darin versunken

Weiland, trink ich wohl immer noch

Beider Arme Kraft wollt` stemmen

Mich aus des Loches Rund

Wollten trotzig Händ nicht fallen sehen

Lust`gen Becher in den Grund

Aus Loches Schmutz kroch bös Getier

Und eh ichs mir recht beseh

Nagts weg derweil all Fleisch von mir

Blieb nur der blanke Knochen stehen

[lionfloss]

Vintage Turkish Rug

[bobbole]

Jan Švankmajer, Illustration from Lafcadio Hearn's Kaidan

[the1920sinpictures]

1928 "Cafe l'Aubette" by architects Theo van Doesburg, Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Strausberg, France. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

[fabioafterdark]

it hits me sometimes i am so sooo glad that i moved back and fixed my life. i have my own room full of my things, i have good friends, i have an amazing lover, i have a meagre income, i have my city where i am fully at home.... what more could u want

[goldswords]

I love stock photo sentences. This has been the new thing to repeat for me when things go wrong. A mentally ill man with psychological disorders is going crazy at home. The crazy man who is alone in his house is yelling.

[mauricetheblurst]

the clanging of his armored ass cheeks brought down the walls of many a castle

[madnessofmen]

From The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny (~1350), complaining about Knights These Days

And they are dressed in such an indecent way that that which everyone ought to be most ashamed to show is what they show all the time to those who want to look, for they cannot refrain from showing their backsides to whoever wants to see them.

What is more, it is not enough for them to be as God made them; they are not content with themselves as they are, but they gird themselves up and so rein themselves in round the middle of their bodies that they seek to deny the existence of the stomachs which God has given them: they want to pretend that they have not and never have had one, and everyone knows that the opposite is true.

[madnessofmen]

He was in fact talking about armor!

And one has seen many of those thus constricted who have to take off their armor in a great hurry, for they could no longer bear to wear their equipment; and there are others who have been quickly seized, for they could not do what they should have done because they were handicapped by being thus constricted; and many have died inside their armor for the same reason, that they could put up little defense.

And even without their armor they are so constricted and strapped up that they cannot undertake anything, for they cannot bend down, nor can they run nor jump nor throw stones nor engage in any other sports requiring strength or agility; indeed they can hardly sit down, and it demands just as great an effort to struggle to their feet again.

[jetix]

Ants pot by Bradley Macom, 2023

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Bank of England are letting you vote for what animals you want on their new bank notes: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/help-us-design-our-next-series-of-banknotes

Pine martens are an option!

PINE MARTENS??!?

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Oh my god, you can choose up to two from each category:

HOW CAN I NARROW THIS DOWN

[v-spicata]

I chose the fox as one of mine, it's an obvious choice but it'd be nice to celebrate an animal so commonly denigrated. Not that old 'foul mart' has had much of a fun time of it historically either.

Some interesting options here in general, they've not just gone with the obvious animals.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I ended up not choosing the fox, purely because I actually reckon it's going to romp home - for all the controversy, it's the most common wild mammal people see in urban centres, and it's charismatic

I went pine marten, as I've been involved in helping their reintroduction to Wales, and then I wrestled with myself for an Age before finally going hedgehog.

Birds: puffins were the easiest choice. The UK - and Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in west Wales specifically - has a significant portion of the global breeding population of puffins, thanks to Skomer and Grassholm islands. In a country with the biodiversity depletion we have (bottom 10% of countries globally for biodiversity), the islands of Pembrokeshire are almost obscene in how high their biodiversity is, and it's for breeding specifically. We can be justly proud of those. Plus, puffins are fun clowns.

And then I agonised about the others until I finally went for the Great Spotted Woodpecker, a bird I do periodically see and get excited about every time

The Lumped-Together-Others: the bumblebee, you have to. I adore bumblebees.

And then I went for the marsh fritillary, because it's super endangered and I'm an environmentalist with a specialism in habitat management and ecology, and therefore spend a non-trivial amount of my time explaining how to manage for the little assholes.

But MY GOD it took me a while

[fabioafterdark]

omg it's nautical twilight only time!!!!!!!!!!!!!! goodbye 2 the true night sky AND astronomical twilight!!!!!!

[folklorespring]

Embroideress, weaver and spinner from Crimea, 1920s

[o-craven-canto]

Come to the Human Cuisine Restaurant, we have:

Boiled grain

Flatbread with various toppings

Flatbread wrapped around filling

Fried lean meat

Stew of fatty meat and starch

Fermented vegetable

Oily sauce

Aromatic herbs

Stimulant alkaloids

Alcoholic beverage

[historicalbookimages]

🐛 Chronologischer Raupenkalender, oder, Naturgeschichte der europäischen Raupen Berlin: Im Verlage von Theodor Bade, 1837. Original source Image description: Illustration from an 1837 German natural history book depicting thirteen distinct European caterpillars, each numbered and varied in color, pattern, and body shape. The caterpillars range from vivid green and yellow striped to orange, brown, and spotted forms, some with prominent hair-like bristles. The detailed page includes scientific names below, highlighting species diversity. The caterpillars are shown in side profile on a pale beige background with fine ink outlines and watercolor shading, emphasizing anatomical features like segmentation, legs, and head shapes. The text “Taf. XXVIII” appears in the top corner, indicating this is a labeled plate from the volume.

[lifeinasmalltowninjapan]

BBC2 Midnight Movie Fantastic (1975)

The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1920)

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

they killed him for this