I'm just here for the pretty pictures

An anonymous blog of a 30-something scholar, lover of visual and nerd content, polyamorous bisexual with dyslexia that really should be writing.  I post about insects, trees, academia, craft projects, and cats.  Working on using tumblr as intended (?)

[nevver]

Into the blue, Marcel Dzama

[visenyaism]

Honestly fuck AI for making me have to go on and on defending the dignity of toil like I’m some kind of protestant

[leletha-jann]

...I know I'm the stopwatch post person around here, but I am NOT starting a stopwatch for the megaweapon's next shot.

That being said, if I have to dig this post up in three years and seventy-two days and eat my own words over it,

A) that would be SO FUNNY, and

B) you have my preemptive permission to say "I told you so"

...but (if we count from Monday) I think this airship is going down sooner than September 30, 2029, which is inconveniently a Sunday...

OH BUT THAT'S WHERE THE THREE HOURS COME IN.

OK. Now I am suspicious.

Monday, October 1, 2029, I am watching you.

...I am maybe starting a stopwatch, just in case.

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[leafstem]

*while sewing*: you are a fabric. you can stay a fabric. you do not yearn to return to being string.

[batbetbitbotbut]

*while spinning*: you are a thread. you can stay a thread. you do not yarn to return to being fluff.

[strikeslip]

*while embroidering*: you are a thread on a needle. you can just exist as thread on a needle. you do knot yearn to become a tangle.

[mawofthemagnetar]

*while turning wood* you are timber on a lathe. You can stay as timber on a lathe. You do not yearn to become a live hand grenade.

[nemfrog]

In an illustration labeled "Inspiration," a crow perches on top of a disembodied eye framed by a radiating heart.

The orb of day. 1883.

Internet Archive

[grecoromanyaoi]

citationless behavior

[grecoromanyaoi]

sourceless behavior

[useless-catalanfacts]

Ex-libris by the Catalan artist Alexandre de Riquer (1856-1920), made around the year 1900. These ones are some of the examples preserved in the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).

An ex-libris, also called bookplate, is a kind of printed stamp at the beginning or end of a book that says who owns it (think of the stamp you surely have seen in the books owned by a library). Though ex-libris have been used since ancient times, their "golden age" in Catalonia was during the Modernist movement (the Catalan equivalent of Art Nouveau), where many bookworm people commissioned artists to have a beautiful personal ex-libris that they could use to stamp all their collection.

The text in the 1st one, written in the Catalan language, says "no matter how much you know, there's always much more that you don't know" (per molt que sapies es molt mes lo que ignores).

Source: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

[fuskida]

"Bowl of Water with Night Sky" 2023 oil painting by David Stanger

[raccoonmilf]

late uploading my dashcon 2 2 panel because I've spent so much time making graphics

[raccoonmilf]

HAPPY FIRST DAY OF NATIONAL MOTH WEEK

what is ur favorite moth of all time?

[vamptits]

why is it so hot. why is it so hot. I am being punished.

[vamptits]

I'm having my first 24/7 dom/sub relationship with the entirety of the fucking sun

[jadafitch]

HAPPY NATIONAL MOTH WEEK! Celebrate with moth art! Moths of North America poster Saturniid Moths of North America poster

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[thememedaddy]

[wovi]

[fortesque]

[specialagentartemis]

also last post made me remember: shoutout to Asta Twelvetrees from Resident Alien, who made me go "they really could have done more thematically with the fact that she's Ute and her best friend is literally an alien invader" at the same time as "you know getting to see modern realistic Native culture being what gets through to Harry is actually really sweet. He likes pizza AND was deeply emotionally moved by the powwow. Both are part of Modern Earth Culture that are worth not destroying."