sing out, louise

bread for all, and roses too. often thinking about 18th-century england

[glintglimmergleam]

imagine bridgerton if eloise had a gun

[glintglimmergleam]

oh boo. truffle cat apparently AI. foiled again!

[glintglimmergleam]

well tonight instead of watching another Lewis ep I spent that same amount of time plopping an outline of the fic into a word document. It's messy and stream of consciousness and probably unreadable to people who aren't me but wow was it fun.

This is I think the feeling that people who RP usually get. None of the stress of making sentences sound good, all of the delight of the mental images. A daydream in bullet points.

[watchpoob]

Winter has arrived on Poob.

Start your 7 day free trial of Poob today, and watch smash hit Martin Scorcese's Goncharov.

[thejawsdevour]

Hannelie Coetzee (South African) - Hyena Clan V (ink and rooibos tea on paper, 2023, Eco Queer Creature Series)

[fagstaynight]

heartwarming: transfem named mary sue and transmasc named gary stu have had a beautiful nonbinary baby named donut steel

[ortut]

Julian Hooper 1. Introduction, 2016 2. Inevitable conclusion, 2016 (Acrylic on linen)

[lupusbaby]

Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

[goth-princess-gwennie]

Forgive me if this is inappropriate but

So are

colostomy bags

Diapers

insulin pumps

Oxygen systems

Braces

[nicoleanell]

great Half Man Fact that they made Jamie Bell wear just-slightly-uncanny brown contacts through the whole thing to match the younger actor. Because apparently they tried to make Baby Niall wear blue contacts but it looked sooo much worse and unnatural and his big brown Bambi eyes were so so important that it was just like... okay. We gotta go the other way. Sorry to Mr. Bell but Niall has beautiful void eyes now and that's just how it has to be.

[adirtnap]

[pointnclick]

Thank you for coming to my this

[girl-blorbo-polls]

What’s your girl blorbo most likely on the way to?

Heaven

Hell

Valhalla

Reincarnation

Ghost

She’s always been dead

She’s immortal

Other

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

[glintglimmergleam]

Anyway this weekend I finished Class by Jilly Cooper on @tobermoriansass's rec, which is a fascinating trainwreck of racism and classism circa 1979 England, and extremely extremely useful for understanding both the id of the upper middle classes and the social positioning of various brands and locations. It is in places very funny.

But holy shit! The use of slurs! Some I hadn't even heard before! They really let you just print any old thing, huh.

[glintglimmergleam]

You can also take it on faith that in the 2010s a cozy British mystery show almost never has the black or brown immigrant man be the Murderer of the Week for terrorism reasons. That character will be the red herring suspect though, which means conservatives and liberals alike get to glee in pointing fingers and reluctantly withdrawing when he turns out to be One of The Good Ones after all. Or at least, not one of the Murdering Ones. He might do other minor crimes, as a treat.

Meanwhile the murderer is inevitably a white person in a very silly love+family triangle bc one wants to be lurid but domestic about it, with plenty of opportunity for shoehorning egregious quotations.

[glintglimmergleam]

Hello from Lewis s3e1, which has a ridiculous and convoluted plot involving an Oedipal love triangle and the murder of a derivative fantasy novelist via the sword of C.S. Lewis (why be on the nose when you can cut it off instead), but somehow the most absurd thing this episode asks me to believe is that that Lewis's dead wife, a 50-something working-class Northern housewife, wore the same perfume as a 20-something posh Oxford graduate student and a 20-something Bosnian immigrant mail order bride who also worked in a pub.

Come on. I'm not a perfume girlie in the slightest but those 3 women would never overlap in taste, not even if the suspect gave them each a bottle as a gift. They'd smile and say thank you and at MOST wear it when he came to visit. Not every day!

Also a scent called Mystique Noir in a dark red glass bottle is much too racy for Val Lewis, copper's wife. Please be serious.

[amorphousbl0b]

The tribes of Tumblr appeared to worship Apollo as their primary patron deity, most often under the epithet Apollo Sphairahemon ("Apollo the Ball-Thrower") as a god of prophecy and sport. His name was typically invoked to celebrate a user blessed with uncommon prescience. Moments of prophecy were considered highly sacred and were often recorded, and such texts are sometimes accompanied by an artistic depiction of the god — either his traditional masculine image or, unusually, in the form of a young woman, which appears to have been an earlier style before a conservative shift toward more conventional iconography — preparing to cast a round rubber ball that our scholars believe was used in the sport known as "dodge ball". Much as other cults regarded his arrows as bringers of disease and health, this community believed that being struck by this ball would bestow prophetic visions.

Some icons are reproduced below:

An earlier depiction (c. 2020) of Apollo as a girl clad in a simple tunic and playing with other children. Figures are smiling and the image is brightly colored, indicating a celebratory outlook toward knowledge of the future.

A later piece (c. 2022) that resembles the traditional appearance of Apollo. References to childhood and play are omitted, and the god carries a more frightening aspect; perhaps this icon represented grim omens rather than good tidings.

[hardwrench]

aaaaand after much research and deliberation, we’ve determined that the final frontier of women’s rights is… *opens envelope* personal aesthetics, again