sing out, louise

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

[glintglimmergleam]

imagine bridgerton if eloise had a gun

[coolthingoftheday]

Scottish artist Sir Andy Goldsworthy (Order of the British Empire) rearranged leaves around the base of a tree in order to make it appear to be glowing. 

[usuallyproperlyhydrated]

just confessed to my wife I got booed twice at book club a few weeks ago and I'm so worried she'll leave

[usuallyproperlyhydrated]

"the book club doesn't deserve you" @glintglimmergleam where would I be without you, my brave, noble justice-serving brienne of tarth who I would willingly ride into battle with any damn day of the week

[glintglimmergleam]

babe I would slay a thousand White Walkers for you with my bare hands, just name the time and place

[glintglimmergleam]

And now I'm having too many feelings about tznius culture. I hate that this stuff fucks you up forever. My life is good in so many ways but I'm gonna have trauma about modesty until I'm in the grave.

[glintglimmergleam]

The thing about reading novels about Orthodox Jews is that I spend half the book waiting for the author to make a mistake in the details of observant life and the other half reliving memories I don't need to experience again.

It's a lousy way to engage with a story. 2/10 would not recommend

[gliklofhameln]

Mysteries Created Upon the Division of the Upper and the Lower Waters

Nessim Bassan (b. 1950, Panama City, Panama)

2023, Acrylic, paper, and wood on canvas

112.4 × 104.5 × 8.3 cm

[harleyglenn]

I’m thinking of Beginning it all

[glintglimmergleam]

feeling sad about my body and about having a body. it'll pass, but.

[paranormal-taters]

MY DEAR TUMBLR USERS!!

WONDERFUL NEWS!!

NETHERFIELD PARK IS LET AT LAST!!!

[paranormal-taters]

[soychronicprocrastinator]

What a wonderful thing for our girls!!!

[lady-merian]

How so? How can it affect them? 🤨

[sunflowergardens-world]

My dear Merian! You must know I am thinking of his reblogging from one of them!

[green-great-dragon]

Is that his design in blogging here?

[estel-and-agape]

Design? nonsense, how can you write so! But it is very likely that he may reblog from one of them, and therefore you must follow him as soon as his blog is online.

[lady-merian]

I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may follow him, or they may follow him by themselves, which perhaps will be still better for them, for as you are as clever as any of them he might reblog most from you of the party.

[soychronicprocrastinator]

My dear, you flatter me. I certainly HAVE had my share of cleverness, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up mutuals, she ought to give over thinking of her own reblog counts.

[siena-sevenwits]

In such cases, a woman has not often much of a reblog count to think of.

[paranormal-taters]

[visenyaism]

The concept of modern AU Jaime Lannister is too absurd to exist with any fidelity. What if LeBron James killed the president and then kept on hooping for fifteen years?

[undergroundrockpress-deactivate]

Annie Nightingale in 1970, the year she became the first female disc jockey on BBC Radio 1.

[jeaniefranklins]

it's my birthday on Saturday and my book birthday next Wednesday and I am not above begging so: hey, you know what would make a great birthday present? buying my book. it has lesbians. it has medieval fiber arts. it has horrible in-laws. it has hurt/comfort. it has an ice queen heroine who I love very much. she's a Scorpio so it would not be a birthday present for her. but it would still be nice. (it would also be a present for yourself, fyi.)

[pjharvey]

our age of blogs is collapsing

[glintglimmergleam]

ok last museum post for the night: i never go on the official gallery tour if i have a choice. if the museum experience only offers a guided tour then of course i will follow their lead. but otherwise tours are simply not for me.

part of it is that i move slowly and unpredictably thru a gallery. but i also have a baseline of art history knowledge that is higher what many tour guides are understandably aiming at. once i overheard a guide explaining a renaissance painting of a man on a crucifix as follows:

"now this represents jesus..."

you don't say!

[glintglimmergleam]

i also care about the quality of the museum collection, but that is extremely subjective re personal taste/special interest and also depends on what the curators are making available at the moment

also if it's a smaller museum trying to be generalist i can't fault them for only having a shitty picasso, they're doing their best with what they can afford.

(this is why specialized is better than generalist. if you can't beat the heavyweights, develop your own niche.)

[glintglimmergleam]

i have soooo many feelings about what makes a good museum but they all boil down to human-centered design.

is the collection both physically and intellectually accessible to all?

do the curators expect visitors to be curious but uneducated or seeking selfie moments?

how are the bathrooms?

do they have a sane backpack/bag policy?

how many of the galleries have benches and why isn't it all of them?

[ltwilliammowett]

Marzipan mould, Germany, 19th century