[unhauntng]

actually not emotional over graduating university, just over losing my jstor access

[jstor]

A registered personal account will get you free access to 100 articles per month!

[magiccarpetman]

Never clicked a link faster in my life.

[glumshoe]

stereotypes about people “really interested in WWI” are wildly different than stereotypes about people “really interested in WWII”

[glumshoe]

What to do when cornered by a WWII buff: Brace yourself and take stock of your surroundings. Your first course of action should be to assess the sort of person you are speaking to. Notice any tattoos or personal decorations they might be displaying—hopefully you are already familiar with common Neo-Nazi symbols. If you see swastikas, the numbers 88, 14, or 18, or the letters SS shapes like lightning bolts, then run and/or fire at will. Be very wary of skulls, eagles, German words, and runes; they may be innocent tattoos, but they may also be red flags. Proceed with caution and listen to how they talk about Hitler. If you can determine that the buff is not an overtly far-right Nazi sympathizer, they may have a weird obsession with the idea of a Just and Noble War and have some fucked up ideas about what is good for humanity and/or the natural order. Make a quick escape if they start referring to Japanese people with a single syllable or talk about how Americans were “better” back then. If none of these, you can probably relax—you may be talking to someone whose family fled the Holocaust or were forced into Japanese internment camps and took an interest in the period out of necessity and frustration and the immediate relevance to their lives. Look for bags under their eyes or corny science joke T-shirts; you might be talking to a physicist interested in nuclear history. Maybe they’re fascinated by modern world politics or planes or weaponry.

What to do when cornered by a WWI buff:

Point over their shoulder and say, “Hey, look! A collection of depressing poetry by dead gay soldiers!” and run while they’re distracted. If this doesn’t work, brace yourself for a long, dreary explanation of the mechanics of trench warfare or early planes.

[tattedpetticoats]

@my-darling-boy

[makaylajade-author]

Being a writer is just 97% googling words to make sure they mean exactly what you always assumed they meant.

[thaylepo]

A few weeks ago I discovered a thing called "stick weaving", where instead of a warped loom you weave the weft through sticks. The warp threads are looped through the bottom of each stick, and you pull them through your woven weft as you go. As I've been moving around a lot lately and don't have space for an actual loom, portable hand-held methods like this are a lot of fun!

Of course, having never done this before, I decided to pair it with kilim-technique pattern weaving, where you wrap the weft threads around the warp, leaving a gap where the different colours meet and creating sharp geometric patterns (which I've also never tried to do before lol). It looks absolutely baller with a high contrast dark base and bright colours, and of course the red-blue-yellow combo is always a winner XD

I ran out of the red before I ran out of warp and switched to purple, but at this point I'm just using this piece for pattern experiments. I've already ordered a medium weight yarn instead of the fingering-weight jumper yarn, which should compress less once off the sticks, and have ideas of doing several long repeating "panels" that can be sewn together at the selvedge to make something bigger.

The best part, it tucks into a bag and needs no other tools besides a tapestry needle and something to cut the yarn!

[lucidloving]

@heavensghost // Erin Moran, "940 Main Street" // Jason Schneiderman, "Little Red Riding Wolf" // @mah_hirano on tw // Adrienne Rich, "Planetarium" // Richard Siken, Editor's Pages: Black Telephone // Molly McCully Brown, Places I've Taken my Body: Essays // @loputyn // Mason O'Hern, "You Are Not Just Anything" // Friedrich Nietzsche, Good and Evil

[lucidloving]

Oscar Wilde // L. Munir, "Lazarus" // Gustav Klimt, The Kiss // @lucidloving // Take Me to Church—Hozier // Richard Siken, "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out" // @lucidloving // Gustav Vigeland, Man and Woman // Caitlyn Sieh, "Mythology" // @lucidloving

[metamorphesque]

  ― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

[text ID: Is it possible that our parents never die, that every child inevitably conceals them in himself?]

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, from i mother it the absence of her, iii. i am not a person that can be loved for a very long time excerpt from moony moonless sky.

[angel-archivist]

Hopelessly Devoted To You.

[godsandcrows]

just here to say that I still despise the new discord mobile.

[roadmotel]

Nico Alvarado, Tim Riggins Speaks of Waterfalls

[metamorphesque]

Vardges Petrosyan, Years Lived and Unlived (translated by metamorphesque)

[romanticmonster]

You're an outlier. You're a freak, just like I am. You know that's not a bad thing right? You're suffering because of those moral and righteous ideals and values. You're beating yourself up for feelings you cannot control. For wants and desires they would shame and crucify you for.

You know those who are freaks aren't all bad right? Where do all those interesting parts of humanity go when all others cling to what's 'normal' and mediocre? Us.

There is so much more to us than the majority will ever understand. They only care for their entertainment that's carefully curated to their sensitive little palate.

What we are will never be normal. We will always be freaks. They cannot box us so they shun and fear us. It's hard to understand, sure even for us too, but you, and me?

We're phenomenal. Niche. Tailored. You don't need to, nor should you, try to fit into that box they want to cage you in. Be messy in all you are. Let them choke on your taste.

You're a wonder, an experience like no other. For good or bad, we're freaks, weirdos, degenerates, perverts. Without you, I feel as though the world would be oh so terribly dull. Be you. Be a freak.

[catchymemes]

[neerbear]

Forgot I never showed my poster designs for this pride month

I did this for uni

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[da-rk-ac-ad-em-ia]

“December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory…”

- John Geddes, A Familiar Rain