[forked-tongue-blasphemer]

Smiling Bats

Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v

[stuckinapril]

This is actually so real

[curiously-a-dreamer]

[Text ID:

"I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish... You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger."

Simone de Beauvoir

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[boycomics]

true romance

[nintendosbitch-archived]

Just so y'all know, there’s more lol

[hollisbrownthornton]

VHS — permanent marker on paper, 23 × 30 inches, 2010

Website — Instagram

[mark-gently]

i learned a new pangram today:

Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.

[samglyph]

Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama // Wisdom to Heal the Earth by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

[cryptic-forge]

after i made my wooden doll, i was musing about what other unusual materials i might use for a bjd. my partner suggested paper, and also gave me access to their craft paper collection -> i made this.

she is almost entirely made of paper & cardboard. the joints are wooden beads & worbla, because i did figure out a way to make ball joints out of paper, but it really was not worth the effort. all her limbs have tubes of rolled-up cardboard in them to keep the structure sturdy, and the origami flowers are glued around those.

this is extremely different from any doll i've made before, and i had so much fun working with pretty papers & figuring out how to turn them into a poseable 3d object.

[e-n-d-a-s-h]

Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.

"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.

“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."

More here.

[sunny-artz]

just pirate things

[cucurb]

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

[chrromebrutus-deactivated202105]

The Lord of the Rings: Loyal Steeds of Middle Earth

[candlejack]

EXCUSE ME EVERYONE. YOU MISSED ONE.

[teaboot]

Was about to fall asleep and apropos of nothing was struck out of nowhere by a horrible future vision of a brightly-lit and saccharine 3D-AI Calvin and Hobbes movie with Scarlet Johanssen voicing the mom and Chris Pratt voicing Hobbes and experienced an emotional haptic jerk so chilling I feel like I just foresaw my own death

[teaboot]

(Drenched in a cold sweat, visibly shaking) We Need To Warn Bill Watterson

[crystaltoa]

No, we don't.

He knows.

He has always known.

Actual quote:

"I don't want some animation studio giving Hobbes an actor's voice, and I don't want some greeting card company using Calvin to wish people a happy anniversary, and I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. When everything fun and magical is turned into something for sale, the strip's world is diminished. 'Calvin and Hobbes' was designed to be a comic strip and that's all I want it to be. It's the one place where everything works the way I intend it to"

This was in the 1990's, pre-AI, pre- Chris Pratt, pre- Cinematic Universes, and if he was opposed to it then, he sure as hell wouldn't be okay with it now.

I think he probably experienced the same nightmare dystopian vision of the future you saw, but fortunately he had it like 40 years earlier.

[teaboot]

oh thank heavens

[castalianspring]

For anyone who's curious about the source of the above quote, it's from the beginning section of the Tenth Anniversary book.

It's not only a fascinating look into the creative process, but also details just how hard Watterson fought for the freedom to do more within the limitations of newspaper layouts, why the earlier Sunday strips had to have throwaway jokes on the top line, how he kept pushing to change that, and the way some of those fights ended up being mirrored in the strips themselves sometimes out of frustration. Just a really great read.

[leosmiserables]

i love you ”well, we’ll know better next time”. i love you ”to know how it ends and still begin to sing it again”. i love you theatre that’s fundamentally about the concept of theatre.

[tenthsfreezeout]

Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons, 1978. Photo by Lynn Goldsmith.

[wxster]

they were on their honeymoon

[thethirdromana]

Every so often I'm struck again by what an incredible job Whoopi Goldberg does playing Guinan. She was 33 when she first played her yet I have never once doubted that Guinan is a mysterious alien who is hundreds of years old. The effect even holds in screengrabs. How does someone manage to do that with their face.

[transsexualgriffith]

i love sibling estrangement as horror. Only one person in the entire world has been through what youve been through and they deny it . Awesome

[beau-gar]

SADIQ

www.beau-gar.tumblr.com