eat your heart out

TX / 26 / she/her

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[milanesa42]

“The employees need a larger salary” “hmmmm large celery”

[depsidase]

[cyclesofmystery]

Clare Victor Dwiggins, 1908

I was amused by this rather “freaky” bit of Edwardiana, especially since I always got the feeling that Charles Dana Gibson, when drawing the Gibson Girl, was at least partially fantasizing about being stepped on or something.

[ingridverse]

[westiec]

me: man I sure hope somebody has shown op Charles Dana Gibson's "The weaker sex" where the four Gibson girls are studying the tiny little man like a bug

tumblr user ingridverse: way ahead of you

[roguebombshell]

I also notice she's going to poke him with a hat pin. Hat pins were used by women as improvised weaponry against offensive men.

Gibson is casting him as a pleading, worthless little man who is going to be punished. I see you, Charles.

[ingridverse]

You're right about hatpins in general, but I think in this instance it's a reference to butterfly/insect collecting in which specimens are pinned to a display board. He's not going to be punished; he's going to be collected.

[inkpressedpetals]

[mortalityplays]

there a lot of details of american macroculture that have caused what I'd describe as a reality fracturing mental reset when I learned about them. one was learning that children do literally swear their allegiance to the american flag every morning before school and that's not a quaint comedic exaggeration left over from the 1950s like rabbit ears on a TV. one was learning that Americans have to pay for ambulance transportation. one was learning that Americans are taught the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tough brave necessities that made the world safer and not horrific war crimes on a footing with the nazi holocaust.

and one was learning that the cultural cachet of veggietales is completely unironic and a lot of you watched the parables of God from the bible and his son jesus christ the cgi vegetable for real real and thought it was good, no goofing, not a bit

[bakwaaas]

Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again

[kosmogrl]

[wordx]

i think humans are meant to lay in bed with the love of their life all winter.

[dykeleftinhotcar]

god said that if i do 1000 good deeds she will transform me into a stingray and ill get to live in the ocean but unfortunately i have evil in my heart and will be wicked instead!

[rozieramati]

[dogpuppy]

[museiums]

artist: holly warburton

[rosefinchie]

how it all feels lately

[ahotknife]

the enormity of my desire disgusts me

[novelconcepts]

Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.

You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.

[sleepyowlwrites]

oh I'd better

[remanence-of-love]