[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

If you guys have ADD/ADHD, autism, OCD, or something else that affects your ability to concentrate, I highly recommend the chrome extension Mercury Reader. You just open whatever link you're using, then click on the MR icon (it should look like a rocket) and it'll simplify the page so that it's in a focus-friendly layout. Instead of having random pictures and word boxes all over the screen, it'll be in a vertical format with nothing to distract you so you can focus on what's important. You can also adjust the text size (small, medium, large), font (serif, sans), and theme (light, dark). And the best part is, it's completely free! It's honestly one of the best things I've ever downloaded.

This is an article without the extension. See that messy format, and how the actual article content only takes up a fraction of the page? It's no wonder it took me 7 hours to write that paper.

The same article, this time with Mercury. The user-friendly settings are at the top, and the rest of the article is formatted vertically down the middle with no free-roaming pictures or words. How nice.

[books0977]

The drama (c.1860). Honoré Daumier (French, 1808-1879). Oil on canvas. New Pinakothek Munich.

The viewer looks over the back of the audience onto the stage, where a scene of jealousy takes place. The dramatic climax is shown: One of the actors, presumably the rival, is already dead on the ground, the male perpetrator triumphs over his victim and at the same time threatens the female actress, who is falling in horror. The audience is spellbound and seems to be similarly excited. Daumier increases the drama of the situation through the dynamic movement of the actors on the stage and the audience towards the stage.

[heaveninawildflower]

Illustrations of Geraniums taken from ‘Geraniologia.’ Published 1787-1788 Illustrations by Pierre-Joseph Redouté and James Sowerby.

Images and text information courtesy Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

[simena]

[thecommonchick]

me: watches criminal minds for 4 hours straight 

someone: knocks on my door 

me:

[vajeentambourine]

Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.

Shout out to people like me who have parents who are loving but are black holes of emotional labor… It took me a long time to realize that it’s okay to have mixed feelings about your parents, about your relationship with them.

Sometimes parents can love you but be somewhat toxic to you and your growth, and that’s a very hard realization to come to if you, like me, grew up extremely close to them.

Sometimes parents can love you genuinely but lack emotional maturity, forcing you to perform disproportionate amounts of emotional labor. Some parents manifest symptoms of their mental illness in ways that are toxic to your mental illness.

Some parents, like mine, try so hard to be good parents but fall back on habits of emotional manipulation because they haven’t processed their own traumas and are modeling behavior they grew up with. That doesn’t make their behavior acceptable, and it’s okay to feel exhausted and hurt when they betray you. You don’t have to forgive every mistake.

I want you to know that it’s okay to protect yourself, to need some space apart from them. The love you have for your parents is still valid, and you are making the right decision.

Placing a safe emotional distance between myself and my parents has been one of the most difficult, heartbreaking processes I’ve ever gone through… it hurts to try to curb the strength of your own natural empathy around people you love. It feels disingenuous to your heart’s natural state.

But I promise you, you are not hard-hearted or ungrateful, and you are not abandoning them. You are making a decision about your own emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

I know what it’s like in that confusing grey area of love mixed with guilt and anxiety, of exhaustion and quasi-manipulation and unreciprocated emotional labor, and I promise you, you are not alone.

Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.

[viostormcaller]

Thank you thank you thank you bless this post ohmygod thank you

[danismm]

Palm House, Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, Surrey. c. 1900. Arch. Decimus Burton and Richard Turner.

[tomorrowandbeyond]

[artemisdreaming]

  Kitano Tsunetomi (1880~1947) 

Artemis:  Ive posted a detail of this before, but it was very small and low quality. See High-res of the top image.  

See archive for more Kitano Tsunetomi :  HERE

[loumargi]

Armando Barrios. Cantata

[geritsel]

Konstantin Korovin - Paris by Night

[jonathanking]

Gustav Klimt

[amvcg27295]

"The Carnation Revolution, also referred to as the 25 April , was a military coup in Lisbon, Portugal on 25 April 1974 which overthrew the regime of the Estado Novo. The revolution started as a military coup organized by the Movimento das Forças Armadas (Armed Forces Movement, MFA), composed of military officers who opposed the regime, but the movement was soon coupled with an unanticipated and popular campaign of civil resistance. This movement would lead to the fall of the Estado Novo and the withdrawal of Portugal from its African colonies.”

[evilandheathen]

25 de Abril, sempre 

[findlight]

Eugène Atget, Staircases in Paris, c.1900.

[Hotel Lavaliere, Hotel d’Ecquevilly, rue de l’Abbe Gregoire, Hotel Henry, Hotel le Charron, Hotel d’Ecquevilly, Hotel le Charron, Hotel du President]

[laserquestx]

The Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night”

[elucipher-deactivated20151112]

all art is quite useless???????

It’s one of Oscar Wilde’s most famous aphorisms, taken from the Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray. It’s a rejection of the theory of utility in art, i.e. that the value of art is quantifiable according to some external measure, such as moral goodness, didacticism, capacity to impart political sensibilities, truthfulness—and that a work of art should be primarily evaluated according to that measure. 

Instead, he’s articulating the view that art is autonomous, self-sufficient; utility does not inhere in art, but is put upon art by those who apprehend it. He’s perhaps most famously associated with the saying “art for art’s sake”. 

"All art is at once surface and symbol.Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.” 

He’s expounding a theory of radical aestheticism: all that matters is Beauty, the subjective, irreducible, and often inexpressible sensation of pleasure created in a person when they apprehend art. 

(NB: that this theory appears in the Preface to Dorian Gray, a book which gestures toward the immorality of lives lived purely according to immoderate aestheticism, is a good reason not to take this saying completely seriously.)

I don’t fully agree with this idea, but I very often prefer it to a view that demands art be “useful”, which is poisonous to artistic flourishing. (Is a human being “useful”?)

[decimonono]

1890. Projet d’une traversée du pole Nord en ballon.

Print at bottom shows a cross section of the basket beneath the balloon, “Le Sivel” during its expedition to the North Pole. Interior of cabin includes a central living area occupied by four men, an area for housing several dogs at left, and a work and supply area occupied by one man at right. Print at top left shows the balloon in flight; a line hangs from the balloon and rests on the ice.

(vía Library of Congress).