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mutuals look we are in the planetarium together
who can tell me the speed of light?
doing things at the right age is literally a made up concept. you can start/pursue anything at any age. btw.
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i'm so haunted (for lack of a better term) by the potential hauntological and thanatological impact of rocky and grace's relationship in phm and their respective incompatible lifespans. like. it's established that eridians can and do experience an equivalent to grief with the deaths of rocky's crew and his reactions to that, but do they have a concept equatable to haunting? it's possible and entirely likely that they never conceptualised ghosts, or even anything similar, which means that grace's inevitable death in rocky's lifetime has the potential to "infect" him with that distinctly human experience via cultural exchange (since grace himself is a profoundly haunted individual by nature of his forcible abjection from earth). this is barely coherent but i'm so fascinated by how rocky may be a legitimate (hypothetical) example of stone tape theory put into practice by nature of his eidetic memory, and how project hail mary is arguably a ghost story. which is kind of a hilarious implication for a hard scifi narrative.
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hi! I hope you're doing well. Do you have any art book recs?
check this out for books on indian art history, and here are some more i like.
ways of seeing by john berger: about the ways in which look at visual art
design as art by bruno munari: it’s his ideas on modern design and typography, and how we think of it or it should be conceived of and realized
on photography by susan sontag: essays, about the ethics and morality of photography
camera lucida: reflections on photography by roland barthes: about the relationship between photography, theatre, history, and death
the lonely city by olivia laing: about loneliness and art in new york, mixes the personal with artistic interpretation in looking at a bunch of artists who grappled with loneliness and isolatin in new york
funny weather by olivia laing: about making art in the 21st century; how artists encounter and engage with various crises and emergencies
museum of the missing by simon houpt: it’s a history of art theft; i haven’t read it but i have been super excited for this for a year now
i hope you find something you like!
Hey, Do you have any foreign policy reading recommendations?
Here are a few. Since I don't know what exactly you're looking for and foreign policy is huge, I've tried to go with a diverse bunch
The Revenge of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan: about what geography can tell us about conflicts and possible directions that international politics would take; really good analysis, really good starting point to learn how to think about geopolitics. You can check out his other books too, he's quite good
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall: more on what the map and geography tells us about global diplomacy and international politics
Belt and Road by Bruno Macaes: about the Belt and Road project and the kind of international order it and China through the project envisions; the politics of the project
The Chip War by Chris Miller: it's a history of semiconductors and through them, about global supply chains and industrial manufacturing circuits and how geopolitics and foreign policy impacts industry/business
The Blood Telegram by Gary J Bass: about US involvement in South Asia during the Cold War and particularly how it shaped politics between India, Pakistan and China
War by Margaret MacMillan: not strictly foreign policy, but it is about the place of war in history and politics
I'd also just recommend reading magazines and news and reporting about international politics; it's always more timely and easier to get the hang of. You can check out Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Politico, Carnegie Endowment, Lowy Institute to start with; most of them also have podcasts
some essays to fill your time
Just a bunch of things I've read recently.
The Authoritarian Roots of India's Democracy by Tripurdaman Singh
Why is Everything So Ugly?
Casual Viewing by Will Tavlin
“You are Next”: Unmarried Urban Women in India and the “Marriage Talk” by Shilpa Phadke
Crossing Days by Thomas Dai
Inside the Indian Manosphere by Lhendup Bhatia
Optimism and Desperation by Camilla Grudova
Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College by James Walsh
Blunt-Force Ethnic Credibility by Som-Mai Nguyen
When My Authentic is Your Exotic by Soniah Kamal
The discontent of Russia by Joy Neumeyer
On anti-political projects by Kat Rosenfield
'Correcting' historical wrongs is a slippery slope by Manu Pillai
Random History Facts - MASTERLIST
Pittima
marmots and the plague
Thespians at the battle of Thermopylae
domestication of dogs in the Mesolithic era
Saturnalia
Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki expedition
how history has influenced Italian language (1848, and the battle of Caporetto)
Malleus Maleficarum
Playing Cards and Tarot
Women, beer and ...witches?
Witch-finder General
Shoichi Yokoi
Stigma Diaboli
Boudica - the queen who rebelled against Romans
Lupercalia - Ancient Roman celebration of the 14th of February
(Ask) a few historical facts that aren't spoken about enough
MK Čiurlionis: a Lithuanian artist that did nothing but paint and compose music for 6 years straight. Most paintings rarely leave Lithuania because they’re incredibly fragile (he couldn’t afford the durability of oil paints or large canvas) so I feel blessed to have seen his mythological cities, anthropomorphic mountains and clouds in a glorious array of colours in person.
websites where the internet still feels fun to me:
mynoise.net - fully ad-free, customizable and interactive soundscape website!! my favourites are oblivion and the seasonal walk in the wood series. so many great little features to play around with and discover :) my go-to for studying or working or just background noise
steepster.com - tea review website. pretty buggy but just fun to poke around in if you like tea. people take tea seriously here and write very earnest reviews of it. if you have letterboxd-quip fatigue this is the place to go
lomography - for film photography enjoyers
ravelry.com - if you knit or crochet at all you already know what this is
the city of vancouver archives' collection of photographs - just a ton of film photos taken around vancouver, especially in chinatown in the 70s.
wikiart - huge online collection of art, all downloadable at really high resolutions. no algorithm just high res art scans :)
pinterest + a really good adblock.
itch.io - huge indie game platform, including a ton that are free/that you can play in your browser! also they often have huge bundle sales where you can try a bunch of new stuff for very cheap :)
and of course, tumblr and internet archive :)
poetry recommendations for december
The Untrustworthy Speaker by Louise Glück
Ashes and Blossoms by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Raw With Love by Charles Bukowski
Dear [ ] by Nick Lantz
The Language of the Birds by Richard Siken
A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Snowdrops by Louise Glück
The Road Away by Kim Sowol
From June to December: Summer Villanelle by Wendy Cope
“After My Brother’s Death, I Reflect on the Iliad,” by Elisa Gonzalez
Letter to a Lost Friend by Barbara Hamby
Facing The Facts: Resources on the Armenian Genocide
Frequently Asked Questions About Armenian Genocide
Sample Archival Documents on the Armenian Genocide: U.S. Archives
Sample Archival Documents on the Armenian Genocide: British Archives
Map of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in the Turkish Empire
Talaat Pasha's Official Orders Regarding the Armenian Massacres, March 1915-January 1916
The Massacre of the Armenians (”Ambassador Morgenthau describes the forced evacuation of one group of Armenians from their homeland to the Syrian desert.”)
American Documents
British Documents
Russian Documents
French Documents
Austrian Documents
Public Lectures
Eye Witnesses
Aurora Mardiganyan's book, "RAVISHED ARMENIA" (14-year-old girl who managed to escape)
The Turkish Woman
That is all right, but who killed hundred of thousands Armenians?
Einar af Wirsen
The Story of Anna Hedwig Bull, an Estonian Missionary of the Armenian Genocide.
"That's How It Was"
ARAB EYEWITNESS FAYEZ ALGHUSSEIN ABOUT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Report by an Eye-Witness, Lieutenant Sayied Ahmed Moukhtar Baas
Letters of Turkish doctors addressed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkey
Martyred Armenia: Eyewitness account of the Armenian genocide by Faiz El-Ghusein a Turkish official
PHOTO COLLECTION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Aurora (Arshaluys) Mardiganyan: the girl who survived
Operation "Nemesis": Part 1
Gourgen Yanikyan: 13 bullets that shattered the world's silence
ASALA: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (part 1)
ASALA: VAN Operation, September 24 (part 2)
Monte Melqonyan: Armenian Hero
History of Artsakh: Part 1
What is western azerbaijan? - yet another azeri delusion
BREAK THE CHAIN OF IGNORANCE: Free Armenian Prisoners
September 19, 2023: Ethnic Cleansing of Artsakh
The Amusement Park of Armenian Genocide in baku
The dehumanization of Armenians as state policy in azerbaijan
Formula 1, Sportswashing and Greenwashing a Genocide … in other words, just an ordinary day in baku
Hey, could you recommend some books/essays/articles on the potential Chinese hegemony-a deep dive into Chinese politics? Thanks a bunch, and have a great day <3
hi! i don't know where you're writing from, so i must warn you that a lot of these involve implications for india.
Fateful Triangle by Tanvi Madan: a history of how US-India relations were shaped by the relationship of either with China during the Cold War; looks into the motivations of all countries involved
Belt and Road by Bruno Macaes: about the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), its economic, strategic, and soft power dimensions and how China sees the project
The Long Game by Vijay Gokhale: specifically about how China negotiates with India; especially insightful because he used to be the ambassador to China. Also see his After Tiananmen, which is about the directions that China took after 1989
China After Mao by Frank Dikotter: charts the reform in China starting in the 1970s; looks into the validity of the idea of "opening up"; looks at how the market works within the society and within the bounds of the Party
The Great Game in the Buddhist Himalayas by Phunchok Stobdan: studies China's and India's operations for strategic dominance in the Himalayas; looks at how the region became such a contentious one
Also just some articles/essays/papers:
China's Expanding Influence in the UN System by Gateway House
Chinese Investments in South Asia by Amit Bhandari
The China Trap by Jessica Chen Weiss
China's Hidden Tech Revolution by Dan Wang
China's Latin American Power Play by Julio Armando Guzman
South Korea's Slow Pivot to China by Amlan Dutta
Hope that helps!
my friend just told me that there's a secret second dashboard that solely contains posts from people you've turned on post notifications for, and when i click the link in the messages it opens it within the tumblr app, so the tumblr app also has a secret second dashboard for post notification blogs, and the only way to access it is to open the link for it within the app.
i literally love tumblr
Want to learn something new in 2022??
Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)
40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)
Excellent basic crochet video series
Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)
Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)
How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)
Another drawing character faces video
Literally my favorite art pose hack
Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??
Introduction to flying small aircrafts
French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding
Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)
Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)
Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)
Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:
Calculus 1 (full semester class)
Learn basic statistics (free textbook)
Introduction to college physics (free textbook)
Introduction to accounting (free textbook)
Learn a language:
Ancient Greek
Latin
Spanish
German
Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)
French
Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)
Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.
Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version, here's a 2017 version.
As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here's Kenneth Brannagh's 2006 one.
Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here's the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.
Cymbelline: Here's the 2014 one.
Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant's here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here's A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet. Andrew Scott's Hamlet is here.
Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.
Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.
Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010's here.
King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.
Macbeth: Here's the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.
Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.
The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.
The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!
Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.
Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.
Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here's the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.
Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.
Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version. Here's a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!
The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one is the Shakespeare Retold modern retelling.
The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010's too.
Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,
Troilus and Cressida can be found here
Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here
Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.
Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here. The BBC version is here.
The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here
Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.
(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)