Chickens roosting. But also angsty.

[mysharona1987]

There is no part of this diatribe that is not amazing or 100% true.

[decemberdancer04]

SAY IT AGAIN FOR ALL TO HEAR

[animatedamerican]

The line I saw a while ago that seems relevant:  “There is no such thing as unskilled labor, only undervalued skills.”

I can’t find a counterexample.

[mentaljen-deactivated20190625]

As someone that’s worked several years in retail I can confirm this is beyond true and accurate.

[kahtiihma]

every friend i know in white collar jobs just sits on their asses and watches netflix at works and me and my blue collar friends bust our fucking asses for peanuts

[fierceisnotenough-deactivated20]

I worked retail for 9 years, and when I left I was a merchandise manager who got paid $12.50 and hour. That’s right, I was a manager who got paid what amounts to $22,000-24,000 for the year. That’s below the poverty line.

I would keep my phone on me to count my steps, and routinely would get between 11,000-13,000 steps in an 8 hour shift.

The minimum wage needs an increase bad. That is all

[highfashionpakistan]

Fahad Hussayn’s “Gulzar Manzil” court editions, F/W 2015.

[hotfriend]

cause im mr brightside

[safety-officer-barto-deactivate]

if this isn’t already how you dance to mr brightside you’re lying

[betterbooktitles]

Whenever I hear an ad say ‘find it wherever books are sold’ I think that the advertiser doesn’t know what a bookstore is.

Dan Wilbur (via betterbooktitles)

[neverbeenmad]

Hey Kids! Spot the Differences! 

[neverbeenmad]

Voight-Kampff Empathy Test 2015

by SMLXist and NobleSasquatch (Twitter)

[highfashionpakistan]

Suffuse by Sana Yasir, Falaknuma, PLBW 2015

[medievalpoc]

Sarasa with Figures, Birds, and Fantastic Animals

India (c. 1680-1700)

Cotton Textile (painted resist and mordant, dyed); 69.9 x 34.9 cm.

This extremely rare sarasa—Indian painted cotton produced for the Japanese market—offers an Indian version of an Oriental fantasy. The unparalleled design includes whimsical figures and fanciful creatures in a lush forest. In each repeat, figures carry palanquins (covered litters) and hold umbrella canopies. The dark ground evokes late seventeenth-century Chinese lacquer screens. Its overtly Oriental flavor represents an Indian interpretation of chinoiserie, which itself developed from European reinterpretations of motifs found on decorative art objects imported from China.

-The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[highfashionpakistan]

Ali Xeeshan + accessories, F/W 2015

[fuckoffstraightpeople-blog]

i have so many thin friends who eat shit and don’t exercise ever and are probably rotting inside but no one says shit about their health so let’s stop pretending it’s fat people’s health you’re bothered about you transparent motherfuckers 

[dysn0mia]

when I was a heroin addict I lost a significant amount of weight, one day I took my sweatshirt off around a friend whom I never really liked that much and she just:

*gasp* “You lost so much weight! I’m so jealous, your tummy is so flat! you look so HEALTHY!”

I SHIT YOU NOT SHE SAID I LOOKED HEALTHY

I WAS ADDICTED TO HEROIN

[disfordana-deactivated20160510]

Lmaooooo

[hoebiba-deactivated20150913]

just a few from the #afterseptember11 twitter hashtag

[medievalpoc]

This is kind of off-topic, but I'm honestly not sure who else to ask or where to find the answer. I was wondering if you could tell me if medieval executioners actually wore black masks or if that is an idea concocted by Hollywood and such? If they didn't, what did they wear? Or you could point me to someone else I could ask or a place I can find the answer if you want/can?

Yeah, this question is a bit off-topic and non-specific, but the black hood is a Hollywood thing. In medieval europe and the middle east, an executioner would just wear typical work clothes. 

This is a drawing from the margins of a court record showing German executioner Franz Schmidt of Germany carrying out someone’s sentence of death in the 1500s. Schmidt had learned his trade from his own father, which we can know because he actually left a diary detailing his 45 years as a professional executioner, during which he put to death some 394 individuals. There is a book based on it by Joel F. Harrington. You can read an excerpt here.

You can see in various depictions of martyrdoms from the high middle ages, especially those depicting the death of Saint Barbara, that this tends to hold true. All of these executioners are wearing everyday clothing rather than a kind of intimidating uniform or a hood:

[The Huth Book of Hours. Flemish; c. 1480]

[Hans Pleydenwurff: Beheading of St Barbara, ~1470]

And this one’s a little later, but you can see that no mask is in evidence:

[Theodoor van Thulden; Netherlands, 1633]

All of these executions would be in what was referred to as “the French style”, in which the person to be killed would have knelt and then been beheaded with a sword. This is also how Anne Boleyn was executed.

[marcinjanik]

[aish-rai]

Salma Hayek at the Variety and UN Women’s Panel on Gender Equality

[addiction-mb]

Roy DeCarava - Sun and Shade, 1952

[eastiseverywhere]

Okudaira Masayuki / 奥平昌邁 Japan/USA (before 1884) [Source], [Source]

OK, so I should say Okudaira Masayuki (1855-1884) is cool and intercultural because he was brought up as an adoptive son of a samurai but ended up going to New Brunswick to study (which was where he died tragically of disease at the age of 29…

But the truth is, I wanna reblog him because he is a ridiculously beautiful man. Especially with those retouched colours. Rocketnews says he was famed for having beautiful hands, but I love that face, that man-bun (um, topknot) and the image of what samurai training does to a man’s musculature…

19thcenturyboyfriend, your move!

[female-arthistory]

Resting, Amrita Sher-Gil, c. 1939, oil on canvas