Art is Love Made Public

jasper, 25, queer, nb trans boy (he/they), jewish, sci-fi academia gothic

[todaysdocument]

Tag Bears and other wildlife for #NationalWildlifeDay!

Celebrate National Wildlife Day by tagging and transcribing Forest Service photographs of bears and other wildlife in the National Archives Catalog.

Animal: Bears - Montana  Series: Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History, ca. 1897 - ca. 1980. Record Group 95: Records of the Forest Service, 1870 - 2008

More vintage bear photos can be found the series: Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History, from the Records of the Forest Service.  Help to find, tag & transcribe these photos to make them more accessible and searchable for researchers and the public.

How to get started as a Citizen Archivist →

[gaysun-deactivated20230205]

Winnie the Pooh is a fat icon tbh

[gaysun-deactivated20230205]

reminder that Winnie the Pooh wore a crop top and ate his fave food and loved himself and u can too

[loveforallbears]

Chester Zoo: This little one is the first Andean bear cub to be born in mainland Great Britain and has spent the last few months bonding with mum whilst being snuggled away in their den. On occasion, the cub has started to venture outside under the watchful eye of mum Lima, but it is still incredibly shy. Adorable video here!

[thursday]

[abrunzell]

he protects me

[theawesomeadventurer]

all my pride posts this month so far have literally been the babadook

[hythlodays]

*whispers* i’m alive but i still don’t have internet in my new apartment

[thischarmingmothman]

Petition to create the term “rad herring” for when you something in a story has no bearing on the actual plot and won’t help piece together any of the big twists, but is just too fucking awesome an idea not to include.

[inksharktrash]

As a professional developmental editor, i hereby vow to include this term in my comments on all relevant manuscripts.

[jumpingjacktrash]

oh shit i have so many of these

[hythlodays]

would anyone hypothetically be interested in beta reading an #ownvoices original fiction manuscript featuring a bi trans guy protagonist?

[orcshaming]

when you spend enough time looking at unnecessarily gendered products it starts to become clear that the only two real genders are pink and black, so from now on i’m going to ask heterosexual couples which one of them is the stuart semple and which one of them is the anish kapoor

[blazingjaya]

SCREAMING

[nubbsgalore]

photos by (click pic) michael poliza, dennis fast and matthias brieter of polar bears amongst the fireweed in churchill, manitoba. the area has the largest, and most southerly, concentration of the animals on the planet. in late summer and early fall the polar bears make their way to the hudson bay, waiting for it to freeze over so they can hunt for seals on the ice. but every year, the ice is forming later and later, forcing the polar bears to go hungry for longer. 

[fuckyeahthenational]

The National Announce New Album, 'Sleep Well Beast'

Hear "The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness," the thrilling first single to The National's forthcoming album.

Boxer, the album that many still consider The National’s finest work, turns 10 in less than a fortnight. Ever since that album’s release, the Cincinnati-bred five-piece has been saying that its next record would channel the cataclysmic energy of its live shows — but at some point during the recording sessions for 2010’s orchestral High Violet and 2013’s simmering Trouble Will Find Me, the band’s elegant instincts have seemingly gotten the better of its feral intentions. Mighty as those songs can sound live, it’s with “The System Only Dreams In Darkness” (the first single from the band’s seventh album, Sleep Well Beast) that The National has come through on its promise.

For frontman Matt Berninger, “System” is a prison — a seemingly bulletproof relationship that springs a leak when its other half seeks comfort beyond its insular confines. Maybe that’s from someone else; maybe, more worryingly, it’s from God. “You said we’d only die of lonely secrets,” he creaks, sounding disappointed that such a bleak fate (and classic Berninger turn of phrase) hasn’t come to pass.

But for the rest of the band, it’s a race toward freedom. Produced by Aaron Dessner (and recorded at his new Long Pond studio in Hudson, N.Y.), “System” has a sound that’s sharper than on The National’s past two albums — more propulsive than dense — and it gleams and shudders with nervous bravado. With processed women’s voices calling throughout the mix, there’s even something of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” in its thrilling ascent.

Most strikingly of all, Bryce Dessner’s fractured guitar motif boils over into the first bona fide solo of The National’s 18-year career — a freewheeling groove that may owe some to the band’s ongoing Grateful Dead collaborations and that manifests the looser side that it’s grown steadily more comfortable revealing. The National is no longer a Brooklyn band; its members now live on both coasts and in Europe. But the vigorous “System” betrays no disconnect — and may be its most direct single since “Mistaken For Strangers.” When Berninger roars, “I can’t explain it any other, any other way,” at the song’s brassy climax, it’s easy to imagine him referring to the strange and brilliant alchemy that’s sustained the band over the past decade.

[butchannebonny]

In this totally uncalled for post I’ve commented on the episode Mac & Dennis Move to the Suburbs in relation to the suburban boom that took place in America in the 1950 and the gender roles associated with this new lifestyle.

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[madeline-kahn]

“People need their history. It gives them strength. They need to know that real men actually lived here. Not ghosts, and storybook legends- People who faced adversity and overcame it.”

Jackie (2016) dir. Pablo Larraín

[altonin-deactivated20180325]

is art over. like is it finished

[babyanimalgifs]

Aw, this is cute.

[ask-ickle-mod]

Honestly I can’t believe that I’m watching this right now. This is This is the sweetest most gentle and loving and pure thing I’ve ever beheld and I feel so blessed to have seen this

[his-shining-tears]

“Sshh don’t cry, my baby.”

[paintmixed]

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[elektranatchios]

Do you know what it is to be a lover? To be half of a whole? I’ll tell you a riddle. You’re waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don’t know for sure. But it doesn’t matter. How can it not matter to you where that train will take you? Because you’ll be together. 

Inception (2010) dir. Christopher Nolan