and being clever never got me very far

kiwi | any pronouns | multifandom and aesthetic and more | mobile mostly

[shitpostingkats]

I'm making my voice heard. Incredibly sexy and compelling of Wei Wuxian that he never feels the need to self-flagellate over the things he did in the war or as the Yiling Patriarch. He never asks for others' forgiveness. He never tries to "redeem" himself in the eyes of the people who love him. Lots of other books where the fact that the protagonist committed blatant war crimes and the angst they feel about that would be like 90% of the runtime, but my man Wei Wuxian spends more time being embarrassed about the way he acted at parties as a teenager than the fact that he has a killcount in the thousands. King shit honestly.

[homunculus-argument]

Putting zucchini in everything is the opposite of a guilty pleasure. It's a purifying penance that absolves you of all sin.

[homunculus-argument]

Any sufficiently advanced form of catholism is indistinguishable from bdsm.

[theinternetarchive]

I just want to let you guys know Cornell's entire library is open access (no permissions required) and there are (shocker) many books...

[uhhhhmanda]

76,474 books at time of reblog!!!

[redlipstickresurrected]

Fukuōji Kazuhiko aka 福王寺一彦 aka Kazuhiko Fukuōji (Japanese, b. 1955, Mitaka City, Tokyo, Japan) - Blue Bird of Moonlight from The Light of the Sun and the Moon, Japanese Paintings: Mineral Pigments

[glavilio]

disrupting skyspace james turnell / coyote

[porcelain-dollbones]

i don't really like it when western mythological terms are applied haphazardly to essentially unrelated ideas. this is a completely lost battle but a lóng is really not a dragon, it is its own thing with only surface level similarities

[porcelain-dollbones]

i especially dislike many works that try to fold all sorts of different mythologies into a single consistent schema because they tend to heavily privilege western conceptions in doing so- see 'dragonology' books twisting basically every mythical reptilian under the sun into the mould of 'a species of dragon', implicitly centring the beowulf-style firebreather as the default from which all other mythologies derive, or basically anything that does worldwide vampire bloodlines

[porcelain-dollbones]

relatedly a qílín is not a unicorn, a fènghuáng is not a phoenix, and a jiāngshī is not a vampire, and it can impede understanding when they're approached from the standpoint of being the 'chinese version' of these concepts from western myth

[south-africa-official]

i never really got it when people made posts about light pollution and seeing all the stars for the first time and crying. i always assumed that everyone has gone on a road trip to a bortle 1.0 place and seen stars like that, and it's fantastic, but not like life changing. and then i went to europe last month and was in a mountaintop village of like 300 people and could see about 5 stars in the sky. like fewer than i can see from my home in a big metropolitan city.

my apologies to the non-africans, i did not realise how fucked your sky is

[thememedaddy]

[evyltalks]

femandreil in my head 24/7 unfortunately

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

hearing anything about the nolan odyssey is so funny. it's like "they cut the extremely important and infamous nobody scene" "the cyclops is a giant puppet that they put in an actual historical cave + gave circe animatronics for her pig transformation instead of cgi" "they dumped plastic skeletons in an environmentally protected location they were not supposed to be in" "they recreated ancient greek instruments in order to have an accurate score" "all of odysseus's agency is basically gone" "anne hathaway actually learned how to weave ancient looms" "the women in this movie are treated like shit" "they actually buried actors alive to get those underworld shots" "did you see what the fuck zendaya was fucking wearing holy shit you can't DO THAT, MA'AM" "what do you mean there was a legitimate epic the musical reference" "NOT A SINGLE FUCKING GREEK WAS CAST IN THIS MOVIE"

like did nolan have two guys standing at his side at all times whispering ideas in his ear and one told the truth and the other told lies and they didnt tell him which was which until they wrapped production cause

[targetedknowledge]

[frankiesbullshit]

someone tell OP i did it, i spent about 3 hours on it

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

One flag to rule them all

[partywithponies]

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

[partywithponies]

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

[partywithponies]

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

[dizzyghoast]

i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.

I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case

[silverirony]

unreliable narrator but it's just an aromantic writing romance

[silverirony]

the author's barely concealed aromanticism

[recapitulation]

channeling my feelings into stamps 🙂‍↕️

[nepenthean-sleep]

straight white people making a romance movie: haha what if it was illegal to have sex? wait what's lawrence v texas. wait what's mclaughlin v florida. wait what's loving v virginia

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

if you're really chill about a lot of stuff, you will eventually become The Person Who Can Be Told Things and unlock a secret extra layer of knowledge about your friends

[copperbadge]

This also makes you a subconscious magnet for the one or two Really Kinky people at (non kink) parties. Whether this is a perk or a drawback is up to you.

[requiem-on-water]

Living: Some days you wake up and immediately start to worry (1980-82) by Jenny Holzer