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a rare place where the veins overtake skyscrapers (or at least they used to). WELL, I'M NOT A SCIENTIST, BUT I KNOW ALL THINGS BEGIN AND END IN ETERNITY. writer, Kerouac and Plath impersonator, feminist, in love with 1976 David Bowie, cellist, Tokyo Ghoul and NGE fanatic

[brostateexam]

I have to say this somewhere. It's killing me.

The fact that so many STEM bros think ChatGPT is a good writer demonstrates the need for more comprehensive literature education. Beyond the fact that it confidently writes essays that are factually incorrect, it is just not a substitute for someone who is actually a good lyricist or poet or essayist.

Listening to STEM people say "this could replace copy writers" just proves that they don't actually read copy.

[buglover77]

Me when I realize that the writers strike will potentially open up new waves of audience support for lower budget, independently created media that people put their authentic selves into, including less limitations on queer, neurodiverse, disabled, and poc representation

It’s always writing that people remember. Let’s see what happens when your creatives go out on their own. So much of the best art is a middle finger to whoever said they couldn’t make it.

[randombullcreator]

[bobbincosplays]

Ganondorf: do not look away. You witness a king's revival, and the birth of his new wor- where the fuck is my horse

Ganondorf: what do you mean "it's been registered already"?? Who registered MY HORSE?!

Link: I named him Chungus

[anna-neko]

cosplay so old** ... it was shot ON FILM (during the last millennium no less), atta con that still exists at least **yes, the cosplayer is even a teen! Not quite the chara's age, but close enuff

[hymnsofheresy]

everytime i tell europeans my favorite cuisine is texmex & sonoran they are like “American bastardized Mexican food?” and i feel like im going insane. its not bastardized. its their fucking cuisine.

[hymnsofheresy]

europeans are absolutely missing the context that sonoran chicanos and tejanos have existed on that land long before the US conquered that territory. there actually isn’t a strict clean line between american and mexican cultures. North America is full of multiple cultures that aren’t easily divided up by arbitrary borders enforced by the state.

[frankiecorleone]

“Our culture suffers from terminal brainworms when it comes to artistic expression. We are under the impression that art is something ‘special people’ do, and to do it well makes you a genius and to do it poorly is embarrassing. This sectioning-off of ‘the art world, for artists,’ from regular life and regular people is completely artificial and it is bad for the soul of your society.

You see, for most of history and in current cultures that do not have this psychological disorder, you do not sing because you’re a singer, you sing because you’re a person—it’s fucking singing! Religious institutions are one of the last places that we still understand that singing is an innately human participatory social act, not the exclusive domain of fuckin’…Ariana Grande.

The result of removing this stigma and arbitrary qualification required to do something as simple as draw or dance isn’t just less self-hatred, less insecurity, less anxiety, better community, better connection to your body, more holistic communion with others and the world around you, and simple indulgence in your fundamental humanity—it also results in categorically better artists.”

CJ the X, 7 Deadly Art Sins

[animentality]

[commradequestions]

Disney using gay as a weapon against a fascist because taxes is on brand but wasn't on my bingo card for 2023

[iamnmbr3]

#honestly it gets event funnier#disney HAS to support gay people publicly now#because they need to have good evidence that desantis is#attempt to punish them for pushing for queer rights#in order to win their lawsuit#so the more desantis reacts and the more disney jabs him with gay people#existing#the better chance they win their suit against him#it's hilarious via @the-final-sif​

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I'm so glad that the capitalist hellscape is at least funny

[alyruko]

vegan sushi

[yodaprod]

Samsung Mymy MY-A245R (1996)

[streetkit]

People in other countries wonder why USAmericans are so sickly and usually figure "Oh it's because healthcare is so expensive there" or "Oh it's because their food is so limited and unhealthy" and yeah those are true but also it's because doctors will make fun of you and accuse you of drug seeking and tell you to just lose weight if you go to the hospital for anything less than life threatening here

[thunderbottle]

i think queer people should be more confusing actually. i think we should make everyone as confused as possible until they give up and realize that total understanding of other people isnt the gateway to respect and compassion

[enigmamuse]

I bring a sort of “let’s start killing each other” vibe to the timeloop that other people stuck in the timeloop don’t really like

[toastbutteregg]

[gotterhag]

This is an EXTREMELY blessed post! And accurate! When I first moved out I was so excited for my new place I slept on the floor and had my tv there and that was it. Loved it. You grow and you build and you gain and you lose. I lost that place and everything in it. Now I have a new place with new things and it’s very much home.

[dexdefyingstunts]

In the future, there is a small, quiet room that is just yours, where you are safe and you are free. In that room your shoulders will finally start to come down from around your ears.  Nobody can come into that room unless you let them.  In that clean quiet place, you will work and you will study.  You will love and you will heal.

-Captain Awkward, “Should I Move Away From My Abusive Family?”

[bitchesgetriches]

Leaving Home before 18: A Practical Guide for Cast-Offs, Runaways, and Everybody in Between

Ask the Bitches: “I Just Turned 18 and My Parents Are Kicking Me Out. How Do I Brace Myself?”

{ MASTERPOST } Everything You Need To Know About Living Independently for the First Time

[froginakettle]

I promise you that living like this is better than living in constant sorrow and pain

[3liza]

Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.

[3liza]

[3liza]

«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908. she's wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain

1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men's haori with western lapels

[applesforhela]

I have a love for both kimonos and bustle dresses, so I love seeing how the two fashions influenced each other over this period.  And thanks to Pinterest, I have pictures!

Victorian tea gown that clearly started as a kimono.  It still has the long furisode sleeves, but now they’re gathered at the shoulder and turned around so that the long open side is facing the front instead of the back.  Similarly the back is taken in with curved seams to fit the torso and pleated below that for the skirt.

Woodblock of a woman in a a bustle dress made with colorful patterned fabrics and examples of how a woman could style her hair with it.

More prints to showcase hairstyles, two women wearing western wear and two women wearing kimonos.

This next one’s modern, but it involves hoopskirts so I’ll add it in because it makes me so happy.  There’s been different styles of wedding fashion that take kimonos and give them a more modern look.  Often this involves taking a kimono and then cutting and resewing it into a new dress.  Very pretty, but it can’t ever be worn like a traditional kimono again.  But now there’s another trend where the bride wears a hoopskirt with a white skirt, then you take the kimono and drape it on.  The back of the kimono covers the front of the dress, the long sleeves fall across the sides or the back, and you still wear an obi with it.  The result is pretty and the kimono itself doesn’t have to be altered at all.

And because you mentioned steampunk, I have to add in these two:

[nonasuch]

Personally I’m a big fan of Taisho Meisen kimono, which are what happen when the Japanese textile industry abruptly gets access to aniline dyes, new spinning and weaving technology, and the concept of Art Deco:

[uuiuu-blog]

[ojibwa]

im so fucking determined to get better i swear to god lets do this bitch lets go