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genuinely can’t stress enough if you’re in high school rn and anyone is telling you that’s the best time of your life they are lying. it gets better. hs is arguably the worst. if you can survive that you can survive anything. despite the horrors i know i’m always posting about i swear life is so much better as an adult

pomegranate-flower

aveloka-draws

Couldn't stop thinking about that tweet, I love the idea of a god promoting his faith.

ultfashionista

“i didnt think the guns would shoot my neck” says guy who voted for the guns shooting people in the neck party

weirdsociology

this "negative" review of guillermo del toro's upcoming frankenstein movie is everything to me

"The Mexican director has chosen to emphasise the romanticism at the expense of the horror. Elordi plays the creature as a misunderstood, James Dean-like outsider with Oedipal issues rather than as an agent of evil and chaos. Even if his face and torso are latticed with suitably grotesque scars, staples and stitches, he is not only the most sympathetic character in the movie but the best-looking one too. It’s left to Oscar Isaac to provide the real villainy as the brilliant but egomaniacal scientist, Victor Frankenstein..."

HELLO YES IT'S ME, MARY SHELLEY CALLING, JUST WANTED TO ASK IF YOU'VE EVER SEEN A GUILLERMO DEL TORO MOVIE OR... I DON'T KNOW... READ MY BOOK?

"The film lurches between scenes of lush romantic melodrama and moments of Grand Guignol bloodletting."

*bangs fists on table* SIGN! ME! THE! FUCK! UP!

midnightmadwoman

"You drink lemonade? Ugh. Enjoy your lemon-water-sugar concoction, idiot."

Thank you, I will. It's why I ordered the lemonade.

what-even-is-thiss

They don’t actually give you an encyclopedic knowledge of something when you get in a degree in it. They give you the skill to learn more about it on your own.

ekjohnston

This is 100% the second most important thing I learned while getting my archaeology degree.

beka-tiddalik

Incidentally this is why asking "what do you even use your degree for, you don't work in the [arts] industry" questions are wrongheaded.

Arts degrees teach the philosophical background of the subject, how to distinguish between sources, how to interpret data, how to analyze sources, how to properly cite your sources, and how to present a cohesive argument on something that's inherently at least somewhat subjective.

I do not work in academia but I use this skillset almost constantly, because one is never not exposed to ideas or data that one then has to form an opinion on.

And frankly it's why it doesn't matter how good your vocational degree is, you still need to keep current and upskill every once in a while because new processes and discoveries and standards come out all the time and it's adapt or become unemployable.

chaotic-archaeologist

It's about learning theories and methods. And what journals/authors/books/databases you need to look at for more information. And how to reference things you've read with what you already know.

ghw-archive

Purple silk damask dress, 1830s

goth-queen

ofallingstar

The Lodgers (2017)

vangoghcore

by jonathan.mllr

quietwingsinthesky

possession horror where the thing possessing the autistic character causes them to behave in a more neurotypical way. autistic possession horror where the thing inside you is easier to communicate with than you are, the thing inside you doesn’t have a flat affect, the thing inside you doesn’t let your body stim, the thing inside you is how you were told to behave and you can only do it when you are no longer you. autistic possession horror where you will never forget that everyone liked it better than you before they found out something was controlling you. autistic possession horror where they know what’s inside you isn’t you and debate whether it would be easier for everyone to leave you like this anyway. you agree. reblog.

etherealacademia

peles castle, sinaia, romania

innerchildabortionclinic

fave genre of comment on terrible songs

self-loving-vampire

It turns out that actually standing by "men and women are not inherently very different" is a reliable way to bother absolutely everyone. Left or right, cis or trans, feminist or misogynist, all cling to the binary for dear life.

stlamb

mysticdragon3md3

Ngl i prefer the 2016 version purple on the right.

thedoctorknits

in which I watch other hobbies learn about the problem of getting consistent dye lots

agrioxoiros-deactivated20240927

@mamoru

mamoru

what you have to understand is lamy dark lilac (2016, the real lamy dark lilac) still gets sold for hundreds of dollars per bottle by resellers when it originally sold for $10. and people bought it because they loved that limited edition ink so much. LDL is one of the grail inks for fountain pen ink collectors, and one of the most common reasons to mix fountain pen ink is to try to imitate it.

but the dyes used in the original lamy dark lilac are no longer even available, and it took several lamy representatives promising it was the exact same ink before anyone told the truth. and remember: THE DYES WERE NEVER AVAILABLE FROM THE START OF PRODUCTION. this is not a matter of inconsistency between batches, lamy knew that the ink would have to be completely different and they called it dark lilac anyway while several of their representatives communicated that it was the exact same ink.

people were fighting and fighting and fighting because it was obviously a different formula, it looked different, but lamy said it was the same, so the person doing the swab of the color must have been wrong, because lamy would never lie. and then when lamy admitted it was a completely different ink, there was fighting about whether or not it is wrong to call a product a re-release of the something while it is completely different. some lamy fans refuse to admit lamy can ever do anything wrong, when they do a ton of shit wrong.

there was no reason to call this ink a re-release of dark lilac other than as a cash grab for any sucker who had the gall to believe that when lamy calls something a re-release of one of the most beloved fountain pen inks of all time, that it would actually be the same ink.

I personally think that if you claim to be re-releasing one of the most famous inks in the world, it should actually be the same ink, or name it something different. lamy deep lilac. lamy new lilac. lamy green lilac because of the green sheen instead of the gold sheen lamy dark lilac became famous for. fucking, anything else

lamy is a piece of work, their quality control has been shit for years, and they make a ton of money by enshittifying their products for people who miss when they were less trash.

damn good thing the entire company just got bought out by mitsubishi pencil company.

homoqueerjewhobbit

daja-the-hypnokitten

Ok, but y'all.

On *high quality* paper? The color isn't even CLOSE to the original. Like, the photo that the WSJ is using doesn't even show it off at its best. If you look at a pen retailer's review, like Goulet Pens, here, there's a really good set of photos on different paper types (because with fountain pens that makes a heck of a difference, trust me).

To pull one image from the review I linked:

Like. Can you look at that and tell me they look even CLOSE to each other? (For folk not into fountain pens, Tomoe River paper - such as this - is considered the best paper you can use)

So yeah. There's RAGE at Lamy for daring to do this to us, even though it's a function of the original pigments no longer being available.