Itās Appa-latch-uh, not Appa-lay-shuh. Kal, she/her. Level 35. #304 #WestByGod Newest Blorbos that we're being completely normal about: Sleep Token, Ghost the band, Jujustu Kaisen
Magritte was a Surrealist, known for his juxtaposition of objects in ways that make the viewer work to see past the individual elements to the image as a whole, thereby forcing a reevaluation of the meaning of the objects as they relate to the idea conveyed by the image.
Genuinely one of my favorite paintings of his, I could write so many papers about the various interpretations of the image. A non-zero amount of those papers might perhaps interrogate my enjoyment of this painting, Magrittes Surrealist philosophy, his preoccupation with the hidden, and my fascination with Sleep Token, both as a band and as a work of art or theater (don't @ me I have so many thoughts).
All of this to say, when I saw critial1611s artwork, I sprinted to one of my Discord servers to scream about it in an artwork prompts thread... and someone answered!!!!!!!
Behold! "The Lovers" by seb (link is to its Instagram)
I was probably being a lil weird on the server about how much I loved it, but I was squealing and kicking my feet to see my imagination visualized so clearly. The kiss! The fabric! The necklaces! The clear representation of real life in the style and design of their masks and their sizes (tallest and smallest) (I'm placing ii on the drum stand, since iii is leaning up)!
And the papers I could write!! A discussion of the potential meanings of "closed eyes vs open eyes" in this version versus the original painting; the hierarchical implications of height placement wrt the sizes of the band members, their chronological entrances to the band, and their stage personas; the meanings that could be found in the twisting of the fabric (seb pointed out that in Magritte's painting, the twisting of the fabric on the left figure sort of looked like a hand wrapping around the back of their head, and included that in its artwork) when compared to their real-life masks; a mirror of the discourse surrounding the OG re the closeness of the figures without a confirmation of their arms or hands touching, and what it could say when viewed through the lenses of sexuality and gender; the connotations of a kiss in the doorway; AND MANY MORE!
"You're really into this painting, wow!" Yeah, it's my neurodivergent obsession with symbolism, metaphors, and the incurably fuzzy, individualized interpretation of images in artwork.
Thanks for the Nth time @ sebbie-- you are a gem!!
Dragons are fireless until they undergo the Hroom, the traditional draconic ceremony where a fledgling dragon will go out into the world and make a bargain with a spirit of elemental fire to live in their soul in a state of mutual symbiosis. The spirit receives shelter and nourishment, while the dragon receives a source of elemental fire, which it can only now use to defend itself.
In many draconic cultures, the Hroom marks a dragonās coming of age, a time to recognize that a dragon is now of a proper age to hold a weapon and defend itself. Some dragons believe that it is only by bonding with an elemental spirit that a dragon has a soul, and that a dragon is only a whole dragon when it has both the mortal shell and the inner spark.
There has been a backlash to this in recent centuries, of course. Fledglings these days are going out and making bargains with all kinds of things. This is usually spirits of elemental lightning and ice, but more than one dragon has come back to their clutch with a fairly bewildered witch.
#Does the witch live inside the dragon's soul after...?
Metaphorically, yes. One dragon had married the witch she brought back to her clutch, and she said that meant their two souls had become one, which was basically the same thing.
The other dragons in her brood said it didnāt work that way, but she was able to breathe pure magic afterwards, so it at least worked that way for her.
probably the worst attitude tumblr unintentionally cultivates is "the world out there is completely dangerous for you and no one can possibly understand you, so you should isolate yourself from it and avoid interacting with it as much as possible"
"If you put away social media and you walk out into the streets and you look at real people, three-dimensional people, they mostly smile back at you. If you look around you- you see perfectly decent, ordinary people getting on with their lives and inclined, by and large, to rather like each other, that is the real us. Let us not be fooled."
Letās do a Wild Hunt larp where we kidnap Jeff Bezos and release him in the forest and then give all the larpers (who are amazon employees) weird masks and motorbikes painted to look like fucked up horses and wolves.
This is not great horse handling, though. The foal is having its tail forcibly twisted (trauma to the tail can result in dislocations and fractures to the spine), while its head is bent around, and is then pinned down once brought to the ground. It has no way to resist without doing damage to its neck and spine, and the manner in which it is physically restrained on the ground looks like it might trigger tonic immobility, had it been held down much longer.
I understand that there is always more than we see, but ... we're seeing this, which leads me to question why the person videoing chose to keep filming, instead of putting the camera away and helping by holding the foal, so that the vet doesn't need to grapple it to the ground. What has been gained by filming this? The foal could have had a normal experience, without the twisting of the tail and neck, where it remained on its feet and was not brought down like a prey animal about to be devoured - but instead, this is one of its early experiences of veterinary work and human handling. Sure, it's young, and may bounce back just fine, physically and emotionally, but this would not be my preferred choice for doing a blood draw.
^ what mylittlehony said above. This video is so concerning and while the vet is certainly impressive, it comes at such great risk to the foal. It's astonishing how many people believe it's perfectly find to crank a foal's tail up for restraint, and I do believe that this can cause wry tail from damage to the spine. I've had a horse with a broken neck before (she was a rescue, we didn't know her neck was broken when we got her.) It really affects their ability to use their body correctly.
I just don't understand. Why do we think it's okay to treat newborns like this?
Was curious so I found the tiktok account and indeed the comments are full of fellow vets and students or owners praising this vet's method for being less violent or aggressive in taking the foal down. I guess it's a chronic issue that there just isn't enough people to help with the foal and calm the mother horse at the same time?
@sunpuppycat-art, yes, this vet said she was working solo and the camera person was presumably blocking the mare. I agree that itās not an ideal way to draw blood, but itās really on the owner to halter and prep the mare and foal in advance so that isnāt necessary. And lots of young foals are not halter trained. She also said that this method does not work all the time, and I think as a vet she would know how much twisting would be too much. Personally, if I were the owner of the foal and it wasnāt cooperating, I would ask to sedate, but but there may be reasons why it was not done, such as risk of the foal falling. Or perhaps it was done and the foal just didnāt go down, and the vet didnāt want to up the dose due to its small size. The foal here looks confused but not traumatized. This technique is called āfoldingā to induce lateral recumbency and is very common.
@perlen-gold the vet is drawing blood, not vaccinating. It is far easier to access the vein when the foal is lying down, and safer. It makes it a lot harder for the foal to jerk or move its head and neck. This foal is HUGE for being a day old. The technique is not as brutal as it looks. The hand on the tail is firm but thereās very little weight being placed on it. She is mostly using her legs to tilt the foal. This was over very quick, which also reduces stress on the foal.
Iām reading this book about the changing arctic and the author stayed with the Nunamiut people of inland alaska for a while and talked to this high school kid who was like āugh I hate going to school in the spring I wish I was hunting caribouā and I thought that was charming. you often hear about people who are devoted to preserving their traditional culture and knowledge but itās rare to hear about someone whoās invested in the old ways out of pure teenage selfishness. school is lame and hunting caribou is awesome
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