magpie stash

A rambling collection. I have been here for over ten years - at this point if you need to ask my age no you don't. I block the usual creeps, Tories, terfs, etc.

[tearsofrefugees]

Only 1.5% of Gaza cropland left for starving Palestinians due to Israel’s war, UN says

Figure down from 4% in April, suggesting Israel has continued to target farmland in once-abundant Gaza Strip

[kindredspiritsandgoodomens]

Strongly recommend giving what you can to the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature's Gaza work, which is actively restoring and utilising farmland in Gaza to grow and provide food especially fresh vegetables.

[everythingfox]

“Nothing feels better than 100% natural wool”

(via)

[topcat77]

"Still Life"

Egon Schiele 

[amare-habeo]

Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890-1918)

Still-life, N/D

Oil on canvas

[knifefightscene]

[swanlake1998]

precious adams photographed performing as myrthe in mary skeaping's giselle by isabella turolla

[expressions-of-nature]

by Inga Ivanova

[blorbocedes]

WTA player Zeynep Sönmez talking about how tournaments won't let her use a Palestine flag pin out of solidarity, even though the Ukrainian flag is allowed and how she uses a watermelon dampener to represent it. My speculation is that sponsors wouldn't allow it, because, after all Ukrainian player Elina Svitolina is sponsored by Palantir (which is doing a Wimbledon Garden Party event), which has a contract with the IDF to use AI to target Palestinians

[sunderwight]

Every day I am haunted by the fact that Jupiter Ascending was not based off of a million word space opera fantasy book series and that I cannot go to the library and take out like six door-stopper sized volumes of sheer unhinged gendervibes-y space werewolf bee queen batshittery where every new freudian space eugenicist villain talks like he's trying to eat the scenery's pussy out harder than the last guy. 😔

[myvintagevogue]

Harper’s Bazaar January 1944 - photo by Louise Dahl Wolfe

[feydpauls]

hannah einbinder for myth magazine

[cerceos-deactivated20160308]

Calvin and Hobbes - It’s July Already

[quasi-normalcy]

Trauma is such a broad concept that it's basically useless at this point. Honestly, I kind of resent how it has come to be treated as a universal theory of human behaviour.

[quasi-normalcy]

Like I've gotten into a car accident. I can't get behind the wheel. I think that it's fair to call that trauma, because i can't really think what else you would call it. Maybe I need a therapist for that, I don't know.

I spent, along with the rest of you, a year and a half under various states of quarantine. People call that trauma, but it's not remotely the same as the first one. I found it stressful, perhaps, but I've never had nightmares about it, and if they ever decide to shut everything down again, I'll just shrug and deal with it. It won't give me flashbacks or whatever.

And then of course, I've spent the last year, along with the rest of you, watching a genocide play out in real time over social media. Has that traumatized me? Maybe. I've had nightmares about it. I've had extreme outbursts of sorrow or (especially) anger over it. I've seen certain images that stay with me even when I close my eyes. But you know what, I don't think that I need a therapist for it, I think that what i need is for the fucking genocide to end and for the fuckers responsible to be brought to justice. Trying to medicalise this is not just useless, or even counterproductive; i think it's bloody insulting.

[quasi-normalcy]

And, actually, I want to talk about the genocide a little more, because people also use discourses of trauma to excuse explain the behaviour of the genocidaires. "Oh, it's because of Israel's national trauma over the October 7th attack; it's because of generational trauma from the Holocaust!" which....okay, yeah. I fully acknowledge those things are incredibly horrific to live through, and I have no reason to doubt that research on epigenetic changes being passed down to your offspring is valid, or that it affects how you raise your children. But then you see pictures of IDF soldiers smiling and laughing together as they commit war crimes and, like...is their behaviour really so much different from that of every other bunch of genocidal thugs in history that you need to invoke a particular cultural history of trauma in order to explain it? What about the Germans? Were they all just reeling from their collective national trauma over losing the First World War? What about the American cavalries as they slaughtered their way through the West? Was that all just generational trauma over...fuck, I dunno, their Puritan ancestors being kicked out of England or whatever? Is anyone ever responsible for anything they do, or is it all just a vast human centipede of generational suffering stretching back in time to Adam and Eve's trauma over being expelled from Paradise?

[quasi-normalcy]

Help, my generational trauma forced me to do a fire-sale of expropriated Palestinian real estate!

[quasi-normalcy]

#important#I think “trauma” can be a trigger/excuse for bad behaviour#but like I think think the biggest motivator is it feels awesome to be superior to others

[arte-artem-artibus]

Furuya Kōrin 古谷紅麟 - Kōrin moyō 光琳模様, 1907, woodblock printed book, ink and color on paper, 25 x 18 cm

[offshoreoilrig]

If tumblr dies DM me for my full home address and we can have a barbecue

[the-rainbow-of-doom]

David Hockney Bigger Trees Nearer Warter, Summer 2008 / Bigger Trees Nearer Warter, Winter 2008

[transmutationisms]

the letterboxd review, a hybrid literary genre equally born of the recipe blog personal essay and the desire to receive reddit gold,

[itssquidbian]

feminist retelling shoulsnt be the woman does some girlboss shit femist retelling is she does the same stuff except u actually give a shit abt her perspective and thoughts and feelings as a human being this time