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whatever strikes my fancy at any given moment | 18, she/her

[likeahauntingmelody]

before sunrise (1995)

[allsadnshit]

Some recent hope-core screenshots from my phone

[wordfather]

the only way out is through but fuuuuuuuuuck fuuuuucckkkk cant i like scooch past or something

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: t a t tg t c cc cat cc at tg

Closest match: Coccinella magnifica genome assembly, chromosome: 4 Common name: Scarce Seven-Spotted Ladybird

(image source)

[rederiswrites]

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

[alexseanchai]

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

[rederiswrites]

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

[pandorasquillandquotes]

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

[vaspider]

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

[foxofninetales]

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

[electronsprotonscroutons]

Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar

[magneticdeclination]

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come

[doctornerdington]

Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.

I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.

[calystarose]

Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm

[ariaste]

Can't believe no one's mentioned Consider the Fork yet, which is about how environment/resources shape our ways of eating, which shapes both our culture and our concepts of politeness. So interesting, really recommend!

[junietuesday]

*through gritted teeth* when i do something wrong and am politely asked to change my behavior its just a simple request to fix a problem and not an indictment of my character. when i do something wrong and am politely asked to change my behavior its just a simple request to fix a problem and not an indictment of my worth as a human being

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[twinflamedreams]

[plasticfangtastic]

Dunno if anybody will see this but this person made a how to guide on how to make this at home (this guide is from 2 yrs ago btw)

Lectern Book by Verdant Core

A handy spreadsheet to work out the dimension of the parts to cut

[stardial]

missing someone is crazy because you’ll have dreams that r like “we went on a nice walk together :)” and you’ll wake up feeling like you’re gonna throw up

[miss-coffee]

Some people need to be hugged and some people need to be poked in the eyes with a fork. The best ones get both.

[chronictranssexuality]

"you don't owe anyone anything" You are a tar pit. Speak for yourself. I personally owe the cafe employees my dishes put away and my friends a listening ear and small scared insects a cup and a gentle trip outside. Hyperindividualism is a rancid infection borne of capitalism and willfully misinterpreted therapyspeak and I will defy it by continuing to be kind regardless of whether or not it benefits me personally

[ariaste]

Agreed, and just to tack on an important additional point which I personally have often struggled with: Let us remember that in addition to What We Owe Other People, we too count as people and We Owe Things To Ourselves as well. It's not an either-or situation. We have to have both, and it is difficult to hold both these concepts in your mind at one time.

If you lack a concept of What You Owe Other People, then you do, as OP says, end up with hyperindividualism, and that is a really quick and ugly path towards self-isolation and destroying relationships with your kith and kin. You will become a tar pit.

On the other hand, if you lack a concept of What You Owe Yourself, then you end up becoming a tar pit in the opposite direction: a toxic people-pleaser who sacrifices all your boundaries, who feels constantly victimized because you've never gotten confident with exercising your own agency, who does nothing to stand up for yourself with calm assurance and kindness, and who allows others so much control over every aspect of your life and self-expression that you lose all sense of yourself. For example, this is the artist or writer who is so anxious about pleasing the audience and escaping criticism that they become utterly alienated from the idea of making art that they themselves enjoy or feel passionate about, even though it is their art and there is no such thing as thoughtcrime. This is also the person who gets into a series of awful relationships because they don't believe that they deserve to be treated with respect.

You do Owe Other People something. But remember that you don't owe them everything. Some things You Owe To Yourself. True, genuine, sustainable kindness lies somewhere in the middle ground between those two concepts.

[titsay]

they are tired of being busy bees

[gayvampyr]

i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

[gayvampyr]

“red and green are opposites 🥰” cool now how do i paint a tree with pinks and blues without it looking like a child’s finger painting or incongruous blobs of rainbow vomit

[gayvampyr]

ok i can’t explain it very well but im looking for tips and techniques for rendering art like

with specifically the highlights and colors being hues that compliment each other, don’t distract from the scene, and make it more interesting/visually appealing

is it too much to ask

[moreclaypigeons]

gonna drop some sources I have saved on Pinterest! I don't know if these all link back to the original sources so apologies for that

cohesive but still contrasting

This kind of talks about color and composition

This is a bit about landscape specifically

Values & composition

Contrast in composition

Balance in colors & values

This one's more for palette building but I think it's useful and can be applied to the other ones

Cohesion within compositions/lighting

"Chromatic fringe" - I also see people using this with shading, they bring in a transition color that is a different hue than the base color or shadow, it makes it so that less vibrancy is lost and it doesn't get muddy!

This one specifically has a lot of process behind the style of painting you're looking for!

Also one of my favorite artists who makes bright and colorful art like this is Not Sorry Art on TikTok & YouTube, her website is here and it's<3 my fav. She has some videos where you can see her process

With the oranges painting you put as an example, I noticed they painted the lighter values more toward yellow - they also exaggerated the hues of the undertones of the photo, so I'm guessing they either did it in their head or bumped the saturation up to get a closer look! I really love these paintings you shared and I definitely share your desire to paint/draw like that :)

[gayvampyr]

thanks this is super helpful! /gen

[wizardarchetypes]

a recent comment on one of my posts suggesting that i spend most of my time online has me thinking about an ask i got recently where someone was like “i swear you’re online more than i am so how do you find the time to do all the stuff you’re always posting about???”

it’s not something i take any offense to like i genuinely think it’s funny that i’ve unintentionally created this illusion. bc in fact when i decided to return after my 3 year hiatus, i set pretty strict rules for myself because on my old blog i was constantly online, for years, and this time i didn’t want it to be like that. not that i think there’s anything wrong with that! blogging is a great hobby and/or profession for ppl to have, but it’s not the experience i wanted to have on this new blog, so i have strictly imposed daily & weekly time limits for using tumblr and other socials.

but i get that i pop in throughout the day and post enough that it looks like i’m as online as ever.

when in reality i spend the vast majority of my days in the woods with literally no cell service. yesterday i was in a cave.

[racial]

might fuck around and drink the daily recommended amount of water

[racial]

i have to pee

[nyxbarb]

— by Joan E. Biren, JEB; Priscilla and Regina in Brooklyn (1979), published in Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians (1979)

[lemonemonem]

i do not fundamentally understand the function of a vest (the american kind). in what scenario is only part of my body cold? my appendages get colder fastest anyways

[lemonemonem]

uh OH! this user might’ve caught a case of the silly and WHIMSIES

[teaboot]

"I don't believe Tarot is real, but it does work"

Expand on that, king (genuinely curious)

I feel like…

okay, so it’s a lot like conceptual art, or like introspective meditation, at the risk of sounding pretentious

Like. It’s not so much about “the cards are a portal to a higher wisdom that knows more than me” thing- it’s more of a, “given the symbols drawn, could I interpret them posing a question or possibility or suggestion?” Followed by, “is this applicable to my current context? COULD it be?”

Like.

I don’t lay out á tarot hand and say “ah yes, the devil and the tower, I am about to be betrayed”

But I MAY lay out a hand and say, “okay, devil and the tower. Something treacherous and danger. Am I approaching a treacherous or risky situation in my life? What might be a tipping factor? Am I being deliberately reckless? Maybe I should spend some more time working on X project I’ e been thinking of before spending money on it” or “you know what, I HAVE been kind of uncomfortable with X thing, I should say something” or “yeah okay I KNOW Tom from work sucks to work with, I KNOW, yeah maybe I should consider ways of handling that”

Less of a magic oracle, more of a tool for doing literary analysis on real life. Like simplifying everything and laying it out flat so I can gain some distance to untangle my problems without in-your-head crap like projected feelings and social obligation getting in the way and muddying the waters.

So like. I don’t think tarot cards can legit tell the future, but I DO think that self-reflection, mindfulness, and consideration sometimes allow us to predict and calculate our own circumstances.

So, IMO- It’s not real. But it works

If that makes sense

[ariaste]

The greatest source of "magic" in this world is the human brain's capacity for pattern recognition and drawing meaning out of random chaos, and a tarot deck is a type of randomness engine with some meanings attached. You lay out some cards, your brain sees things that are meaningful to you and spots angles that you might not have considered before.

Is it supernatural? No.

Is it incredibly cool and can it often be very useful? Yes. The human brain is magnificent and powerful. And that's just pure science, baybee