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the walking polar bear gif is already one of my favourite gifs so can you imagine the noise I made when I saw this version
it's so evocative..... it's so hurt, but it is at peace.. it is moving on
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it's so evocative..... it's so hurt, but it is at peace.. it is moving on
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there’s love out there you can’t even see yet but i promise you it’s there 🤍
nanami cathartic haircut moment part 1
[Image description: Three illustrations of Nanami Kiryuu from Revolutionary Girl Utena. In the first one there's a black and white portrait of Nanami hanging on a wall. She's wearing her nightgown and earrings similar to the ones Utena wears in episode 36. Where her face should be is a photograph of her and Touga as children. The wall behind the portrait has a scissor-themed wallpaper.
In the second one, she's kneeling on the floor, wearing a Rose Bride dress and holding her two swords. Her face expresses realization, and there are parts of a cracked egg shell surrounding her.
In the third one, she's wearing her nightgown, grimacing, and sweating. She holds a pair of scissors towards a big lock of her hair she's pulling at. The section of hair she's about to cut short is red, and seems to wraps itself around her hand. The background is an intense red dripping down a white backdrop. End image description]
Glass Frog glows like a constellation within the dark of the South American rainforest.
milk-thistle is an example of a word where the tongue barely moves… basilica is an example of a word where the movement involved is like a seesaw. opium as a word is circular to say. to say a word like violence involves a bit of a forced pause in the mouth where the o connecting the syllables is. etymologists trace the word’s history, poets feel the word’s impact, singers listen to the word’s musicality, linguists tell the word to go this way and that way, and the word is gracious to all in return
I just saw perhaps the coolest art installation I have ever heard of.
This is a perfectly normal pin. On the head of it are 2.417 quintillion angels, give or take a few billion.
Joe Davis and Sarah Khan, the artist behind Baitul Ma’mur, (House of Angels) encoded the Arabic phrase “Subhan Allah” onto synthesized DNA, and then used that DNA to coat the head of a pin. According to some traditions, any time Subhan Allah is said or written, it creates an angel. With DNA being as dense an information storage medium as it is, this single pin has more created angels on it than have ever been born from human throats across all of human history.
And then in a fucking genius move, the art installation takes the form of a functional vending machine, loaded with an impossibly large quantity of angels. For $25, which goes right to the artists, you can buy a pin. I’m thinking about taking mine out of the test tube sometime and encasing it in resin to turn it into the highest % angel by volume earring ever worn, but that’s a project for the future.
There isn’t much else I can say that isn’t said by the documentation accompanying the exhibit. The photos aren’t the BEST quality but they should hopefully be mostly legible.
As of right now this installation is located at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and if you’re ever in the area you should totally check it out
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linguistics & the handmaiden
hi! I was rewatching The Handmaiden/Agassi because, we should all be doing that it’s a fantastic movie (if you’re thinking of watching it for the first time, please look up the content warnings!), and this time round i spent more time focusing on the language + formality used! I’m half Korean and i grew up learning Japanese (it’s not that great anymore) so by all means if I’m missing something, feel free to add on<3
So, Korean and Japanese both have levels of formality in how to talk and how to address someone of various ranks/age. Likewise, the usage of first names is incredibly intimate — reserved only for close friends and family members and lovers. Even nowadays, you CANNOT call someone by their first name, you have to be given permission by the other before you do so.
During Sookhee and Hideko’s first meeting during Hideko’s fake night terror, Sookhee surprisingly speaks EXTREMELY informal Japanese to Hideko. It may be because she’s trying to calm Hideko down, but it’s really interesting when you contrast it to when they meet again the light of day — Sookhee’s Japanese is appropriate and she calls Hideko “ojou-sama” (young lady as befitting of Hideko’s rank). We know that Sookhee has an affinity for babies, for small children, and to take care of them — the way Sookhee talks to Hideko in the instance is how you would speak to a startled child, and then, what truly makes Hideko calm is the usage of a Korean lullaby. The movie takes place during the Japanese Occupation of Korea where Koreans would get punished by law for speaking their native language — this alone is STARTLING, and yet, it’s probably what made Hideko be intrigued by Sookhee (besides the whole spying on her changing thing), that she would risk it to sing a Korean lullaby to her Japanese mistress (remember, Sookhee is startled when she learns that Hideko knows Korean!), and that being said that it’s a lullaby, a lullaby that Hideko’s mother never, ever got the chance to sing to her at birth.
First names are special and when you put in mind the difference in rank between Sookhee and Hideko as well as the Korean/Japanese divide, the usage of their first names by the other is really compelling? To Hideko’s face, Sookhee calls her by her appropriate title ojou-sama/agassi, even when they had sex, Sookhee calls her agassi still, thus there is this delineation between the two even during such a moment between them. And yet, Sookhee refers to Hideko as “Hideko” the next day when she sees Count Fujiwara begin to fondle Hideko, even going in her mind that “Hideko doesn’t like it!” before she tries to put a stop to it. Sookhee doesn’t even refer to her as Hideko-ojou-sama or Hideko-agassi which still would be scandalous (Izumi-ojou-sama or Izumi-agassi would be appropriate) but less so than without the usage of a suffix. Sookhee sees Hideko as Hideko. Likewise, during when Hideko goes to hang herself, she calls out to Sookhee and calls her “Sookhee-ya”. “-A/-Ya” is a suffix used at the end of first names in Korean to show camaraderie and friendliness, it’s often used by parents to their children, and among friends of the same age and rank. Thus, Hideko is putting Sookhee on her own level — it’s incredibly intimate. Hideko here is facing death and one of the last words she’ll ever speak is the usage of Sookhee’s name at it’s most informal, the way that a lover would.
I think this is pretty cool too but Count Fujiwara and Uncle Kouzuki are both Korean-born and masquerading as Japanese. Perhaps most interesting is the fact that both of them yearn for more — Kouzuki yearns for beauty and for elegance believing that Korea is inferior to Japan, and “Fujiwara” yearns for wealth and luxury, to be able to buy wine without looking at the price. Kouzuki’s Japanese is EXTREMELY formal, and Hideko even mentions in her letter to him that he never quite got how to dictate the way a true Japanese noble would, like how “Fujiwara” did despite Fujiwara also being the son of a Korean farmer. But, the thing that’s SO SO SO cool is that the only time Kouzuki utilizes Korean is when he’s torturing Fujiwara, and especially the fact that his Korean is VERY informal. There really is no words to describe just how shocking it is that this man’s speech in Japanese is very rigid within the confines of formality and yet his Korean is….well, it’s like how you could speak to a friend. You might argue that it’s because he’s mimicking Fujiwara’s Korean, but it goes to mirror Fujiwara and Kouzuki more than anything: two men whose ties to one another revolve around ownership, around wealth, around greed, and around the cruel, callous destruction of the lives around them.
hustlers, the handmaiden and bound are some of my favorite lesbian films and you know what they all have in common. scammer4scammer women. as they should.
Artist Ai Weiwei has been known to use LEGO bricks as an art material, leveraging the analog bit shape of the square building blocks to generate so-called “glitch aesthetics” that comment on digital disruption, paranoia around systems, and miscommunication (among other associations attendant to their subject matter).
In his newest and largest LEGO work yet, slated as a feature of an upcoming exhibition at the Design Museum in London, Ai presents “Water Lilies #1,” a recreation of Claude Monet’s ubiquitous Impressionist work.
fuck fuck fuck this is so good and i wish i had done this but i did not even think of it fuck fuck fuck
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Kitchen appliances I would recommend purchasing when moving out on your own:
Air fryer
One of those panini press grill things (not only can you make sandwiches but you can grill chicken and steak if you have an expensive model)
Rice cooker (not only good for rice but quinoa and any other grain, alternatively you could buy an Instapot)
Electric kettle (depends on how much tea you drink but it’s good for boiling water for cleaning and preheating water for pasta etc)
Kitchen appliances I would not recommend buying when you move out on your own:
Counter top coffee maker (you should not be drinking an entire pot of coffee on your own and it will be stale by the time you get to the bottom, plus these bitches suck to clean, Keurigs, French presses and stove top percolators where you make one or two cups at a time are more practical for a single person)
Here are some things it’s okay to buy off brand/cheap:
Cleaning supplies. Most cut rate sponges, bleach sprays, Clorox wipe knock offs and cleaning chemicals get the job done just fine.
Food staples like pasta, canned vegetables, rice etc.
Here are some things you should never buy off brand/cheap:
Trash bags. I made the mistake of buying Dollar General brand ones and they ripped several times, sending garbage all over my yard while I tried to take the trash out. I had to double and sometimes triple bag which was not economical in the long run.
Toilet paper. The two and one ply stuff sucks. You you have to use much more than you would if you bought quality paper.
Good luck and God bless you to any college freshmen out there.
toaster ovens are also very useful, much more than a regular toaster. you can do many things you can do in an oven, just faster and with less hassle
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revue starlight is so good. it is nuanced and intricate and has fantastic music and stunning visuals but also my favourite thing about it is that it revolves around very simple themes in a very powerful manner. a lot of media that i enjoy tackle very heavy and difficult topics and it’s always such a double edged sword because there is catharsis but also it feels painful and suffocating at times (often in a good way) but revue starlight is very gentle with where it turns the spotlight to. it explores feelings of inadequacy and jealousy an feeling left out and friendship and competition and fearing change and finding comfort in routine and while these topics feel more “juvenile” they are given the weight they deserve because these girls are children!! these problems are very real!! and also i believe that we never truly let go of these complications and we carry them with us into adulthood although (hopefully) we have better techniques to resolve them so it’s lovely to see them explored in such a serious but also very fantastical and colorful and theatrical metaphor-heavy manner because that’s where my heart lies. i love how wild and magical they present these normal day to day problems and that i can enjoy them in my favoured format as a lovely treat for myself that isn’t going to hurt me.
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