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I think that starting to see the people around you as "NPC"s or as less complex or sentient than you are is the beginning of a dark path

And it starts with making jokes stereotyping people, even if they seem like silly stereotypes like "haha queer person with lots of piercings and silly name," but ACTUALLY it starts with seeing people around you as "types" of people at all

#exactlyyy #that's how you stop considering people as people #and spend the rest of your existence fleeing stereotypes #just be and let other people be omfg

reclaiming-god

thinking about this today

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Tweet by Aneela "Reading a novel about a Palestinian Christian who is forced to flee his home in Jerusalem during the Nakba in 1948 and takes up a teaching job in Baghdad, where he falls in love with a Muslim girl. Was deeply struck by this passage shot through with anger at the Christian West."

Text from Hunters in a Narrow Street (1960) by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra.

"these very streets and hills and houses and hovels. For me Christ is a part of this place. But how do you suppose they think of Him in the West? Do you suppose our Christianity is like theirs? When they sing of Jerusalem do you think they mean our own arched streets and cobbled alleys and terraced hills? Never. Christ for the West has become an idea-an abstract idea with a setting, but the setting has lost all geographical significance. For them the Holy Land is a fairy land. They have invented a fanciful Jerusalem of their own and made it the city of their dreams. But for us the geography is real and inescapable. When they sing of Jerusalem in their hymns they do not mean our city. Theirs is a paradise, ours is hell, Gehenna, the city of no peace. Nor is their Jerusalem the city of Christ any more. It is the city of David. What does it matter to them if our houses are destroyed, if a thousand Leilas are blown to bits and our city gates are turned into shambles? They've stolen our Christ and kicked us in the teeth."

#humans #text #religion

lesspopped

please wear sunscreen!!! I've seen "fuck the beauty industrial complex" posts about complicated skincare regimens and am 100% with them except sometimes they mention sunscreen and no. no. absolutely not. sunscreen is a wonderful supportive friend who wants to keep you safe, and you should let her do it. throw out all your other cosmetics and skincare products if you want, but keep your sunscreen. and if you're not wearing sunscreen, start wearing it!!!! this is not about terror of aging, this is not about every tiny imperfection our fucked-up culture has made you feel insecure about, this is about protecting yourself from skin cancer. wear the damn sunscreen.

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melomancy

Kate Bush’s third studio album, Never for Ever — art by Nick Price, photography by John Carder Bush

twilightofthesandwiches

Serious Deltarune Character Analysis

tanuki-kimono

Great example of everyday noragi (work clothes, worn by farmers for ex.) from Taisho period. Note the makisode sleeve shape, offering freedom of mouvement!

You can see the close-up of the weave, made from asa (bast-fiber like hemp or linen) and kamiyori (twisted paper thread). Despite its "rugged" materials, weave is delicately interlocked with regular black stripes.

The coat also presents geometrical sashiko (white quilting), both reinforcing easily worn areas (collar, hems, inner center back), and decorating the garment.

PSA for writers: please please please don't put characters doing manual labour in "silk" kimono. I'll be forever grateful ;)

sidescout

This is gorgeous! Such a good example of the fact that only having access to simple/cheap materials does not mean you have to go around looking like you're wearing rags, if you or people around you are skilled and patient enough. I'm curious about the paper thread tho - what kind of paper is this? I assume it has some resistance to moisture (sweat, rain etc) otherwise it would not be a very long lasting work garment. How would that be achieved? Why was paper thread more accessible than textiles for the people who made this? Would really love some resources on this specific aspect :D

tanuki-kimono

@sidescout Paper clothing is a fascinating subject!!!

Historically, Japan had no sheep farming (=no wool), silk was an upper class fabric, and cotton as not indigenous plant took a long time to spread among the population.

For ages, people used other fibers to make clothes, such as hemp, linen, but also wisteria, and other plants. Also see Ryuukyuu's bashô or Ainu's nibutani bark:

In that context, where paper was also made from plant fibers, that somebody started weaving paper is not surprising ^^

I am not a specialist on the subject, but of what I know of, paper threads were often made from sturdy 楮紙 kôzogami (made from paper mulberry tree), though any paper could be recycled as thread if sturdy enough.

Paper was first made following this process. Paper sheets were then turned into thread like shown below and then turned into skein:

I am not sure when in the process, but at some point paper was made more durable by treating it with 蒟蒻 konnyaku (konjac) or even sometimes 柿渋 kakishibu (persimmon juice). Both substances turn paper near waterproof! Konnyaku also gives durability (see もみ紙 momigami) and cloth-like flexibility suitable for 紙子 kamiko (paper clothing).