[modernbaseball]

[to-orrr]

here are some more cats 🍓

[to-orrr]

here are some more summer sketches

[love-ardour-anarchism]

“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it, but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.” Ursula K. Le Guin "American SF and The Other" in Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1975.

[draconym]

Bothers me when the distinction between Witch and Wizard is drawn according to gender. The Witch/Wizard distinction is one of class. Wizards live in towers and have cursed artifacts. Witches live in shacks and have crooked teeth.

[draconym]

Both witches and wizards can be evil, of course. But when a witch is evil they turn you into a frog. When a wizard is evil they try to tear a hole in reality or raise an undead army. You don't see witches doing that shit because they're working class.

[ecoeschatologist]

The witch is looked down upon because they are competition to the hierarchical work of wizardry; they present an alternative to state monopoly on magic.

[draconym]

Absolutely. Witches perform folk magic--you'd never catch a wizard getting overly preoccupied with practical magic like soothing ulcers or curing the flu, but witches are always brewing up stuff for those kinds of reasons.

Magic is like programming. When it's seen as practical and tedious, it's "women's work." When it's seen as academic and intellectual, you get a huge salary and an audience with the king.

[lonestararchive]

Dakar, Senegal 2024 shot by me 🇸🇳

[sourcreammachine]

love love love Renaissance Africaine, every time i see it is omg

[discreetwithabellyring-deactiva]

https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/social-media-is-not-self-expression/

[discreetwithabellyring-deactiva]

https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/social-media-is-not-self-expression/

[discreetwithabellyring-deactiva]

https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/social-media-is-not-self-expression/

[ohcaptains]

[enyter]

[unusual-suspects]

the sun the moon and the stars - greg mort

[oilpalette]

Winter Rides In, 2022 by Shonto Begay (Navajo, b. 1954); Acrylic on canvas, 40 × 30 in

[the-evil-clergyman]

Grannonia and the Fox, from The Serpent for The Pentamerone by Warwick Goble (1911)

[valhelos]

[mammalianmammals]

Pallas's Cat aka Manul (Otocolobus manul), family Felidae, found across a huge swatch of Central Asia, the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, and Mongolia

photographs by Pazi's Pallas

[farmgf]

IT’S SPRINGTIME YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. PASS THE INSTRUCTIONS ON NOT GIVING UP BY ADA LIMÓN

[farmgf]

IT’S THE GREENING OF THE TREES THAT REALLY GETS TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!

[eirene]

The Princess Out of School, 1901

Edward Robert Hughes