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used to think it terribly silly (and kinda funny) when fantasy or sci-fi stories would have people refer to major recent historical events as The Flood or The Incident or The Revolution, and im sure historians fucking hate that because it's not helpful or descriptive, but we sure do be calling it The Pandemic

myfairynuffstuff

Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.

sunshinetheinspiration

@teaboot

teaboot

Painted with a FUCKING PALETTE KNIFE?

ashenmind

I don’t know what’s crazier: that at least 200 species names had this specific slur, or that 205 of the 556 votes wanted to keep it

ashenmind

???

cinturongazo

hippocrates460

In a first for taxonomy, researchers opted to change scientific names containing derivatives of the slur “caffra” to derivatives of “afr,” i

kamlepen-deactivated20211201

I have just learned about the involvment of romani people in the legacy of anarchism and this is so crazy!

Mariano Rodríguez Vázquez (born in 1909) was a Calo/gitano man who lost his parents pretty young and grew up very poor. As a young adult, he became an anarchist. His engagement led him to take part in the spanish civil war, and to become the general secretary (the most important role) of the CNT (National Confederation of Labour), a confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labour unions widely famous for its key role in fighting against Franco's fascism and for the anarchist principles of worker's self management, mutual aid and federalism. The CNT played a significant part in the development of anarchism in Spain and in the world and this man was one of its key figures. However, he had to flee Spain for France in order to escape Franco's troups, where he was eventually murdered in 1939, at 30 yo.

Picture of another gitano anarchist fighter (1936)

useless-catalanfacts

Good to see Marianet getting recognition outside of Catalonia!

However, please don't translate his name. He signed as Marià R. Vázquez (though most people knew him as Marianet), so let's call him by his real name as he was called and wanted to be called. He had a Catalan name (Marià) since he was Catalan Romani.

Translating the names of national minorities into the state's imposed language (in this case, Spanish) contributes to the erasure of these languages and cultures and is an imperialist action. Did you know that the CNT fought against Franco, and when Franco won he banned the use of all the local languages and imposed only Spanish? People could not legally be named in Catalan, Aranese, Basque, Galician, Asturian or Aragonese, only Spanish Catholic names were allowed. As a result, people were forced to translate their names (for example: from Marià to the Spanish translation Mariano). So please, don't let Franco win in this! Call Marià and the other national minorities by their name, the name which they called themselves, and not the name that the fascists forced them to have!

weepingwidar

Hamid Yaraghchi (Iranian, 1984) - Flowers of Terrible (2020/2021)

stellaluna33

I can't believe we live in a world where there's an AI company unironically called "Palantir," and it isn't a parody. It's a real thing. I remember seeing a picture of an advertisement on here and thinking, "This HAS to be a joke. This is too on-the-nose to be real. They wouldn't honestly name an AI company Palantir, after the Seeing Stones from Lord of the Rings that are supposed to offer knowledge, but famously also might be feeding you misinformation from evil sources because 'we do not know who else may be watching.'" But then here I am listening to the BBC News discussing why the CEO of Palantir just published a Manifesto that sounds like it was written by a supervillain.

davy-jones-lock3r

happy pride month my friends <3

nanmarie

those were the days... Picture the scene: Monty Python's Flying Circus ran from 1969 to 1974. Nothing, I mean nothing, had been seen like this before on TV. To really appreciate their courage and brilliance you need to know something about these days when gay marriage was not even on the horizon and most people would lose their employment if they were outed at work. The first Pride Parade was in 1970 and it was only in 1973 that the American Psychiatric Association in their generosity declared that homosexuality was not a mental disorder. Being LGBTQ+ was gradually decriminalized in various parts of the UK and a bit later in the US starting slowly in the late '60's.

Meanwhile, Monty Python was winning over hearts and minds through the funny bone. Groundbreaking.

markcat

I think Graham Chapman, the 4th man to join the scene, being gay and being a member of Monty Python is worth noting. He had a partner, David Sherlock, and was publicly open with his homosexuality as early as 1972. I just think it makes a difference in how Monty Python treated queerness in sketches when one of their members, their good friends and collaborators, is himself gay.

sillierthanasillylaugh

I mean I get the need for language rules. I understand the important of teaching to a commonality; it is easier to understand others when everyone has the same rules.

But something about language purism gets my goat. Language will change, it is literally designed to. Sometimes it will change into something that is against the rules. Let it go, or if you’re not going to let it go, understand the underlying classism (and various other isms) that reflect what is “correct,” and that likely the language you are currently speaking was formed by people breaking the rules of a more archaic language before you start arguing.

knightwithahundredkings

I really recommend the Táin Bó Cúailnge to anyone looking to get into medieval literature because it's a great story, brilliant poetry (I read the Carson translation, and the way he translates the roscada sections are beautiful) and the backbone of the Ulster Cycle, but it's also just really fucking funny. It has a very slapstick yet dry sense of humor that provides just enough comic relief to make the dramatic moments of the story even more impactful. Genuinely I laugh out loud every few pages. Go read it.

knightwithahundredkings

You can't make this shit up

whencartoonsruletheworld

hearing anything about the nolan odyssey is so funny. it's like "they cut the extremely important and infamous nobody scene" "the cyclops is a giant puppet that they put in an actual historical cave + gave circe animatronics for her pig transformation instead of cgi" "they dumped plastic skeletons in an environmentally protected location they were not supposed to be in" "they recreated ancient greek instruments in order to have an accurate score" "all of odysseus's agency is basically gone" "anne hathaway actually learned how to weave ancient looms" "the women in this movie are treated like shit" "they actually buried actors alive to get those underworld shots" "did you see what the fuck zendaya was fucking wearing holy shit you can't DO THAT, MA'AM" "what do you mean there was a legitimate epic the musical reference" "NOT A SINGLE FUCKING GREEK WAS CAST IN THIS MOVIE"

like did nolan have two guys standing at his side at all times whispering ideas in his ear and one told the truth and the other told lies and they didnt tell him which was which until they wrapped production cause

beaniebaneenie

They also used a VIKING SHIP as their stand-in for a Mycenaean Bronze Age penteconter. 🙄

I'm convinced that Nolan made this movie because it's been a while since he did a Big Hype Movie™ and he wants to be in Oscar conversations again, but he only cared about the press and the spectacle- not the actual story.

The Odyssey is not an action/adventure tale. It's not some Alpha Male Big Tough Manly War epic. The war is over, he's trying to go home to his wife, but stuff keeps happening that makes it really hard. He just wants to see his wife.

Odysseus is a WIFE GUY. He is THE Wife Guy™, if you will. This man's devotion for his wife sustained him through a decade of war, and he is willing to fight monsters and gods and the forces of nature to return to her. This man feels about Penelope the same way Rick O'Connell feels about Evie. The same way Gomez feels about Morticia.

He built their wedding bed by carving it directly into the olive tree that became the central pillar of their home, where he ruled Ithaca. You could not break their marriage bed without tearing down the entire villa around it. THIS IS THE KIND OF SHIT MODERN ROMANCE HEROES DREAM ABOUT DOING.

Penelope spends 20 fucking years having such unshakable, unwavering faith in her husband that she makes Horton look like a novice. Even when everyone swears that he must be dead and she has to move on and remarry, she's clever enough to buy time, and willing to frog an entire day's worth of weaving lace-weight fabric, EVERY DAY FOR YEARS.

Anyone who has ever attempted any sort of fiber art knows what a declaration of love that is. "I love you so much that I will spend 8 hours, in the fucking dark, unpicking an entire day's worth of lace-weight yarn stitches and color work weavings, over and over again, thousands of times, because I refuse to marry someone else."

The Odyssey is a story about two people who are both alive and love each other madly. Who will face absolutely anything to be back in each other's arms, and chase their own sanity to the gates of death and beyond. Who deal with magic and monsters and immortal beings from other realms.

This isn't an action hero war story.

It's a ROMANTASY.

And until a director understands that, they're never gonna get it right.

shadowwhisper123-deactivated201

Original theatrical posters from the Disney Renaissance.

tavalya-ra-deactivated20190803

Seriously want to get a copy of the Aladdin one!

onlyblackgirl

I want them all

marthajefferson

request by thesacredfireoflove → M A D A M E D E P O M P A D O U R

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (December 29, 1721 – April 15, 1764) was the official cheif mistress of Louis XV from 1745 until her death. She claimed that at the age of nine, she was taken by her mother to a fortune teller and told that she would someday reign over the heart of a king. Apparently, her mother believed the prophecy and accordingly nicknamed her “Reinette” (meaning “little queen”). At adolescence, her mother took personal charge of her education at home by hiring tutors who taught her to recite entire plays by heart, play the clavicord, dance, sing, paint and engrave. She became an accomplished actress and singer, and also attended Paris’s famous Club de l'Entresol. The marquise had many enemies among the royal courtiers who felt it a disgrace that the king would thus compromise himself with a commoner. She was very sensitive to the unending libels called poissonnades, a pun on her family name, Poisson, which means “fish” in French. The Marquise de Pompadour was an incredibly intelligent and accomplished woman. She was responsible for the development of the manufactory of Sèvres, which became one of the most famous porcelain manufacturers in Europe and which provided skilled jobs to the region. Reinette had an eye for architecture and design, planning buildings such as the Place de la Concorde and the Petit Trianon. She had a keen interest in literature and was a close friend of philosophes of the Lights, like Voltaire throughout her life. Her influence over Louis increased markedly through the 1750s, to the point where he allowed her considerable leeway in the determination of policy over a whole range of issues, from military matters to foreign affairs. Ther reasons for the Marquise’s influence over Louis were many: she decidedly established a cordial relationship with Marie Leszczyńska, the King’s wife ; she also put all of her effort into bringing fun into the King’s melancholy life ; she threw dinner parties for him and put on plays that exalted him and of course, she was a woman of verve and intelligence with whom the King sensed an intellectual equal. In her later years, although they had ceased being lovers, the King and Jeanne remained very close friends, and Louis was devoted to her until her death from tuberculosis in 1764 at the age of forty-two. Even some her enemies admired her courage during the final painful weeks. Voltaire wrote: “I am very sad at the death of Madame de Pompadour. I was indebted to her and I mourn her out of gratitude. It seems absurd that while an ancient pen-pusher, hardly able to walk, should still be alive, a beautiful woman, in the midst of a splendid career, should die at the age of forty two.“ (source of the text)

gifs from Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour - 2006

rotsnovelization

Hayden Christensen as Sam Monroe Life as a House (2001)

lagonegirl

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/what_state_prisoners_get_to_wo.html

OMG

pinehutch

Things that I knew about: that the mass incarceration of people in the USA , particularly black men, has direct ties to/is an extension of slavery. Things I did not know: this specific shit about Louisiana HOLY FUCK this is evil.