Tumblr belongs to the Perfs* now

Here to have a good time and not need to pretend the Emperor has clothing while I do it. Photography, science, history, art, whatever. *Penis, pimp(&john), and porn excluding. Not gonna be discussing feminism much because other, better folks have it covered, but just want my stance on this issue up front and center =)

[archaic-stranger]

whale weekly

the 3-year moby dick serialization you’ve been dreaming of: https://whaleweekly.substack.com/

[bedupolker]

Taming of the Kern River

[cristalplanetheart]

[sosuperawesome]

Pumpkin Dragon Pendant // Magic Magpie

[yuumei-art]

Eating Star Fruit because my stomach is a black hole. The taste is absolutely cosmic ⭐🌟✨

[imanwithoutbowie-deactivated202]

Continue✨ Keep going✨

[tartrazeen]

Thank you, lady 🤗

[kukoyi-deactivated20210512]

The Nigerian accent. God. She reminds me of home...

[everybodywantstorueltheworld-de]

Always grateful when this makes the rounds

[fleur-aesthetic]

Do you like blooming cacti and succulents? I think flowers that bloom from them seem extra fragile and beautiful. Especially the night blooming ones like Epiphilium Hookerie and lady of the night.

I do! Although I don’t tend to post as many since I don’t see them photographed often. I personally have a string of dolphins that blooms, and it has the most beautiful fragrance.

[draconym]

Mutualistic pairs for an “Odd Couples” Valentine’s program at my work. (Why do so many of my big work projects revolve around Valentine’s programs?)

Also, by “sea bugs,” I obviously meant “gnathiid isopod larvae.”

[hanfugallery]

hair ornaments for chinese hanfu by 竹秋手工艺社

[hanfugallery]

chinese hanfu by 零青子

[archaicwonder]

Roman Gold and Agate Cameo Ring Depicting a Shrimp, 2nd Century AD

[mapsontheweb]

Triangular projection of Sweden, with the three largest cities as corners

[skeppsbrott]

This is the least useful thing I think I’ve seen in my life

[radiofreederry]

[blackcvrrant-deactivated2023060]

SOMETIME IN THE LAST WEEK MY SCHOOL PUT UP A LARGE BANNER DEDICATED TO THE :-) EMOTICON

[blackcvrrant-deactivated2023060]

[id: a banner with a huge image of the :-) (smiley face with nose) emoticon captioned “smiley / first emoted here / 19 september 1982 / computer science department / www.cs.cmu.edu/smiley / carnegie mellon.” end id]

happy birthday :-) face

[blackcvrrant-deactivated2023060]

it’s that time of the year again everyone say happy 40th birthday :-)

[weaver-z]

This is apparently what was contained in the original message that invented the :-) and I'm obsessed with Fahlman's diction here

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

oh! I have to tell you guys a great story one of my professors told me. So he has a friend who is involved in these Shakespeare outreach programs where they try to bring Shakespeare and live theatre to poor and underprivileged groups and teach them about English literature and performing arts and such. On one of their tours they stopped at a young offenders institute for women and they put on a performance of Romeo and Juliet for a group of 16-17 year old girls. It was all going really well and the girls were enjoying and laughing through the first half - because really, the first half is pretty much a comedy - but as the play went on, things started to get quiet. Real quiet. Then it got up to the suicide scene and mutterings broke out and all the girls were nudging each other and looking distressed, and as this teacher observed them, he realised - they didn’t know how the play ended. These girls had never been exposed to the story of Romeo and Juliet before, something which he thought was impossible given how ubiquitous it is in our culture. I mean, the prologue even gives the ending away, but of course it doesn’t specify exactly how the whole “take their life” thing goes down, so these poor girls had no idea what to expect and were sitting there clinging to hope that Romeo would maybe sit down for a damn minute instead of murdering Paris and chugging poison - but BAM he died and they all cried out - and then Juliet WOKE UP and they SCREAMED and by the end of the play they were so upset that a brawl nearly broke out, and that’s the story of how Shakespeare nearly started a riot at a juvenile detention centre

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

Apparently something similar happened during a production of Much Ado at Rikers Island because a bunch of inmates wanted to beat the shit out of Claudio, which is more than fair tbh

[let-the-awful-song-be-heard]

honestly Shakespeare would be so pleased to know his plays were nearly starting brawls centuries into the future

[theabigailthorn]

I played Claudio once and I fully support this

[bemusedlybespectacled]

“When we took Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” into a maximum security woman’s prison on the West Side…there’s a scene there where a young woman is told by a very powerful official that “If you sleep with me, I will pardon your brother. And if you don’t sleep with me, I’ll execute him.” And he leaves the stage. And this character, Isabel, turned out to the audience and said: “To whom should I complain?” And a woman in the audience shouted: “The Police!” And then she looked right at that woman and said: “If I did relate this, who would believe me?” And the woman answered back, “No one, girl.” And it was astonishing because not only was it an amazing sense of connection between the audience and the actress, but you also realized that this was a kind of an historical lesson in theater reception. That’s what must have happened at The Globe. These soliloquies were not simply monologues that people spoke, they were call and response to the audience. And you realized that vibrancy, that that sense of connectedness is not only what makes theater great in prisons, it’s what makes theater great, period.”

Oskar Eustis

[hello-delicious-tea]

Love that “No one, girl,” is the same response over 400 years later 😑

[dduane]

This. Anybody who thinks Shakespeare was “really writing for elites” or is “only for rich posh people” needs their head felt.

[gifsofprocesses]

How a sewing machine works 

[floatingstirnerhead]

A kitchen is a research lab for new ways to say I love you