WanderinginotherWorlds

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

current state of the internet is a FUCKING EMBARASSMENT. was chatting with my grandma bout the history of crochet and knitting (and the comparative ages of those respective technologies) and i was like "oh YEAH and also that ancient greek fiber art we partly figured out from chemically testing the scoured bleached pigments of stolen statuary (tumblr knows what im talking about)—gimme 30 seconds to look up the name."

5 minutes and 3 search-engines later i am crying tears of blood screaming spitting blubbering in despair as my grandma attempts to digitally pat me consolingly on the back. the library of alexandria didn't burn it was "restructured" to "increase shareholder profits"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

and i STILL CANNOT FIND THE TERM.

i am scouring the internet like the victorians scoured and destroyed all trace of joy and color from stolen relics for the LOST NAME OF THE ANCIENT PROCESS of textile-creation akin to knitting/crocheting/nålebinding that at least one academic/crafter used to recreate the leggings on this Glorious Motherfucker:

the google execs erased it. they bleached my bestie AGAIN from history...

[lachrymose-lyricist]

is this of any use

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

SO IT IS!!!

Archer statue from the Temple of Aphaia (ca. 480 BC) next to a reconstruction of its original paint job:

The leggings and sleeves would have created using a method called SPRANG which predates knitting and is over 3,000 years old. What's even sexier is modern artisans managed to recreate the entire outfit using the original method!

Mmm-HMM, love me a shapely thigh in harlequin hosiery. Put👏men👏in👏clingy-ass👏clothing👏again👏👏👏

Unfortunately english sources are hard to find, partly because Google's a shithole, but also because this textile project comes from a German museum, in Germany, where people tend to speak (and publish) in German. That said, the original link is to a short-but-sweet article I would have had no problem finding in 30 seconds a mere few years ago. fortunately i have clever beautiful insane people following me, but alas not everyone has such luxury. thanks to everyone in the notes who shoved themselves down this rabbithole with me!

in conclusion let us take a moment to sincerely wish Google a very burn in hell🙏

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so what you're gonna do is you're gonna trim the top off a bulb of garlic, using the knife's edge to take off the tip of every individual clove, that's important. you're gonna place the garlic face-up in a square of tinfoil, drizzle with olive oil, wrap completely in foil, place in baking tray, repeat with a copious amount of garlic bulbs. you're gonna put that baking tray in an oven set to 375-400°F, for 30-50 minutes, until soft and browned. you're gonna toast some good bread, slather generously with butter and honey, maybe a tiny lil bit o' salt. and then. you're gonna SQUEEZE. OUT. THAT. ROASTED GARLIC. onto the butter honey toast. and you're gonna eat it. food stolen directly from the plate of the gods. that's what you're gonna do.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the garlic. it beckons you

[thesweetestsupervillains]

It occurs to me that "1920s gangster doing a cooking show while holding you at gunpoint" is an untapped market.

We've had normal cooking shows. Now we need period piece cooking shows in character.

[striborak]

Happy pride month to all my rainbow friends (and rainbow-adjacent pals) 🤩🏳️‍🌈

Wanted to bring back my favourite pride month shirt meme and I just caught up on Poison Ivy so here we are:

[thesecondsnowflake]

I started Spider Noir last night and I gotta say I am loving the middle-aged man of it all. Nicholas Cage doesn't get any three-point landings- he spider-swings his way out of falling off a sky scraper and lands flat on his back. He's hanging from the bottom of the bridge by one palm because that is all the flexibility he has to offer. He breaks a hole in the dry wall with the most measured sledge swings I've ever seen because otherwise he might hurt his back.

Sometimes your webslinger hangs up his mask for five years and finds out the flexibility was NOT part of the super power package

[seleyin]

Autumn morning in Conques, France

(shared by fb page savoirs d’histoire https://www.facebook.com/savoirsdhistoire/?fref=nf) 

[probablyasocialecologist]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false claims in its AI-generated search overviews. In this case, Google's AI had wrongly linked two publishers to scams and shady business practices. The court treated the AI overviews as Google's own content and rejected Google's argument that users were responsible for fact-checking the results themselves.

9 June 2026

[achillesinhighheels]

[kzlatkova]

Anyone who's ever done anything creative needs to fucking see this.

[batsandboba]

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know

[annleckie]

Look, I was vacuuming, it's not my fault that's boring as fuck.

(Image is of Grandpa Simpson ready to bust some unions by telling long, pointless stories. The caption reads, "They didn't have white onions because of the Radchaai Civil War"

[annleckie]

Saw a tag like "gonna pre-order this as soon as it's announced" and my darlings, I am here to tell you that

IT IS ANNOUNCED

Go forth and pre-order from your favorite vendor of books.

[annleckie]

SOOOOOOOOON

[annleckie]

TODAY!!!!

WHEREVER FINE BOOKS ARE SOLD

[woman-becomer]

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

[interpolationz]

this is one of my favorite bits about tumblr

the users seem to actually prefer text posts to anything else, and treat it as a chore to play a video especially with sound

[lazzarella]

[boltlightning]

I DONT CARE HOW MANY BEDS THERE WERE. WHAT IS YOUR BOOK ABOUT

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

(tearfully) w- working at the mattress store

[boltlightning]

i'm so fucking sorry. can you ever forgive me

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

When writers die we go to a special purgatory where we have to finish every single one of our WIPs before we’re allowed to ascend.

[blue-moon-echo]

The catch is that we never get ascend because any new ideas we get are added to the list.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The Library of Babel is actually one writer’s desperate attempt to escape purgatory.

[stormofsharpthings]

…so I’ve got eternity and nothing to do but write everything that I’ve always wanted to…

And this is not heaven?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That’s my life right now and somehow I’m not getting nearly as much writing done as you’d think

[caffeinewitchcraft]

And when you try to skip the line from one WIP to another shinier one, the words don’t stick to the page when you try to write it down. You have to finish the WIPs. In order. All of them.

[dogweapon]

the author's barely disguised longing for a kinder world

[natalieironside]

What if the lesbians lived happily ever after and nobody had to die or become a cop

[caffeinewitchcraft]

Spent an hour sobbing about how we are losing crafts then realized I can do something about it which is why I now can really fuck up some lace tatting while waiting for my bobbins to arrive

Paper making fears me (once I can make a lace bookmark)

[promptsforthestrugglingauthor]

Writing Prompt #3864

"Things have been worse." She tried to force herself to smile. "I'm sure it'll all work out."

"What's your plan?"

"Hope for the best?"

[caffeinewitchcraft]

"...have you hoped for the best before?"

"yes"

"and it's been worse before?"

"Undoubtedly."

"..."

"..."

"I think I better make the plan."