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"maus is triggering just fyi!!" yeah that's the point??? lmfao?? "oh no the holocaust exists and it's triggering my anxiety" shut the fuck up
For real. I see people saying “oh Maus traumatized me.” not to be a dick, but GOOD. It should traumatize you. It should be upsetting. The Shoah shouldn’t be some sanitized thing that is comfortable and fun to read about.
Imagine, just for a moment, that you’ve grown up being told that the things that happened in Maus could happen to you at any time. Any. Time. From the time you could understand being told about the atrocities. This book is a sliver of the trauma that lives between Jewish generations. Then imagine it being taken away because it makes people sad.
I am so fucking sick of people using being upset or uncomfortable as an excuse to ignore and make excuses for hatred. Maus is, in my opinion, the best resource to educate people of pretty much all ages about the horrors of the Shoah. It’s format is accessible to everyone, even people who “don’t like to read” and will ignore other assigned reading. It doesn’t shy away from the truth of things, but it doesn’t romanticize. It talks about the “after”, what is happening now. It is a beautiful, terrible, painful book and banning it because it is “age inappropriate” is a tragedy. An absolute fucking shanda.
anyway im stressed about my future and needed practice drawing hands, so.
a LOT of people are reblogging this as of late. y’all ok?
this year I’m going to be sexier eviler and more bi
Merry Christmas to all the other gay cousins
We can all agree that Jake Gyllenhaal is an asshole, right? After the last couple of days, even you, a Narnia blog, should know this.
FUCK JAKE GYLLENHAAL ALL MY HOMIES HATE JAKE GYLLENHAAL!!!
they’re not wrong tho 👀
Some of yall in the notes really wanna steal terms from bi women who have been using them since before you were born. Sit down and shut the fuck up.
“Bisexual: Assume Nothing” has exactly the same energy as 95% of modern Bisexual shitposts and I love it
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Here’s one good thing to come out of 2020:
Paleontologists completed a life-sized replica of Sue, the most complete T. Rex ever found.
And she is freaking GORGEOUS!
As I read more about this beauty, I found out some new details regarding things I thought I previously knew about the beast that was Tyrannosaurus Rex, and I’m going to share them with you.
First, and most obvious, her size:
This is nothing new, we all figured T. Rex was big, but I for one never stopped to consider exactly how big it was. Nobody ever really knows what to imagine when they read about something the size of a whale that walked around and ate everything it could kill.
Speaking of eating things, I just want to remind you all that T. Rex had–by miles–the strongest bite of any terrestrial animal living or dead, somewhere around six and a half tons of force. That’s over six times greater than the current estimate of what Allosaurus was capable of, and three times what was delivered by the highest measured reading of the living title holder–the estuarine crocodile. It didn’t have to waste time swinging its head open-mouthed like Saurophaganax for a little extra oomph, or grow fancy serrated teeth like Carcharodontosaurus to cut pieces out of its prey. It opted for the simplest approach: get its mouth around something and crush it to death; imagine the full weight of an elephant on whatever was between this thing’s jaws.
“How did it find something to eat?” I hear you asking. “It can’t see something if it doesn’t move, right?”
Listen, I love Jurassic Park too, but that’s a big crock of shit.
Notice how both her eyes face forward. That gives her binocular vision (the ability to focus both eyes on one target, like you and I). More importantly it means she has impeccable depth perception due to overlapping fields of vision from each, large, eyeball. Researchers agree that T. Rex not only had incredible vision, but that it was probably better than most modern animals–including eagles, hawks, and owls–and that she could likely spot something three and a half miles away. If something that big can see that well, it doesn’t matter if you move or not, she’d be able to tell if it was an animal trying to hide or a piece of vegetation. So pray she isn’t hungry if she lays eyes on you. And even if by some miracle she didn’t see you, she’d still smell you.
If she decided you looked tasty, you probably wouldn’t hear her coming as much as you’d feel her. Modern science indicates that T. Rex didn’t roar like in Jurassic Park, but rather bellowed or maybe even hissed like crocodilians. If she were on to you, you’d most likely feel this sense of unease creep up your spine as a low-pitched rumble in the air permeated through you. You wouldn’t know what it was or where it was coming from until you hear her footfalls. By then it’s too late–you could try to run but she’d probably catch you. There’s plenty on YouTube that reconstructs what T. Rex may have sounded like, and it’s legitimately haunting.
To wrap all of this up, the one bit of good that came out of the cursed year that is 2020 is that this wonderful child of science and art came into the world, and reaffirmed my respect and admiration for the eight ton slab of muscle and teeth that is this magnificent creature.
…and it is nothing if not magnificent.
I honestly expected like three notes, what happened!?
Palaeontologists are the ones providing the data and advice but don’t give them full credit, this life-sized sculpture was created by ARTISTS, the artist team of @bluerhinostudio
They also created this Quetzalcoatlus that made the rounds online (image credit goes to National Geographic)
As well as many more amazing sculptures and dioramas, so please check them out here on Tumblr and on Instagram
They are currently working on a new Tyrannosaurus again which will be on display in Europe (image credit goes to Blue Rhino Studio)
Please give the amazing team of Blue Rhino Studio the credit they deserve
Not to kill the buzz but where are the feathers??
As it stands now, there is no evidence for or against feathers on Tyrannosaurus specifically, so either way to depict it would be equally accurate at the moment, if feathers are present they would be on the back and shoulder region as that is the only spot that doesn’t have preserved skin impressions
Below is a handful guide by Dr. Mark Witton who happens to be both a palaeontologist and an artist:
Fun fact! Sue officially uses they/them pronouns! Scientists don’t know if they were male or female. Because of that, and as a gesture of good will to the LGBT+ community, scientists officially use they/them pronouns to refer to SUE the T-Rex!
“(Please, do not body-shame our T. rex. SUE is perfect just the way they are. And, yes, “they” is correct there—scientists don’t know if SUE was male or female, so in the spirit of scientific accuracy and LGBTQ inclusivity, we’ve transitioned to singular “they/them” pronouns instead of calling SUE “she” or “her.”)”
(Source: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/sue-t-rexs-new-suite )
“Please, do not body-shame our T. rex” is the funniest thing I’ve seen in at least 20 minutes
Chik-fil-le sandwich
INGREDIENTS:
4 hamburger buns, split
1 head green leaf lettuce, leaves separated
1 beefsteak tomato, sliced
20 dill pickle slices
FOR THE CHICKEN
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 cup dill pickle juice
1 ½ cups milk, divided
1 cup peanut oil
1 large egg
½ cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
DIRECTIONS:
Place a chicken breast on a cutting board. With your hand flat on top of it, carefully slice the chicken in half horizontally. Trim excess fat as needed.
In a large shallow baking dish, combine chicken, pickle juice and ½ cup milk; marinate for at least 30 minutes. Drain well.
Heat peanut oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.
In another large shallow baking dish, whisk together remaining 1 cup milk and egg. Stir in chicken to coat and drain excess milk mixture.
In a gallon size Ziploc bag or large bowl, combine chicken, flour and confectioners’ sugar; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
Working in batches, add chicken to the skillet and cook until evenly golden and crispy, about 4-5 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate.
Serve chicken immediately on burger buns with green leaf lettuce, tomato and pickles.
Also if y’all are interested, I have the copycat recipes for the Frosted Lemonade and the Chicken Nuggets
https://www.tablespoon.com/recipes/copycat-chick-fil-a-nuggets/2b483ee0-a13e-4a3f-bf0b-9b26099c6e24
https://cincyshopper.com/copycat-chick-fil-a-frosted-lemonade/
If you like their food, this post will help you not fund them anymore.
one of the first laws that needs to go when we abolish the police nationwide is loitering laws. there’s absolutely no reason the state should be able to arrest and fine me for like. existing in public.
and it goes without saying that these laws are used to target black people as well as the homeless
And laws against sleeping in cars. Not only is it used to target homeless people who may have no choice but to sleep in a car, it is also very dangerous and promotes driving while tired.
loitering and vagrancy laws are rooted in the black codes that were enacted mainly in 1865-6 following the civil war explicitly as a means of arresting free black people and incarcerating them as a source of involuntary unpaid labor to replace the institution of slavery that had just been abolished
Ok but find it so interesting that Gandalf is always associated with fire imagery/powers because…
Usually In Lotr, the villains are associated with fire imagery.
Think: Sauron’s fiery eye, the balrog, the flames of Mount Doom, Saruman’s fiery forges and explosives, Smaug the fire breathing dragon, the Witch-King’s flaming sword, Denethor burning Faramir, etc
The heroes are usually associated with water/sea imagery, or tree/flower imagery. The elves longing for the sea, the ents flooding Isengard, the White Tree of Gondor, etc.
But that’s something I think is really interesting about Gandalf– he’s not like the other heroes. He’s associated with fire imagery/powers, the way the villains are.
Gandalf describes himself as the “I am the servant of the secret fire, wielder of the flame of Anor.” In the books it’s revealed that he bears Narya, the Ring of Fire.
Gandalf’s powers generally involve manipulating fire and light.
He’s invulnerable to flames, and can meet fire with fire.
He ignites things on fire:
He blinds people with light:
He redirects lightning:
And most obviously, he’s famous for his magic fireworks.
Tangentially related: Gandalf and Pippin are also the ones who light the beacons in the films…and Gandalf says “hope is kindled.” Because fire imagery!
So it’s like….
I think it’s relevant that Gandalf was offered a place in Sauron’s army. Saruman earnestly tried to recruit Gandalf to their side.
So Gandalf could’ve easily joined the villains. He had exactly the kind of powers they respected and wanted. He was exactly the kind of person they would want to recruit. He could’ve very easily become just like Saruman. He just refused.
And I think that’s so cool because Gandalf is ultimately….a hero who happens to have villain-powers?A hero associated with the villain’s imagery and abilities? He’s like…..someone who SHOULD have been a villain, but chose not to be.
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time fire that is given to us”
Yes! He says himself shortly after his return that he “[is] Saruman, or how Saruman was meant to be.”
I would amend slightly the characterization of him as “someone who SHOULD have been a villain.” Instead, he is what the villains themselves should have been. Nor is he the only one.
Just this evening, when rereading “Farewell to Lorien,” got to see (through Frodo’s eyes, and in the light of the Star) Galadriel, once again regal but no longer dreadful. This is what Galadriel really is, and who she is supposed to be.
Keeping on the theme of fire, there is Arien, the spirit who drives the sun. She is described as a spirit of flame who was not corrupted by the Enemy. That would make her close kin to the Balrogs, but instead of being a cave dwelling monster, she is one of the great life- and light-giving forces in the world. She is what they could have been.
All these speak to one of the great truths of Middle Earth: evil cannot make, it can only mock. Rather than being a world in which some things are Good and some Evil, in Middle Earth all things could be (are made to be) Good. It’s just that some are marred. And that’s how evil comes in.
And like, a large part of it to me is also like… Mairon, Curumo, and Olórin (who were known later as Sauron, Sarumon, and Gandalf) were all Maiar. They all started as… siblings, in a sense. They were lesser angels, in a way, they were spirits that worked in the service of the Valar.
Any of them could have theoretically become any of the other of them, should things have gone differently and they made different choices. Gandalf having fire and light abilities is most likely a part of him having a connection to Eru Ilúvatar and the literal power of creation.
Fire is not evil, it’s just that evil sometimes uses fire for evil ends. Sauron is associated with fire probably much more because of the smithing and creation of the rings of power and specifically the One Ring than because “fire = evil”.
Thematically doesn’t this also tie into the idea that it didn’t have to be Frodo who took the Ring, it could have been anyone? Your potential is not fate.
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ladies! let me tell you what you’d get sent to a 19th century asylum for
yes please. this would be a great day for this to come true
When I was a kid, I couldn’t imagine how ‘May you live in interesting times’ could be a curse. But now I would so love to not have a year’s worth of news happen every week. PLEASE.
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a lot of you hate historians and archaeologists, and i think that’s a problem
look, i fully recognize that there are reasons to be skeptical of history and archaeology. i am very on board with criticizing academia as an oppressive institution, and the way that researchers take their bigotry and bias with them to their work. i also recognize that academia does a pretty bad job of communicating what it does to the public, and that’s a part of why people’s hostility to it is able to flourish.
but i am disturbed by the pervasive narrative in online leftist spaces that people who research the human past are ignorant and bigoted, and i think we need to do more to combat that narrative.
historians being homophobic has become a whole meme, and it feels like people are just using historians as a homophobia scapegoat, when in reality the humanities are overwhelmingly left-leaning. people also keep blaming historians for erasing the homoeroticism of fictional literary characters, which is just… not what historians do. homophobic biases and erasures in the interpretation of history over the past few hundred years are a very real thing that’s important to learn about, but scholars have radically shifted away from that approach in recent generations, and these memes are not helping people outside the field to understand history and reception. instead, a lot of people are coming away with the impression that…
(source… really? nobody?)
this thread gets bonus points for the comments claiming that modern historians argue about whether achilles was a top or a bottom using homophobic stereotypes, which i can only guess is a misunderstanding of the erastes/eromenos model (a relationship schema in classical greece; i think people have debated whether achilles and patroclus represent an early version of it). also a commenter claims that the movie troy invented the idea of achilles and patroclus being cousins when no, they were also cousins in lots of ancient sources.
there’s this post about roman dodecahedra (link includes explanation of why the original post is misleading).
there’s this thread about how some thin gold spirals from ancient denmark look exactly like materials used in gold embroidery to this day but archaeologists are stupid and don’t know that because they dont talk to embroiderers enough. in fact, the article says they were most likely used for decorating clothing, whether as a fringe, braided into hair, or embroidered. so the archaeologists in the article basically agree with the post, theyre just less certain about it, because an artifact looking similar to a modern device doesn’t necessarily mean they have identical uses.
this thread has a lot of people interpreting academic nuance as erasure. the museum label literally says that this kind of statue typically depicts a married couple, giving you the factual evidence so you can interpret it. it would be false to say “these two women are married” because there was no gay marriage in ancient egypt. (interpreting nuance as erasure or ignorance is a running theme here, and it points to a disconnect, a public ignorance of how history is studied, that we can very much remedy)
lots of other conspiracy theory-ish stuff about ancient egypt is common in social justice communities, which egyptologists on this site have done a good job of debunking
oh, and this kind of thing has been going around. the problem with it is that there are loads of marginalized academics who research things related to their own lives, and lived experience and rigorous research are different forms of expertise that are both valuable.
so why does this matter?
none of these are isolated incidents. for everything i’ve linked here, there are examples i havent linked. anti-intellectualism, especially against the humanities, is rampant lately across the political spectrum, and it’s very dangerous. it’s not the same as wanting to see and understand evidence for yourself, it’s not the same as criticizing institutions of academic research. it’s the assumption that scholars are out to get you and the perception that there is no knowledge to be gained from thorough study. that mindset is closely connected to the denial of (political, scientific, and yes historical) facts that we’ve been seeing all around us in recent years.
on a personal note, so many marginalized scholars are trying to survive the dumpster fire of academia because we care that much about making sure the stories that are too often unheard don’t get left out of history… and when that’s the entire focus of my life right now, it’s disheartening to see how many of my political allies are just going to assume the worst about the entire field