occasionally subtle
bliss lane
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Game Changer & Make Some Noise
Kiana Khansmith
ojovivo
Not today Justin
hello vonnie
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gracie abrams
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The Bowery Presents
#extradirty
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Xuebing Du
Andulka
Monterey Bay Aquarium
izzy's playlists!
ellievsbear
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@ronan-dreaming
The unicorn linocut in all its glory (shop)
As beautiful as the unicorn tapestry is, I wanted to highlight the tragedy of captivity. I replaced the wooden fence with the barbed wire of my childhood home’s landscape, along with the nettles, berry bushes, and clover. Hang this piece in your home as reminder to set yourself free.
snoozin'
Fairies, c.1840 by Francis Danby (Irish, 1793--1861)
@ august please be a little gentle with me I’m so tired
All three of them
Moonwatcher in the panelka
Turtle in the elektrichka
Winter in Vorkuta
(I will block anyone who writes how terrible, depressing, etc. panelki are. I'm not kidding)
Guo Pei Spring 2026
Seraph, fresco from the Ferapontov Monastery, 1495-1496.
okracoke, 2026 may
you have to dress in this style for the rest of your life!
(you do not have to follow the beliefs associated with the style if that style has associated beliefs. The wheel curse does not affect anything like that.)
Do you like it?
yes!!
it's okay I guess
no
NO.
I dress like this already
results/other/unsure
Paul Müller-Kaempff - Sailors' Cemetery in the dunes of Ahrenshoop (1893)
Beru, Koko and Meng as Paintings 🖼️
Filmmakers have the right to adapt academic output for their medium. Academics have the right to criticise how it's done, and the biases betrayed by the execution. Emily Wilson's review of The Odyssey is an excellent addition to the discourse around this film, and how American industry valorises certain character and narrative arcs. Though Nolan's film is largely accepted as a critique, it still sits neatly in his oeuvre of great, but tortured and ahistorically moral, frontier men.
I especially hope that people take the time to digest her penultimate paragraph:
The most troubling ethical problem with Nolan’s Odyssey concerns the decision to film part of the movie in the occupied territory of Western Sahara, thus normalising the ongoing violence against the indigenous Sahrawi people. It is particularly galling that Nolan used this land simply as a visually striking backdrop for a film that centres, aggrandises and redeems the hero of a territorial war on account of his belated and partial acknowledgment of his own guilt.
— An Uncomplicated Man by Emily Wilson (London Review of Books)
The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment
The simple act of holding a camera in my homeland of Western Sahara can be a crime. When Sahrawi film-makers and journalists attempt to document everyday life under Moroccan occupation, they can often end up in prison cells. For the Moroccan regime, a camera in the hands of a Sahrawi threatens its official narrative that Western Sahara is part of Morocco.
In contrast, when celebrated international names in the film industry wish to capture an ideal picture for an epic journey, and decide that our land is exotic enough to shoot the desired scenes, they are welcomed, escorted and granted access by the same authorities that usually deny us that right.
This is the bitter and paradoxical reality in Western Sahara, an occupied territory with many material and immaterial riches. While foreign extractors of all kinds freely plunder Western Sahara’s phosphate minerals, sand, fish, and tomatoes, and commodify our winds, sunlight and picturesque desert landscapes, we the Indigenous Sahrawis are becoming a minority in our own homeland, systematically marginalised, silenced and denied access to the land we roamed as nomads for centuries.
The latest episode of this colonial drama stars the Christopher Nolan blockbuster using parts of our occupied territory as a film set. Sahrawis are aghast that scenes from The Odyssey – an adaptation of Homer’s poem immersed in themes of displacement, family separation, betrayal, and the agonising, decades-long struggle to return home – were shot on our lands. The irony would be comical were it not so tragic: we, the Sahrawi people whose land was used to film parts of the Odyssey, have been living our own brutal odyssey for more than 50 years.
— Mohamed Sleiman Labat
Despite the MAGA overreaction to the bold casting choices in what was bound to be a relatively conservative film, it was Donald Trump that made this colonial backdrop possible:
The Odyssey is the first major Hollywood production to shoot scenes in Western Sahara. This would have been unthinkable prior to 2020, when President Donald Trump broke with decades of US foreign policy and recognized Morocco’s illegally established sovereignty over the territory. The decision was part of a quid pro quo in exchange for Morocco’s normalization of ties with Israel. Now Nolan and crew’s four-day shoot in Dakhla illustrates how quickly Hollywood studios have moved to exploit the opportunities created by Trump’s transactional diplomacy. This subsidized occupation cinema is yet another symptom of the breakdown of whatever remained of a rules-based liberal order.
For Moroccan officials, the presence of The Odyssey crew was a propaganda coup. They have made it clear they see it as just the beginning of Dakhla’s development as a base for international film productions. This is despite the fact that the wider Western Sahara remains the site of an ongoing armed conflict between the country’s military and the Sahrawi pro-independence movement, the Polisario Front. Last month, three Polisario fighters were killed in a Moroccan drone attack close to the 2,700-kilometer sand berm that separates Moroccan-controlled territory from the desert areas held by Polisario.
— Odyssey to Africa’s last colony by Eoghan Gilmartin
Does actual Corn bread go in Cornbread?
Yes!
No what the fuck is wrong with you
Never had it/ don’t what what cornbread is
I was told I’m a crazy person for putting corn IN cornbread my whole life and now I’m curious on what other people do.
sometimes I find myself lamenting because I left what was truly a perfect job for me (cat attendant and front office assistant at a cat boarding facility) because the owner sucked so badly
ESPECIALLY on days like today when work is driving me batty bc other people can't do their job right. Goose, the super cuddly long-haired tabby, wouldn't do this to me!!!
Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.
"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.
“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."
More here.
sometimes I find myself lamenting because I left what was truly a perfect job for me (cat attendant and front office assistant at a cat boarding facility) because the owner sucked so badly
