English lit undergrad trying to concentrate

maybe chaotic cottage academia but who knows // really obsessed with greek mythology, history, literature // there will be attempts at writing/poetry/whatever you wanna call it (you've been warned) // rants included

[vipersinapit]

Did someone put house of open wounds in the children section on a reel I just saw? What.

That is very much not a childrens book.

[semantiques]

Ah yes, the sociological diatribe about the horrors and brutalisation of war, cultural annihilation, religious crisis, questions of selfhood, identity, and old, forgotten gods being killed and drained to power mega-death weapons that leave the land decimated and uninhabitable in the name of cultural superiority and perfection... It's got a pretty cover so it must be for children!

[approximateknowledge]

house of open wounds is a weirdly funny book for how deeply gruesome and nihilistic of a story it is

philosopher tyrant duology my beloved

[semantiques]

Yet it is a good thing to have known of / Happiness and to have touched love, / The living garden, even if only for a day.

-Jorge Luis Borges, Adam Cast Forth, translated by Richard Eberhart

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

[mementochao]

Despite everything, it's still you.

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That's really cool actually

[tanoraqui]

#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry

@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.

[semantiques]

[lamignonette]

[cheddar-baby]

i need to gush about how incredibly seamless her compositing is in these. Compositing is incredibly hard and time consuming work on a crisp clean digital image. But compositing into what seems to be a scanned photograph that was shot on film? Insane work. The film grain + photo paper texture is matched perfectly as well as the varying softness from being slightly out of focus in different amounts in each image. Each film stock has its own specific tone too some are warmer, others are more purply, or green and they all handle contrast with light and shadow completely differently. There was so much to take into account doing this and i really dont know how she did it other than maybe finding those locations again and shooting with the same film stock on a day with similar lighting. I cannot stress enough that for professional photographers doing complex compositing is mostly relegated to having a fully locked down camera set up in studio under controlled repeatable lighting. Super impressive and a really fantastic photo series truly.

[gothicprep]

to catch a bus you have to think like a bus

[unbfacts]

Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

[redladydeath]

No wait I looked this guy up and this shit’s amazing

It’s so incredibly humanizing to see people from the very distant past in such authentic color

And like. look at these landscape shots!! They’re so vivid!! Even aside from the historical value, these are just legitimately beautiful photographs

[valcun2u]

I think this is right up your alley @elodieunderglass they’re all so beautiful.

[elodieunderglass]

They’re enchanting, thank you so much for thinking of me!

An interesting thing about this seems to be that it would’ve been really difficult to reconstruct these images without digital technology. Although Prokudin-Gorskii photographed his images to be shown in colour, he apparently showed them on a projector - with three coloured filters on projector lenses combining to project a colour image.

Even though the negatives were available historically, the actual recreation of the intended images seems to have been driven by digital photo editing: Making Color Images - The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated: The Empire That Was Russia | Exhibitions - Library of Congress

A half-completed thought here: “there are many lenses for looking at the world, some of which we haven’t retained. Which other ones may we have forgotten? what can we recover?”

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

yall need to be nicer to victor frankenstein, post partum depression is no joke

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"he abandoned his kid" teen moms are under incredible pressure

[semantiques]

Spotify advertisement seconds are worse than plank minutes

[semantiques]

Bringing this back because what the actual fuck, Spotify

[sailor-v]

locke lamora is so unhinged. so much wrong with that man (affectionate)

[1five1two]

'Medea Restoring Aeson's Youth'. Charles-Alexandre Crauk. 1865.

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[paper-mario-wiki]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

[meltedgarment]

I've been looking for such archives, thanks

[fealty-to-thee]

you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).

i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.

the first link broke, here you go

[socialmaya]

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

theyer old enough that they used to connect 

[finnglas]

They're older than Florida. The Floridian peninsula is the solidified runoff of the Appalachians that got caught on some coral. It's why we're like this, I think. You don't stand a chance of being normal when you were created by the shed skin of an elder god draping itself over a hollow skeleton. You're always going to be a little Off.

[galladegamer]

[headspace-hotel]

They used to be as tall as the Himalayas.

[purkinje-effect]

[dragoninahumancostume]

Okay but are they older or younger than sharks?

[iota-andromedae]

THEYRE OLDER THAN SHARKS BY LIKE THIRTY MILLION YEARS

[azures-grace]

@nyarevar pookie your mountain range is cool

[nyarevar]

older than blood, bones, sharks, AND the rings of saturn!

[shinelikethunder]

when John Denver sings "life is old here, older than the trees, younger than the mountains" he is in fact not messing around

[punchspeedchunk]

The OLDEST mountain range on earth are the Barberton Mountains in South Africa, which are 3.5 billion y/o. The Appalachians, while ancient, sit around 1.1 billion, which is not to be sneezed at. I'm not sure if there are many ranges that sit somewhere between the two, I didn't end up doing that much research, but being in the billions of years is fascinating! All that time eroding, can you imagine how much taller both were when new? By contrast, the Great Dividing Range of Australia, while quite similar to the Appalachians, is only 300 million years old. Practically a baby XD

[homunculus-argument]

I think it's actually very buddhist of me to have no object permanence. No emotional attachments when I physically can't make myself keep anything in my mind. "It's all in your head" nah ain't nothing in my head. Can't hold grudges or resentments when people who wronged or annoyed me just stop existing for me the second they're out of my field of vision. No thoughts head empty, I am free.

[guy-with-a-soul]

"guys hear me out, my head trauma is actually enlightenment. source: trust me bro

[semantiques]

Epic!Odysseus really is Athena's baby bc right after her using pwetty pwease back to back (with Aphrodite and Zeus) in God Games, there goes Odysseus with "maybe you could learn to forgive 👉👈" to Poseidon like

he is a GOD Ody, no he is not tired™

[toskarin]

I'll always talk up internet radio stations because I don't think the average person is aware that they're free, can run in your browser (or in any program that can connect to them), work on your phone, run better than a youtube tab, and give you a much better selection of music than you could get from a general algorithmic playlist

(also lots of them have live shows which you can tune into for free)

[toskarin]

"oughh I follow this blog for weeb stuff not internet radio promo" here. gensokyo radio.

[toskarin]

oh and also I have to plug yggdrasil. it's cute.

[windcalling]

if u like folk and/or roots music: wumb.org !!! it is AD-FREE it has ZERO MORNING TALK SHOWS it is on air at 91.9 FM in the BOSTON AREA but streams WORLDWIDE on the WEB it is perfect.

[andmaybegayer]

big fan of soma.fm's selection, dozens of themed stations covering ambient, jazz, soul, punk, and a lot of electronica

[semantiques]

https://www.kasetophono.com/?m=0