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Alexander Calder

60% the jobs that we’ll have in 20 years don’t even exist yet! Who knows what you’ll be? A slave in an asteroid mine? A client who follows rich people around to laugh at their jokes? An organ transplant repo man? A substitute pollinator? A guillotine attendant? There are just so many possibilities!

amare-habeo

Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)

Sunset, 1902

Oil on wood, 28.5 x 46 cm

christophpeterson

Untitled, 2019

dietcoke-and-razorblades

some days im like “i havent eaten in 19 hours and im feelin fine”

and then some days im like “im on my ninth muffin and only the power of god can stop me”

meloetta

multiplayer video games bad for health, heart, and emotional wellbeing. cut them out of ur diet.

bewbin

did u lose again

meloetta

amberrohdeart-deactivated201908

This painting was finished earlier this week! Detail shots in another post 👍 I’ll frame this one once the third one dries and get them at the same time. :)

Sweet Dots No. 2, Gouache 17” x 23”, Amber Rohde 2019

vardaelcntari

That’s it, the Professor is truly the King of Sass

nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui

The letter didn’t come from the Nazi party, but from the publishing house which had expressed an interest in the German translation of The Hobbit. Tolkien’s response really is a thing of beauty, though, so it deserves to be quoted in its entirety:

25 July 1938 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford

Dear Sirs,

Thank you for your letter. … I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject - which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.

Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearings whatsoever on the merits of my work or its suitability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung.

I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully

J.R.R. Tolkien.

(Letter 30)

The Hobbit wasn’t published in German until 1957.

correspondingnerd

This might just be the politest “fuck you” ever written.

geekandmisandry

W.h.a.t.

bramblepatch

Not just “I wish I had Jewish ancestors, but I don’t,” but also “you do realize that’s not what ‘Aryan’ actually means, right,” and “you guys are making it pretty hard to be proud of my German heritage.”