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"I'm a Friday person in a Monday world" ~ Garfield Collection of my random thoughts that I have no one to share with. Enjoy?

[sociallyawkwardms]

Oh. I’m sorry. I really didn’t mean to bother you. I really meant it when I said I loved you, but I just can’t believe that you’d love me back. No literally, I hear the words coming out of your mouth but my brain refuses to comprehend it. I don’t believe it. I can’t believe it. Because my broken brain insists on telling that I’m unlovable. Too broken to be loved. Who would want to love me? I’m just sad all the time and possibly needy. It’s okay if you don’t love me. I understand, really. But I appreciate you trying.

[tordenvejr]

me seeing purple flowers on a lawn: that’s the prettiest thing i’ve ever seen

me seeing sunlight hit the waves of the sea: that’s the prettiest thing i’ve ever seen

me seeing raindrops sparkle colorfully on a bus stop bench at night: that’s the

[sandersstudies]

“I don’t learn this in school :(“

Hey here’s a question what steps have you taken to increase your education and knowledge since graduating?

[sandersstudies]

12 years is not nearly enough time to teach you everything to know about the world, especially when the starting point is “a says ah” and “1+1=2” and “rain comes from clouds.”

There are people who spend their whole lives in pursuit of knowledge and do not run out of stuff to learn. If you want to be well-informed and knowledgeable as an adult you have to actually make your continued education a priority. The library is free, thousands on online resources are accessible to all, and somewhere near you is an affordable museum or culture center or zoo or art display that can give you information you didn’t know.

[galadriel1010]

New rule, if you complain "I didn't learn that in school" you get your driving licence revoked, because if you only know thing you learned at school you're obviously not safe to be on the roads

[catchymemes]

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

reblog if you believe people who graduated from high schools or colleges should still have free access to the schools’ / colleges’ libraries for the rest of their lives

[merp-blerp]

I know it's late to say, but I hope that Hbomb's video will encourage people to not only cite their sources but also have a good source to begin with. Don't tell me Snow White is 14 years old and then show a screenshot of a featured snippet from Google that leads back to Screenrant.com. Don't tell me Judy Garland was forced to take drugs and smoke 80 cigarettes a day by MGM and have your source be social osmosis or "Hundreds of other videos say so!" Where's that info from? Does it's source truly make sense as a source? Are there more reliable routes for sources to take outside of looking online, like reading books about the subject from people involved or seasoned/trusted in the topic? I know "Google is free", but that doesn't mean it's always good for research. Try Google Scholar at least...

[a-s-fischer]

One of the things that I really wish more people knew about bubonic plague* is that not everybody who got it before antibiotics died. Like your odds were not good. You had a better than fifty percent chance of dying. But you had around a one in four to one in three chance of living. For you, an individual with the plague, this is bad. I hope your will is up to date and you have made your peace with the divine.

But on a societal level after a plague epidemic, there were going to be a lot of people who had gotten the plague and survived. And plague frequently did not leave its victims unscathed. Plague often left its survivors with severe medical problems, including neurological problems. So in the aftermath of a large epidemic of plague, you are going to have a society that is suddenly much smaller, full of people who have boatloads of trauma, and suddenly with a much higher proportion of people with disabilities. And I'm not sure why but when I see discussions of the societal effects of plague epidemics in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, I rarely see that last one discussed. I think, however, it was probably pretty important to the experience of the plague and its aftermath.

*I am talking specifically about bubonic plague. Plague comes in three forms, all caused by the bacteria Y. pestis. The other two forms of plague, pneumonic, and septisemic had 100% or near 100% mortality rates before modern medicine.

[energizrbunni-blog]

Last night was my company Holiday Party, and we're doing really well, so it was held at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)

I was so happy that also included the Styled by Sargent exhibit, of John Singer Sargent paintings and the actual articles of clothing alongside them.

Now, you have probably seen this painting of Lady Macbeth

But have you seen the costume she's wearing??

It's gorgeous, obviously.

But that texture! It's *crochet*

And some knitting

Really simple crochet too; just a chain and single crochet lattice with beads and metallic thread added for this chain mail effect.

Despite John Singer Sargent being an expert painter of fabric (no, really, just look at it), I never knew Lady Macbeth's costume had to be *hand crocheted* for that texture in the painting.

Anyway I'm gonna be making myself some faux-chainmail by crocheting it for the next Renn Faire

[darcylightninglewis]

It's absolutely stunning, but the mount of the cape is also superb. It created the original silhouette without damaging the dress or putting pressure on it.

Also, those little flecks? Fuckin' beetle wings.

[marzipanandminutiae]

*Fashioned by Sargent, if anyone wants to see it. and yeah, it is SO cool!

(except the blurb on corsets is kind of weird. but other than that, loved it!)

[missewoodhouse]

Always re-blog the beetle-wing dress!

As @symbionese-liberation-armpit notes in the comments, the dress was designed by Alice Laura Comyns-Carr and built by Adaline Cort Nettleship — for Henry Irving's production of Macbeth at the Lyceum theatre, opening 29th December 1888 (135 years ago today). The fabric is a combination of green silk and blue tinsel (I believe the bodice is knit and the sleeves/skirt are crocheted). Interestingly (at least from a theatre-historian perspective) the version of Lady Macbeth in the portrait doesn't quite align with review's of Terry's onstage portrayal: the production did NOT include a moment where Lady M crowns herself (Source), and Terry’s portrayal was deemed gentler and less ambitious than Sarah Siddons's version at the start of the century (Source). This is why theatre historians have to be really careful about relying on things like promotional images or portraits, which may not accurately reflect the production in question.

Sargent also did a less detailed but more performance-accurate sketch of the costume, held by the National Portrait Gallery (and below).

As the National Trust notes, Comyns-Carr and Cort Nettleship were Terry's own personal costume team, separate from the one that costumed the rest of the Lyceum company. I love the comment credited to Oscar Wilde that: "Lady Macbeth seems an economical housekeeper, and evidently patronises local industries for her husband’s clothes and the servants’ liveries; but she takes care to do her own shopping in Byzantium".

[biigsaad]

Lately, I noticed that everybody looks okay until you eventually have a deep conversation with them. And then, you realize that this is a sad generation of people struggling to survive through smiling faces and pretty pictures.

[anxeious]

[shinysherlock]

advice from dad

So, my Dad is a 73-year-old Mexican man who has lived here since he was 16. He was in Watts during the riots in 1965; in 1992, when I was in LA, as soon as the Rodney King verdict was announced, he called me, told me what was coming, told me how to stay safe. He has survived horrible living conditions, being kidnapped, physical abuse, prejudice, discrimination. He learned English, got his green card, pays his taxes, works hard, and has three daughters. 

I thought he would be devastated today.

But he wasn’t.

He saw that I was sad and angry, and he asked me why, pretending he had no idea. I almost started crying. And then he said, “no se me chicopale.” 

It means, don’t lose heart. Don’t give in to despair.

I asked him why he wasn’t upset.

He said, basically, “The world has always been this way. There are always people who are afraid, who are racist, who are awful. This is not new. And it will never go away. He won. We can’t do anything about that. All we can do is what we can do. Fight for what matters to us. Take care of each other. And don’t lose heart. And here, I got these unsalted cashews for you and a bag of jamaica drink mix and can you show me how to use the new washing machine because it’s not working.”

And, for reasons I can’t articulate, I feel a little better. 

[kryptaria]

As a Jew who just spent two hours talking to a rabbi for the first time in thirty years, please give your dad a hug from me.

Tikun olam, the rabbi reminded me. Literally, it means world repair. It means we live in an imperfect world, and instead of looking to the Heaven of the next world, it’s our duty to be a light in THIS world – to protect those people who need our protection, to work for social justice, and to improve the world as a whole.

The world needs our light.

[egberts]

saw this on Facebook and thought "wow that's pretty helpful I'm going to share it on tumblr, i'll just crop off the thing about the tick that got left out" but then I read the comments and decided I had to share those too because same

[collgeruledzebra]

yellow poplar weevil (not a tick) :)

[tiredandlonelymuse]

i loved one direction with an all-consuming force when i was younger. it hurts deeply to mourn someone you were a massive fan of as teenager, and became a peer of as an adult.

i know people change and grief is unsure or complicated when it’s attached to a fond memory or the feeling a person gave you and not tangibly the person themself. i can see many of you on here are struggling with that right now and i understand.

a few years ago i purchased a home that Liam previously owned. there were rumors the house was haunted. He assured me it was not, and i believed him. because i know the ghosts that haunt us aren’t tethered to buildings. They live in parts of us that are harder to reach and they go wherever we do.

as a parent, a fellow artist, and a fan, i simply cannot fathom this untimely loss. my heart goes out to his family, friends, and the fans. 💔

[sociallyawkwardms]

I’m a female and much more fearless than my dad.

Being raised to be fearful of everything and everyone around me.

The toxic mindset that the world is scary rather than a beautiful place full of unique possibilities. So much to uncover. So much to see and learn.

Makes forming any type of relationship with anyone harder as you enter their presence already scared of what they want from you.

Having to reprogram your own brain to think otherwise but it’s a lifelong journey because the scarring is already there.

[kropotkindersurprise]

Michael Parenti on the extraction of wealth from the so-called Third World by Western Capitalism. [video]

[thorffour-deactivated20190920]

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[storybookprincess]

hi!!!!! i’m an actual librarian who has encountered this very situation before!!!!! and while i commend & admire op’s willingness to help another patron, this is why you really really should have a library worker, not another patron whom you don’t know, assist you with tech & information related issues in the library!!! because we are trained in how to handle this exact sort of thing

tl;dr: use proton mail. i’m not gonna gatekeep this info. it does not require a cell phone number, so it’s my go to for patrons in this situation!!! while i am acutely aware of the harm done by the digital divide & how many people are getting left behind as our world gets increasingly tech dependent, the situation is not hopeless. there ARE provisions in place to help the people most affected, and those provisions are usually wearing glasses & cardigans & sitting behind the circulation desk

librarians are not glorified bookworms!!!! we are information professionals who are highly trained in how to handle these sorts of seemingly impossible binds!!!! ask us for help!!!!!! as i always tell my patrons, that’s what i get paid the big bucks for

[sociallyawkwardms]

Homesickness

Yes. Yes. And Yes.

I have moved from one city to another. I have experienced a family change. I have experienced a job change. I have experienced the loss of someone close to me who I have come to associate with safety and comfort. And this has resulted in feelings of sadness, anxiousness, and a longing for home.

Whatever that is anymore.