I wonder as I wander...

Daydreams and obsessions... Art, writing, and probably mostly Gilmore Girls

[stellaluna33]

Eowyn: "I'm in love with you."

Aragorn, fully 87 years old: "Listen, you're a great kid and I like you a lot, but I only date older women."

[hound-and-bear]

Dress made by me, end of 2025, photographed by Casey Kerr and Rory Casey, early 2026. Modelled by Jay Katherine Amusan.

(Thanks Jay (o: )

[fus-mar-hoz]

it is the 15th of April, 1919, a calm day in Milan. The recently formed Fasci di Combattimento march towards the office of Avanti!, the newspaper of the PSI. They force their way in and ransack the place, destroying equipment and setting fire to every piece of paper they can get their hands on. An editor faces down the barrel of a gun and realizes: "if only we'd published abstract and experimental art"

April 28th, 1945. soviet forces are bearing down on Berlin like a bulldozer, preceded by a hailstorm of ordinance. the cutting edge abstract art machine guns tear apart the cement facades of Berlin's government district, pushing the hitlerite regime to its limits and over them, Hitler cannot bear the psychological torment of his reality being torn apart by the legions of experimental artists levied to free Europe from fascism.

[yugo-totel]

that original comment is so historically innaccurate too hahahaha. futurism was THE fascism art style! specifically in 1919 in milano!!!

filippo tommasso marinetti wrote both the fascist manifesto and created this type of art:

i'd call this art quite experimental. it was also deeply fascist. as in like, literally.

yet on the other hand... you had... russian futurists who were anti-fascist!

art is a symptom of its times but is ineffective in combating fucking anything. its valuable to analyze it to see how the society reflects in it; its also used as a part of propaganda, art is incredible and very important... but it wont be combating shit!

take it in the modern example - artists raising funds for palestine through raffles or using their art to get more eyes on fundraisers is a very literal and active use of art; its political, its useful, its applied. but it sure as hell isnt stopping any bombs.

[marzipanandminutiae]

Same thing with architecture. Look up what Le Corbusier wanted to do to Paris- and he was definitely a fascist

There is no such thing as "the ideologically pure art style that will tell people I'm a good person if I enjoy it more than others" which I suspect is what this person is trying to get at. Marble statue profile picture assholes on Twitter don't make representative art or heavily ornamented architecture morally inferior

Unfortunately there is no easy aesthetic litmus test for whether someone is a good person. Deal with it

[datasoong47]

So, there are two Civil War songs from the Union side, John Brown's Body and The Battle Hymn of the Republic, that use the same tune. I had always been under the impression that the Battle Hymn of the Republic was first and that the tune was subsequently used for John Brown's Body, but apparently it was the other way around, John Brown's Body came first and then the tune was used for the Battle Hymn of the Republic

[iamthedukeofurl]

Oooh I know this one, let me refresh my memory via wikipedia really fast. Okay, so the tune itself is predates both songs by a good deal, it seems to be an old folk hymn called "Say, Brothers will you Meet Us" that was pretty widespread by the 1850s via oral tradition and revivalist camp meetings. At some point it's chorus which had the line "We'll shout and give him Glory" mutated into "Glory, Glory Hallelujah". Anecdotally, "John Brown's Body" version came about from a group of union soldiers having fun with the fact that they had a Sergeant also named John Brown (No relation). To quote an account From George Kimball in 1890 "We had a jovial Scotchman in the battalion, named John Brown … and as he happened to bear the identical name of the old hero of Harper's Ferry, he became at once the butt of his comrades. If he made his appearance a few minutes late among the working squad, or was a little tardy in falling into the company line, he was sure to be greeted with such expressions as "Come, old fellow, you ought to be at it if you are going to help us free the slaves"; or, "This can't be John Brown—why, John Brown is dead." And then some wag would add, in a solemn, drawling tone, as if it were his purpose to give particular emphasis to the fact that John Brown was really, actually dead: "Yes, yes, poor old John Brown is dead; his body lies mouldering in the grave." These jokes were eventually set to the tune of "Say Brothers", producing the song "John Brown's Body", which spread through union ranks, but was considered somewhat course and unseemly. During the war, a woman named Julia Ward Howe heard soldiers singing the tune and decided to write new words to create a more dignified soldier's anthem, which became the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

[stellaluna33]

My husband and I are both very sensitive people. And sometimes this is an asset, I think! We're both very sincere and passionate and easily moved... But sometimes... Sometimes this means we get into what I'll call "Cheetah Anxiety Spirals." 😂 Like last night, when Husband came home from an errand, it SEEMED to him that I was unhappy (maybe I was tired? 😅😭 I don't know!) and he thought, "Oh no. Is she unhappy with me?" And I was NOT unhappy with him, but I picked up on the fact that HE was unhappy and anxious, so I started thinking, "Oh no. Is HE unhappy with ME??" And we kept spiraling further and further, unconsciously feeding each other's belief that the other was "mad at me," until one of us snapped and said something, and then after a little mutual freakout, we realized that nobody was mad at anybody and it was all in our heads the entire time. 😂😭 Ridiculous. We need one of those emotional support golden retrievers (not a real golden retriever, though, haha)

[stellaluna33]

Heyyyyy, what's up everybody! I've barely been on the Internet at all for the past week, and I do have to admit it's been pretty nice, haha. But I still love all of you and I've missed you! Hope you're well. ❤️

[iicor]

when a moot changes their pfp i feel like a baby whose dad shaved his beard

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Voting ended onJun 11

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode nationale, no. 22, 3 juin 1905, Paris. Costume-prime de la "Mode Nationale" Été 1905. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Costume d'été sur mesures. En toile fantaisie, pour dames, jeunes filles ou fillettes.

Explication du costume.

Robe en toile fantaisie haute nouveauté. Corsage entièrement doublé, large col rabattu, dentelé et bordé d'un liséré de couleur, cravate régate. Manche nouvelle, avec haut poignet plat et large bouffant resserré dans un bracelet souligné de lisérés. Jupe plissée; les plis sont piqués à hauteur de volant et forment au bas de la jupe un gracieux évasement.

Notre modèle représente une jupe trotteuse, mais nous confectionnerons les costumes avec jupe longue ou courte selon les mesures que l'on nous indiquera.

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Custom-made summer suit. In fancy canvas, for ladies, young girls or girls.

Explanation of the costume.

High novelty fancy canvas dress. Fully lined bodice, wide turn-down collar, serrated and edged with colored edging, regatta tie. New sleeve, with high flat cuff and wide bouffant tightened in a bracelet highlighted with edging. Pleated skirt; the pleats are stitched at the height of the flounce and form a graceful flare at the bottom of the skirt.

Our model represents a walking skirt, but we will make the costumes with a long or short skirt according to the measurements that we are given.

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode nationale, no. 22, 3 juin 1905, Paris. Toilette de promenade. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Toilette de visite pour jeune femme, en drap rouille. La jupe est ornée de deux biais ondulés et piqués qui simulent une tunique (voir le dos). Boléro court découpé sur une haute ceinture drapée, et ouvert sur un plastron en linon crème brodé à l'anglaise. Revers de soie parme agrémentés de petites ganses et de menus boutons argentés. Un biais en forme, pareillement garni, suit tous les contours du boléro. Manche courte à revers et sous-manche parme.

Visiting toilet for young women, in rust cloth. The skirt is decorated with two wavy and stitched biases that simulate a tunic (see the back). Short bolero cut on a high draped belt, and open on a cream linen bib embroidered in the English style. Purple silk lapels decorated with small braids and small silver buttons. A shaped bias, similarly trimmed, follows all the contours of the bolero. Short cuffed sleeve and purple undersleeve.

Matériaux: 6m,50 de drap; 1m,50 de taffetas.

Marquis de paille rouille, enguirlandé de roses roses et de roses parme de tons éteints; nœud parme. Cache-peigne de roses.

Marquis of rusty straw, garlanded with pink roses and purple roses in muted tones; parma knot. Rose comb cover.

[lesbilane]

welp. it's june 3rd again.

[stellaluna33]

The Kid was looking through a paper doll book of historical fashions, got to the Bustle section, and sighed, "Here come the centaurs." 😂

[mabeltanaka]

Parks and Recreation 4.06 "End of the World"

[gargoylegf]

The red tailed hawk: the voice actor of the bald eagle

[stellaluna33]

What I WANTED to say was, "That guy looks like Conan the Barbarian." But what came out was "Conan the Librarian" instead. 😂😂😭 Dang, I need to go to bed, haha.

[blackfolksintime]

25-year-old Cab Calloway photographed by Carl Van Vechten on January 12, 1933.

[louisegluckpdf]

they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"