Il dolore lacerante delle cose perdute

he/him, doctoral student, amateur dialectologist, part-time italian. Here for farraginous and perfidious purposes

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

hey. hey. don’t cry. work of early chinese photographer Lang Jingshan

[fancysheepnacho]

[coffeefocusrat]

they should serve eggnog year round as a controversial milk

[coffeefocusrat]

meant an alternative milk .

[correctopinionhaver]

me and the family when the eggnog issue comes up

[godisafujoshi]

It’s uncomfortable how the cutting board and cabinets split the picture in halves.

[ygmtwr-atrus]

It's meant to symbolize the division created by the eggnog

[mynorthernattitude]

and for the lady, perhaps a fking break?

[mosoli]

im still laughing at this

[yesornopolls]

Is it time to leave the Met Gala in the past?

Is it time to leave the Met Gala in the past?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 20, 2025

[official-vermont-fr]

Adding important info to this post ^^

[dodecalemma]

These outfits costs that much because they are handmade extremely intricate extremely time intensive wearable art. I think it’s awesome that these designers (read: artists) get this opportunity to be paid appropriately to make their incredible art. You (presumably) don’t complain about other forms of art costing millions of dollars. We want people to value the work of artisans more, not less!!!

Tl;dr it’s not just “an outfit” it’s a piece of art and deserves to be treated as such

[cinemaglow]

It's not just about paying the designers, it's also about paying the weavers, dyers, and other artisans who make the materials, usually on heirloom equipment and sometimes involving endangered crafts; and the possibly hundreds of people involved in patterning and constructing the garments. And depending on the design we also have specialists, like the corsetieres who engineer the structures underneath it all; the embroiderers, beaders, pleaters, trim weavers, passimenterie houses, silk flower makers, lace makers etc involved in embellishing the garment; the milliners, glovemakers, jewelers, shoemakers, leatherworks, 3D modelists etc who are commissioned to accessorize the look. Each look involves many, many, hours of work by many, many, people; all of whom have undergone specialized education to develop their skills and qualify for their positions.

I think many people on tumblr care about fair compensation for artists and fair compensation for garment workers, and this is the intersection of those issues. It's not like ready-to-wear luxury goods where the high price tag comes from an insane mark-up that all goes into the pockets of the company; the high price is due to the labor and quality materials involved, and designers make very little profit on these pieces or may even lose money on them.

[cinemaglow]

Like just in case y'all didn't realize: everything you see on that red or whatever color it is this year carpet is 90% stitched by hand

[hyperlexichypatia]

I think "money spent on extravagant art is a waste that should be spent on helping the poor" or whatever is a valid stance that I won't dismiss out of hand, but if you feel that painting, sculpture, music, theater, etc are valid uses of resources for human artistic expression, but fashion and fiber arts are frivolous vanity... I mean... Spot The Feminine Coded Art Form. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

The Kentucky Derby also happened in the past few days. Just an observation. Make of that observation what you will.

[itspileofgoodthings]

“There’s another way of reading Anne of Green Gables, and that’s to assume that the true central character is not Anne, but Marilla Cuthbert. Anne herself doesn’t really change throughout the book. She grows taller, her hair turns from ‘carrots’ to ‘a handsome auburn’, her clothes get much prettier, due to the spirit of clothes competition she awakens in Marilla, she talks less, though more thoughtfully, but that’s about it. As she herself says, she’s still the same girl inside. Similarly, Matthew remains Matthew, and Anne’s best chum Diana is equally static. Only Marilla unfolds into something unimaginable to us at the beginning of the book. Her growing love for Anne, and her growing ability to express that love - not Anne’s duckling-to-swan act - is the real magic transformation. Anne is the catalyst who allows the crisp, rigid Marilla to finally express her long-buried softer human emotions. At the beginning of the book, it’s Anne who does all the crying; by the end of it, much of this task has been transferred to Marilla. As Mrs Rachel Lynde says, ‘Marilla Cuthbert has got mellow. That’s what.’”

— Margaret Atwood [x] (via dollsome-does-tumblr)

[the-fridge-orange]

Bloom

[cpericardium]

hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"

[cpericardium]

[cpericardium]

[digitaldiscipline]

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month.

https://www.jstor.org/action/showLogin

[anarchistmemedistro]

[juneiper-art]

real talk i have become a problem recently. the hospital wanted my fingerprint and i said no. the receptionist was like: but its such a convenient way to check in! and i said ok i dont want you to have my biometric data. and she was so baffled. i said, can you not check me in using an id card?

well of course but dont you want to provide your biometric data for your convenience?

nope thanks!

[juneiper-art]

fuck this happened again i was buying some LPs and the clerk was like: can i have your email? and i was like no.

she full on stared at me. she was like: but i need to put you into the system.

and i was like: need to? you NEED to? i don't want to give my email

and she was like: but...how are you going to return items without an account?

and i was like, with a fucking receipt??? wtf is going on right now. if i can't return them i guess i'll die??whatever

[cogentranting]

Mr. Collins would be such a fan of ai. He would love it. He would have it write scripts for him to use for complimenting people. He'd ask it what to do in social situations and then when someone would tell him "I think that's a bad idea" he'd be like "my dear madam it's so good of you to be concerned but I think the highly esteemed Grok knows a little more about this than a lady like yourself" and then he'd go humiliate himself publicly.

[bennetsbonnet]

Pride and Prejudice (1995) + Text Posts (7/?)

[beemovieerotica]

people who are just finding out about internet tracking and data mining in the year 2025 and that your special robot friend does not respect your privacy lol

[hollowedskin]

"I asked it but it said no so the mystery is still unsolved" how have you survived to adulthood?

[greater-than-the-sword]

I mean there is something to be said for the fact that I'm not aware of OpenAI admitting to having data profiles on people, and the fact that discord friend lists aren't public information, so this is definitely something outside the well known. Amazon/Google data sharing isnt groundbreaking but like.

[20th-centuryghost]

HEY ARTISTS!

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)

[mostro-rotto]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

"This is my weird son. He can't climb for shit, but he is handsome and strong."

[cryoverkiltmilk]

#cats be like#is anybody adopt that#and don't wait for an answer

[stalker-among-the-stars]

Everything that isn't food is a cat from the perspective of a cat. Cats can look upon the true form of eldritch monstrosities and keep their sanity. They'd just see another cat. A fucking weird-looking cat, but a cat nonetheless.

[dduane]

An always-reblog. 😄