Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! ≽^•⩊•^≼
(1965) dir. Russ Meyer
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Arrayed In Purple & Scarlet
@tattooed-alchemist
alchemist | ambivert | AuDHD | face mask advocate | gen x | i grow saffron | kinky | nblm | textile artist | they/them | transmasc | virgo
Jun 19
Nautilus sushi dish out of the kiln!
Jun 19
"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."
Jun 19
The physics of a pendulum wave
A pendulum wave demo of independent simple harmonic oscillators.
Each pendulum oscillates with its own period, T = 2π √(L/g), where L represents the string's length and g denotes gravity. The lengths are meticulously selected such that their frequencies maintain small-integer ratios.
As they gradually desynchronize, the resulting phase differences generate the captivating "wave" illusion you observe. Ultimately, they realign after approximately two to three minutes. It's a classic physics demonstration!
I’ve had tumblr for 4 years but some of you bitches have had it for a decade. It’s time to seek penance
wait I’m curious now . Reblog this with how long u’ve been on tumblr for. Dating back to ur oldest blog ever !!!
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Jun 18
Space: 1999 (1976)
thank the gods, thank the heavens, thank the stars for trans men and transmasculinities ♥︎✧♥︎✦☆♥︎★
thank the gods, thank the heavens, thank the stars for trans women and transfemininities ♥︎✧♥︎✦☆♥︎★
thank the gods, thank the heavens, thank the stars for enben and transneutralities, transmaverines, transxeninity, and whatever else they may identify as ♥︎✧♥︎✦☆♥︎★
thank the gods, thank the heavens , thank the stars for those who move between genders, exist in terms we cannot craft with language, for those with genders that live outside of our bodies, outside of hegemony, for Mad people, for neurodivergent people for refusing to have their entities defined by everyone’s perception but their own.
Jun 18
Queen Mattress Update!
Where I left off: I used a tracing wheel and newspaper to transfer all of the daytime pieces to foundation paper templates. For each 'unit', I made one copy for sewing, and another as a cutting template. I started with the center of the sun, and then did the sun-rays, but did NOT sew them together (yet). At first, I included some darker sky fabrics, but after a bit of consideration, decided they were not the correct value. I seam ripped them out, and replaced them with lighter shades of blue.
After those sections were finished, I began cutting my sky fragments. I had a system where I started with the fabric I had the least of, and wrote down every place I intended to use it. It actually kind of felt like I was a waiter taking orders :P I would go into the living room with a pad of paper and a pen (my sewing room table was not big enough to lay it out), and I would start listing 'coordinates'--like, "okay, the floral fabric will go on A1, A15, A40, B17…" I was trying to get a good dispersion of each fabric type and avoid the same pattern being placed next to itself. Once I was out of my more limited fabrics, I moved on to the ones I had an excess of, and filled in the rest of the gaps. At some point I became fed up with my cat running across my work and scattering all the pieces, so I moved it to my room where I could shut the door. It was at this point it actually felt like I was making a Queen Mattress dress because it legitimately started to look like a bed spread.
Once it was all cut out, I started to sew. I worked one 'ray' at a time, doing a first pass with all my smaller foundation patterns, then sewing those together, recursively until it was all one piece. My partner Zak said this was just like "when you let molten metal cool and form back into a solid!" A bit of a stretch, but I liked the analogy nonetheless. It did feel like I was forging armor.
After all six 'rays' were complete, I could finally put it all together. I had left the sun-rays for last because I figured it would be easier to manipulate it to fit around a curve if it wasn't attached to the center sun, which was sewn on last.
I was then able to finally sew the two 'night' and 'day' halves together!
I contacted the longarm quilter to tell her the good news and go over the plan one more time. I outlined where the backing and batting would start and end. I also sewed the two different backing pieces together and basted extra fabric along the top for easier mounting onto the machine. Sadly, I didn't get any pictures of this step :/ I was kind of in a rush to get them over to her. The deadline is fast approaching after all! Twelve days left to go. Will I make it?
When I dropped off the dress with her, I stayed a bit longer just to make sure everything was aligned how it needed to be, but after that, I finally left the rest up to the professional. I appreciate that she let me stay as long as I did to give me peace of mind :) I should be getting it back on Wednesday! Much sooner than I expected, but probably needed if I'm being honest.
I will leave you with a picture of the dress pleated up and roughly pinned onto the form. See you on the 26th for the big reveal!
reblog if the first musical you listened to was not Hamilton
Johann Daniel Mylius - The Four Classical Elements, “Philosophia Reformata”, 1622. The spherical fundaments display the Alchemical Symbols of the Four Elements: Earth, Water, Air and Fire (from left-to-right), while the flaming flasks atop represent so-supported stages of the Work: Blackening, Whitening, Yellowing and Reddening; which color changes describe successive objectives of the various Alchemical Operations: Calcination, Sublimation, Fusion, Crystallization, Distillation, and Putrefaction, among other processes.
Addams Family Values (1993) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Edo era Sashiko-Embroidered Hanten
Jun 16
Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973), "The Time Trap"
TOP BOYS by @QUEERGARDEN
Jun 16
Announcing microwave cooking and runaway tourism. How Does It Work? 1950.
Internet Archive
Jun 15
Jun 15
The boulder pushing punishment is iconic. But I think more people should know the reason Sisyphus was punished to begin with, which was for cheating death, twice.
The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.
Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.
After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.
But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.
He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.
It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.
I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.
And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.
One must indeed imagine Sisyphus happy, planning and scheming about how he'll cheat the gods next.
