tecnobabushka

I make comics about languages I study (German, Russian and English) as well as literature, writing, movies, fandoms, queer stuff, food, fashion and random things. Enjoy your stay! Sideblog for inspiration is lebeutzen

[midnights-dragon]

In case anyone is having a bad night

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean 

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Take a breath. It’s going to be okay, I promise.

[santapau]

Remind me later.

[tecnobabushka]

Russian handwriting

[notcrazyiswear]

I’ll forever be amused at the Russian word “deprived” (лишили) in cursive, which looks like

[esoanem]

for people wondering how the hell that works

[shieldfoss]

I still don’t know how the hell that works.

[counterclockworkminds]

See, to me it looks a lot like ‘minimum’ in English cursive:

Ok not so bad right? But it gets worse…

Like… what even is this?

Can’t tell me that’s a word right? But it is! Sure you could dot the i’s, but would it really help?

source here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Handwriting/comments/1hgsc8/write_minimum_in_cursive_without_dotting_the_is/

[shieldfoss]

Yes. Yes it would.

[squareallworthy]

Wikipedia: Minim (palaeography)

[nid--hogg]

Why the fuck would language evolve in such a completely illogical way like this

[kyraneko]

fuck every last bit of this

[tuulikki]

Humans invented writing as a way of communicating information and it’s pretty great on the whole but we maybe did not adequately prepare for depreciation in legibility

[pudimdosubmundo]

@official-linguistics-post ?

[sztupy]

[tecnobabushka]

Wtf guys ten years

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[bunjywunjy]

occasionally I am struck dumb by the sublime beauty of the world in the small moments, you know?

egg

[wraether]

i drew it

[monstrousregiment2-deactivated2]

hey I hope you dont mind I also painted your egg

[kiunlo]

i also painted the egg hope that's ok

[yellow-cat]

i heard we were painting egg?

[rhube]

I love how this shows how real artists drawing a thing aren't just representing the thing, but showing you what THEY found beautiful in it.

[geodethecrow]

hope I'm not too late to paint egg! watercolors :)

[pipsqueaks-human-errors]

i too have drawn the egg

[sketchyelvenasss]

[kamil-a]

heres my egg

[queen-susans-revenge]

Love every single one of these eggs. No yeah of course it's still okay to write your vampire story or whatever, even if a thousand people have done it before you. Your art will still be uniquely yours and people will find something fresh in your perspective. Paint your egg.

[itty-britty-blog]

Oh hell yeah

From artist Margaret Kammerer (Clay.Obj)

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHwqzmkyfc0/

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

[tinfoilvalentine]

Curating a list

[stargirldotcom]

- love in the mundane

warsh_tippy and zelda- whatever, dad/ minari/ new years day- taylor swift/ @death-born-aphrodite/ stay, stay, stay- taylor swift/ everything, everywhere, all at once/ i will- mitski/ @death-born-aphrodite/ fleabag/ sweet nothing- taylor swift

[valtsv]

i love the specification of "alive" in the people magazine "sexiest man alive" award. clearly they're worried about ötzi the iceman sweeping the competition. as they should be.

[valtsv]

[archaeologistproblems]

One of the hardest laughs I ever saw my mother unleash was after she bought me a copy of Archaeology magazine as a teen.

As I was flipping through I realized there was a fold-out insert of Otzi as part of the feature article. So I unfolded it and turned it sideways to look at it. My mother out of the corner of her eye thought I was looking at a pin-up poster, turned and saw The Ice Man, and laughed uncontrollably for about 10 solid minutes.

[grntaire]

HELLLLLL YEAH!!!!!!!

[lladyburd]

THIS PHOTO FROM THE ARTICLE IS INSANE

[grungixfungix]

[baddywronglegs]

Are lace-makers ever struck by the realisation that all the holes were already there before they started?

[ladytemeraire]

The Yarn Harlot, in one of her older blog posts musing on negative space in art in general, described knitting lace as "putting yarn around important and select parts of air".

I think about that every time I work on a lace project.

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[wrathofachilleus]

born to be an abstract concept, forced to be a percievable entity

[sioltach]

this website lets you listen to the sounds of all different forests around the world 

[seafossilqueen]

I am incredibly amused by these random Japanese women for scale with prehistoric creatures

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

these are lesbian couples

[tecnobabushka]

Our wives under the sea lol

[sabertoothwalrus]

being an artist and revisiting media you liked when you were 11 is like. oh ok. this shaped my sense of humor and the way I write characters and the way I pace narratives and the tropes I'm drawn to. and I vastly underestimated how much of an impact it had on me because I literally have not thought about it for 15 years. but it was there inside me the whole time. ok. ok cool! c ool