the whimsy house

inklings.ideas.impressions

[the-whimsy-house]

it’s been a really, really, really, really, REALLY long time since i’ve written anything on this blog.

looking back on the last few posts i made - wow. i am not that girl, i am not that life. there are so few people and places and things that have remained constant since then. i live somewhere else. i love other people. the friends i thought were forever are barely memories. i graduated. i got a grown-up job. the heartbreak i thought would never end - well, as a surprise to no one, it ended. life drudges on.

i wish i could say i’ve done some incredible things since then. and i guess, in a way, i have done some, perhaps incredible, things. i went to europe. i graduated. i got a real, grown up job doing exactly what i always wanted to do. i got out of and got over an emotionally abusive relationship. 

but i still feel so underaccomplished. i haven’t written anything real, anything meaningful, for years. i haven’t been the creative, creatING person i always imagined myself to be. and i guess that’s why i’m back. 

this blog probably won't be the same as before, if anybody even remembers it: there will be less poetry. a lot less bleeding-heart angst. but there will be heart. i need to start writing again, even if it’s just inconsequential heat-of-the-moment stream-of-conscious brain vomit about mundane things like “i need to work out more!” or “i saw this really pretty tree today” or “should i do my master’s in germany?”

so here we are. two years later. two happy, if inconsequential, less than incredible, but still, incredibly, happy years.

[bookriot]

[thehikingastronomer]

Yes. Writing a book is the easiest thing in the whole world. In fact, let me show you just how easy it is!

Goal: change all this paper into a book.

Eh, not that hard. I mean, you just have to read, right?

Maybe scratch a few notes in the margins as reminders.

[vinegar--tom]

[fwips]

this is the exact life i want in this world

[wwfk]

[theparisreview]

For Charlotte Brontë’s birthday, here’s a comic from our archive depicting a fake video game based on the lives of the Brontë sisters. Enjoy!

[nearlya]

Tomás Saraceno. Outer space seems not so unfamiliar, 2014 

[nearlya]

David Lynch. lithograph

[the-whimsy-house]

Hello internet. As I’m sure nobody has noticed, I’ve been awful quiet over here lately, but April has been a little haywire what with FINISHING MY DEGREE WTF. Two pitiful exams left and I’m done undergrad forever.

Now the real question: Do I take a full time barista job with Starbucks that will earn me more money but means 5am wake up calls and selling my soul to the corporate machine???

OR do I take a part time job at a secondhand bookstore that will eat up weekday evenings and all my weekends but c'mon it’s working around books????

[photosthatarevintage]

[humansofnewyork]

“My mom found this key on the street. It opens a special lock in the Universe that holds extra superpowers.”

[fantasy-art-engine-blog]

Death Rides into Town by Rhys Griffiths

[ramoorebooks-deactivated2024011]

The writer's blessing:

May you write 1,500 words with ease. May your characters be lively and not cardboard. May you need little editing. May your muse visit you as soon as you sit. May the Internet not distract you much.May your phone lie dormant while you write.

[mydarkenedeyes]

Elicia Edijanto | Tumblr

[crossconnectmag]

 Hadaway House by Patkau Architects

Canadian firm Patkau Architects designed the ‘’ Hadaway House’’, a winter resort in the mountains, which, through its irregular shape, aims not to only catch the person’s eyes, but serve its functionality urpose.

‘’The exterior form of the house is shaped by the intersection of two principal considerations: The first is the allowable building footprint and height. The second is the need to shed snow from the roof into appropriate storage areas within the site. The sculptural volume that emerges from this intersection of extruded building footprint and folding snow-shed roof is occupied in a manner that maintains the inherent plastic properties of the building form.’’ via Patkau Architects

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[traveling-magpie-deactivated202]

So my brother works at a McDonald’s that’s test running serving breakfast later into the day. They used to end at 10:30, and now it goes to eleven… apparently it’s a pretty big pain in the butt.

It used to be that when it came time for the switch from breakfast to lunch, they’d shout out “Ten thirty!” through the store so everyone knew to switch, but now that it’s “Eleven,” my bro says it’s just not as easy to shout, or to hear over machinery and such.

So he started shouting “Elevensies!”

So now it’s a thing and the McDonald’s in my hometown now serves elevensies.

OK BUT BEST PART OF THE STORY

There was a guy who didn’t get it. He’s like, “Whut? Why are you saying that? That’s not a word.”

And someone else shouts from behind the grill “You don’t know elevensies?”

And someone else shouts “Bet he doesn’t know about second breakfast either”

[zanabism-deactivated20200529]

4 reasons why shock journalism isn’t ethical or effective

1. Lack of consent; It is impossible to acquire permission of victims who have passed away, and whose photographs were taken at the time of their death. To use these images without consent reduces the victims to their injuries and their deceased state. It impinges on their privacy during such an extreme situation and reduces their victimization to the graphicness of their casualties. 

2. Exploitation of children: during the chemical attacks in Syria, hundreds of photographs emerged of groups of deceased children in rows with headlines claiming the cause of their death and the situation in Ghouta. Not only were these photographs taken without consent, images of these children were used as campaign images, advertisements, and editorials, images of children who had survived the attack were exploited worldwide. The emotional toll circulated images like these can have on parents and guardians is enough of a reason to discontinue shock journalism. 

3. Invalid reporting: what happens often is that popular images on social media of victims of devastating circumstances enter circulation under the guise of false or factually incorrect background stories. The false images of children suffering, of people being persecuted and killed, can serve as effective propaganda for a variety of groups that benefit from the same devastation that is being broadcast. Not only does this detract attention from worthy causes, it disrespects the members of persecuted communities that are invalidated by false propaganda. 

4. Desensitization: possibly one of the most pressing reasons against shock journalism is the subsequent desensitization. After being shown repetitive, similar photographs of a specific type of devastation affecting a specific race or ethnic group in a particular place, a mental tolerance to images of such devastation can be established. After repeated exposure to shock journalism, the intensity of such images begins to fade and we become conditioned to such violence. Instead of inspiring change, the suffering of brown children in the “middle east” becomes commonplace, the suffering of a certain demographic from a certain place becomes expected, and therefore inevitable. An expectation of such suffering becomes ingrained, and the homogenization of such devastation becomes established. Shock journalism dehumanizes victims, and desensitizes the observing population. 

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