Elective Affinities.

I'm Koby. I'm 23, bi, a student of philosophy and sociology, a leftist, a poet, and tea enthusiast. She/hers.

[thisprettyukrainianletter]

Птахи в українській народній вишивці Полтавщини та Чернігівщини

Birds in the Ukrainian folk embroidery of Poltava and Chernihiv regions

Source https://www.facebook.com/honcharmuseum/

[babyfairy]

everyone say happy pride month to the butch lesbian chicken

[mellifexfarm]

oh im tiktok famous enough to get my videos posted on tumblr huh

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) “The Floor Scrapers” (1875) Oil on canvas Impressionism Located in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France The depiction of working-class people in their trade, not fully clothed, shocked the jurors of the Salon, Paris’ most prestigious art exhibition, and was deemed a “vulgar subject matter”. Calliebotte instead showed it at the second exhibition of the Impressionists.

[publiclyprismatic]

chrissofly (he/him), queer artist, in his princess series

mod reaux

[renamonkalou]

[dvmplingmami]

renamonkalou:

The family home of architect Sami Angawi, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Holy shit….

[madgastronomer]

Real life solarpunk.

[madgastronomer]

I just read the links, and omg this is even better.

So I looked at it and knew it was using the open courtyard and the pools and fountains to do a lot of the work of cooling the house, but it’s also got drip irrigation for all of those plants (which adds more moisture to the air and also helps cool it in addition to being an effective and efficient way of watering the plants), it’s got a roof garden and other eco-conscious stuff. It combines modern construction techniques with classic Arabic art and architecture.

And his home is a cultural center.

He holds lectures, concerts and salons in his home, with guests and speakers from around the world. He’s founded multiple institutions to preserve Islamic history and architecture. He’s an activist against the extremist factions he says are trying to hijack Islam.

His home is going to be part of an international institute offering degrees in Islamic history and science, as his legacy, housing a collection of over one hundred thousands of his photos, drawings and writings about Islam and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.

This is serious real-life Islamic solarpunk for real.

Tumblr likes the idea of solarpunk, even if there’s not a real body of work about it yet. Well, we’re missing that people are already doing this for real, and have been for a long time.

I am not generally an architecture fan. It’s nice and all, but it doesn’t do a lot for me, especially modern American stuff. But I am totally bowled over by this and must now go look at everything he’s ever designed.

[loveletter2you]

https://www.instagram.com/itsselynn/

[vedettepersona]

Gucci • Tulle gloves with Gucci Strawberry motif

[sovietpostcards]

Kindergarten crossing

[themilkandhoneyway]

baby chain

[rabioheab-deactivated20200416]

earlier this year 2 boys got expelled from my school for going on a teachers email and sending another teacher an email that says “you’re a disgusting little man” and i laugh about it all the time because imagine opening an email from your coworker and thinking it’s important and then it says that

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[antigonick]

“What is it, that you need so badly? Think about this.”

— Mary Oliver, excerpt of “Logan International”, in Thirst

[maxknightley]

You ever think about the kind of guy who makes a cursed amulet? Like, “ooh hoo hoo, whoever puts this on is gonna have a nasty surprise!” Get a real hobby.

[autumnsredglaze]

[champagnepadre]

[themilkandhoneyway]

hacked ):

sorry y’all, and thanks to those who reached out to tell me I got hacked! all secure now, (please vote.)

[themilkandhoneyway]

(queer feelings paragraph) The first thing you notice is her hair. The second thing you notice is the ripple of the sunlight on it. Oceanlike. She walks across the little wooden bridge on the big dilapidated wooden playground, and you are only a step behind. The sun comes down at an angle, and you squint, and her hair blows faintly in the wind, flaxen. Something unspools inside of you, a thread unwinding. “What are you looking at?” she says. “Nothing.”

wow, what prompted this? 

[closet-keys]

I was at a union meeting the other day and the speaker had this great quote

“When you’re a public worker and politicians come around talking about lower taxes, that means they want to lay you off.”

And it’s true. I’m a librarian, so my wages come from tax dollars. Lower taxes means the library has to cut costs, and that means either lowering wages or laying people off. It’s a pretty direct cause and effect.

My dad was a mechanic for public school buses. The first time he took me to vote it was for a local election and he told me even if I did nothing else to vote to pass the budget so they could replace two school busses that were beyond repair so kids were safe.

Politicians who try to sell you on lower taxes are usually just trying to cut social services & public resources and screw over public workers.

[libertarian-therapist]

100% I am trying to screw over public workers. If a public office is closed outside of business hours, it’s because they’re non-essential. If they’re non-essential, then the government shouldn’t be paying for it.

And I’m baffled that public workers are opposed to this? Do they not realize they would be able to hire more people AND get paid more if their position was part of a voluntary and free market and not some absurd bureaucracy?

[closet-keys]

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