The Sustained World: a Transverse

The Tumblr home for the book series by Clara Quinion

[cosmonautroger]

Louise Bourgeois, Maman, 1999

[thesustainedworldatransverse]

@entities-of-posts it's her, it's Mama Web.

[elodieunderglass]

i don't WANT to drink water I WANT a bard to draft a eulogy for me to criticise!!!!!!!

[elodieunderglass]

I appreciate that people also liked this one

[vonnebenan]

As somebody whose name contains an Umlaut, it always makes me mad when Americans people who don’t use a German keyboard layout just leave out the dots. That is not my name. :(

correct: ä = ae ö = oe ü = ue (and ß = ss)

INCORRECT: ä = a ö = o ü = u

Leaving out the dots can actually change the meaning of words. Examples:

schwül: muggy, sticky schwul: gay [homosexual] ächten: to outlaw achten: to regard/respect sb./sth. schön: beautiful schon: already, yet

Respect the Umlaute :(

[penny-anna]

like many people have said this better than me but no it IS odd that we've come to think of potatoes as so quintessentially european that their presence in historical fantasy where they're anachronistic doesn't jar. and yes people are trying to have the trappings of post-colonial europe without engaging w the icky colonialism part and yes people are neglecting to imagine what a european cuisine without potatoes would be like.

[penny-anna]

im fully in favour of 'let people have fun w their fantasy world' but is considering how the potatoes got there in the absence of colonialism not a fun exercise? maybe every year the dragon riders go on a great transatlantic potato pilgrimage

[penny-anna]

perhaps a good way to sum up the issue here is:

if you put potatoes in your medieval european style fantasy world people will by and large not find it jarring and accept it as a normal fantasy trope

if you put, say, black people in your medieval european style fantasy world a whole demographic of people will get very angry and accuse you of breaking their immersion

this is in spite of the fact that black people were a lot more common in medieval europe than potatoes.

[xylophone888]

an eternal classic

[kjscottwrites]

Reject the idea that there is such a thing as high art and low art!!! Read smut! Write horror! Watch low budget shorts! Listen to a local garage band!!!

[kjscottwrites]

Read challenging classics! Write poetry!!! Watch foreign films!! Listen to experimental music!!!!!! Let a thousand blossoms bloom motherfucker!!!!!

[badassdemonsword]

[birds-in-posts]

Java sparrow (Padda oryzivora)

White morph

[newhologram]

Tweet by unicornthorn "the idea that people are faking severe chronic illnesses en masse for attention is hilarious to me because anyone with severe chronic illnesses knows that you lose like 95-100% of your friends once you become too sick to fake being well 24/7

like yeah, people with ME and stuff totally get tons of attention, that's why everyone forgets we even exist because they never see us again when we disappear from public for the rest of our lives 🫠

fun fact: most of us fake being WELL when we want or need attention because no one gives a shit about you when you're sick

for those wondering, the trick to keeping 1-5% of your friends is to be friends with chronically ill people, they're generally the ones that stick around after you can't pretend anymore" What's wild is people in denial that this actually happens and we're just throwing a pity party. Friends and family quite LITERALLY abandon sick people ALL THE TIME bc it doesn't fit into their picture-perfect idea of how life is "supposed" to be.

[cuntess-carmilla]

#‘you’re just trying to get sympathy’ bro WHAT sympathy??#where???#if that was my goal then I probably would have given up after month 6#when I realized that the most I was gonna get#was people telling me that things can wait#‘until I get better’

^ For real

You can't even get employment when you're moderately chronically ill, let alone severely chronically ill, and you think we get any attention? Try socializing with no income and being dead to the system as well as having accessibility barriers all around even if you don't rely on things like mobility aids. Watch your social life evaporate in three seconds.

Even if we manage to physically drag ourselves out of bed and into social scenarios, able-bodied people find us silently repulsive and REALLY prefer to not have us around reminding them of the fragility of their own health with our mere presences. They find us very exasperating as well if we're experiencing brain fog (aka cognitive dysfunction from pain/fatigue/etc).

That's not even going into how even if none of the above applies to the like one or max two compassionate able-bodied people we're limited to know, they will still walk away from our lives sooner or later because they'll quickly realize that committing to us as either friends, lovers of close family will limit their own chances at socializing and experiencing life the way they want to.

If there's anyone out there faking a severe or even just moderate chronic illness, then they must have a very serious non-physical issue going on because there is NO benefit to gain from being in our positions. Closest to sincere compassion you'll ever get is the most revolting form of dehumanizing, aggressive pity you could imagine.

[adultlikers]

[porksweats]

e me a mail

[fortooate]

make the attachment a pic of a snail

[jumpingjacktrash]

give me two gifs

of critters in clover

[nuclearcarrots]

then photoshop them on the CLIIIIIIIFFS OF DOVER

[bigger-rat]

Vladimir Serov, The Worker (1960) and The Builder (1964)

[lieutenant-sappho]

transition timeline

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

winding up for a thunderous soviet slap on th ass

[knitmeapony]

These posts are cousins to me.

[stitchthisfiona]

Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

[cleolinda]

[cleolinda]

[lotus0kid]

[lotus0kid]

[pomme-poire-peche]

[lotus0kid]

[sashaforthewin]

[jack-of-no-cows]

[ghirahimbo]

[shinraalpha]

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[kushblazer666]

[flowercrownsylveon]

[dinomoder]

This is the best ad for Project Hail Mary I have ever seen. Like if I was on the fence about watching or reading it, this would convince me to do so.

[vashti-lives]

It occurred to me today that you can use Miyazaki films as a really quick way to explain the difference between urban/modern fantasy and magical realism.

Kiki’s Delivery Service: takes place in the regular world— albeit at some nebulous point in time— but also magic is real and witches are a thing. Witches exist in this world because it’s fun and we like them. It’s fantasy elements in a familiar setting— essentially urban or modern fantasy.

Porco Rosso: takes place in an extremely specific place and time and contains exactly one fantastical element— Marco’s pig head— which is never given an explanation and is never questioned as a biological impossibility. It’s clearly a metaphor and commentary on a real world issue but it’s also very much literal. This dude 100% has a pig head. No other mentions of magic are made. This is magical realism.

This story brought to you by the fact that I’ve never seen a fanfic on ao3 tagged magical realism that wasn’t actually modern fantasy.

[potato-lord-but-not]

Reread Monstrous Regiment a few months ago and forgot to show y’all my doodles of the booyyyysssssss