can't stop thinking please help

current problem: black sails/age of sail matters of marginal substance memes. art. sewing. sometimes writing mid 30s, barely functioning adult ---- terfs, rad fems, fascists etc fuck off

[nobrashfestivity]

Kiakshuk, Inuit Artist, Sea Monsters Devouring a Whale, 1961, Cape Dorset

[thunderstruck9]

Julia Soboleva (Latvian, 1990), Ten Seconds to Midnight, 2022. Mixed media on photograph

[softiekurbie]

Maria Del Pilar, Joana Choumali, 2022.

[lovesicklobotomy]

[metal-autistic-coven]

Happy pride month to him

[lumierebelge]

[batshit-auspol]

Here's our most requested item: Bob Katter's same-sex marriage speech, in all its unhinged glory

Follow for more Batshit Moments in Australian politics!

[dreamstars]

[nobrashfestivity]

Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab Shells Stereomicroscope

[kentodreaming]

is THIS your man? [shows an image of a malnourished injured exhausted man with big sad eyes looking up at the camera with blood smeared all over his face and mouth. and he is visibly trembling]

[longseasons]

[gwydionmisha]

Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.

[symptomofloves]

home in cardigan, uk

[princesssarcastia]

there are some things a character should not be able to tell us about themselves EVEN with a gun to their head. depending on the character that could even expand to include "most" things

[princesssarcastia]

i'm talking "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink" territory. "i've constructed an elaborate rube goldberg machine of plot to force this character to have precisely the realization about themselves that i want them to, and i'm only maybe 60% sure it'll work" territory. "the deity of their choice reveals it to them in a dream and they wake up and say, 'no, that can't be right,' and promptly forget about it" territory.

[no1knowz]

[yesornopolls]

Do you like to strike up small conversations in public if you are waiting for whatever reason?

Do you like to strike up small conversations in public if you are waiting for whatever reason?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 15 hours 40 minutes

[arinewman7]

White Horse

Hans Vandekerckhove

Oil on canvas, 2025

[uv-ray]

Quercus robur, English Oak.

[fluentisonus]

reading an article abt 19th century american magazines' constant plagiarism of fashion plates from french magazines. life is beautiful

[fluentisonus]

this is so funny. ye old terrible art tracing

[fluentisonus]

this is interesting actually, about how they seemingly 'edited' plates together to put more of an emphasis on motherhood:

the french images above ↑ (a woman facing away from her two children; two women), get 'edited' (or rather like. recomposed) into the american ones below ↓ (two images of women facing their children).

from the article (Americanizing French Fashion Plates: "Godey's" and "Peterson's" Cultural and Socio-Economic Translation of "Les Modes Parisiennes" by Karin J. Bohleke):

In contrast, French mothers in Les Modes Parisiennes are frequently completely disengaged from the children depicted with them: they look elsewhere and even turn their backs (see Figures 1-2). Again, this is a function of the contrived poses necessary to depict certain key stylistic features of garments. However, this is one aspect of French fashion plates that American editors found unacceptable: when the French mother is looking at her children, Peterson's frequently re-engraved the plate in its entirety (see Figures 3-6). But when the mother's pose has her ignoring the very objects that give her life its meaning. Peterson's was more likely to re-engrave the children without this unacceptable mother, or another French fashion plate woman whose gaze was basically in the right direction was substituted (see Figures 7-8). Concerned that French plates might send the wrong message regarding a woman's ultimate role, American editors eliminated the unacceptable depiction. There are consequences to this substitution: French plates depicted appropriate garments in a suitable setting, thereby instructing their readers in the social etiquette of dress through context; American substitutions resulted at times in socially absurd juxtapositions, such as a ball gown on a clifftop boardwalk (see Figures 9-10).

^ emphasis mine bc it made me laugh