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kaijuno

tsunderebird

wizard-of-interesting-failure

WIZARD PSA: True names have power. Chosen names have more.

wizardarchetypes

absolutely looosssinggg it. i'm so obsessed with movies which portray the woman MC in a highly specific job because the writers clearly think it's like "off-beat" and "quirky" but have no idea how the field works whatsoever.

i decided to try a romcom i somehow missed i the 2000s 'head over heels' and i got 3 and a half minutes in and we're introduced to the lonely MC with bad taste in men as evidenced by her extremely short list of ex boyfriends, including her first boyfriend when she was 11 or something because i guess that's still relevant in her adult life.

so she's resigned herself to never finding love and prefers to ignore men to focus all her energy into her career.

this job is immediately presented as though it's for spinsters with no hope of ever finding a man.

the mc's lesbian bestie (whose first line involves her being scolded for being too sexual in the workplace, but moving on) points out their colleagues as evidence that they're doomed to a romance-less, sexless life if they don't switch up their shared career path. the colleagues are three old women, so-dubbed "the menopause triplets":

these women are presented as if they have no idea what's going on at any given moment. this is 2001, and presumably this is an entry level job requiring low effort and no experience.

then their boss bursts into the room, unceremoniously bumping a large painting into the door jam and walls, announcing that it's a new project for our MC.

our MC is thrilled to see the painting. apparently it's a light in the daily slog at her dreary job for loser women with nothing going on in their lives.

And that job is? Conservator of paintings (specializing in Renaissance) at the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The painting being handled like an old couch on its way to the curb?

The Bacchanal of the Andrians by Titian.

Her lesbian colleague who is presumably also a a highly trained & skilled curator finds it depressing that the MC is so excited about the painting.

it's a quirk unique to this MC that she cares so much about paintings, in her department at the metropolitan museum of art, where her colleagues find all that art business rather dreary. because we all know that's what conservators in extremely competitive museum positions are like.

wizardarchetypes

I'm not saying there can't be lifelong love in here somewhere but I also just feel like the monogamous heterosexual marriage you're fantasizing about isn't necessarily best represented by the bacchanal. and that's okay. but i do stand by that.

junglejim4322

Thats it. we’re calling saul

shamebats

Tiktok post by @ wynunlimited.

iamoutofideas

“heres how to make a pair of pants for yourself”

step 1: have a entire room completely set up just for tailoring

niceferatu

it needs an iron, masking tape, a pencil, and see-through paper. you don't need the pins if you're careful about keeping it lined up. you could do that on your floor and hand-sew it after that if you wanted to. the most specialised piece of equipment they used in the video, apart from the sewing machine, was a clear ruler.

vinceaddams

Yeah that's a silly complaint, tons of people cut fabric on their kitchen tables or on the floor. I've been sewing since 2011 and didn't have an actual sewing room until the start of 2024. It was frustratingly cramped sewing in my bedroom, but I still sewed lots of things in there.

Most of my fabric is secondhand, and I've gotten a lot of sewing supplies from thrift stores and estate sales. I know not everyone lives somewhere that has those things, but there are still budget options to look into. There are a lot of things that are nice to have but not strictly necessary.

Frieda Leopold did an experiment earlier this year where she bought the minimum sewing supplies necessary for a dress, and kept to a budget of 150 euros for all the tools including the sewing machine.

And this Morning Mercury video about trying to learn weaving without spending any money also feels relevant.

animentality

postilionstruckbylightning

People really need to take a wider view of this paranoia about age gaps and realise this is how we lose the ability to build communities. You need to be able to realise that people can have things in common with you even if they grew up in a different time/place/culture. You also need to realise you can build communities with people who don’t have obvious things in common with you, that people can have the same goals and needs as you even if in most ways they’re very unlike you. Now, more than ever, we need to be able to work together to have any chance to stand ip against the few who have so, so much more power, money and influence than any of us do individually. We need to form communities that reach across age (and class and race and sexuality and so on…).

elf-trash

32 to 26 isn't even a wide age gap AT ALL in the grand scheme of things like that's still the same phase of life more or less. it's the same generation, even. i had plenty of 32 year old friends when i was 26 and plenty of 26 year old friends when i was 32. it's not even a little weird! 6 years in either direction is essentially a peer once you're an adult.

but more importantly, yeah, i feel like everyone is so busy pearl clutching about age gaps these days that we've forgotten how valuable actual cross generation friendships can be. you can learn a lot from each other! and you can still have a ton in common even if you're NOT in the same part of your life! like the previous reblogs have pointed out, shared hobbies or interests or experiences will give you plenty of common ground to form a friendship. i have friends a decade or more older than me and friends a decade or more younger than me and both are fine and normal and valuable (and honestly, you feel the age gap less than you'd think, people are people and we don't fundamentally change THAT much as we age). older friends can share valuable life experience and you can share your valuable life experience with your younger friends. reporting back from the front lines, if you will.

sandersstudies

Found my husband’s baby book. OBSESSED with an image of him, newborn baby, on what looks like a large white comforter, alone, with the caption New Guy In Town. Obsessed I tell you.

sandersstudies

The true 90s baby aesthetic as computers in the home were normalized

babybelminis

why is it giving this

saturnmortis

monster1994

happy june everybody i hope you get fucked and/or sucked this month

kazokuhouou

what if we don't wanna be?

monster1994

then i hope for peace

michaelnordeman

Eurasian Red Squirrel/ekorre. Värmland, Sweden (1 June 2025).

loveridden1999

maybe i was made for loving things. maybe that's what life is all about.

aropride

if your animal is lying on the floor, furniture etc, it’s important to take a picture of them. then, if they move or shift in any way, it’s important to take another picture. with this technique, you can take many pictures of your animal