To Lost Futures and Ghost Ships @to-lost-futures - Tumblr Blog

“Here’s to [character] and lost futures,” he said in a voice choked with sorrow. “May we all go around again!”

The Shepherd’s Crown, Terry Pratchett

I’ll never know, and neither will you of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

Tiny beautiful things: Advice on love and life from Dear Sugar, Cheryl Strayed

#lost futures #ghost ship #terry pratchett #cheryl strayed #what might have been #is gone and done

surprisemoose

What kind of Millennial™️ are you?

Avocado toast millennial

I am bird watcher now.

I ran a marathon for fun?

Yes, I am currently working on five fiber art projects…

Other millennial stereotype that I will write in the tags.

I am unfortunately not part of the greatest generation aka here for the result

Remaining time: 4 days 6 hours

Please share!

kedreeva

went to Meijer today to pick up some envelopes and soda and some potatoes, and when I approached the checkout line, the very small child, maybe 4 years old or so, VERY imperiously held up one little hand in a "STOP." motion and ordered me to stop. So I halted, and said "You got it, I'm stopped!"

I told her that her hair, with had multiple little braids with a variety of bright pink beads on the ends, was very cool, and she told me that her mom braided it, and she asked me what my name was and where I got the feeder fish in my cart. I told her that I got them from the back of the store, and she told me SHE went to the ZOO and it was CLOSED, at which point her father, who had been loading the cart onto the conveyor to be rung up, in the most exasperated tone that says we've been over this a million times, said "It was NOT closed." She told him, in the same tone and MUCH louder, that was it close_ING! and that she DID get to see a "nasty gorilla" and when I asked what made him nasty, she yelled "HE ATE A POOP" and broke into peals of laughter when I agreed with a loud "EWWWW!"

I don't normally talk to strangers in grocery store checkout lines, because they often want to complain about being in the line or the weather or something, but 11/10 I answer children who instigate conversation, because I might get to hear about gorillas or something. You just never know. I hope she has a great week wherever she is. I hope her father never again has to hear about the open/closed status of the zoo.

to-lost-futures

I stopped by a neighbor’s house to pick something up today, and started chatting with the kids outside while waiting for their mom. I got to learn about the merits of umbrellas for sun (agreed!), and then one of the kids showed me the dollhouse rooms that they had each created including all kinds of tiny furniture made out of household ephemera. I particularly liked the rug made out of some maybe marbled paper that looked like a rag rug. I was informed that these were houses for their POM POMS and lo and behold they had glued googley eyes onto yarn pom poms. I told them that my friend the miniaturist would be very impressed by their amazing art and all the tiny details. A+ interaction all around!

velvet-jellyfish

If you get into white work embroidery, you might discover cutwork. And when you start doing cutwork, you might get curious about incorporating detached elements. And before you know it the fabric is gone, you are making needle lace, and there goes the rest of your week.

Buttonhole stitch - not even once.

auberginecrochet

just finished this sweater in the middle of a heatwave (third wave woohoo...) !! probably my most ambitious knit so far, i honestly didnt think i had it in me lol but im so happy with the result despite the many mistakes and impecfection

Pattern is from the 1982 issue of the french magazine 100 idées, my grandmother actually knit it for my aunt back then!

#i GASPED #i love this and will never ever make it #intarsia you are too much work for me

pmamtraveller

Mammal in a Sunday Dress, by Georgina M. Cox, 2026

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Mammal in a Sunday Dress explores the uneasy relationship between femininity, civilisation, and the animal body. At first glance, the figure appears modest and withdrawn. Her posture is composed, her gaze seemingly lowered towards her bare feet, recalling the conventions of nineteenth-century portraiture where women were often depicted as passive objects of observation. Yet as the viewer moves closer, the illusion collapses. Her eyes are not lowered at all. She is looking directly back. The delayed eye contact transforms the encounter. The viewer approaches believing they are safely observing a woman; instead, they realise they have been observed themselves. The work refuses the traditional power dynamic of portraiture, denying the comfort of anonymous spectatorship. Looking becomes a reciprocal act. For Cox, the painting considers humanity's persistent desire to separate itself from the rest of the animal kingdom. The title quietly undermines this distinction. A "mammal" is not another creature—it is us. The Sunday dress, rich with cultural associations of femininity, morality, and respectability, becomes an attempt to distinguish ourselves from nature. Yet clothing cannot alter biology. Beneath lace and ritual remains the same vulnerable animal body. The work also reflects on the historical relationship between women and nature. Across art, religion, and philosophy, women have repeatedly been positioned as closer to instinct, emotion, reproduction, and the body itself, while men have been aligned with reason, culture, and civilisation. Mammal in a Sunday Dress does not reject this comparison. Instead, it questions why proximity to nature has so often been treated as something lesser. Chiaroscuro isolates the figure within darkness, allowing the luminous dress to symbolise the performance of civilisation while the bare feet quietly return the body to the earth. Neither is presented as more truthful than the other. The painting exists in the tension between performance and instinct, refinement and biology. Mammal in a Sunday Dress ultimately asks a simple but unsettling question: if every layer of culture were stripped away, what would remain? Not a king. Not a saint. Not a gentleman or a lady. Only another mammal, looking back.

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incendavery

my impression of what itd be like if they let the connections guy say swears

(answers under the cut)

knithacker

Knit An African Adventure Blanket, A Gorgeous Patchwork Quilt Designed By Horst Schulz: 👉 https://knithacker.com/2013/07/emilys-african-adventure-designed-by-horst-schulz-free-pattern/ - the one seen here is by Joan of Joan's Garden, who shares her modifications.

laufeysons

Labyrinth (dir. Jim Henson) premiered 40 years ago on June 27, 1986!

jordanbolton

To the Person Who Asked If I Was OK

Pre-order my new book here

chaotic-neutral-knitter

I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.

quadriviummuse

Needed to hear this today.

taraljc

as much as I cannot handle being perceived yes this tracks

thegeekstressart

“Cats don’t drink cocktails…”

“Cats don’t shoot laser beams out of their eyes either, Carl!”

“Mama needs a night off.”

As a proud member of the Princess Posse (aka: the Cult of Dungeon Crawler Carl) I had to honor the illustrious Donut with a portrait… I imagine Mongo is not so patiently waiting his turn, so he’s up next!

brehaaorgana

for the last time: if there's a sexy naked lady with long flowing hair and MAYBE a diaphanous sheet or flower crown; lots of swirlies and ribbon like curving LUSCIOUS shapes; very lush foliage (acanthus leaves, elegant flowers) and all kinds of fauna — both especially waterside (lily pads, lotuses, reeds, cranes, dragonflies); lots of green; everything is a lot of iron, stone, stained glass, mosaic, and carved wood; the windows or their frames are very Shaped; the lights are soft yellow; or it's a font with lots of line weight variation; feather tips are rounded; everything reminds you of france, vienna, or japan and something vaguely mediterranean; OR it's literally a Parisian metro station

— then it's art nouveau

and if the sexy lady has a bob cut or a hair cap and is wearing a column or flapper dress; there's a lot of geometry like rectangles, arches, rays, and diamonds; angels have super sharp wings and a lot of muscles; everything is steel, concrete, marble, gold, and red velvet seats; everything is VERY angular; and all the foliage is basically papyrus fronds; things feel vaguely Egyptian or Turkish or Mesopotamian; the fonts play with being very skinny or very thick and are sans serif with extra lines; or Gatsby would be found floating dead in that pool

— then it's art deco

brehaaorgana

And if looks kinda like art nouveau

— with lots of lush flora, tiny insects (like dragonflies) or graceful birds, stained glass, iron, warm golden lighting, lots of wood and wood carving (but now it's more wood paneling), a stylistic fondness for Japan, line weight variation in the font, and tile (but this time it's carved or sculpted on, not tiny mosaic)

but you're worried it's art deco

— because the forms (especially foliage) are very symmetrical and slightly more angular or blocky and graphic looking, things are more rectangular than circular or curvy in architecture, the patterns repeat more often, and more of the lamps are pyramids or rectangular, and there are nods to Egyptian or Ottoman style, and they used the color red (probably in an accent chair or carpet rug)

BUT there's no steel, concrete, gold plating or gilding, marble, big muscles, spiky or radiating diamond shapes, angular people, or flappers,

AND the vibes are jacobean, gothic, or spanish mission revival; they love some brick and stone; the wallpaper is an explosion of colorful pattern that could give you arsenic poisoning or help depict a descent into postpartum psychosis in a famous short story; but there are NO people to be seen, not even sexy ladies,

— then THAT is the arts & crafts movement.