assthetic

i'm liv and i didn't chew spaghetti until i was 13

[enki2]

[maybeasunflower]

[heavenlyyshecomes]

Misc readings pt. 8

In dark times, I sought out the turmoil of caravaggio's paintings, teju cole, the new york times magazine

Gender, ideology, nation: ju dou in the cultural politics of china, william callahan, east-west film journal, volume 7

How to wait well, jason farman, aeon

Objects of despair: the 10,000-year clock, meghan o'gieblyn, the paris review

Famous houses' leaky roofs, hugh howard, bobvila

The inheritance of loss, radhika ramseshan, mumbai mirror

What's going wrong with chinese literature in translation, dylan levi king, radii

Why you hate contemporary architecture, brianna rennix & nathan j. robinson, current affairs

Russet, the color of peasants, fox fur, and penance, katy kelleher, the paris review

Overlooked no more: sanmao, 'wandering writer', who found her voice in the desert, mike ives & katherine li, the new york times

How to read the air, anna badkhen, the paris review

We're not ready for mars, justin nobel, longreads

Death to minimalism, nathan j. robinson, current affairs

The indian epic mahabharat imparts a dark, nuanced moral vision, audrey truschke, aeon

Shedding light, pamela petro, guernica

A brief history of polari: the curious after-life of the dead language for gay men, paul baker, the conversation

The art and science of kashmir's pink tea, sribala subramanian, atlas obscura

Demonology: a woman's right to fury, darcey steinke, excerpt from flash count diary: menopause and the vindication of natural life

I feel like i am being made crazy by the distortion; an interview with lauren oyler, sam jaffe goldstein, the end of the world

Ghosts of the tsunami, richard lloyd parry, excerpt from ghosts of the tsunami: death and life in japan's disaster zone

The most haunted road in america, taffy brodesser-akner, atlas obscura

Seaweed soup (miyuk gook 미역국), maria t. allocco, the rumpus

Intimacy, touch, and the perennial beauty of hands, lainey wood, bright wall/dark room

Pretty butch: masculinity doesn't just belong to men, amelia abraham, dazed beauty

The spooky, loosely regulated world of online therapy, molly osberg, jezebel

The ghost hunter, leah sottile, the atavist magazine

[goodpngs]

cats (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

[roycohn]

something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else

[sixmonthsandgone]

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018), dir. Arwen Curry

[aiweirdness]

The next line of her speech is also great: “Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.”

[freakoutgirl]

Alison Bechdel in her Minnesota apartment 3/16/1990 (photo by Tom Sweeney)

[eloquentdecadence]

[razorshapes]

[deathgasmic]

i am not the bigger person. die immediately

[syn4k]

we need to start romanticizing doing household chores in tank tops and sweatpants in the same way that we romanticize knighthood and i am not fucking kidding

[user5397885]

If the age gap in SJM novels upsets you, consider this: it takes 500 years for a man to reach emotional maturity, and only around 20 years for women.

[100493503004422]

I should carry a sharpie with me do I can do more countervandalism. for example I just saw a trump sticker

[zagreus]

wow i wonder what piece of breaking news i missed

[cultofcreatures]

fences

[unioncarbidesuperfan66]

library classification labels

[fuckyour20s]

I used to be 21 but now I'm 24. so you can understand why I'm so freaked out

[cannibalchicken]