oh anthony bourdain we're really in it now

[noknowshame]

people in fiction are always making plans like "how about tuesday?" and then leaving without elaborating. what time? where? do you even have each other's numbers? deeply stressful

[kiisaes]

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

[escuerzoresucitado]

[valtsv]

[sixty-silver-wishes]

happy pride month to the fuck tree I guess

[the1920sinpictures]

1920s Swimming pool, Vienna, Austria. From Art Deco and Art Nouveau, FB.

[ishincroyable]

[crookedtines]

Finally bought some dye and have been having so much fun with optical color mixing. I decided to start with cmyk primaries to get some vibrant color options.

So far I've only mixed up the main batch of colors, but I'll split them up and create a palatte of tints and shades once I have access to a scale again.

I don't have any fancy tools and have been blending the fiber by hand, so it's probably best I have a forced break for the sake of my fingers. Once I'm done I should have a very useful set of 57 2g swatches to play with! (Plus 5 more for a set of grayscale swatches)

If I'm still up for it, I might repeat the whole thing with my classic red, yellow, blue primary dye set. For a truly massive set of heather swatches.

[crookedtines]

I'll create a comprehensive guide to all the color mixes and my process once I'm done, but in the meantime here's a mixing guide for the colors I've already done!

The ratios are presented in the same order as the wool swatches in the photo above it. I didn't simplify any of the ratios so you'll have to deal with 2:2s instead of 1:1s, oops.

For anyone curious, I used brilliant yellow, deep magenta, and caribbean blue from Dharma dyes on their corriedale wool for my base colors.

[gifs-of-puppets]

Bear in the Big Blue House (1997-2006)

[holespoles]

Barbara Firth (1928 - 2013)

[contemptible-scoundrel]

my cursed sword doesn't even tell me to kill people anymore it keeps begging me to put on a skirt and tights

[contemptible-scoundrel]

I already know I'm a girl dickhead I just like wearing pants

[crimethinc]

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.

As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other.

We honor her memory and oppose the war.

[loki-zen]

has anyone considered that it was probably her house too. where else was she supposed to put her chintz?

[mtndewpitchblack]

[hollywoodgems]

Tony Curtis painting 1950's.

[helldevilsfromsatanland-deactiv]

back in time immemorial we used to have one perfect answer to every question of discourse (is crossdressing good or evil, is theyfab a slur etc), but gonggong headbutted the northwestern mountain and broke one of the eight heaven connecting pillars, introducing a 23.44 degree axial tilt to the plane of the earth such that things now wax and wane in time, and what is correct in one season is no longer correct in the next. but it may behoove us to remember that each is correct in its season...

[derring-do]

Opera Streams: Late-Mid April 2026

17th: Handel's Rodelinda from Garsington Opera. Featuring Lucy Crowe, Tim Mead, and Ed Lyon. Free!

17th: Wagner's Siegfried from the Rotterdam Philharmonic at De Doelen. Concert presentation. Featuring Clay Hilley, Rebecca Nash, and Brian Mulligan. Subscription.

19th: Puccini's Manon Lescaut from Gran Teatre del Liceu. Featuring Asmik Grigorian, Joshua Guerrero, and Iurii Samoilov. Single purchase or season subscription.

19th: Fagerlund's Morgonstjärnan from Ooppera Baletti Finland. World premiere. Featuring Johan Reuter, Jenny Carlstedt, and Helena Juntunen. Free!

22nd: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin from Müpa Budapest. Concert presentation. Featuring Anna Shapovalova, Alexey Markov, and Szabolcs Brickner. Free!

23rd: Smetana's The Bartered Bride from Teatro Real. Featuring Natalia Tanasii, Sean Panikkar, and Martin Winkler. Free!

24th: Glass's Satyagraha from Opéra de Paris. Featuring Anthony Roth Costanzo, Davóne Tines, and Deepa Johnny. Subscription or Rental.

25th: Verdi's Falstaff from Juilliard's Vocal Arts program. Featuring Minki Hong, Page Michels, and Titus Muzi. Free! No VOD period.

30th: Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande from Teatro alla Scala. Featuring Bernard Richter, Sara Blanch, Simon Keenlyside, and John Relyea. Rental.

Joyce DiDonato's beloved Carnegie Hall master classes are back, streaming on Medici on the 19th, 20th, and 21st.

Archive notes: La Monnaie / De Munt posted the new Bieito Idomeneo for free on YouTube, and Opéra de Versailles recently did the same with their 2025 Ariodante. On Arte, Opéra national du Rhin's 2024 Guercoeur with Stéphane Degout becomes available on the 22nd, and the 2023 premiere of Picture a Day Like This arrives on the 25th.

[thatbitchwhowritesstuff]

Anne thinking about Jack: my love for him is undying. fate and time and distance and death could not do us part. he is the only part of me that’s good. our souls are so intertwined they have become indistinguishable. i do not exist if he’s not here.

Anne talking to Jack: fuck you you stupid fucking faggot bitch.

[apoemaday]

You're

by Sylvia Plath

Clownlike, happiest on your hands, Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled, Gilled like a fish. A common-sense Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode. Wrapped up in yourself like a spool, Trawling your dark as owls do. Mute as a turnip from the Fourth Of July to All Fools’ Day, O high-riser, my little loaf.

Vague as fog and looked for like mail. Farther off than Australia. Bent-backed Atlas, our traveled prawn. Snug as a bud and at home Like a sprat in a pickle jug. A creel of eels, all ripples. Jumpy as a Mexican bean. Right, like a well-done sum. A clean slate, with your own face on.