Hello, I'm Moss Gosh

She/her. Millennial. Queer. Tired. Proud dog mom of an anxious puppo.

[thememedaddy]

[tactfulsaboteur]

[palominojacoby]

Johannah Herr, How to Hide an Empire: War Rugs from America, 2022. Tufted rugs made from acrylic and wool yarn.

[femmefatalegoth]

My version of the wallpaper from The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I took some liberties, but I tried to get both aspects of the pattern described in the book:

At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be.

I didn’t realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind,—that dim sub-pattern,—but now I am quite sure it is a woman...

It is always the same shape, only very numerous.

And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.

...

And... yeah I do realise it looks sort of kinky.

[viejospellejos]

Qué satisfaction!!

[zwoelffarben]

Humans'll really just see a random assortment of objects, say "Is anyone gonna make music with that," and not wait for an answer huh?

[gallusrostromegalus]

More Improvised Subcontrabass Clarinet Out Of Miscellaneous Stuff!

[toskarin]

imagine seinfeld but if jerry had.... an inquisitive mind..

[toskarin]

I just meant if jerry wanted more information but I can see how you might have understood this as me proposing a bicurious seinfeld

[porcelain-siscon]

Not that there's anything wrong with that

[toskarin]

not that there's anything wrong with that

[chernobog13]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[transgenderer]

never not thinking about giant cisterns. THATS immanentizing the eschaton. when we get to heaven and its a bunch of giant wet concrete tunnels with vast columns holding up the ceiling, then you will see…

[official-kircheis]

you know about the tokyo storm drains, yeah?

[transgenderer]

yeah that’s what inspired this post :)

im very exited to go here when i die :)

[1rakus]

basilica cistern in istanbul

[fdelopera]

the famous “lake” that Gaston Leroux wrote about beneath the Palais Garnier is not a lake at all, but actually a cistern.

and what’s more, you can explore the “lake” in Google Street View here.

[hamletthedane]

I hate the “Thoreau’s mom did his laundry” criticism so much, it drives me crazy.

Henry Thoreau did not go to Walden Pond because he thought it would be a fun adventure. He went into the woods because he was deeply depressed and burnt out. He was running from the horror of his brother and best friend recently dying in his arms, and the haunting memory of causing the Fairhaven Bay fire. His friend Ellery Channing literally gave him the ultimatum of either taking some time off to write and think, or else be institutionalized.

I think Thoreau’s mother saw her depressed son choosing to retreat into a small cabin in the woods, and was worried about him. Of course she did his laundry - just as Ralph Waldo Emerson probably brought him firewood and bread. These were not chores of obligation to support a “great” man, but services of love to help their deeply depressed 28yo son and friend.

And if you ask me, there’s a lesson in that - to “suck out the marrow of life” and “live deliberately,” one must also accept help offered from the people in your life who love you. There is no true transcendentalism or individualism without love and friendship behind it.

[sic-semper-hominibus]

this is beautiful but "there is no true transcendentalism or individualism without love and friendship behind it" means there is no true transcendentalism or individualism, which is in fact the point of that criticism

[kushblazer666]

[brightlotusmoon]

[spell-of-the-rain]

This is from the book "What I Mean When I Say I’m Autistic" by Annie Kotowicz! (x)

[lingonberry24]

[ID: A paper book with section title: "Power Move". It wasn't until my thirties that I learned some people correct factual errors as a power move. That explains why teachers rarely appreciated it when I pointed out their mistakes - they saw it as an attempt to usurp their authority. I also got similar reactions from classmates, colleagues, and others whose authority was equal to mine, because they assumed I was flexing on them.

Nothing could be further than the truth. For me, showing someone where they're wrong feels like keeping them safe from the consequences of their mistake. It's a collaborative pursuit of truth, not a power move. End ID]

[cahootings]

I redownload this app for one day once every maybe two months and unfortunately I’m rewarded every time

[kuutamosonaatti]

Stacia Napierkowska in Les Vampires (1915)

[shiverandqueeef]

if you aren't best friends with your lover and a little bit in love with all your friends than what's the fucking point

[juanulove]

[juanulove]

this video does more in 10 seconds than your fave’s entire filmography

[r3m-r3m-kyuun]

For everyone who’s confused

[minisqwish]

I feel like im watching a wedding ceremony from a country i didnt know existed. Like, I have no idea how all this stuff is important but good for you?????

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

This is hella interesting.

[asters-garden]

btw she gave him a single which can be made in a matter of minute depending on pattern and size but he gave her a giant cuff which can take hours or even more than a day to complete based on just how complex the design and materials are. she wanted to trade something small and simple and he gave her a massive token of his love and respect for her as a fellow raver (and possibly his junior in the scene)

[kat-disturbed]

[sistertaxon]

Yo mr white a romulan warbird just decloaked off the port bow

[nativenews]

[tsarina-anadyomene]

"omg you'll post 'i need him' on the most average men" "she's mid" most of us are average and it's good that we can find beauty and desire in average people