@ladysisyphus / ladysisyphus.tumblr.com
saw someone say that they block "ageless blogs" and for a moment i imagined, like, cthulhu having a tumblr
DNI if you have lain for aeons, deathless and half-sleeping, watching the stars churn and roil overhead as their short lives flicker against the canvas of night, or if you watch st*ven un*verse
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even DNI
i love you, Two Catfish as Street Musicians in the Kashina district, ca 1855 of an unidentified artist, you go so hard
I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.
Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!
Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.
I've been using Vimm's Lair for years, I have yet to see a single bad link or virus on the entire site. It's arguably the safest and most comprehensive archive of video games in existence. Preserved history
I think one of my favorite creative joys is seeing how many different things people can do with the same concept. give ten writers the same starting point, or basic plot, or set of tropes to use and you're still going to get wildly different end results
the details you focus on, the ones you omit, turns of phrase, tone, and framing, the cadence and tempo of the sentences themselves, all the little fingerprints you've left littered across the prose — how you tell the story matters, and your personal voice is what makes it unique
this is one of the things I love about reading @shousetsubangbang — every issue (except the december ones) has a theme but no two contributors ever take it in quite the same direction and the variety is always delightful and surprising
Jack Black did more of Hit Me Baby One More Time, and I am living for this.
GREGORY HINES & MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV White Nights (1985) dir. Taylor Hackford
Masters of their craft.
My favorite thing about this sequence is that if you don’t know who Hines and Baryshnikov are, and I tell you one is a ballet dancer and one taps, you should be able to figure out who’s who based on their specific movements, even though the choreography is the same.
ABSOLUTELY. It’s so obvious in the way they move, and things like the positioning of the hips as they do the same step. Where the weight is in the leg. All those things. It’s one of the things that makes the sequence such a pleasure to watch – you can see that both of them are amazing dancers and you can also learn a lot about their specific disciplines and the differences between them watching it.
OK OK I am actually going to go through those gifs one by one to talk about the things that really strike me in each one as demonstrating the two styles of dance. I’m sure I am missing some things, this is just what is obvious to me.
1. Look how they lead the movement as they step back. Baryshnikov moves his leg following a hip/torso movement. Hines comes very close to leading with his knee. You’ll see that knee-leading motion in a later step, too. You can probably do this yourself: stand with your feet and hips square to the front, then turn your hips towards the left and use the pull of it to lead your leg into the step. Then go back to square, and take a step back by letting your knee open to the side and go backwards. You should be able to feel the muscles working pretty differently – the first movement engages a lot more of your core, the second relies more on your various thigh muscles.
2. The leg extension in the air – that perfect straight leg is ballet to the core – and look at how differently their hips and feet are when they land! Baryshnikov’s hips are squared to the side and his feet are aligned; Hines’s hips are angled and his back foot faces the front and is flat. If a ballet dancer had his foot like that – and he might – his hips wouldn’t be doing that angle.
3. This is a tap sequence and it’s where that knee-lead comes in again. Hines’s hips are loose and his knees seem to be leading the movement – almost like they are pulling both his hips and his ankles along for the ride. You can see where his feet will strike by watching the knees. Baryshnikov is not a tap dancer and it really shows here! Once again you can see that he moves his hips in order to shift his knees and weight.
4. There are a few things here but the biggest to me is how they land out of that jump. Hines lands…well, like a tap dancer. He comes down hard and flat – you can see the little jolt as he hits – like he’s slammin’ that tap shoe down to make a big ol’ noise. Baryshnikov’s landing foot isn’t as easy to see, but he comes down toe-first, as is correct for ballet.
5. Again there are a few, but what I find most striking is the looseness/rigidness of posture. Both of them have immense body control, but Hines is letting his joints flex more in the air. It looks to me like again he brings his heel down harder, as well, on both back and front legs – in fact I kind of wonder if the heeled boots Baryshnikov has on are to make it easier for him to match Hines’s foot movements in certain sequences, since he won’t have to bring his foot down as far. (They’re both in shoes with some degree of heel, but Hines’s are much less so.)
6. Aaah both of these are lovely spins. Again with the rigidity vs looseness in the joints, but also, Hines traces MUCH more of his foot on the ground, which is common in tap spins but uncommon in ballet. His weight is slightly less centered over the support leg, and you also can see the knee-lead vs hip-lead here as well – look how Baryshnikov shifts his weight, then look how Hines does it. And as they come out of it, Baryshnikov has his toe pointed and his heel up, while Hines snaps his heel down against the floor.
"i hate love triangles" "i hate cheating" "stop writing about love triangles and cheating" people write about love triangles and cheating because complex emotions and romantic conflict are deeply compelling themes. get good.
what if instead of writing about complex relationships we wrote about the most boring possible story. i'm so smart. this would be not only better writing but also morally superior somehow.
Digital Artwork
I hate advertising commissions, but I'm in a really tight spot. I'm out of social benefits since March 2024 and won't have any other source of income because of my health condition at least for a few more months.
If you'd consider to commission me that'd be really lifesaving. 🙏🙏🙏
1 half-body chibi character for every order under 25€ /2 half-body chibi characters for every order over 25€
I also accept donations if you have a little money to spare, I will draw a little something for you.
Please ppal me with a note of a character or something you like. (Please don't use kofi because the commission rate is high)
Lyselkatz (at) hotmail (dot) com
TWIN PEAKS 1.03 "Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer"
I'm not saying anyone can't get laid at the ALA conference I'm just saying it probably helps to be a WLW bc only the keenest Sapphic eye can detect which librarian cardigan means "tragically straight forever" and which means "I care about computer literacy and untrimmed bush"
It's not as easy as "check their nails" or "look for a Pride pin" because a ton of librarians have a kind of lesbotique energy emanating from them but a lot of times it's a false flag. The pheromones are just inordinately powerful allyship. You just have to start dropping slurs at some point
Can you have sex with men at an ALA conference? Really helps if you're gay, but a lotta male librarians are Distinguished gays who will at least say aloud it's trashy to try and get laid at a librarian conference. They're mostly lying but some of them are REAL serious about it
I'd say odds are generally in your favor that the dude you're talking to is secretly thrilled about getting to do it. But watch out for that small percentage who's REAL mad about the idea. It's mostly displaced anger at being less cool than their other gay friends but it's STRONG anger
But to the point: Can you have straight sex at the ALA Conference?
It is obviously physically possible. But has it ever been done? The science is murky. It isn't clear whether it helps or hurts your chances if you generally trust and approve of your local police
You'll have the easiest time clicking with strangers if you're a loud suburbanite lib. But also that kind of person, statistically, is least likely to do a one night stand at a work event. But for librarians who love sex AND I Voted sticker selfies? ALA is essentially a huge orgy
"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity
Oh gee, you're right! Why didn't the people who can't even move their arms think of just making a painting? /s
And before anyone starts spouting some "art is more than just painting" spiel, you don't know what kind of art someone might need to make in order to express their vision. An artist may have a very specific idea in mind to create the perfect piece of graphic art, and using music, performance, etc. just won't cut it for them. AI is a tool that can help the disabled in so many ways. Not even just with art. Get off your high horse and accept that disabled people have different needs and, guess what, ABILITIES than you do. Fuck you, asshole.
you are a tar pit.
and you are ableist.
you're fighting against a tool that makes art more accessible, and actively dismissing the notion that it could even possibly be doing that. this IS ableist. YOU are the tar pit in this situation.
L+Ratio+It doesn't+i slept w your mom
Hi I’m disabled I’m crippled I have a disorder that makes my fingers suddenly dislocate while I’m holding my pencil I have a spinal issue that makes it hard for me to bend over a desk half of the time I have leg issues that make it difficult for me to get around etc etc etc. I also have a bunch of other issues I don’t want to tell you about.
I’m also in art college. And even if I wasn’t, I’ve been doing art for almost a decade now. I’ve been disabled the whole bloody time.
AI, isn’t art.
There are many disabled artists and we have adapted our own ways of dealing with how we create. Fuck you, we have been doing this forever.
Vincent Van Gogh had temporal lobe epilepsy; Henri Matisse became a wheelchair user after surgery for cancer; Michelangelo had osteoarthritis, limiting mobility and causing pain in his hands and feet.
Paul Smith had a severe case of cerebral palsy and created art using typewriters.
Peter Longstaff has no arms due to Thalidomide, and paints with his feet.
Frida Kahlo not only had polio that disabled her as a child, but of course as we all know was injured in a bus accident at the age of 18, which caused her lifelong pain and medical problems.
Fuck, you want a personal annecdote? I knew a girl (we have lost touch since) who was paralysed from the neck down and she painted with her mouth and there are other artists who do so too! And with eye tracking technology I’m sure disabled artists will be getting more and more tools as the years pass. But we do NOT condone AI art. All that does is put us, real disabled artists, who exist and need support, out of jobs and commissions.
Fuck you.
hi, another disabled person here for more personal anecdotes! here is an art piece i made entirely with my non dominant hand 1 week before my most recent shoulder surgery on that same arm. i also wear splint rings to keep my fingers from dislocating while painting (or playing bass guitar cause i do that too). i make most of my income off hand painted art despite having hand tremors, frequent wrist dislocations/subluxations, and migraines.
my friend and her wife also make their incomes off wig making, leatherwork, and digital collage prints. both have chronic pain as well.
our lines arent perfect because we have shaky hands but thats ok, make it a feature not a flaw in your art. fuck AI.
Anyone who thinks physically disabled people need to use art stealing AI to make our own art is the ableist, actually.
Mine isn't as drastic (yet) but I've been having to wear wrist braces and finger splints since childhood off and on because using my hands in a repetitive motions causes them to be in pretty excruciating pain.
What is my art medium of choice? Knitting. You know, that thing where you have to do a repetitive motion over and over again. I hold my needles a bit strange, I knit through the pain, I sometimes have to give up working on it for weeks at a time. But I will not stop because it's what makes my heart sing.
Disabled artists don't need your pity, we've been getting by, doing what makes us happy despite the pain and hardships for thousands of years, probably longer, I bet there were neolithic disabled artists.
No actual real artist wants or uses AI, including disabled artists. AI is for losers who are scared of the extremely important phase in art where you suck and want to skip it by stealing and not even in a cool "I'm emulating your style because I wanna learn from it" way.
Go suck at art for a couple years like the rest of us and stop talking over disabled artists.
And also if you just really really really really cannot create your vision and need someone else to do it for you. Then just hire a goddamn artist. Save up your money if you need it so badly that you're willing to enable thieves that care as little about art as they do about the real people who make it.
I'm disabled, I'm a writer, and I will absolutely fistfight anyone trying to say they shouldn't have to put in the twenty years of fucking EFFORT that I HAVE EXPENDED in BEING A GODDAMN WRITER behind a goddamn denny's at three AM
Disabled people don't exist as a pretext for you to steal the creative works of others.
People who actually create things will continue to do so in countless numbers of ways, regardless of our disabilities.
Anyone: *is watching Leverage for the first time*
Me: have you heard about watch order? Do you know the watch order? Hey. Hey. Are you aware that season one is out of order and requires a specific watching order. Hey. Hey. Hey. Have I told you about watch order yet?
May I present, the actual Leverage Season 1 intended viewing order:
A universal mood.
I might turn these into stickers
its time for the tantrum hole
