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hello! I am so tired that I could cry and, in fact, nearly did.
unexpected balms: pink, arrangements of ugly food, not our cats
too much and not the mood by durga chew-bose
it is [drumroll] exam time once more, which means I am engaging in a touch of obligatory tumblr procrastination after the cleaning and the baking (not this clafoutis, which is from a few weeks ago in brighter times, both literally and figuratively). anyway I made this and am about to re-read this for the first and umpteenth times respectively, then I will be back to work.
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hi, i wrote a difficult essay/letter in The New Yorker on growing up with a mother with PTSD, and the inheritance of war. Mother’s Day can be a complicated day for many, if not all of us, and i just wanted to acknowledge that. and also, perhaps, that love does not have to be perfect, or even smooth, in order be worthy.
hugs, –ocean
the reminder came out in my first year of high school, and metals just after I started undergrad, and of course it feels like let it die has always been playing somewhere in the background in toronto, but what I am really trying to say is:
we went to see a room a few weeks ago in a very lovely house where let it die was playing on vinyl, and of course I completely derailed the inspection by googling new feist for one of the tenants. anyway, we got the room/house today and feist is still so good, and as always she re-emerges at the very right times.
Source: Spotify
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The Raven Cycle as Weather.com Headlines
The Gangsey: 7 Kids Taking Selfie on Central Park Pond Rescued After Falling Through Ice
Gansey: Brooklyn Man Tries to Avoid Shoveling Snow By Listing His Prius For $100
Ronan: ‘Stop The Wind From Blowing’: Caller to Niagara Falls Police
Adam: Man Rescued From Waist-Deep Frigid, Muddy Water in New Jersey Has No Idea How He Got There
Blue: Texas Snake’s Unusual Markings are Full On Hipster
Noah: Beaver Caught Plundering Charlotte Hall, Maryland, Dollar General Store
Henry: California Avalanche Buried Friends Alive, So They Took a Selfie
Chainsaw: Dog Crashes Car Into Wal-Mart After Owner Leaves AC On to Keep Them Cool
The Dream Pack: 'We Are Not Screwing Around’: Officials Pull the Plug on Dumpster Pools
Kavinsky: California Coyote Attacking Cars on Highway May Be High, Scientists Say
BONUS! Pynch: Two Faults ‘Holding Hands’ Could Unleash Massive Earthquake in California, Study Says
otherghoststories
i’m ronan, obviously
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From a special edition of 15 copies of Frank O'Hara’s Meditations In An Emergency (1957), which included an original drawing/collage by Grace Hartigan.
via Yale Library
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A video showing Wong Kar-wai’s influence on Barry Jenkins, with side-by-side comparisons of Moonlight with In The Mood For Love, Days Of Being Wild, and Happy Together.
Barry Jenkins talking about how much Wong Kar Wai’s aesthetics influenced him is so heartrendingly beautiful to me. This is a conversation being had through film between two directors of colour that has zero need or room for white authorities or heteronormative visions.
@junkshop-disco I think you’d really enjoy this.
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Belmont Chronicle, Saint Clairsville, Ohio, March 11, 1875
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Trevante Rhodes, Alex R. Hibbert and Ashton Sanders getting ready the 89th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2017 in Hollywood, California.
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Gretchen: On the International Space Station, you have astronauts from the US and from other English speaking countries and you have cosmonauts from Russia. And obviously it’s very important to get your communication right if you’re on a tiny metal box circling the Earth or going somewhere. You don’t want to have a miscommunication there because you could end up floating in space in the wrong way. And so one of the things that they do on the ISS – so first of all every astronaut and cosmonaut needs to be bilingual in English and Russian because those are the languages of space.
Lauren: Yep. Wait, the language of space are English and Russian? I’m sorry, I just said ‘yep’ and I didn’t really think about it, so that’s a fact is it?
Gretchen: I mean, pretty much, yeah, if you go on astronaut training recruitment forums, which I have gone on to research this episode…
Lauren: You’re got to have a backup job, Gretchen.
Gretchen: I don’t think I’m going to become an astronaut, but I would like to do astronaut linguistics. And one of the things these forums say, is, you need to know stuff about math and engineering and, like, how to fly planes and so on. But they also say, you either have to arrive knowing English and Russian or they put you through an intensive language training course.
But then when they’re up in space, one of the things that they do is have the English native speakers speak Russian and the Russian speakers speak English. Because the idea is, if you speak your native language, maybe you’re speaking too fast or maybe you’re not sure if the other person’s really understanding you. Whereas if you both speak the language you’re not as fluent in, then you arrive at a level where where people can be sure that the other person’s understanding. And by now, there’s kind of this hybrid English-Russian language that’s developed. Not a full-fledged language but kind of a-
Lauren: Space Creole!
Gretchen: Yeah, a Space Pidgin that the astronauts use to speak with each other! I don’t know if anyone’s written a grammar of it, but I really want to see a grammar of Space Pidgin.
Excerpt from Episode 1 of Lingthusiasm: Speaking a single language won’t bring about world peace. Listen to the full episode, read the transcript, or check out the show notes. (via lingthusiasm)
BARRAYAR
(via suspected-spinozist)
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Moonlight cast backstage during the 89th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2017 in Hollywood, California.
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Unapologetic public displays of tenderness among Black men and boys 2k17 to forever 😢💗