Gorgeous gorgeous Jewish students say free Palestine

​inaturalist is so funny bc i didn’t know that dog sick slime mold existed but here we are

may I add

2005

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Gaston Jobbé-Duval (French 1856-1929) - Nocturne, Notre Dame

taylor swift’s work wouldn’t be nearly as insufferable if she wasn’t constantly trying to present herself as some sort of tortured underdog. like, okay, she has endured hardships, and a lot of people, especially white men, are shitty towards her for purely misogynistic reasons. that sucks, i agree. but she’s never been an underdog before. she was born to well-off parents who did everything they could to start her music career when she was barely even a teenager, an opportunity that lots of people would kill for. now she’s extremely famous and wealthy, and everything she releases is destined to sell millions of copies and receive glowing reviews in nearly every publication. she is not an underdog, and i have trouble believing she’s particularly “tortured.” she’s not even an alcoholic, despite claiming to be one on the opening track of her new album! people like to defend her lyrics by saying she’s just playing a character, which i don’t believe for a second, but even if she was, i don’t think i want to listen to someone like swift play the character of a tortured underdog, not when there’s so many musicians out there who are actually tortured underdogs. it comes across as hollow. “you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me,” sung by one of the wealthiest, most famous, most critically acclaimed musicians in the world, who was born to loving parents who personally helped her start her career, who once said she’d never been to therapy because she “just feels very sane.” if you’re going to play a character, maybe pick one who we’re not supposed to pity.

She’s talking directly to her crazy investment banker dad who bulldozed her path to fame with these quotes, if she’s revealing anything about herself of substance at all like that. But I don’t know that she is.

It feels to me like she's been trying to square the circle of having a virtually frictionless path to the pinnacle of white suburban femininity in a society ruled by the protestant work ethic that insists that power and wealth are a marker of hard work, so being a billionaire means she *must* have worked and grinded and suffered, "right"? Except she didn't, and has very little if any in the way of life experience relatable to anyone who's ever faced genuine adversity, so the whole "tortured poet" thing comes off as insincere and unrelatable to most people.

Gold brooch inscribed "NOSTRE ET TOUT DITZ A VOSTRE [D]ESEIR (Ours and always at your desire)", France, circa 1400

from The Victoria & Albert Museum

Bailey Skye aka Zah aka Nightspace (American, b. Seattle, WA, USA) Body Arts Photo: Orograph

By Mae Gray. Print / IG

Traveling suit, 1905

vintage french patchwork maxi skirt

poem by mosab abu toha pasted to ironwoodfarmny’s truck traveling from Ghent, NY

here’s a link to operation olive branch, which provides aid to gazans who critically need to evacuate:

you can choose a family you want to send aid to, and click the link to send money. the spreadsheet also has bar graphs showing how much money each family is getting.

shit, sorry, I'll delete that post right away. I didn't know he was a mythologist at all, let alone that he was infamous for positing a "universal" narrative structure that reduces a variety of works and storytelling traditions to variations on a single Jungian theme regardless of whether their actual contents line up with his thesis. I only knew about his work with Canned Soups.

Jabberwocky, Jan Švankmajer, 1971

Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

You can watch the short film (13:18 min) at the link.

new kind of guy dropped

he's right though

Ivory and Pearl gripped pistols. Heavily engraved. Luger, Mauser, Colt