Uncleftish Beholding

on one hand we should push for systemic change instead of individual lifestyle changes on the other hand those systemic changes might involve lifestyle changes. like we won’t be eating meat at every meal and driving to every location. 

i think about this a lot wrt volume of consumption. like it’s true that fast fashion etc. is creating quantities of cheap products that are pretty isolated from what the actual demand for them is, but there’s no denying that people (including myself) still buy more clothes more frequently than is strictly speaking “good” for the environment, and shifting toward a slow fashion based future is going to mean that all of our wardrobes are going to realistically need to shrink, the whole culture around clothes shopping is going to radically change, etc.

and this is just wrt clothes, everything else is, realistically, going to need to be scaled down to some degree or another too and it’s going to be a very hard thing to adjust to i think

please reblog for bigger sample sizes !~ 🥰

A while ago Falynn K. asked this question on Twitter:

This is a totally reasonable question! A lot of folks who haven't sailed square riggers might think that the yard stays put, but in fact it needs to move up and down the mast so the sails can be fully set. (Y'know how everyone's always talking about halyards? They literally haul the yard up. You're welcome.)

So to answer the question: yards are held loosely to the mast by a looped line strung with large wooden beads called a parrel. The beads roll up the mast as the yard is raised and lowered. Here's a drawover that hopefully clarifies a little:

Once you start explaining things about tall ship anatomy it's hard to stop, so there's a bit more context for how the sails work:

(These are pages from my comic A Week at Sea with OHP, which you can read online here or grab as a print minicomic here.)

Hope this is helpful!

The Silmarillion, but instead of the swanships it´s those plastic swan boats for tourists.

Kawase Hasui  The complete set of Eight Views of Korea (Chosen hakkei) Eight woodblock prints, each signed and sealed Hasui, and published for Kansai Bijutsusha by Watanabe Shozaburo, 1939

The designs comprising: 1. Chongsokjong, Kyongju (Keishu Sosekitei), October 1939 2. Samburam rock, Kumgang Mountain (Kongosan Sansengan), August 1939 3. Pulguk Temple, Kyongju (Keishu Bukkokuji), September 1939 4. Hwasa Gate, Suwon (Mizuhara Kakomon), August 1939 5. Spring at Pubyong Pavilion, Modan Viewpoint, Pyongyang (Heijo no haru (Botandai Fusekiro)), 1939 6. Nakhwa, Puyo (Fuyo Rakkagan), September 1939 7. Sanggye Pavilion, Paekyang Temple (Hakuyoji Sokeiro), November 1939 8. Kyonghwe Pavilion, Kyongsong (Chosen hakkei, Kyojo Keikaro), November 1939 Each approx. 42.5 x 29.2 cm.

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Jacek Malczewski - Portrait of the Artist's Fiancée (1887)

I love how the horse approached for the cat to hop in

@timetopanik

(Not counting naturally occurring things like people and rocks and plants)

Consider things like coins, books, or family heirlooms! Tell me about it in the tags!

Tsuchiya Koitsu, Hakone Lake, 1938.

i had three fic ideas.  wrote one.  i still have three fic ideas.  this is not how math is supposed to work.

can this post please back up it’s too close to home

I had five ideas, I wrote two, now I have seven

Listen. They’re called “plot bunnies” for a reason, and it’s not just because they hop around all over your brain demanding attention.

🎶99 fanfic ideas on my blog

99 fanfic ideas~

Take one down, pass it around

137 fanfic ideas on my blog🎶

this post walked into my house and kicked in my ribs

For anyone who ever asked me where ideas come from. They creep in and breed when you’re making something else.

Reblog to bonk your mutuals on the head every time they start thinking negatively about themselves

specifically this kind of bonk.

Why is my experience of ticks so DRAMATICALLY different than others'. ???? People in the notes of my educational tick post are like "yeah i used get like 12 of them every time I walked outside but now i've only been bitten a couple times this year" ????

Y'all i've been wading and crouching in waist-high weeds and grass, stomping around in brush, even climbing and crawling on hands and knees in the woods, almost every day and i rarely pick up any ticks at all. I've only been bitten by a tick once. Like. In my life

Like i've been getting so down and dirty in random fields and thickets that I come out with random bugs on me and twigs and leaves stuck on my hair and clothes. Yesterday there was a grasshopper just sitting on my shoulder. No ticks though. And i do check!!

The consensus seems to be that I am just yucky probably?

With mosquitoes it's wildly variable. A couple years ago I got at least 50 mosquito bites at once that all turned into huge red welts and it was terrible, but over the past year I haven't gotten any at all, which is bizarre cause i've been hanging out around ponds and wetlands a lot

I'm also not allergic to poison ivy so basically I'm too powerful

Utagawa Yoshishige

53 Stations of the Tōkaidō as Potted Landscapes 1848

ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat

this literally means “bad at summer” pass it on

Reblog if you, too, are bad at summer

@somecunttookmyurl

my one skill is expertly manipulating the shape of the eggs I’m cooking so that they fit perfectly onto my toast every time

Bow down to your king

I can’t stop outdoing myself

Remember that post? The one that said “what if we all have super powers but they’re so mundane we don’t realize?” That post? This is proof that post was right

it's been months since the last sketches but don't think I forgot about them ✴️