watching return to oz in san francisco cured me for a little bit but hampshire closing dredged up 10 years of repressed feelings and unsorted emotions so i thought watching kiki's delivery service on my fancy cheap projector would cure me but it did the opposite and now i'm back to square one
A drawing of a sort of lumpy stick figure. Text reads: "I'm a beautiful and unique woman".
:)
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Digitally printed viscose/rayon/polyester clothing is fucking gauche and tacky I'm going to carry this to my grave, my hypothetical children are going to rebel by wearing vintage Society6 finds at the vintage stores i take them to for school clothes
*by quality polyester i mean nothing paper thin, nothing itchy, NOTHING digitally printed, woodblock print or jacquard weave baby. thrifted is ideal. you are worth nice fabric.
cannot understate the value of buying a dressing gown (silk or quality polyester, floor length, kimono style but not really a kimono, extra points for tassels on the tie) and only wearing it on lazy days off
"Oh you flinched there's sensitivity you don't floss" "Ma'am the terrible metal on cement like audio-physio sensation of your metal pokey stick on my tooth enamel is not the same as the cold metal on metal sensation of actual tooth sensitivity"
Dentist hygienists will poke your gums with a pointy metal stick and say you're not flossing enough and you'll be like "With all due respect I DO floss but I don't go poking my gums with a pointy metal stick"
I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.
There was a constant sense that the school was a table on its last leg (one leg had mold, one chewed on by rabbits, one was in a freak pot and bike chain related injury) but the optimism of my late millennial class and the can do attitude instilled by the school were excellent at obscuring it.
Everyone on my feed has big feelings worded so eloquently because we went to a school that taught us how to compose, reflect critically, and convey our opinions in a concise and quick way. I'm processing all this as I get ready for work. I want to write something to The Omen if they're still around
An illustration of two Anglo-Saxon era lesbians. One is embracing the other from behind, burying her face in her neck while the other smiles joyfully, they are adorned by a background of various patterns inspired by the era's artwork, including metalwork & jewellery as well as illuminated manuscripts. The patterns involve a lot of swirling & abstract floral & animal motifs. The woman being embraced is standing at a warp-weighted loom which is being used to weave a fabric in colours of the lesbian flag (orange, white and pink).
🧡Sweet mother, I cannot weave...🧡
My full drawing of Anglo-Saxon era lesbians for We've Always Been Here artbook! Details & progress stages to follow.
Actually you know what a really basic Google search will show that Altman's address and images of his home has been in the papers for the last 5 years because he bought it for the biggest price at the time, found it full of issues, and sued. It's like society paper news.
I'm so happy :)
Cinema is a church and this evening they were reading from my favorite part of the bible
There's a building around the block from me that is a duplicate of the building I am living in and the unit that is my unit (but not actually my unit) is for rent (and $100 more). Am I allowed to date the new renter even if they are the evil version of me or if I am somehow the evil version of them?
Matrix by Lauren Groff is a poor woman's Hild but I will recommend it to my friends who are still too scared to read Hild (which is most of them- whatever is so daunting about "unsatisfying but well sourced court intrigue, Little House levels of technical description, and incest sideplot")
Matrix is good like everyone told me but also crazy for implying that members of court didn't bathe and that everyone had bad teeth
it's really fucking good soup though
me and my big pot of a halved-recipe mulligatawny soup are feeling the existential wear of this lifestyle on this fine "i have spring break but nobody else does" evening
i'm single girling too close to the sun i'm almost to the halfway mark of cook's illustrated soups and stews
I just think it doesn't count as a hobby if you aren't making something or if you're not critically engaging with something. Like TV and reading is not a hobby but writing fan-fiction is. Shopping is not a hobby but doing something interesting with your purchases is.
free your ego, teach yourself a little ukulele off the chords in the back of a memoir of a very cancelled artist, be "not like the other girls" for 10 years then spend the next 10 relearning how to be "like the other girls", and let the juno soundtrack take a several mb of space on your mp3 player
whimsymaxxing is being marketed to the gen z's as a buyable trend because they did not live through the twee papier mache webseries movement of the 2010s. somoene said "whimsy is cringe now" but guess what they're right you cannot be whimsymaxxing and not cringe all at once they are polar opposites
i was whimsymaxxing before it was even close to the internet- a little hanging plant or stained glass decal cannot save you have to feel it in your soul- it has to be a behavioral pattern- you gotta read patchwork girl of oz in middle school and fuse that character with your entire sense of self
You ever feel an intense kinship with George Bailey during spring full moons? You say "Man, me too. I know I am loved I know I do good for the places I love but still I burn for something a little more out of reach and I grieve for the paths that had to be passed by"
Yeah but did George Bailey still burn for the world after that one glorious Christmas, did any of his friends go "Hey George, I'm sending you on vacation"
@ people who are trying to boycott both amazon and target where do you buy your ironing board covers
Oh Mrs. Caliban we're really in it now
