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It would be a real shame if instead of being covered by paint, which can be removed, bronze statues of racists were to come into contact with saltwater or tomatoes and be destroyed by irreversible bronze disease.
suddenly remembered this poem as i was making breakfast this morning & frantically googled “poem remembered to buy eggs?????????” & somehow managed to find it & it utterly knocked the wind out of me just as much as when i first read it
I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants.
Auto Mechanics Pose Dramatically to Recreate Renaissance Paintings
Photographer Freddy Fabris has paid homage to the great Renaissance master painters using his camera instead of a brush. This unique tribute—aptly called The Renaissance Series—fuses contemporary culture with the dramatic styling of the original portraits.
"Prior to the 1500s there were no female artists."
Hahahahahahhaha.
Yeah, no, you want to go? LET’S GO.
Bourgot Le Noir • Nun Claricia • Diemoth (also called Diemud/Diemudis) • Agnes II Abbess of Quedlinburg • Anastasia • Claricia • Herrad of Landsberg • Ende • Guda • Abbess Hitda of Meschede • Hildegard of Bingen • Helena of Egypt, daughter of Timon of Egypt • Aristarete • Timarete • Alcisthene • Eirene • Anaxandra • Lala de Cizique • Iaia of Cyzicus • Frögärd Ulvsdotter i Ösby • Maria Ormani • Catherine of Bologna • the daughter of Butades (Kora/Callirhoe) • Lala • Sabrina von Steinbach • Kallo • Cirene, daughter of Kratinos • Calypso • Olympias • Amalasuntha • Laodicia • Herlindis of Maaseik • Relindis of Maaseik • Gisela of Kerzenbroeck • Zaynab al-Maqdisiyya • Fatimah Bint al'Aqra’ • unidentified prehistoric female artists, “Spotted Horses” mural • Onorata Rodiani • Mechthild of Hackeborn
Also consider that there are a huge number of names missing - women did not always sign or receive credit for their work; earlier art may be pre- written language, may have been lost or destroyed, or may no longer be attributed by name. Drawings of artists in ancient Greece in vase-making workshops, for instance, show both men and women painting designs.
The nature of white male academia and museum culture has also affected what we preserve and label, and even what we consider ‘valuable’ art, prioritizing the public (large murals and paintings) that Western women were socially not accepted to create over the private such as embroideries that were devalued and demoted to being ‘craft’ because of their associations with women. Apologies for the primarily white and Western focus in this list, as biases in art historical documentation make it very difficult to properly identify by name pre-1500s female artists of color.
Here, have some essays:
Where Are Women in the History of Art?
Where Are All the Famous Women Artists?
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
The Feminist Critique of Art History
Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence
Examining the Exclusion of Women From Art Historical Documentation
Brushed Off: Women Artists and Their Fight for Recognition
Old Masters: Overlooked Woman Artists
Old Boys Club: What’s a Female Artist to Do?
The Medieval Feminist Art History Project
The Lack of Progress For Women in the Art World
A Woman’s Touch: Prehistoric Cave Paintings Were Made by Women as Well as Men, Scientists, Discover
Retail Gothic
There seems to be a new worker every week, but they rarely ever stay for more than a few shifts. What is driving them away? Do they know the truth?
"Come back when the manager is here." You tell them. You do not know who the manager is. You do not know when the manager will be here. You do not know what the manager is. It is better off that way.
There is a new product on display. You dont know what it is. Nobody knows what it is. Nobody knows where it came from. There is no record of it being shipped. You leave it on display. You know that if you take it down, it will return. You know the truth.
You feel like you have been working for hours and hours. Your feet feel like anchors and your soul begins to crumble into the void. You smile at a customer. It has only been 40 minutes.
Everytime you leave the store, you leave a piece of your soul behind. This is how they train you to be customer friendly. This is the truth.
"I'll go grab my supervisor." You say. You go to look for her but you cant find her. When you return, she is standing where you once were with a smile on her face. You dont remember what you needed her for. She is still smiling.
When your shift ends, it is dark out. It is noon. The cold wind blows and the snow begins to fall. It is summer. The store has stolen the final piece of your soul. You begin to crumble.
You do not know what time it is anymore. The clocks will not give you answers. They do not want you to know the truth.
A customer begins to tell you a story as you scan their items. The story takes place in 1982. It is 2020. They dont look as old as they should. Their eyes are so bright. Their teeth are so white and plentiful. Why are there so many teeth? What is the story about?
Your coworker starts to tell you a story one day but never gets to finish it. You ask her about it the next day. She says she wasnt here yesterday. You weren't there yesterday either.
You become lost in the aisles. No matter which direction you turn, you end up down another aisle. You turn left and end up in the back room. The store is now closed.
Theres another customer. Theres always another customer. You know better than to look them in the eyes. They can smell your fear. You hope they leave soon. The store is now closed.
You do not remember life before you worked here. You do not remember where you are. You do not remember your name. You look down at the name tag. It is not your name. You cannot tell them what you know.
"The store is now closed." You tell the customer. You can see the desperation in their eyes. You cannot tell what they want or what they are running from. You dont want to know.
The radio has played the same song four times now. You tell your coworker. They say there is no music playing. You know the truth. You know too much.
The store is now closed.
Perfect napping weather
listen I ended up regretting saying anything about this on my old blog because people will interpret literally any and every statement maliciously on this hellsite but I want to start like. a helpline for people who are like “hey I pretty much only read YA but I’m like 22 now and don’t relate to teenagers as much, it’s such a shame that there are no fun books written for adults :(” because boy HOWDY are there some fun books for adults
Things To Do During A Pandemic
We are all probably bored at this point. Wondering what we can do to keep busy if we are stuck at home. So, here’s a list:
- Learn to play that instrument.
- Start painting.
- Learn to knit.
- Get your family together and learn how to play poker or another card game.
(Only if you all live in the same house obviously! Don’t invite people over. Lock that door! lol)
- Learn to crochet.
- Make a zine or two or three and digitize them.
- Start a cyber study group.
- Learn a new language.
- Take a class or two online.
- Start or tend a garden.
- Learn to cook a new recipe or how to preserve food.
- Get a couple board games.
- Get a new video game or two.
- Start a blog.
- Write that novel.
- Work on fan fiction.
- Get through your TBR list.
- Download Hoopla from your library and take some of “The Great Courses”.
- Watch a symphony livestream.
- Learn the basics of Yoga, Tai Chi, or Qi Gong.
- Start a fitness program at home.
- Walk your dog.
- Go to the park.
- Go for a hike.
- Go for a picnic.
- BBQ anyone?
- Go foraging.
- Watch some livestreams.
- Start a livestream with your friends.
- Spring clean.
- Press flowers.
- Start a diy project you’ve been putting off.
- Write for a digital magazine or two (Brontide Journal and Optopia are accepting submissions).
- Start a journal.
- Practice photography.
- Learn calligraphy.
- Practice self care.
- Learn how to sew or mend.
- Old movie night. I suggest Vincent Price.
- Make a comic.
- Make pixel art.
- Make digital art or learn how to use an art program.
- Make some jewelry.
- Learn how to carve.
- Start a newsletter.
- Subscribe to a newsletter.
- Wood burning stuff.
- Ceramics.
- Write poetry.
- Write an essay.
- Video chat with friends or family.
- Chess.
- Write or act out a play with family or friends you’re staying with.
- Listen to podcasts.
- Curate some new playlists.
ive seen some posts lately about drawing diversity with actually diverse features, aka instead of just having a black character, drawing the character with nigerian features or instead of just drawing a vaguely indigenous character draw them with features from a specific tribe/area and in any case i figured you might want to check out this site because its a world map where you can click anywhere and it’ll show you different human phenotypes based on region and really goes into showing many types of people. like im making a chilean character so clicked on chile and it showed me this
which pops up this and this
its just a pretty neat website to really become better at diversifying and strengthening your character designs
Idk what to put here so uhmm please just take those *:･ﾟ✧ sparkly *:･ﾟ✧ renaissance Batman redesigns
Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi resting on the set of Lew Landers’s 1935 film The Raven.
What people think why i became a bookbinder: Oh she wants to explore her artistic horizon with those pretty leather bound books of hers. She even gives them out as gifts to her friends. It most likely helps her with anxiety or maybe she just wanted a more special costume made notebook.
Why I actually became a bookbinder: I just illegally downloaded and printed out several of my favourite fanfics and books and started binding them into books cuz I love reading them but looking at screens for too long gives me headaches.
List of Elemental Abilities
Air/Wind
Aerokinesis -manipulate the air, wind, and gas.
Aeroportation - teleport using air/wind currents.
Air Mimicry - transform into a cloud of gas, fog, or mist.
Atmokinesis - manipulate the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
Deoxygenation - suck up all the oxygen from a place.
Lung Adaptation - breath anywhere
Wind Generation - create blasts of air.
Divine Winds Manipulation - create and control heavenly winds.
Dark Wind Manipulation - create and control eerie winds.
Earth
Geokinesis - control, manipulate, and reshape the earth at will.
Atmokinesis - control and manipulate the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
Crystallokinesis - manipulate minerals and crystals.
Ferrokinesis… manipulate metal at will.
Fraxikinesis - manipulate burnt matter.
Geo-Thermokinesis - manipulate, control, and create lava, magma and volcanoes.
Golem Creation - make golems out of inanimate materials like rocks, wood, plants, magma, etc.
Granulation… can turn things into sand.
Halokinesis - control and manipulate salt.
Hyalokinesis - control and manipulate glass.
Koniokinesis - manipulate and control dust particles.
Plassikinesis - manipulate and control all forms of plastic.
Psammokinesis - can control and manipulate sand.
Terrakinesis - control, manipulate and alter/reshape the surrounding terrain and landscape at will.
Terraportation - teleport via the earth and earth-based materials.
Sacred Earth Manipulation - Create, manipulate, control, reshape divine earth minerals.
Black Earth Manipulation - Create, manipulate and control tainted and evil earth minerals.
Fire
Pyrokinesis - create, control and manipulate fire, flame and heat.
Atmokinesis - control and manipulate the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
Fire Breath - breathe out flames.
Geo-Thermokinesis - manipulate lava, magma and volcanoes.
Heliokinesis - manipulate and control the sun and sunlight.
Hell-Fire Manipulation - Generate and control flames of hell.
Holy Fire Manipulation - Generate and control flames of Heaven.
Inflammation - burn things.
Melting - heat molecules to melt things.
Plasmakinesis - can control plasma.
Pyrotechnics - create fireworks.
Self-Detonation - explode self and reform.
Thermokinesis - create, control and manipulate heat.
Water
Hydrokinesis - manipulate and control liquid water and mold it into any desired shape or form.
Aquatic Adaptation - adapted to underwater living.
Aquatic Respiration - breathe underwater.
Atmokinesis- control and manipulate the various aspects of the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
Dehydration - absorb water.
Hydroportation - teleport across short or long distances through liquid water.
Water Mimicry - turn into liquid water.
Holy Water Manipulation - create, manipulate and control graceful waters.
Dark Water Manipulation - create, manipulate and control evil and dangerous waters.
Darkness
Umbrakinesis - can manipulate and control darkness or shadows.
Animated Shadow - Animate one’s shadow.
Light Absorption - block out light in an area.
Night Vision - see in the dark.
Sacred Darkness - create holy darkness.
Shadow Camouflage - be unseen in shadows.
Shadow Mimicry - become a shadow.
Umbrageous Teleportation - teleport via the shadows and darkness.
Electricity/Lightning
Quintessence Force -Can generate whitish-blue lightning that also contains pure life energy.
Electrokinesis - control, generate or absorb electric fields and shoot lightning bolts.
Activation & Deactivation - turn stuff on and off.
Positron Manipulation - control positrons, the antimatter counterpart to electrons.
Electrical Absorption - absorb electricity.
Electric Mimicry -transform entire body into a lightning-like being of pure electrical energy
Electrical Transportation - teleport with lightning.
Divine Lightning Manipulation - create and control the brightest lightning.
Black Lightning Manipulation - create and control the darkest lightning.
Energy
Dynamokinesis - manipulate existing energy.
Energy Blast - create blasts of energy.
Energy Emission - release energy.
Quintessence Force - create and manipulate unique form of electrical and life energy.
Mana Manipulation
Chi Manipulation
Electricity Manipulation
Energy Manipulation
Ice
Cryokinesis - control ice, snow and other forms of frozen water.
Freeze Breath - freeze things in solid ice.
Freezing - lower the temperature in kinetic atoms to freezing temperatures.
Frigokinesis - control snow either as precipitation or already on the ground.
Ice Beam - shoot beams of freezing energy.
Ice Generation
Light
Dark Light Manipulation - create the darkest light in existence.
White Light Manipulation- create sacred light from the divine.
Photokinesis - create and manipulate pure light.
Force-Field Generation - create protective shields of solid photons.
Invisibility - be unseen.
Laser Emission - bend light wavelengths to create lasers.
Light Absorption -absorb the light around you.
Light Generation - emit blinding light or glow in the dark.
Light Mimicry - take on the traits of light.
Photoportation - Teleport by using photons.
Projective Invisibility - turn other things invisible.
Evil Banish - Rid and banish all spirits of evil and black magic.
Light Manipulation
Weather
Atmokinesis - manipulate the various aspects of the weather by using water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
Atmokinetic Resistance - immunity to all weather-based abilities and effects.
Atmokinetic Sensing - sense the future weather patterns.
Other
Aether Manipulation
Cosmic Manipulation
Gravity Manipulation
Nether Manipulation
Space-Time Manipulation
From Superpower Wikia. See their complete list of superpowers HERE.
A small list of random ass sites I’ve found useful when writing:
Fragrantica: perfume enthusiast site that has a long list of scents. v helpful when you’re writing your guilty pleasure abo fics
Just One Cookbook: recipe site that centers on Japanese cuisine. Lots of different recipes to browse, plenty of inspiration so you’re not just “ramen and sushi”
This comparing heights page: gives you a visual on height differences between characters
A page on the colors of bruises+healing stages: well just that. there you go. describe your bruises properly
McCormick Science Institute: yes this is a real thing. the site shows off research on spices and gives the history on them. be historically accurate or just indulge in mindless fascination. boost your restaurant au with it
A Glossary of Astronomy Terms: to pepper in that sweet terminology for your astrophysics major college au needs
why does this whole scene look & sound like a YTP
There is something so beautiful about woman dressed in historical clothing that’s usually only worn by men.
Like, a man wearing historical fashion: eh, ok I guess, I mean it’s still cool cause- history! but still just ok…
But a woman: More beautiful than Aphrodite, a queen! I aspire to look like this. Woman, honestly, can pull of historical men’s historical fashion so well, and they all look like queens and badasses.
STEM dark academia aesthetics
Lab coats with mysterious stains
Dissecting cadavers and studying bottled organs
Building a neural network that gains sentience and craves your affection and approval
Mouth pipetting
Mourning the mistreatment of Rosalind Franklin
Licking rocks
Doing maths with numbers that don't exist
Calculating the distance between stars
Brewing your own alcohol in the lab
Drinking coffee out of a beaker because the kitchen was out of clean mugs
Running medical experiments on unsuspecting undergrads with nothing to lose
Having a pet axalotl in the lab/office named Haeckel
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Proposed leitners
- warrior cats book that when you open it you are instantly mailed by 30 feral cats (one is very orange)
- the very hungry caterpillar (corruption)
- a book that looks like a dictionary but when you open it it’s completely blank except for one page in the middle that says “bitch”
- toaster manual that burns you alive as you read it
- magic treehouse book just filled with the phrase “jack adjusted his glasses”
- flip book where a shadowy figure gets slowly closer until you’re done and then you turn around and he’s behind you
- how to harvest bones for dummies
- 1984 except you just get really angry over George Orwell’s misogyny (actually not a Leitner just normal 1984)
- alternatively 1984 but you open it and the text is just from A brave new world and you’re filled with the all encompassing urge to stir and nothing else until you drop dead
- Photo album of Jonah Magnus (warning: very ugly)
- Les Mis Manga
- a book you open that has another smaller book inside it so you open that book and it has a smaller book inside it so you open that book and it has another smaller book inside it so you open that book and it has another sm
- book that every time you dog ear it… it dog ears YOU
- book that sucks you into it’s world but it’s not a fun adventure it’s some nonfiction about the Black Plague and you’re starting to feel very ill
- Dr. Seuss book Oh The Places You’ll Go except if you’re giving it to someone for graduation or another big change in their life it locks itself shut and begins to scream
- Garfield comic compilation but the pages? Made of Lasagna.
- pride and prejudice but without the pride and prejudice
Brutalism can create these amazing visual tapestries where more clearly defined geometric shapes made of concrete blend with the organic flow of greenery in nature and the effect is just stunning
Random mansion generator
The Procgen Mansion Generator produces large three-dee dwellings to toy with your imagination, offering various architectural styles and other options. Each mansion even comes with floorplans:
https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/random-mansion-generator.html
I feel like the overlap between people who are into yarncraft and people who are massive fantasy nerds is pretty high, so here is a thing:
Leo, the man behind MMario Designs, has sadly passed away. His family have made all of his knitting patterns free on Ravelry, and there are some gorgeous designs up there.
Do you like the Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce?
Tris:
Briar:
Frostpine:
Are you a Discworld fan?
Out Of Cheese:
Banks of the Anhk:
Lady Margolotta:
How about Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar books?
Flames of Vykaendys:
Harper Hall shawl:
Harry Potter?
Godric:
Salazar:
Tolkien?
Shire Gardens:
Oakenshield:
Smaug:
These are only a few, you should totally go and check out the literally hundreds of designs up on the Ravelry page.
As a Readingite, I think I should inform everyone that the worst part about the new chic-fil-a opening in town is that the restaurant that was there beforehand was another “UK debut of an American restaurant chain” and it was a Vegan Fast-food place that promoted a “healthy alternative to fast food” and was only in business here for like, 6 months in the end
