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Anna Landovskaya (b.1962) - Cherries. Oil on canvas.
Teach children art!
One might sense gods everywhere, even within one’s own self. What if I am I but penetrated by divinities?
Certain Magical Acts, Alice Notley (via decreation)
From Wikipedia: Familiar stranger
“ A familiar stranger is an individual who is recognized by another from regularly sharing a common physical space such as a street or bus stop, but with whom one does not interact. First identified by Stanley Milgram in the 1972 paper The Familiar Stranger: An Aspect of Urban Anonymity ”
fanfic is a modern concept that can only exist under capitalism and relies on copyright and the concept of intellectual property to exist. authors from centuries ago using characters that didn't originate with them isn't fanfic, especially if it's tied to religious beliefs that simply evolved over time, or if they're using them to make a point about society. arthurian literature isn't fanfic, the divine comedy isn't fanfic, greco-roman mythology isn't fanfic.
she was the lighthouse that guided you home, the siren that beckoned you to her embrace, the light of the moon / and you the changing tides, the ship that came to her shore, the willing sailor who went overboard
I really want to boost this indie game called Venba that is currently in development at Visai Games.
It’s a narrative game about cooking, where you play as an Indian mom who has moved to Canada in the 1980s. Your recipe book is damaged, so you’ll have to restore those lost recipes, while also having branching conversations with your family, and of course, cooking Indian food.
There’s a Steam page for the game up here, and here’s the developers’ Twitter.
This is the sort of game that can easily fly under the radar, so please help boost an original game with a unique premise!
“It is far too easy—as the reluctant inhabitant of one of the most beautiful, expensive, and problematic cities in the world, as the naturalized citizen of a country that tries to kick dirt over its bloody history, as a hedonist seduced by oysters and cashmere sweaters—to see only the castle on the hill and not the thickets of bone we trod through to arrive at it. I am all too capable of moving with blinkers on. The hyper-compressed grief of living in this age means, paradoxically, that it is hard to give grief its due—not five seconds in a news reel but whole pages and chapters and volumes of grief.”
— C Pam Zhang, from “When Your Inheritance is to Look Away”
happy trans day of visibility i love all of you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love the way women talk… every woman has their own fun expressions and mannerisms we have FUN with it men all talk the same
A metamorfose dos pássaros (Catarina Vasconcelos, 2020)
i know anti asian discrimination is on the rise and it’s been in the back of my mind ever since my dad warned me about going out on my own bc he knew some friends of his had got beaten up and so i try to be careful.
but now these shootings in atlanta make it so very real and in my face. i live pretty close there and it’s like my aunt who’s a nail tech goes there pretty often for supplies. idk i just need everyone to be aware of how bad this is getting.
lately i just see ppl completely brushing aside anti asian racism. you have no idea how many comments i’ve seen saying that asian ppl are basically white... it’s laughable bc we have never been treated as such. especially for me being a tan SE asian. it’s like ppl forget about SE and south asians who are very much being targeted as well. i don’t even know where i’m going w this! it’s just frustrating. idk do what you can maybe donate or smth especially since you guys heavily consume asian media like show up for us too not just for our culture
https://stopaapihate.org/
https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate
Tonight (March 17 2021) in Atlanta, at least eight workers are dead after a series of targeted shootings in massage spas. The shooting is the latest in escalating Anti-Asian hate crimes, which have increased nearly 150% over the past year alone.
Below are a few links to organizations to consider supporting, all of whom are fighting for the rights of AAPI, as always feel free to add on any (credible) links or updates:
Gofundme for the AAPI Community Fund
Stop AAPI Hate
Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Red Canary Song
Many of the political attacks on trans people—whether it is a mandate that bathroom use be determined by birth sex, a blanket ban on medical interventions for trans kids or the suggestion that trans men are simply wayward women beguiled by male privilege—carry the same subtext: that trans people are mistaken about who they are. “We know who we are,” Page says. “People cling to these firm ideas [about gender] because it makes people feel safe. But if we could just celebrate all the wonderful complexities of people, the world would be such a better place.”
Page was attracted to the role of Vanya in The Umbrella Academy because—in the first season, released in 2019—Vanya is crushed by self-loathing, believing herself to be the only ordinary sibling in an extraordinary family. The character can barely summon the courage to move through the world. “I related to how much Vanya was closed off,” Page says. Now on set filming the third season, co-workers have seen a change in the actor. “It seems like there’s a tremendous weight off his shoulders, a feeling of comfort,” says showrunner Steve Blackman. “There’s a lightness, a lot more smiling.” For Page, returning to set has been validating, if awkward at times. Yes, people accidentally use the wrong pronouns—“It’s going to be an adjustment,” Page says—but co-workers also see and acknowledge him.
Whatever challenges might lie ahead, Page seems exuberant about playing a new spectrum of roles. “I’m really excited to act, now that I’m fully who I am, in this body,” Page says. “No matter the challenges and difficult moments of this, nothing amounts to getting to feel how I feel now.” This includes having short hair again. During the interview, Page keeps rearranging strands on his forehead. It took a long time for him to return to the barber’s chair and ask to cut it short, but he got there. And how did that haircut feel?
Page tears up again, then smiles. “I just could not have enjoyed it more,” he says.
ELLIOT PAGE for TIME Magazine › 2021 interview by Katy Steinmetz, photography by Wynne Neilly
Pierre Mornet illustration for La Vie Magazine, 2011
cw shows are like, this is a powerful and ancient god and one of the most powerful beings in the universe
if u grew up watching winnie the pooh, u have empathy n kindness engraved in u no doubt about it
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtC5QqmjMrD/
Sue Zhao
That overwhelmingly safe feeling when you’re sitting in the back seat of the car at night while your parents drive. Maybe you’re on your way home, maybe you’ve just finished up a long day on the road during a family vacation and you drift in and out of sleep while the yellow street lights ebb in and out over your head. I wish that feeling lasted forever.
“[Love] consists in this: that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet (via soracities)
Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.
rb with your absolute NO skip albums i need recommendations or just wanna hear y’alls faves