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my spouse and i disagree

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Love and Redemption: episode 55

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Metropolitan Museum

Altar Set

Culture: China

Date: Late 11th century BCE

Period: Shang dynasty–Western Zhou dynasty (1046–771 BCE)

This elaborate set of ritual bronzes, consisting of an altar table and thirteen wine vessels, illustrates the splendor of China’s Bronze Age at its peak. The monumental design, intricate surface decoration, and refined casting attest convincingly to artistic sophistication and tech­nological advancement. The set was reportedly found in the early twentieth century at the tomb of a Western Zhou aristocrat in Shaanxi province and subsequently entered the collection of Duan Fang, a prominent government official and renowned antiquarian, whose heirs later sold it to the Metropolitan Museum.

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YES! In honor of this, my 13th year at Tumblr, I'm gifting you with a perfect calendar! Spread this idea far and wide!

Here it goes:

12 months

Each month has exactly 30 days divided into 5 weeks

Each week has 6 days (still a 2 day weekend)

Every year the remaining days (be they 4 or 5) comprise A ONE WEEK PARTY

Let us remake the world!

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山神 / Mountain Diety Trailer

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i keep thinking about this: maybe love isn’t a destination or a possession but an influence. a force that changes your shape. that helps you become. and when it’s gone, it doesn’t mean you’ve lost it. it means you’ve absorbed it. the people who leave don’t take it with them. they leave it behind in you.

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Smash Potato Quiche —

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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if any minors are following me

always make sure to start forging parents' signatures on the first day of class. that way, your teachers won't know that you've been forging signatures for the rest of the year

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A pit fired saber tooth cat! Pit firing feels extra appropriate for prehistoric animals like this one. I’m really happy with how it came out and it’ll be a little hard to part with.

This piece will be available today, June 20th at 8pm Eastern time!

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maybe top 10 posts ever

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Still no pics of Yy in full costume from the new role but we do like the whispy hair - and his villainous smirk 😏 and then he's like - no, I'm such an angel - he can so do both!

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The lack of agreement across brands on what “extra firm tofu” is is, in fact, very high on my list of unimportant problems.

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weird cultural shift detected

Fam, be careful with your time online. I highly recommend sinking some time and energy into offline pursuits.

Try: knitting or crochet; gentle movement, stretching, walking if you can; playing a musical instrument, whether it's piano or penny whistle; and especially reading.

I do not mean performative BookTok reading that we do for likes because our neurotransmitters have been nerfed by modern life.

I mean actual reading that we do for ourselves alone.

If reading is hard, if attention or energy or memory are operating at a deficit, I get it. Nevertheless, please try. If you notice you're skipping across big chunks of text like a river stone, if you can't finish a paragraph, slow down, pronounce the words out loud. Stop sometimes and ask yourself what you just read. Explain the story or article or poem to your blorbo or your cat or a stuffed animal.

If your head feels scrambled up, no judgment. We may have incredibly intractable neurochemical reasons that this is hard. Just tell the blorbo, "That's hilarious, I don't remember any of what I just read. Let's read it again, together."

(Please don't ask A.I. to do this for you. Please. It's your right to read and think about it your own way. A.I. doesn't actually understand anything. Please don't assume it will guide you safely through this next weird phase of our human culture.)

If reading longform, offline, makes you feel bored or anxious, be gentle and patient with yourself. Start with stories you remember well, reliable sources of well-being. But please know you will need to put some backbone into it in the long run.

I think we are going to need to rebuild our ability to think, to process experience. This will be an unsupported activity. In fact, most of the really powerful cultural forces are making it very hard for us to notice, feel, perceive, or think clearly.

Not sure what, but something's happened quite recently that is making this situation much worse, some kind of tipping point.

Please read something every day.

Your friend, greenjudy

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sorry baby x

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-DAZnXlaKc/?igshid=1aqtu4ib4fboy

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Rescuing a dazed kingfisher

English added by me :)