'Sleep my flower and jasmine, sleep young moon, troubles won't find you, because I'm holding a latern
And I will shine on you not to get lost, to find your way back, sleep my flower and jasmine, and I will wake you up'
'nani' by marina satti
My full piece for @palimpsestzine !
I'm very proud to be part of this project, full of amazingly talented and passionate people!
The zine is on itc.io and it's pay-what-you-want with all proceeds going to Librarians and Archivists with Palestine so any donations would be highly appreciated!
my full piece for the pentiment fanzine @palimpsestzine !!!!!
i wanted to paint something with the tassing women just hanging out. a tribute to the burden of work historically borne by women....at least they can do their work together. (also why the marginalia also shows animals doing work and various tools for work, heh heh)
you can download it here on itch.io! it is genuinely .... the best fanzine ive ever seen, so much love was poured into it. you can either get it for free or pay what you want, and all earnings will be donated to librarians for palestine. we'll collect donations until april 30! AND PLAY PENTIMENT IF YOU HAVENT YET PLEASE!
thank you to everyone that has shown some love for our zine so far!
Did anyone else experience older adults saying "Oh they must be in love" when they see someone younger or a child/teen being more quiet and thinking to themselves than usual ? That's some olympic level mental gymnastics.
speaking of things i hate about the newer ace atotrney art style why has trucy's dress gone from being normal clothes to being so vacuum sealed to her that you can see her fucking belly button. boo. hiss. like what material am i supposed to believe this thing is made out of.
How do we break it to boomers with actual brain damage and nostalgic brainrot, and the 'tradwife' thirsting Andrew Tate fans that bodyfat, average attire, an overall lack of professional haircare or makeup, and non-conventionally attractive women existed and represented the vast majority of women across all of history?
And that, yes, in fact, their belief that "all women were hot skinny super models" in x timeframe is because they keep posting images of fashion models, actresses, idealized pinup art, and creepshots of actual teenage girls instead of middle aged, elderly and ordinary women from whatever era. Man, history sure was an insane person's exact perfect paradise consisting solely of people specifically they were attracted to--when filtered through a cherry picked lens of solely famous glamor girls instead of just women workers, family photos and life events taking place anywhere outside of Hollywood.
It really does irk me that one day people will assume all of the 21st century consisted of women who looked like whichever three actresses are most remembered one day and a few odd instagram filtered images--because already, a massive wealth of evidence already exists to the contrary for all of prior history and people are still somehow convinced everyone on Earth was a size zero with perfect hair and makeup for all of human history. That's just not how anything works. It's not how women work. It's not how humans work.
Another fun fact, the majority of surviving articles of clothing from eons ago were extremely petite, extremely glamorous, and unfathomably tiny. You know why? Because they ..weren't worn. This is a well known example of survivors bias in the fashion industry. Expensive gowns and teeny martini dresses were usually only worn once or twice, if not solely worn by manikins in high end stores. Most people kept a consistent and small wardrobe for their entire lives. New clothes were rare, often custom fit or taylored by family at home, or hand-me downs from sibling to sibling. These clothes that were worn to death and destroyed from decades of use were thrown away. They didn't survive to the modern era because they were overly worn, large, and unglamorous.
Think of it this way, you might save your prom dress or your wedding dress but you're not saving the teeshirt with spaghetti stains on it for future generations to see. Why would you? Those are the clothes that don't survive.