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no animal image has seriously made me physically weep like this one has 

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June 19, 1978 debut!

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Nooo keep doing your thing! I honestly thought your blog was around before mine, since I started only recently. We have different styles and reblog different posts. Tumblr needs more than one librarian!!

Spiderman pointing meme

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Well, shit. Looks like somebody beat me to it. Great minds think alike, I suppose. In that case, I'm probably gonna wind this blog down. No sense being a knockoff.

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Actually sooo true as evidenced in Comics and the Origin of Manga by Eike Exner

This was an interesting read; it drew connections between the beginning of the American comic strip and how those early works made their way to Japan and thus influenced everything that came after

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me: if only there was a fruit that looks like an apple but is actually a pear

the baffling papple:

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i was seeing all these little blue flowers everywhere and kept thinking "dang what are these bitches, i can't remember..." well guess what. they were fuckin forget-me-nots. can't believe i failed step fucking 1, the hot girls on iNaturalist are going to laugh at me and i'm gonna flunk out of hobby botany school.

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A lot of the time when I reblog jewellery on here, it’s art nouveau jewellery, because I really like art nouveau. In general, and in jewellery in particular. And most of that is the aesthetic. I like the natural forms, I like the twisty curly bits, I like the use of materials, I like how a lot of art nouveau jewellery is using metals and stones and other materials to create a specific form, an insect or a plant or a goddess or even sometimes nature scenes. I like …

I feel like a lot of the time with jewellery, it feels like ‘I’m going to use this object to show off the size and value of my pretty rock’. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of those rocks are indeed gorgeous. But art nouveau feels more ‘I’m going to use these pretty rocks, and several other things, to create the impact of this object’? I just love the use of materials, glass and enamel and colour, as well as precious stones and metals, to create a form or a scene.

Like, you get a diamond ring, it’s a diamond ring. But you get something like a dragonfly brooch (Louis Acoc):

Or a lilypad hair comb (Rene Lalique):

Or a wisteria branch (Georges Fouquet):

And it’s a whole creation. A little wearable piece of art.

And I don’t want to sound too dismissive. I know the craftmanship and skill and artistry that goes into any kind of jewellery making. That diamond ring took skill I will never have. I just.

I like the emphasis on form more than material that you get with art nouveau. Like normally you hear ‘glass jewellery’, ‘enamel jewellery’, and it’s cheap, it’s frowned upon, but in art nouveau it’s what that glass or enamel was used to make that’s the important part:

(Rene Lalique)

(Eugene Feuillatre)

Anyway. In summary, I really, really, really like art nouveau jewellery?

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i'm on a lot of nyquil right now

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in many cases, you can go to museum and see art there ☝️ often it feels good to do this

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Every girl needs to hear this

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You will soon know more about worms