"I couldn't care less. I'd suck the alcohol out of a stick of deodorant if it came to it" - one of my English lecturers on being asked if she prefers red or white wine
From Wassily Kandinsky's "Dance Curves: On the Dances of Palucca," 1926. Published in Das Kunstblatt arts journal, also in 1926. Photos by Charlotte Rudolph.
Today at church this baby was staring at me so I slow blinked to let him know I'm a Friendly and Trustworthy Person. He didn't blink back so I thought "Oh, he's a bit skittish, that's fine". It took me a full minute to realise that this is not, in fact, Normal Human Social Behavior and I was probably confusing the hell out of that poor child
I keep forgetting that my Whatsapp profile picture is a photo of me in 14th century armour I got to try on at a museum one time. I'm on a bunch of buy/sell groups and occasionally cause confusion when I meet up irl with someone who wasn't expecting a 5'6 sickly Victorian child in smudged eyeliner and a lacy dress.
And they're like, "Art thou my knight, cap-a-pie in maille and great helm as I did see in thy illumination? Thou art but a waifish barne, too meek to swing a s'wrd!"
And I'm like
"Aye, I be the gallant knight of Whatsappe. Here is thy second hand microwave"