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Angélique Kidjo -  ONCE IN A LIFETIME

THIS. IS. BRILLIANT.

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Lynda Carter in Zac Posen  attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City.

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@socmonumentalart Majdanek concentration camp, the Monument Of Struggle and Martyrdom at the entrance to Majdanek death camp near Lublin, Poland. Majdanek, or KL Lublin, was a German concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. The monument was designed By Victor Tolkin,1969. The symbolic Pylon meant to represent mangled bodies reads like an abstracted Yiddish sign for Lublin: לובלין #brutgroup Photo via #socmonumentalart

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reminder series: bleak yet comforting thoughts.

i specifically chose animals that are (or believed to be) extinct due to human influence: thylacine, great auk, baiji, west african black rhino, golden toad, dodo, passenger pigeon, and quagga. there are many other species i could have included. the plants are also based on extinct species, but i found much less information about extinct plants, unfortunately.

the text doesn’t necessarily relate to each animal or their extinction. it’s all basically the same idea: let’s all be nice to each other, because today, the universe is vast and incomprehensible, we are all suffering, we are all going to die, and we’re all in this together. for today.

i’m busy for a couple weeks with conventions, but after that i’m considering a companion series with ancient extinct animals, so feel free to send me your favorites :)

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West LA - 2018

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Vitamin

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by Clare Elsaesser

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Horse Meat Disco

Happy Place

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📷 . 2011 . . . Fashion by @hauntedheadfashion . Makeup by @genevievejoyj . Taken by @photoblackburn . Edited by me. (at Ocean Deep)

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Edoardo Piermattei, Porziuncola, 2017 Thomas Brambilla Gallery

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In Lyme Regis, Britain.

Photo taken by Serena Rosemary

https://www.flickr.com/photos/serenarlunn/14715256507/

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Also Magneto is literally a Holocaust survivor. He survived the Warsaw Ghetto, until it was liquidated. He survived Auschwitz.

Read Testament. It’s a very powerful book

Ok so I was watching X-Men: First class

I’m Jewish, and my dad- a goy- was watching it with me.

one of the scenes that really got to me was

because you can see the way Erik’s face changes because Charles just doesn’t understand what he was doing when he said that. 

Think back to the bar scene in the beginning. What does the Nazi say to excuse his actions?

So when Erik heard that? It just reminded him of what he knew and has been saying up until that very moment. Nothing’s changed.

I identified so much with Erik’s plight and I felt a physical ache in my chest when he spoke the next lines

Because growing up, all Jewish kids have heard or seen that in remembrance of the Shoah. Never Again.

My father made it clear that he didn’t understand; “So he’s gonna kill them all for following orders?”

“Dad, following orders blindly, without even questioning them set us up in some really dark times.”

“Whatever, the guy’s just blood thirsty and ready to blame anyone.”

And the thing is, Erik isn’t bloodthirsty, and never really has been. He’s logical and see’s the world based on his experiences of human actions. He’s seen the worst of them and refuses to be lulled into the false sense of security that working with the government had given some of them. Or the never-ending optimism Charles seems to have for the human race.

Because the fact is, Charles didn’t go through what Erik did and that’s one of the biggest causes of their thought differentiation. 

It just showed me how much Erik’s backstory impacted me more than it did goyim. Sure we didn’t experience it like our grand and great-grandparents did. We weren’t actually in the Shoah; But it’s left such an intense impression and stain on our history that we are still triggered by it, threatened by it as ‘jokes’ and forced to see it used as a rhetorical device in arguments with no relation to it.

We didn’t experience it but it is part of us in ways others can’t understand. And I think Erik-an actual survivor- really truly realized that when Charles spoke that line.

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she was a genius. Great that her, and her work, are getting some recognition.

Vivian Maier, Self Portrait

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A lot of people really like this book. But I found it incredibly depressing. Perhaps that was the point, to be crushed down by a tale of unrelenting privilege and entitlement? Perhaps someone could tell me if I got that wrong.

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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Princess Elizabeth leans out of the Duchess’s box at the “Dick Whittington” pantomime at the Lyceum Theater. 6 February 1935. [900 x 609] Check this blog!

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For those of you who missed out on this classic bit of British tellie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA5abHKvUBQ

Bill Nye the Science Guy gets love the love it deserves for promoting science to American children but what about the lasting influence Horrible Histories had on British kids??