#but it's worth flipping through

[fashionsfromhistory]

If you're in the Chicago area, highly recommend seeing Gio Swaby: Fresh Up at the Art Institute. Some truly beautiful textile work.

My work operates in the context of understanding love as liberation—a healing and restorative force. These pieces celebrate personal style, vulnerability, strength, beauty, individuality, and imperfections.

—Gio Swaby

[untimelyambition]

now that we’re on the topic i would fucking love to read through the sheet music for nerdy prudes must die… not even to play or try and put on my own performance but just so i could read it and follow along with the show to try and work out all the harmonies

[bonefall]

naruto as a whole is a fucking mess and i say thisas somebody whos read the entireseries 3 times over. “naruto is going to change the system! haha teehee never mind hes not doing anytning about the child soldiers and slave castes and the genocides.” “sasuke can be upset at his brother for committing a genocide but actually genocide against an oppressed bloodline is good if theyre getting uppity and its sanctioned by the government and also have a genetic predisposition to be evil so he should just get over it and be okay with it” “sakura needs to stop obsessing over a guy whos not even interested and become strong for her own sake. actually shes a housewife now”

kishimoto im going to blow you up with my mind

YOU GET IT

For real though I think what they did with Sasuke's arc was one of the most baffling fucking things I've ever seen. "Actually. Your brother who carried out a genocide loved you :( he only put you in the Torment Nexus for several days because uhhh he wanted you to hate him and not find out about the government who ordered it. Everything he ever did was actually to protect you. And Uchihas are actually kinda rotten anyway so it's good an entire GROUP OF PEOPLE died. Don't think about any babies or children who were also slaughtered btw uhh nope all of them were bad."

Sasuke: "Yes I understand. I will now rule the world through fear. Actually nvm Naruto won our fight so, my philosophy is gone now."

Thank goodness that Evil Sasuke killed the three Bad Government Officials before that point, though. We had this whole theme going about toxic structures, cycles of abuse, and how oppressive regimes can propagate themselves even when a leader is well-meaning... but, like, Naruto REALLY wants to be Hokage, so actually if you just kill these Three Bad Governors it's gonna be fine.

There is no need for systemic change. Slave castes and child soldiers are fine. It's ok as long as the president is blonde :)

[mattodore]

insane things happening in cas

[golden-stag]

I GOT MY PSYCHONAUTS ARTBOOK RRRAAAAUGGGHHHGGGH!!!!!!!!!!!

[books4evermorr]

The way I have to PHYSICALLY stop myself from flipping the pages and reading the priest reveal already

This is the most self control I have ever shown istg

[ey-there-little-guy]

hmmm thinking of,,, this g/t spin on a fic idea i had. might just stay a concept but... god AU c!tntduo with god of the moon g!wilbur and t!quackity who's fiances left him. very heartbroken very angry just speaking his woes to the night sky like he's been prone to.

and g!wilbur up there in the sky, having listened to every rant listening to this one with a dreamy sigh like "i could make him better".

Tommy (fellow god of the sun) would pop in with something like "if anything, you'd probably make each other worse." or "oh my gods Wil you're such a wierdo— just go talk to him already if you're gonna be like this again, you're holding up my fucking sunrise."

quackity was not expecting, the night after his broken engagement, for the god of the moon to show up outside his balcony over 50 feet tall to... ask him out? is that what's happening??? what the fuck do you mean you've been listening to me—

so. yeah there's a few issues, these guys have problems, but it'd probably be funny.

[rat-pissed]

And I thought the chicken man brainrot was bad...... This man has my entire fucking heart what the HELL

[roipecheur]

AU where the Jedi council discovers Anakin’s marriage early and kicks him out of the order and Padmé tolerates his reckless shenanigans for like 2-3 years max before filing for divorce because she is a member of the Senate in the middle of a galactic war and that is not compatible with a husband who keeps flying off to have adventures, covering their bedroom floor with the mechanical parts of whatever the hell he’s working on now, and trying to fistfight anyone he even thinks insulted her

And Anakin deals with this by going on a massive bender and sucking and fucking his way through the galaxy, but it’s far enough removed from everything important that no one thinks to check on him

Five or so years later, people at the Jedi temple start to notice the influx of very powerful Force-sensitive babies--like, the incidents of stuff in the nursery floating and randomly catching on fire have gone way up over the past few years, and someone probably would’ve caught on sooner if not for, y’know, the galactic war that is still going on with no end in sight--but huh, now that you mention it, yeah, there have been a lot more babies than usual, and do some of them look uncannily alike, despite coming from planets at nearly opposite ends of the galaxy? What’s up with that?

What’s up with that, someone discovers after running some tests, is that a solid few dozen of these kids have the same father

And they have his DNA on file, but at this point, they’re really only confirming what everyone already knows

Mace Windu, who thought he had finally gotten rid of Anakin Skywalker once and for all and is now staring down the barrel of thirty-seven Anakin Skywalkers and Force knows how many more are out there and didn’t make their way to the Temple! seriously considers taking up drinking

Obi-Wan, face-down on his bed and halfway through a bottle of Corellian rum, is way ahead of him 

So, your mission, the Council tells a group of four sober, young Jedi who just graduated to Knighthood and were not particularly close with Anakin Skywalker, is to stop this absolute goddamn menace from sucking and fucking his way across the galaxy before we have to build a second nursery just to deal with his offspring

A week later, they all come back looking pink and sheepish. Yes, they found Anakin Skywalker. Yes, they asked him politely to use contraception. Yes, they asked him very nicely. He’s really very nice once you get to know him...

(At least the ones of them who can get pregnant are all on birth control.)

(Mace Windu asks Obi-Wan where he gets his rum)

Of course, they send Obi-Wan next. He spent ten years as the lone, stalwart figure keeping Skywalker nonsense at bay. Surely he can convince his former Padawan to tone it down. Surely, Obi-Wan thinks to himself as he white-knuckles his transport down to the planet’s surface, trying not to think about how much he hates flying.

He finds Anakin in what is politely called a parlor house but more accurately called a brothel with a Twi’lek woman on one arm and a Zabrak man on the other, singing something at the top of his lungs that makes Obi-Wan’s ears burn. When Anakin sees him, he abandons his song and his company both, runs over to Obi-Wan, and greets him by kissing him full on the mouth.

(That’s just how he does things now. He probably doesn’t mean anything by it.)

Anakin looks good. He looks happy, Obi-Wan supposes, unburdened in a way he never did at the Jedi temple, never did in all the time Obi-Wan knew him before. He isn’t sure how to feel about that. They drink what is some very excellent beer and talk for awhile, and Obi-Wan can’t quite broach the topic of why he’s here in the first place. He forgot how bright Anakin shone in the Force

When he returns to Coruscant, Mace Windu is waiting on the landing platform with baited breath to ask him how it went

Obi-Wan looks very pink and very sheepish. He mumbles something. Mace Windu lets out a string of curses that would put the meanest gangster of Coruscant’s underbelly to shame.

The next day, Mace Windu departs for Anakin’s last known location and drags Obi-Wan with him because he needs back-up and he’s certainly not going to let Skywalker corrupt anyone else. Obi-Wan makes sure to bring another bottle of Corellian rum

“I’m going to neuter that man,” Mace Windu says upon their return to the Temple. He’s lying in one of the ornamental koi ponds, robes billowing around him and head resting against the side, the fish nipping idly at the material. “I’d be doing everyone a favor.”

Obi-Wan hmms noncommittally, sitting cross-legged alongside the pool. “You’re just mad he got you to dance with him.”

Mace Windu covers his face with a lily pad

And Palpatine never gets to turn Anakin to the dark side because he’s too busy sucking and fucking

[theworldofotps]

Ordered the Hook photo book from Brainbuster and it arrived today. It’s so beautiful😩

[chqnified]

Ok. So skz are headlining a festival in Paris 3 days before my birthday. Do I book tickets and catch a quick 40min flight there🤨🤨

[ghxstgvrlx]

It’s so easy to criticize someone who takes risks if you never do. The safe route keeps you … safe. Lol

Someone who never is vulnerable or has less survival situations they’ve been through or big mistakes that they’ve made, the easier they feel that they can criticize you for what you’ve done or how you handle the problems in your life. Sympathy and empathy are not the same things. Sympathy is when you can recognize someone else’s pain and feel pity for them but don’t necessarily understand from your own lived experiences, empathy is the desire to 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 their pain, whether it’s a shared experience or not.

When you’ve been through some shit, you can usually recognize when someone else hasn’t or hasn’t in the way you have. I’m not trying to compare traumas or do the Trauma Olympics lol but I think it’s fair to say that you at the very least can tell through questions or even just noticing their reactions to gather that they haven’t been though what you have. Like, I’ve never fought in a war. Do I understand what that does to a human being? No, not really. I can try to sympathize and empathize with them, I can try to learn more but I can’t feel what they’ve felt. I can’t be where they’ve been, and I wouldn’t want to.

All this to say basically, don’t expect someone who’s never walked in your shoes to understand what that feels like. That’s okay, they don’t have to. Just get a really good filter for people who want to shame you and who want to understand you.

[thebirdandhersong]

THE PERKS OF WORKING SO CLOSE TO A THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE BOOKSTORE !!!!

[sylkana]

i've had one of my worst days in awhile and my friend says he's been distant from me lately bc he doesn't want to deal with my "attitude". cool. thanks. whatever

[sag-dab-sar]

My New Dictionary Came!

Authored by:

Douglas R. Frayne was an Associate Professor of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, where he also worked as editor of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia project.

Johanna H. Stuckey is a University Professor Emerita at York University in Toronto. She is the author of Women's Spirituality: Contemporary Feminist Approaches to Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Goddess Worship

I'm so excited!

[mmaebee]

eret and wilbur lore today and i desperately want a hamilton ‘dying is easy young man, living is harder’ moment between them about their respective betrayals and learning to live in acceptance with what happened