#fuck this week

[palmtreepalmtree]

lol that letter we've been waiting on all week just arrived so guess who's working late lololol

[jinx-on-mars-19xx]

First Joe Exotic and now Ronnie Radke compliment Kells tats? When toxic people are welcoming someone to a club... Is it really one to be in?

[bass-alien]

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[battywitch]

🫠

[kimiehashobbies]

Night musings ladybugs:

I've been on spiritual journey for 3 years now and it feels like I never have enough knowledge. Im probably destined to be the jack of all trades

..... master of none. Astrology makes no sense, im trying to find out what a double cazimi means to my pisces 3rd house. Something about communication 🤷🏾‍♀️

Also I cried all day 😃

🐞Kimi

[antii-me]

exactly what i needed this week, some asshole stealing my debit card and spending over $400 on bullshit. what the fuck

[sorchathered]

Demon baby and I are sick af, we had a death in the family and now are scrambling to get some of us back to America to help family, and my car broke down this morning. Omggggggg come on wtf is happening?!

[nice-bright-colors]

And another thing…

This fucking shit right here:

Wrong. No it hasn’t.

So now due to the Friday afternoon, stoned off his fucking gourd, postal worker…yes he always is…the key to the parcel holding my package is probably in someone else’s box.

Then a 20-something dude on a BMX bike rode by me and said, “Hey Man, you got any Adderall?”

[shinondraws]

I just want to fucking sleeeeeep

[silks-up-my-sleeve]

Just ruined my brand new vans with bleach water 🙂

[crippledanarchy]

I picked a bad night to run out of weed

[ilkitie]

This week’s been. It’s really been. And now i’m coming down with a flu.

[pineapplesofhospitality]

I'm done adulting. Time to be a unicorn.

[teaboot]

When I was a kid one of my moms would call her period "moon time" or "her monthlies" or shit like that and my other mom straight up stealthed it, but when I'm a dad I think I'm gonna go straight down the middle and call it Werewolf Week. Like sorry kids, dad can't roughouse right now, it's Werewolf Week

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Also increasingly aware that a LOT of people "manage" getting through the 40+ hour work week by sleeping less than is healthy and relying on stimulants like coffee and energy drinks to keep them going.

For people who are unwilling or unable to do this...work really does just dominate your life. Like we really should not have to rely on unhealthy practices just to have a social life or keep on top of housework or whatever.

I know I post about this a lot but I'm so TIRED all the time and it's just so depressing that this is how we're expected to spend the one life we have.

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.