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Paul L. Anderson • Pear Blossoms, 1946

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Jakub Schikaneder - Figure Among Trees

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Les fleurs du mal

© Jacques Courtejoie

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“La Sirène”. Directed by Georges Méliès, 1904.

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Ethel Cain announces her sophomore album ‘willoughby tucker, i’ll always love you’

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sigalit landau - gabriele horn + ruth ronen (2008)

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A black and white version of Surrendering to The Pull.

More diagrams to come.

Concept by @mothercain and vintage textbook diagrams of how light reflects off of eclipses and eyes.

(by Theda Desmond)

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i have crazy garlic fingers from peeling and chopping garlic cloves yesterday this phenomenon is always fascinating to me because it reminds me that i, too, am made of meat, and therefore i am also susceptible to being seasoned

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Hans Bellmer 1936

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Epitaphios of Michael Kyprianos. Early fourteenth century. Princeton University Art Museum.

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I come from a culture that has no nudity taboo - nudity is not considered inherently sexual, or somehow traumatising to witness. What that means in practice is that there is a clearly drawn line between sexual and non-sexual nudity. There is nothing wrong or inappropriate about nudity in a sexual context, and nothing wrong or inappropriate about nudity in a non-sexual context. However, it is 100% inappropriate to be nude in a situation where it is not obvious from context whether this is sexual or not.

I've seen random kids who briefly escaped from their parents bolt across a public park buck-ass naked after they were playing in the water fountain and their parents were in the middle of changing their kid from wet clothes to dry clothes when the small nudist escaped. Changing your small kid's clothes right there in public is ok because there is obviously nothing sexual about a child whose clothes got wet. But although people will have baby pictures of their kids in the bath or just running around the house like that because sometimes little apes hate clothes for some reason, it's considered common sense to not share those pictures on facebook mom groups and such, because you have no way of knowing who's seeing them, and that blurs the line of context.

It all boils down to the clearly defined context. Bathing nude in the same sauna with five of your co-workers at the office christmas party? Clearly nonsexual, therefore completely fine. Your friend-with-benefits inviting you to come over and opening the door in nothing but a doggy collar and the most porn-scented perfume? Clearly sexual, therefore completely fine. A woman checking her breasts for lumps in the gym lockers just before or after a shower? Clearly non-sexual, therefore completely fine.

But if you went to the bank today and there's some guy who walks in and immediately strips naked, doing his banking business wearing nothing but a deep smile and being clearly very content with this situation, you have no way of telling whether he's getting kicks out of this or not. There is no contextual reason for him to be nude. Therefore, that is inappropriate.

Then you go home and post on tumblr - as one does - going like "there was some dude completely fucking buck-ass naked in the bank today. That was fucking weird and I wish he had not done that." And someone immediately swoops into inform you that actually nudity is not inherently sexual or inappropriate, and there are cultures out there that have no nudity taboo. It's not fair to call somebody a freak for something like that, maybe that guy was just finnish.

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-22/food-plant-solutions-malnutrition-farming-edible-plants/12580732

https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World

This guy is my new hero. I LOVE learning about native food plants that just grow everywhere without human help.

The database is a little clunky to use (especially on a phone), but still loads of excellent information.

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Hi so I didn't mean that working class brits ignore class. I'm more so referring to the ways very wealthy people in this country (but also in general, in my experience) avoid talking about wealth in terms of class, precisely because most people now find the idea of class hierarchy distasteful and unfair.

I'm also aware that the working class in the UK (which I am a part of) aren't a monolith - I'm well aware that many people take the piss out of and dislike politicians, public figures, etc. What I'm referring to specifically is my own experience with white working families such as my own who have suffered financially for decades under conservative policy, yet continue to defend tax cuts to the rich, idolise the royal family, and most importantly blame immigrants (usually those who are POC) for their problems.

I'm not sure how I implied white working class people aren't 'real nationalists' - they absolutely can be. Like I said, my family are.

I also did specify the *white* working class and meant - though I don't think I was clear enough about this - British nationals.

I'm also not talking about getting people to 'trust the left' - I'm pointing out how frustrating it is to see some of us blame people whose needs are often the exact same as ours and actively vote against those needs, failing to recognise our shared humanity. My original post was deliberately exasperated in tone - I KNOW there isn't going to be a moment where everyone collectively understands our shared needs.

I appreciate your perspective and agree with what you're saying - I just think you might have misinterpreted me.

eagerly awaiting the moment white working class British people realise they share MUCH more needs in common with immigrants (affordable housing, education, food, water, electricity, etc) than with the posh bastards who want to 'preserve British national identity' (hoard wealth, ignore class + race inequality, and withhold resources)