Text ID: You are not lost. You are here. Stop abandoning yourself. Stop repeating this myth about love and success that will land in your lap or evade you forever. Build a humble, flawed life from the rubble, and cherish that. There is nothing more glorious on the face of the earth than someone who refuses to give up, who refuses to give in to their most self-hating, discouraged, disillusioned self, and instead learns, slowly and painfully, how to relish the feeling of building a hut in the middle of the suffocating dust.
hey i am borrowing this post/some wording from the original op (with permission) since they were overwhelmed by comments but PSA!!!
Searching anything related to the Barbie movie on Google, mobile or desktop, activates a flashing hot pink screen effect that has no warning, re-activates when you refresh the page, and has no easy/apparent way to turn it off.
[ID: A screenshot of the effect in action on search results for
Margot Robbie. It’s a bunch of bright pink bursting star and glitter
effects all over the screen, and multiple UI features’ colors have been
changed pink. End ID.]
I would recommend avoiding searching related terms, or considering using duckduckgo.com/ for searching, even temporarily. This sucks!
I have so much affection for these models of mundane things found in Middle Kingdom tombs. What a beautiful glimpse into the every day lives of people 4000 years ago.
I realized I never posted these here on tumblr! 2020 did unspeakable things to my mind and body…I staggered away from lockdown with a whole pitch of how I would make an animated Cats adaptation. I got the whole thing up here *taps skull*—it would be Very Good. I can’t think about it too much lest I awaken my sleeping obsession…still want to finish Old Deut and Macavity one of these days.
Fun fact: The term “Jellicle Cat” is actually the cats’ mishearing of the term “Dear Little Cat” (this gives me much joy)
Panas Yarmolenko (1886-1953) was born in Mala Karatul, near Pereyaslav in Kyiv oblast. He was a naive (pure) artist, and we don’t know if he studied art somewhere. He depicted 🇺🇦peasants during probably the hardest time from 1920 to 1950.
During the First world war, Yarmolenko served as a medic. Then he came back home and married a girl from the neighborhood village.
Autoportraits
Many of his paintings dated 1932-1933. We see here a beautiful family with serious faces. This is a very strange picture for me because 1933 is the year of Holodomor. 🇺🇦villages were dying. What if it’s an imaginary portrait? It’s just “Family” without names. We know so little.
This portrait is also hypnotizing. It was made in 1941. We see watermelon so it’s the end of summer, maybe September (the boy is holding a book). The was has started. Their faces are sad but also strong and prepared for everything. They have ‘masks of war’.
Now look at the portrait of the artist’s family made in 1944, when Ukraine was already liberated from nazis. Smiles, some drink to celebrate the war’s end and that they survived. Also, the beauty of the village in the background, but also tough years in the future.
What did he DO? Why must he be blindfolded? SIR!? What crimes have your eyes committed?
Oo I work next to that site :D
Here’s a nice explanation I found on Reddit (have not fact checked myself)
Oh I had forgotten that such a friend is not actually present yet. : ) Thank you. You’d think as a spirit worker, with a passing familiarity with Fu Lions and other esoteric friends, that that possibility would have occurred to me immediately. I really appreciate you, @shrimpshrampshromp!
The Do’s & Don'ts of interacting w/ content creators, & other people you don’t know well mutually I slapped together for Twitter.
This ended up being more Don'ts than Dos but I feel like people need more help learning what NOT to say once they stray away from simple compliments and questions.
One very important note on the immense value of the Internet Archive that I haven’t seen mentioned yet:
It crawls major newspapers like the New York Times multiple times per day.
For anything other than one of those scrolling updates breaking news pages, you can access it from the Archive usually within an hour or two of it being published. No paywall. You want international news? You got it. Opinion? That too. Recipes? It’s all here. Page not yet archived? There’s a button for that and now you got it.
There are various paywall-evading extensions and tricks out there, but they don’t always work. This does.
