I step into the crime scene once again, and just like last time… it’s a mess. The bastard’s killed again. They call him The Artist… man’s sick in the head, thinks he’s gonna be the next Michelangelo. His “canvas”? The human body. Maybe I’m just not “cultured” enough. But when I look at this mess of gore and body parts, all I see is… wait holy shit from this angle it looks like a fish! Ohhhh it’s like a perspective trick! Oh shit that’s so cool. I mean. Ahem. It’s not cool enough to justify murdering twelve innocent… oh my GOD from THIS angle it looks like a MONKEY! It’s like, two in one! How’d he even DO that, this guy’s a genius!!
people will say “why cant the eldritch gods just be nice to humans :((” and then kill a bug for existing near them
my dearly beloved mutual you cant just leave this in the tags
While exploring a vast and inscrutable city which seems to predate life on earth I am gently picked up by something incomprehensible with the higher-dimensional equivalent of a cup and piece of paper, then lovingly set outside in my natural habitat. Unfortunately the being exists outside of time and can’t really tell human cities apart from one another so I appear without warning in ancient sumer.
i had a dream that you were in the play at my school and you were mad that i got the lead and you didnt so you kept vagueposting about it to your ten billion followers and i replied and everyone told me to kill myself
i hate that “that that” is grammatically correct. why is english the joke language
by the way, this post was inspired by some writing i was doing last night where i wrote “that that” and got so mad that i had to take a break for the rest of the evening
it’s understandable that that “that that” that ended your writing session would inspire a post like that
I actually really hate how the “just call me a slur” joke went from being a critique of rainbow capitalism and faux inclusionism to being a way to make fun of nonbinary and aspec ppl literally just. having language.
“Joyfriend? Queerplatonic? Erm.. literally just call me a slur XD” shut the fuck upppp goddamn
“i want more weird queer people” you can’t even handle a nonbinary person using Mx. for themselves
i think it’s cute when americans talk about being from the ‘great state of connecticut’ or like 'the great state of wisconsin.’ not when it’s texas or new york or california obviously because then there’s the fear that they’re being serious. but when americans adopt that really earnest tone and are like 'god bless the great state of delaware’ in response to a picture of a seagull swallowing an entire ziplock bag full of cheese-its. I think that’s very endearing
Thinking about how wild it is that enshittification starts as a way for the rich to squeeze the populace for more money but ends up infecting everything so even luxury products decline in quality. They’ve got more money than fucking God now and for what? Literally they can’t even buy fun nice stuff for themselves because they killed craft.
Anyway this post is about Dhaka muslin but it’s also about everything.
guess it’s time to post agha shahid ali’s poem about dhaka muslin
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Fun fact! Revival of Dhaka Muslin has been ongoing for quite some time. The headline of the above article is very very misleading, we know exactly how Dhaka Muslin was made. The process was very well documented. We know how it was made, but colonialism ruined the fabric’s production area and devalued the skills needed to make it such that they no longer existed. But the process itself was not lost.
That being said, efforts to bring it back are underway, and they have been making amazing progress, and succeed in creating Dhaka Muslin yet again.
This is a pretty good updated article, it has a lot of the same info as the BCC one (which also discusses some of the revival efforts) but with more of a focus on that process, an update to the story, and it details some of the other ongoing projects working on the revival!
Here’s the first weaver to manage to produce a finished piece in nearly 200 years, Al Amin.
His first piece was 300 threads, according to the article they have now been able to get into the 700s for thread counts, which is absolutely incredible.
Several projects are actually underway now each with different weavers and slightly different methods, producing fabric intended to meet or best the original!
And if you’re curious, “okay but can it pass through a ring” yes! Yes they can!
All three of these photos are of pieces made in the modern century, photos by Wasiul Bahar!
It’s a very time consuming process, and a very expensive fabric to purchase, but love and passion for it have been steadily bringing it back!
imagine if doorways grew back like scabbed over with fresh drywall and you had to keep carving them back out with a jabsaw to keep the doorway clear etc
Imagine if the membranes recoiled in pain every time you did this. Imagine if over time, some doorways became accustomed sensation. Imagine that very rarely, some even seemed to enjoy it.
*sleepover host voice* imagine if you two went to sleep
Oh for gods sake kids it’s like piercing an ear - that’s why you put a doorframe in - you don’t hang a door in drywall, you gremlins. You frame the door. It’s like those gauges that people put in their ears - the hole stays. It won’t scab over with a doorframe in it. You’ve lived around doors you whole life, you little clowns. Lights out
I don’t care if he went into a male-dominated field. All fields are cis dominated.
I don’t care if he’s a straight man now. He should be allowed to be himself and happy. He does not owe it to you to be a miserable lesbian for your comfort.
I don’t care if you thought he was hotter before. His happiness is worth the price of your desire. Also you’re wrong and I’m giving him my number.
More trans men is a good thing. More trans men means more closeted trans men are feeling safe to come out. That’s a good thing.
Someone didn’t stop at a 4-way intersection and I was given such a fantastic opportunity to honk at this guy as much as I wanted to. I kept honking and honking and honking. Like 8 times I honked at this guy. At least 12-20 seconds of nothing but pure, pure horn. Also I was the only other guy at the intersection. It was my private little show.
My guilty um… guilty schadenfreude? I guess?… is watching pretentious Italian chefs who buy into that whole “our Italian cuisine is an ancient and unchanged tradition of amazing food following perfect stringent recipes” thing, serve meals to ‘uncultured’ people who are super enthusiastic about them but not in the refined cultural way that the chef expects, and then the chef has to listen to them sincerely compliment the food in ways that they (the chef) takes as a grave personal insult. This sounds incredibly niche and specific but it happens constantly and I love it every time.
It’s something about like. The pretension of their high-and-mighty fake food history, and the importance of that performance, being seen as so much more important to them than the actual purpose of their craft (making delicious food) that the fact that they are excellent at making the delicious food means nothing to them and the people enjoying said delicious food are taken as insulting them for not worshipping their bullshit cultural mythos instead. Like they did it! The food is being enjoyed! But it’s being enjoyed in the wrong way by people who they cannot get to care about their weird pretentiousness. So they’re offended and upset at what most master craftsmen would see as an unmitigated success because nobody’s letting them be all fancy and exclusive about it.
this is a controversial opinion and I’m not a gamer but I don’t need my graphics to be that good. I don’t need to see every individual feather on a bird. my poor computer doesn’t deserve to carry that weight either.
i would love to talk about moral ocd its just that like any time i mention it i worry im coming across like an asshole whos trying to excuse his bad actions and shitty behavior
i would love to talk about moral ocd its just that like any time i mention it i worry im coming across like an asshole whos trying to excuse his bad actions and shitty behavior
I have never watched a mr beast video and every time I see his face doing that weird dead smile he does in every thumbnail, it just looks like that one photo of charlie from always sunny to me
i don’t understand, are they supposed to get nicer or just less bruised up?
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