The Perfect Drink To Wash Down My Ape Biscuits

"How much do you earn?" "How much do you make?"

No. How much have you wrested from the grubbing hands of the capitalists? Or, flip side, how much have you stolen from the workers? You don't make money unless you work at a bank. Otherwise you're just dropping your line in the flow of capital and snagging whatever you can. But of course, it's catch & release only without a bank-issued permit.

#childrensrights

I think one of the most damaging ideologies towards children is the conviction that having children isn’t a calling but a moral obligation.

wheres seasons greasons

I'm posting this link mostly for myself, so I can find it again when I go looking, but if other people see it here then that would be beautiful.

I first saw this exhibition in the free art gallery on the campus where I did my grad program. I would walk across the quad on days when I had a free hour or two and just browse the artwork. One day they had a small section with a few pairs of photographs, each pair taken in the same location at different times, with one or more subjects missing from the later photograph. Four boys sitting together, next to a picture of three men in similar poses. Two young men running down a hill next to one old man running down the same hill. Follow the link and you can see for yourself.

I looked at the pictures for a few minutes before I read the description. The collection was called Ausencias Argentinas, chronicling the fallout from Argentina's 'Dirty War' from 1976 to 1983, in which the government 'disappeared' social workers, social work students, militants, trade unionists, writers, journalists, artists and others they thought might be left-wing activists. Their families and friends got no closure, but were simply left to carry on their lives with los desaparecidos conspicuously absent. I had to sit down for a few minutes, overwhelmed, before I could move on.

Anyway, stay safe out there.

so i hear tumblr's dying and this moby dick meme idea has lived in my head for literal years...

“Robert Pattinson showed up with iPhone voice recordings and had already nailed the voice for ‘THE BOY AND THE HERON’ before recording started. It was his first ever voice role and he finished in 2 days.” (source)

The US government, hollowed out, has all but collapsed. The east coast states down to Georgia have mostly held together and still recognize the authority of Washington DC. California, Oregon, and Washington have formed an independent coalition on the west coast. Texas' influence captures the whole coast of the Gulf of Mexico, now called the Gulf of Texas by several hundred million people. The Great Lakes states have merged with Canada. And the Great Plains in the middle of the continent are overrun by feral hogs, and war.

At times, I'm depressed by the minuscule percentage of all the literature from Greco-Roman antiquity that's survived to the present day. (For example: of the roughly 120 plays we know Sophocles to have staged at the Dionysia, all of seven have come down to us intact.) At other times, though, I'm amazed that we have any ancient literature at all. Consider: the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Hymn 2), one of the finest and most beautiful poems we know of from Archaic Greece, survives in a single fifteenth-century manuscript, which turned up in Moscow in 1777...in a stable.

Doctor House * is a real doctor * not a real house

Doctor Worm * not a real doctor * is a real worm

masks and helmets that hides someone's face in such a way that they become the face themselves my beloved

these are all creatures to me