Isabel born in the mid 90s white | Jewish Moash Apologist Aromantic Grey-ace Ruler of FMK hell she/her pronouns (cis woman) INTP Gemini Born September 27 because astrology is a punk ass bitch
hedonistically pretentious
space photography is a weird case artistically b/c it's explicitly not intended to convey what the naked human eye could perceive but a heavily processed visualisation of data. so kind of more akin to like an anatomical diagram that has all the organs laid out neatly so you can see what the hell you're doing. but then space photography is also a weird case scientifically b/c it has aesthetic dimensions that account for its popular reception & also guide the data processing. like the choice of colours, saturation, &c are intended to produce a pleasing picture, & the picture is put to rhetorical ends: usually a kind of generic humanist delight with the advancement of (gov't) space exploration. so in that sense the space photograph is specifically most like the anatomy in eg a vesalius plate: an artistic piece, used to defend a certain metaphysics wrt 'man's place in nature' &c. not exactly an untrue image but certainly an artificial one (as in: the product of artifice; of an artistic process; not intended to provide a simple 1:1 visual translation of nature but to interpret & advance an argument about it)
The Spanish Civil War was wild, Orwell's comrades were killed because Stalin decided to engage in the worst possible version of Vote Blue No Matter Who
Welcome to The Year Game, where I'll be posting polls about what people associate with years, inspired by @thestategame and @countriesgame. We'll start at the present and then work our way back until either associations run out or I get bored.
Submit associations for 1865-1875, because I think it's more interesting this way and so this doesn't end up being a mix of the obvious and my personal hyperfixations
Mutuals if this website goes down we will find each other street fighting during the Second American Civil War. May most of us be on the same side when the antifascists collapse into infighting