#in an unrelated thought

[lesbianspeedy]

BECOMING SCIENTIFICALLY UNETHICAL FOR GAY LOVE?? KIRA MANNING I KNOW WHICH AUNT IS YOUR FAVOURITE AND THAT BITCH IS FRENCH!!!

#orphan black echoes #orphan black spoilers #ob:e spoilers #ob echoes spoilers #on episode five #having a lot of feelings about a lot of things #do i think id enjoy this show if it was a standalone world? maybe not as much. #but it aint so im vibing! go kira go! #kira being like my childhood was literally ruined by human cloning and unethical science. but now im like 45 and bored so! #go you little slightly possessed child #in an unrelated thought #u think sarah felix and cosima watched kira grow up into a butch lesbian and were like. did we do this... #TYPING THIS AS I WATCH THE END OF THE EPISODE #NO!!! NO!! THE 'DO I KNOW YOU?' CAME #BACK TO BITE ME IN THE ASS NO!!! #I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT!!! #im going to throw up #i cant live like this #THE YEAR IS 2023 AND NEW ORPHAN BLACK CONTENT NOW HAS ME IN A CHOKEHOLD ARE WE SURE ITS NOT 2018 #OUGH

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#shut up e #long post #Saturday thoughts #this has been in my drafts for a week haha #also this is the heart of why AI art feels so wrong #forget the discussion of copyright and theft etc - even if models were only trained on public domain they would still feel very wrong #because they’re not art. art is the labor of creation #even commercial art and art commissioned by the popes and kings of history: there is humanity in the labor of it #unrelated: I did not know living in the Bronx was now something to brag about. How the fuck do y’all New Yorkers afford this city???

[souldagger]

fun discovery from today's internet rabbit hole:

the first lesbian magazine published in the US, Vice Versa (1947-48), was entirely hand-typed by one Edythe Eyde (better known by her pen name Lisa Ben - yes, that IS an anagram for lesbian). she worked as a secretary with a ton of spare time on her hands, and her boss would tell her he didn't care what she was doing so long as she "looked busy"... so she decided to use her free time to type out copies of a home-made periodical for lesbians, writing most of the content - editorials, book/film reviews, poetry, short stories, and more - herself!

overall, the magazine ran for 9 issues, 16 hand-typed copies of which lisa would mail to friends (well, until one of them advised her she could be arrested for sending "obscene" materials) and distribute at lesbian bars :)

#she was also an avid science fiction/fantasy fan and frequent contributor to scifi fanzines! #and so was the co-founder of the first (US) gay periodical #completely unrelated i just thought that's neat :) #.txt #i'll be adding some links in a sec

[ryssbelle]

Brozone reunion concepts for this little thing based on this ask

As stated in the ask idk fully how this moment would go, this concept was mostly building off the premise presented within the ask :D

Bonus:

#my art #trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls 3 #trolls au #n2 au #trolls john dory #trolls clay #trolls poppy #trolls branch #trolls bruce #trolls floyd #brozone #look at them so silly #in the original script i had accidentally wrote John calling Bruce by his preferred name and i was like #he dont know it yet smh #and had to change it back to spruce #which is where the line 'its bruce but imma let it slide' #comes from #i dont think John in the movie and within this purposefully misnames him #i think its just like a force of habit #and its just harder for him to realize hes saying it wrong until hes corrected #cuz you see he doesnt really get mad when corrected he just gets confused the first time #and then just keeps forgetting after #which i think also was from his mindset of #'im the oldest im not allowed to change' so its like #his brains blocking out the change of spruce to bruce #this is unrelated to the comic as a whole it was just the on the spot thoughts i had while typing #but yeah #itd be a touching reunion for sure!

[tinartss]

feel like kaveh has moments where he’s like wait alhaitham is just as cute as he was all those years ago…….and then he opens his mouth

#kaveh #alhaitham #kavetham #haikaveh #genshin impact #unrelated to the art but i read the cyno story quest leaks ft haikaveh today and haven't known peace since #i'm about to be so normal about them #my thoughts on them are over on twt if you're interested!

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

it’s so interesting how gloreth is seen not only as some great noble hero, a warrior who bravely slayed the monster, but also as an adult. a grown-up knight who knew what she was going. when in reality she was just a little kid. a kid who didn’t know what she was doing, not really. a kid with a wooden sword. a kid under her parents’ influence. a kid who only started seeing nimona as a monster because that’s what she was told. and yet she ended up depicted as an adult in the statue, in the storybooks, in the scroll used to justify trying to kill nimona again.

at the beginning of the movie when she’s being introduced via storybook, she says “go back to the shadows from whence you came” in a courageous, commanding voice, even though that’s not quite what happened! in reality her voice was scared, and a little bit uncertain. the narrative was always twisted in her favor because she was seen as the hero.

#nimona #nimona movie #gloreth #gloreth nimona #nimona netflix #nimona 2023 #nd stevenson #i’ve since added a bunch more thoughts in a reblog so if you’re here on the original post you can check that out if you want :) #unrelated but the ART in the beginning is so gorgeous omfg #the pages of the books where gloreth is haloed in gold are so vivid and beautiful #all the visuals are incredibly stunning #my words #nimona spoilers

[attyattlaw]

its trad art weekend. have a law warm up before i go to zine dungeon

#my ass thought it would be relaxing to paint the flower patterns manually #trafalgar law #one piece #hiding this here but to the person who sent an ask yesterday and i gave a heart attack by replying: #dw abt it i answered privately (i think) #totally unrelated note i had a calout post against me a day ago for some pro/anti thing and if you saw that and are still here thank you ilu

[saturnsocoolioyep]

In the same vein as "I've been taking my medication for long enough that I haven't experienced any symptoms in a while, I must not need to take it anymore! (Spoiler alert: the meds are why you haven't had symptoms)" I present to you a similarly clownish thought process- "I haven't experienced that trigger in a long time, maybe I was just exaggerating how bad it was and it'll be fine to engage with this! (Spoiler alert: take a fucking guess babes)"

#on a definitely unrelated note the contamination obsessive thoughts are in fact still there and still upsetting #turns out when you take care to avoid things that trigger and upset you... #those things still trigger and upset you even if youve avoided them for a while #😱🤯 #ptsd #cptsd #trauma #recovery #disabled #autistic adult #actually autistic #<- idk if thats a good tag or not it just came up suggested when i typed autism so #ocd #<- not dxed and not even sure if i feel comfy self dxing w ocd but i definitely have upsetting obsessive + compulsive tendencies + thoughts #that i struggle with a lot so #medication #trauma recovery #triggers #arfid #disability #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #audhd

[enitsirk]

Case closed.

#WHAT A RIDE #I cried so much both from raucous laughter and unanticipated catharsis #dimension 20 #d20 #dimension 20 fanart #mentopolis #hunch curio #my art #unrelated 2 this but more finale thoughts #When Conrad said the thing to madam loathing it 4th wall grabbed my brain and shook it so hard #mentopolis fanart

[grand-line-shenanigans]

For those of us who cannot comprehend big numbers (me) I have done the math. FOUR FUCKING YEARS. SECUNIT WHAT THE FUCK.

#the murderbot diaries #all systems red #murderbot #secunit #words #math #yes i write in my books. sometimes. when i love them a lot #on a totally unrelated note (totally)- if i doodled pictures of the characters based on their descriptions in the library copy of #Network Effect (in pencil only) would that be an asshole move or would it be a charming little treat for the next reader to find? #i almost certainly will not do it because i like the public library and do not want to offend them #but. in pencil. and only little doodles in the margins. #only like. one or two. #id be so charmed if i found somethig like that in a library book??? is that just me am i alone in this????? #thoughts please

[nouverx]

WHY SO SERIOUS?? 🎉 Nika is here to party!!

A little unfinished project I started on flipaclip last year while the Luffy and Kaido fight was still happening in the anime :D

#one piece #one piece fanart #luffy #monkey d. luffy #animation #2d animation #2d animator #gear 5 luffy #gear 5 fanart #flipaclip #completely unrelated to hazbin lmao but I've working on this for a WHILE #It was sleeping in my file bc I didnt want ro post it unless finished but also never found the motivation to finish it #better posted unfinished than not posted at all I guess #also yes I'm an animator eheh I just dont animate that much outside of work #I'm a 3D and 2D animator and I sold my soul to the animation industry #also I love gear 5 so much my looney toon little blorbo #maybe one day I'll finish it.... who knows #song is crayon by G-Dragon #I thought the chaotic vibe of the song fitted for Nika but the lyrics arent that related ahah

[sauriurius]

„I am a scorpio, he is a scorpio.“

„I dated a vegetarian once which was challenging.“

„I am not the most approachable human being.“

„If you want a salad with kidney beans, you go get some kidney beans.“

PLEASE never let this man stop talking, I have been cackling at this mans yapping for the last 24 hours

#tim minear you will have to pry lou ferrigno jr from my dead cold hands he needs to stay #that mans​ brain is the definition of adhd #this man really just be yapping #dating a vegetarian was a challenge I am CRYING #he is a scorpio I am a scorpio LOU??? #lou ferrigno jr listens to the question and then answers his own completely unrelated thoughts #911 abc #lou ferrigno jr #I love him #911 show #tommy kinard #kinkley #tevan #bi buck #bucktommy

[sualne]

siblings things

#trigun #vash the stampede #millions knives #trigun stampede spoilers #my art #my comic #saw the ep and thought 'yknow what? unangst your brothers. sillies only' ive many thoughts about these two. also i finally manged to put #the vache joke somewhere ive been thinking about it ever since i read it. slightly unrelated but im still waiting for these two to refer to #the plants as 'sisters' like. i dont even call them plants i just call 'the sisters' why arent they calling their sis their sis. man

[nyaagolor]

Good morning I’m thinking about the von Karmas and gunshot wounds. Contrary to popular belief, in most cases you don’t really want to take out a bullet unless you absolutely have to, since digging around in there causes more soft tissue damage and opens more possibilities for infection. One of the few places that bullets are almost always taken out, ironically, is the shoulder. Shoulders have a lot of important junk in them, and over time, the bullet crushes, tears, and destroys what’s around it, leading to nerve damage, loss of function in the arm, chronic pain, etc etc. It's kinda like shoving a rock in a really delicate machine and leaving it rattling around in there. Even if the wound itself was minor, the act of leaving the bullet in just steadily makes things worse If a bullet is removed from a non-complex gunshot wound to the shoulder, it’s not uncommon to get all your function back with minimal pain within months. If you don’t, the bullet just quite literally tears you up inside for the rest of your life And ain’t That a fun metaphor

#franziska von karma #manfred von karma #ace attorney #unrelated but based on dialogue I think both of their GSWs were low velocity from a .22 handgun. Just based on their injury presentation #intra-articular and with no vascular / nerve damage i would think. Prolly no fracture #manfred might have had complications he's hiding well bc that man should NOT have good arm function. but idk #mod vex #I have so many thoughts about the von karmas and those GSWs. Too many

[raycatzdraws]

Red Red Red!

Whatever it is about Zelda 1 and 2 that makes artists go absolutely insane with the colors- I am not exempt.

I haven't drawn Roolie with his hat before and OOHHH MY GOSH YEAAAHHHH WOOO HAT!!!!!

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu hyrule #this is okay to tag as Zelda 1 & 2 ! #(it's not really one or the other (LU vs gen loz.) kinda both!) #anyways- and I thought my other Hyrule drawing was bright! #colors are so funky! I put down a bright red background and finding the right colors to use over it was.. idek #a bit rough but a good exercise! #because if you eyedrop his tunic here it is not green that's a mud brown. but it LOOKS green on that red #funky stuff #unrelated but it smells like spring outside #and I am glad for it -v-

[tethered-heartstrings]

#you thought i was done? #hannibal #hannibal lecter #hannibal nbc #nbc hannibal #hannibal meme #hannibal memes #hannibal edit #hannibaledit #the picture clown #ticks #bugs #insects #ticks arent insects but just in case #new challenge to make venn diagrams of hannibal characters with things seemingly unrelated #venn diagram adventures