#y’all i fucking DID IT

[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???

[transmascissues]

it’s so funny to me that people used to try to warn me “if you go on t it won’t make you androgynous it’ll just make you look like a man” because 1) i do want to look like a man, that is famously a major part of being a trans man but also 2) t literally has made me androgynous?? like they were wrong on both counts. i got most of the looking-like-a-man changes that i wanted (deep voice, broader body, hair all over my body including my face) and i also give every single cis person in a five mile radius a stroke every time they try to figure out my gender. the assumption that trans men wouldn’t actually want to look like men and the assumption that cis people are good at correctly gendering us once we’re on t are both weird as hell.

#people said this to me all the fucking time pre t #to the point that it did almost make me too afraid to go on t bc ‘what if they’re right and i don’t really want to look like a man?’ #but it turns out that was bullshit on so many levels #i look ‘like a man’ now and love it and also am the most androgynous person most cis people i meet have ever seen #y’all just don’t know how t works at fucking all #transandrophobia #transandromisia #transmisandry #virilmisia #virilphobia #anti transmasculinity #transmascphobia #trans men #transmascs

[crazy-fangirl2524]

My biggest flex will always be how I knew Neil was the more feral and dangerous one than Andrew this whole time even before tsc and seeing the entire fandom freaked out makes me want to kiss and hug Nora and just thank her for finally finally showing everyone and I’m not just crazy

#seeing all the post about like omg Neil is so feral?! like brother did you not read aftg did y’all forget aftg is from Neil’s pov #ofc Neil wouldn’t say he’s feral in his own pov tf😭😭😭 #and remember in aftg Neil still has to hide part of himself BECASUE his father and eveyrhhing but now he’s literally free from his biggest #fear and he could do whatever the fuck he wants #Istg the fandom is like the foxes man idk why everyone is so shook #literally cant thank Nora enough for showing everyone finally #Idc if I sound proud or whatever but I fucking knew it this entire time and I have been shouting it for so long like finally #that’s why so many fics annoyed me so much like #I just needed to say this because I finally felt seen and heard andFINALLY LIKE URGH #tsc and aftg supremacy #tsc #tsc spoilers #the sunshine court #the sunshine court spoilers #aftg #all for the game #tfc #the foxhole court #aftg series #aftg fandom #aftg incorrect quotes #neil josten #andrew minyard #andrew joseph minyard #neil abram josten #aftg neil #aftg thoughts #aftg textpost #aftg shitpost #incorrect tfc

[starfleet-officer-jaya]

Y’all SHOUTED “Remember your roots” for Cecil

Well you better fucking remember your roots now and vote for fucking Vriska

#I cannot believe this Bs #KATYA GOT NOTHING ON VRISKA #Homestuck #tumblr woman #tumblr women 2023 #what the actual fuck y’all #you know what #I’m finally turning to the dark side #VRISKA DID NOTHING WRONG #Vriska #vriska serket

[queer-reader-07]

if i see one more person try to claim aziraphale doesn’t love crowley as much as crowley loves aziraphale i will throw hands.

say it with me: just because they show & express their love for each other differently doesn’t mean one of them loves the other more

#some of y’all will do anything to make aziraphale the bad guy and honestly i’m tired of it #like yes i know anthony “acts of service’’ crowley is out here wearing his love on his sleeve #but if you for one second try to convince me aziraphale did not INVENT heart eyes i don’t know what to say to you #aziraphale is so fucking in love it’s insane #y’all were not paying any attention if you think aziraphale doesn’t love crowley back #i will not tolerate aziraphale slander any longer #aziraphale apologist #anthony j crowley #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #good omens #ineffable wives

[brookheimer]

roman thinks he killed logan didn’t he . thinks he called him a cunt and that’s why logan had a heart attack. he forgot to tell him he loved him. he’s going to become logan now as a means of repentance isn’t he . he’s gonna become atn and mencken and all of it because he thinks he needs to, he thinks he has to, he needs to make things right. motherfucker

#things are getting grim for us romangirls. #so much to say ab this ep but can’t rn still with friend i just needed to like. yeah #christ #phenomenal fucking episode #succession #roman roy #succession spoilers #logan roy #100 #500 #did not mean for this to get notes this was just pure casey mind blabber. #i will say this much more eloquently and comprehensively (yikes) tmrw. i have so many thoughts none of them good #y’all better expect a fuckton of psychoanalysis man. christ #1000 #UPDATE: psychoanalysis posted

[edenfenixblogs]

I don’t think most non-Jews understand how disappointed we are in the left right now. How completely abandoned we’ve become. How our contributions to progress for other groups have been erased or disavowed or hidden. How the actual tangible things that Jews have contributed to black rights and civil rights are being ignored. How we’re being told we contribute and have contributed nothing.

How we are being told that the world has been kind to us when it never has. As if my mom didn’t grow up getting called a Kike and getting beat up for being Jewish. How I thought I had friends until I caught them saying “xyz was beautiful until Jews showed up.” How people told me I was pretty “for a Jew.” How I grew up hearing stories about bombs being set off in Israel in buses and markets. How I couldn’t even go two weeks without hearing that and how nobody cared and somehow, every time that happened, the whole world became more hostile to me for some reason.

I just don’t understand. I don’t understand what leftists are doing. Or why. I hate that I have to say—of course, I support a free and self determined Palestine (which I truly do)—in order for you to decide I’m worthy of care and support.

We showed up for you. All of you. And the entire movement is abandoning us at best or targeting us at worst. Celebrating our deaths. Saying we deserved it. How are we supposed to trust you ever again? How are we supposed to feel safe ever again?

A very few select people who are in my life have taken the chance to actually learn about and dismantle their own unconscious antisemitism during this time. And I’m eternally grateful for them. But most people haven’t reached out at all. Most people are still sharing hateful things that could get me hurt and they don’t care. Most people Reblogging my posts are still Jews. Because we are alone. And it sucks. You need to be as loud about antisemitism as you are about Palestine or you’re an antisemite (unless you’re Arab/Muslim/Palestinian—I totally get that these groups are also doing damage control in their own communities just like Jews are).

But we are all in tremendous pain right now.

This moment will pass. And when it does, I will remember how many people let me down. I will remember that when I needed support more than I’ve ever needed it in my life, people fucking vanished. They pretended violence against my people wasn’t happening. They ignored and rewrote the history of Israel to suit their own narratives.

You don’t know what it feels like to be hated this much for opposite things. PoC hate us for being too white. White supremacists hate us for not being white enough. Europeans hate us for being middle eastern. Middle easterners hate us for being western/European. Everyone hates us for being settlers but continually kicks us out of their countries so that we have to settle somewhere else.

I saw a post going around from a Black person who said that the reason he and his fellow black activists go protest for Palestinians instead of fighting antisemitism (as if it’s a binary, which it’s not) is that Jews don’t show up. Muslims and Palestinians do. And honestly? Fuck that guy. Heather Heyer died standing shoulder to shoulder against racism in 2017. [CORRECTION: When I first wrote this post I was under the impression that Heather Heyer was Jewish. I want to correct to avoid spreading misinfo. She was just the first (and incorrect) Jewish civil rights activist I thought of. However there are plenty of other actual Jewish civil rights activists to choose from. If you have reblogged this post from me, please feel free to add a link to the permalink version of this post with my correction to your reblog.]I have devoted substantial time and effort and money that I don’t even get paid a lot of because I don’t get paid a living wage. I have continually reached out to PoC people in my life of all religions to ask how they are doing and what I could be doing to help more—both for them personally and how they would best like me to help their community. I have elevated their voices at every opportunity. And not one person I checked in with has done the same for me or for my community.

And it’s bone chilling. It’s awful. And it’s even worse knowing that when it’s over, people will want to go back to normal. They won’t apologize. They won’t self reflect. They’ll just live their lives, maybe a little more aware of how much they hate us and completely indifferent to the harm they’ve caused us. How disposable they made us feel. And the thing is…it’s not hard for you to know. You just have to ask.

Too many people are cowards. Too many people care about looking good than actually learning something or making the world better. And to those people: you should be ashamed of yourself.

I don’t have any hate in my heart. Truly. Not a drop for any group of people. But I have a tremendous lack of trust that anyone would actually lift a finger to keep me safe.

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #anti zionisim #I dare a goy to republic this challenge #goyim ID yourself in the tags if you reblog this #cuz i straight up don’t believe goyisch activists give a shit unless they straight up say they do #i’m not okay #honestly #this is the Nazi stuff I am most scared of #sure the Nazis rounded us up #but you fuckers were the ones who watched and did nothing #you’re the ones who voted the Nazis in #you’re the ones who didn’t stop them #fuck all y’all for real #i/p #israel #palestine #correction issued

[hidingoutbackstage]

Cuz seriously why are people centering themselves when talking about this documentary?

#sid rants #sid edits #quiet on set #it’s not fucking about you #these child actors did not ‘give up their childhoods so you could have yours’ #they weren’t thinking about you. they were being exploited #also i thought we were already well aware of what a piece of shit dan schneider was #and how terrible of an environment nickelodeon was for child actors. did y’all forget about jennette mccurdy’s book???

[kaidabakugou]

if you’re a city girl through and through like me when bakugou invites you to go hiking or camping with him he’s the most affectionate before he asks, drowning you in kisses and random gifts on top of the ones he regularly gets you, breakfast in bed the day he’s gonna ask and getting off work early just to pick up your favorite treats at the bakery before they close

he knows you’ll always say yes, it’s just a little added plus since he knows you’ll hate the part with the mosquitoes and the random sounds in the dark when it’s pitch back out and you’re clinging to him inside the tent or the distant howling in the silent night inside the old cottage

#kai.rambles #i’m visiting my bf’s family in the countryside and bro i’m struggling #the mosquitoes have made a feast out of me #the heat is absurd i am sweating through my clothes #there is no light so far up the mountains so when it gets dark out it’s pitch fucking black #the makeup is makeuping tho so i’m okay i tried the patrick star setting spray and y’all it did not come to play #fully recommend if you’re a makeup girlie like me #bakugou katsuki #bakugou x reader #bakugou katsuki x reader

[metropolitianmania]

ngl some of you so called “allies” are not good at hiding your disdain for anyone inherently masculine in the LGBTQIA community

#transandrophobia #crazy how everyone is totally cool and supportive of the lgbtqia UNLESS men are in it #then woah. hold your horses. these men are abusive!!! #where the fuck did that shit come from #what is wrong with y’all #first aro/ace men? #now the transmascs? #Are you actual allies or are you just misandrists using your identities as shields #transmasc #transgender #sorry i don’t wear skirts and wear makeup often i didn’t do that when i thought i was cis either #sorry for not being a quirky white teen online #•dodgetalks

[midnight-vixn]

HELP I WASN’T READY!!

I THOUGHT THIS WAS A PORN GAME WHY AM I FUCKING CRYING

#crying in the fucking club #me omw to slaughter who did it #I’m not tagging spoilers bc idk if any of y’all play this aldksk #but I will if you’d like!!!!!!!!! #what in hell is bad #wihib

[sin-sidejob]

alright, we’re hunting down Netflix executives

#I’ll continue writing #but im absolutely going to need a while #my asks are open for anyone who wants to cry along with me #I’m so sorry to be the one to tell some of y’all or whoever sees this in this way #inside job #I’m as gutted as you are #but I’m hoping in some arcane way that another provider like Adult Swim may pick it up like they did for tuca and birdie #I love you all and REALLy My asks and dms are open if you wanna cry about it with me #inside job Netflix #fuck Netflix #reagan ridley #jr scheimpough #brett hand #glenn dolphman #andre lee #gigi thompson #myc #robotus alpha beta #personal inside job #my inside job

[saturngalore]

the universe of saturngalore 🪐🌈

#ts4 #sims 4 #the sims 4 #black simblr #black simmer #ts4 edit #🪐 #happy 2nd anniversary to me!! #um it seems like i was really fucking with the color blue this year cause my absolute favorite edits are the blue ones #i did so much stuff in cas and in game which im amazed at how well they turned out #i also did so much retro 70s/20s stuff this year like yasss go little history nerd #there’s so much stuff that i had planned but i didn’t get it to do which is 😕 #it’s bc i either lost motivation/procrastinated/focused a lot of cc making #but nonetheless thank you so muchhhh to everyone that supported and inspired me this year it’s really means a lot 🫶🏾💗 #i hope to break out my shell more and interact much more with y’all in 2024 #there’s so much i got planned for 2024 both cc and edit wise so i hope will get the opportunity to do it all 🙏🏾 #2023 was a rollercoaster year for me so i really hope that 2024 is muchhh better #okay byeeee tysm if you read this far 😭🫶🏾💗

[lunarrolls]

this is what my current theory about ashton’s primordial bullshit boils down to it’s incredibly self explanatory. no i haven’t watched calamity why do you ask

#cr #cr3 #cr spoilers #ashton greymoore #laerryn coramar seelie #exu calamity #roll insight #i feel so bad because the episode was SO GOOD for SO MANY OF THE HELLS but ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS BEING UNHINGED ABOUT THE ASHTON LORE #i read the bright queen to learn about the luxon like two days ago and then did a wiki dive #did y’all know that genasi are heavily prized by both the kryn and the cerberus assembly #which is fucking hilariously ironic to me. can you imagine being the kryn scout to find ashton fucking greymoore #anyways

[northlight14]

While I’m a big fan of the “Von Karma being a piece of shit mentor and father figure to Edgeworth” concept and there is definitely some truth to those statements, I also wanna address the fact that it is canon that Von Karma was a good mentor to Edgeworth and growing up in that household wasn’t as horrific as it may seem at first glance. Frankly if it was, Edgeworth wouldn’t have been manipulated like he was.

Now just taking that into consideration, that makes the moment Edgeworth finds out what actually happened to his dad so much more heartbreaking. When mini Miles lost his dad, that was his world taken from him. He didn’t have any other relatives to go to and no direction in life. Then in steps a man who he knew his father respected to some degree, offering him a home and guidance, teaching mini Miles everything he knows and inspiring him. The ruthless God of prosecutors himself helping Edgeworth build himself up again.

Then he finds out that the one man who stepped in, the one he was willing to follow, was the very same man who caused his suffering in the first place. Not only that, but he’s spent so long following his teachings, that he himself has essentially become just another version of the man who caused his suffering. And to add fuel to the fire, that father figure clearly knew of Edgeworth’s survivors guilt and PTSD and used it against him and went as far as to frame him for murder.

It is honestly a wonder to me how Edgeworth didn’t completely break down right then and there in the courtroom. Von Karmas betrayal of Edgeworth is definitely talked about a lot in the fandom but the added context of what isn’t shown in the game or anime just makes it all the more heartbreaking

Edit: doing an edit on this post cuz I feel like I didn’t communicate what I wanted the best I could. My bad, y’all. This isn’t me saying that there wasn’t abuse at play. There was. Manfred was very obviously emotionally neglectful of Edgeworth and Franziska and instilled a perfectionist complex in both of them. That much is clear by the way Edgeworth speaks with him in a strictly business like manner. But I think it’s important to acknowledge that while Manfred was a shitty father figure, he still showed Edgeworth some form of kindness over the years. (I also believe that it has been confirmed that he was a good mentor to Miles but if I’m wrong about that let me know). We see that in the anime in particular where it’s shown he favoured Miles over Franziska. And also that’s how abuse works. The abuser will show kindness to their victim because otherwise they can’t manipulate the victim as easily. Manfred isn’t a good person but I think it’s important to look at his relationship with Edgeworth with a bit of nuance. Miles knew Manfred wouldn’t show him mercy in the court room because he knows how important his win record is. That doesn’t take away from the fact that he showed Edgeworth some form of kindness over the years. In my opinion, it just makes the whole situation more tragic

#fucking hate von karma for what he did #edgy boy always has and always will deserve better #it’s such a gut punch as well cuz Edgeworth likely would view vk as the only one who was on his side #only for vk to prosecute against him. not only does Edgeworth know how he is in court but that’s also his only safety net gone and instead #turned agaisnt him #that’s why when phoenix Maya and gumshoe step in it has such a profound impact on him #can y’all tell I love Edgeworth and also love this case?😅 #ace attorney #miles edgeworth #manfred von karma #tw abuse

[guckies]

One thing about dream is that his name is definitely clay that is the only name for him

#it’s literally the perfect name #he is a clay #that is what I would expect a person called clay to look like #it just makes sense #dream #dreamwastaken #dream mcyt #mcyt #holy fuck this blew up thanks for most of y’all agreeing with me #how tf did this get over 1k notes???