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Maxl (he/it), 23 years old, trans man + homo + autist with a job just like Cloud Strife or Roxas KingdomHearts. Ryo Asuka apologist, communist, novelist, possibly other -ists too but who can say? Art blog: @dyushas
Idk if anyone else has seen this post but I'm not going to reblog it. Paramount made a shitty statement no one asked for about Israel and they should get backlash for it. But um. I think we should think more about using screenshots of Jewish characters literally just saying that their people have been through hard times as part of your argument that a show is zionist propaganda. Actually. For reasons I fear should be obvious
People outside my building shut the fuck Up !!!!!!! My apartment has no AC, I need to have the windows open and you cunts r yelling on a residential street at 1am
FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.
It was an eye-popping magenta purple
HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...
...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.
(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).
They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.
Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.
Politicians will say fear-mongering stuff about ‘pregnant men’ (trans men) and like 60 popular funny blogs™ will rush to post “ermm doesn’t this idiot now that omegaverse isn’t real lmao 🤣” and then thousands of people will reblog it agreeing with the idea that pregnant men are just fictional and jokes
Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.
There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.
What people who are smugly anti-intellectual about contemporary art don't understand (among other things) is that the fine arts are about more than just the skill of the craft and its utility, but are often visual expressions of philosophical ideas. Art theory is philosophy, and you have to take a year or more of classes in it in order to get an arts degree.