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i think we should all consider getting emotional over this xkcd. as a group. let's get emotional about it
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moonrise (2015) by phyllis shafer vs. landscape from saint-rémy (1889) by vincent van gogh. kind of obsessed with how they bleed into each other side by side
#various photos of the painting have different brightness / saturation levels — this one’s a little darker than some of them#i thought it worked well with the shafer painting#shaoniposting#art#painting#oil painting#van gogh#phyllis shafer#vincent van gogh#art history
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kind of obsessed with the conlang invented by 12th century composer and mystic hildegard von bingen. she called it lingua ignota and just sort of never explained why it exists or what it’s for? like. girl. why did you do this
in case you're wondering what was up with her, like, in general, she was an abbess who was (1) politically influential, (2) chronically ill, and (3) plagued by visions.
but like seriously girl WHAT was the conlang for. TELL ME
#hildegard von bingen#did u know theres a bardcore artist called hildegard von blingen?#cw religion /#shaoniposting#conlang#linguistics#history
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something that helps with feeling like you have no personal access to “nature”/the most lovely things about our planet and its ecosystems: remember that plants and animals that seem boring and ubiquitous to you are very much not boring and ubiquitous to other people. i grew up mostly in california, and i didn’t appreciate hummingbirds at all until a relative from india visited and couldn’t stop staring at them — because hummingbirds are ordinary in the united states, but they don’t exist AT ALL in india!
likewise, the last time i visited family in hyderabad, i camped out on my aunt and uncle’s terrace one morning and absolutely LOST MY MIND over the sunbirds. they were so small! and colorful! and there were so many of them! and to my family they were totally normal.
no matter how boring and “removed from nature” your city or suburb or town is, there are critters in it that are absolutely marvelous and fascinating, if you know how to look at them the right way.
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i love how americans took one look at the british pronouncing lieutenant as left-ten-ant and just went oh absolutely not
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during the early throes of the covid 19 pandemic, some people learned how to bake bread. my roommates and i decided to learn toki pona so that when we left quarantine, our other friends would think we’d been isolated together for so long that we spontaneously developed a new language.
#it only failed bc we got too excited and told everyone abt it :/#toki pona#linguistics#conlanging#conlang#shaoniposting
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thinking about.... them..... (stained glass windows)
places these are located, in order: (1) theodore parker unitarian universalist church (2) Institut Pere Mata (3) casa comalat (4) casa manuel felip (5) casa manuel felip (6) casa tomás vendrell (7) horace peck home / kalamazoo valley museum (8) casa navás (9) the met museum (it’s not in a building, it’s an isolated panel by louis tiffany)
#art#stained glass#stained glass windows#architecture#shaoniposting#i...#is this the kind of post you tag:#aesthetic#?#i just like. imijs.#windows#glass art#art nouveau
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no longer will the blob be gentle
#No Longer Will the Blob Be Gentle#It Is So Large It Can Be Seen From Outer Space#science#biology#blob#It Will Then Begin To Rot#shaoniposting
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googled house wren and. hm
are you sure u don’t mean their nests are 4 to 10 feet off the ground. you mean that the house wrens themselves are 4 to 10 feet tall. this is what you mean, google info page. are u absolutely sure. confident. certain. wrens that are 10 ft from crest to tail feathers. ur sure about this
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i’d call vimes a “short king” but i don’t think he’d like that very much. not because of the “short” part though. just the “king.”
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it's because you're always on that damn stanford encyclopedia of philosophy
#i've been reading it late at night to make my existential crisis worse#this is a bad idea and you should not do it#shaoniposting#philosophy
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obsessed with these images
absolutely obsessed with this. it made the national news. the NYT specified that it was not just spaghetti but macaroni and alphabet shapes btw...
also
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all my problems would be solved if i had a lamp shaped like an art nouveau flower. like hi sorry i can’t respond to your email i’m too busy staring at my pitcher plant lamp by contemporary multimedia artist scott lefton
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listening to the audiobook of thud!. first time hearing it in audio, something like my tenth time reading the book itself. some thoughts:
1. the dwarves being so haunted by their secret that their hands can’t help but draw the symbols betraying their distress, somewhere between conscious and unconscious… the way the weight of the symbols increases bit by bit over the course of the novel until it shivers in every sentence… yeah i feel normal about it. totally normal. i’m fine
2. you never realize how strong your mental version of a character’s voice is until an audiobook narrator does it differently. He Would Not Say That
3. stephen briggs’ narration of the conversation between the art curator and nobby&colon is pitch perfect though. amazing. no notes
#more thoughts later#im only two hours in rn#discworld#thud!#gnu terry pratchett#reading#shaoniposting
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i learned a lot about how to write from discworld, but probably the most concrete thing i learned (as opposed to general principles) was how to give a pov character a slow hysterical breakdown while something else is happening. this happens a LOT more often in discworld than you think and it’s marvelously psychologically realistic — hysterical panic never happens at a convenient time. it also has the potential to be really, really funny.
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