my prof just emailed me asking me to go to his office but the class ended last week and I don’t know what he could possibly want?? I’m so stressed i’m gonna cry??????? lmao
The alphabetized files at my ranger station lead to some interesting mental pictures
no vitamins… no fucking minorals… carbs ONLY
muffy packing her lunch
I know this is just for laughs but… Sometimes I feel like we live in a time where the beautiful hues and ambiguities of History and knowledge are being increasingly mellowed-out, simplified, and reduced to cheap categories through memes and public media discourse, probably because we have all become angry, scared, and anxious, unable to appreciate the world and its History without feeling the need to either tame it or run away from it.
But then again that is not a new phenomenon.
Sigh.
(like seriously, who feels depressed looking at Art Nouveau, are you daft?????)
it’s a joke. please relax.
I am relaxed. I too was joking. Not about the content of my diatribe, but about my lamentation. XD
Also, it’s not because it’s just a joke that it cannot be analysed and used to reflect on more serious matters. ;)
The reason Art Nouveau is in the ‘depressed thot’ category isn’t that the art looks ‘depressing’ (although I think there’s a quiet melancholy in a lot of the works), it has to do with the ideals and the ethos of the movement.
Art Nouveau was a tumultuous movement which formed parallel to the Decadent Movement, the Arts and Crafts Movement, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism. It experienced an incredibly short life expectancy, perhaps owing to the contradictory nature of the movement.
Like the Arts and Crafts Movement, Art Nouveau viewed rapid industrialization, the degradation of craft, the increasing standardization of daily life with skepticism - but unlike the Arts and Crafts Movement, it didn’t spurn new technologies - it just rejected functionality as the prime aesthetic principle. At the same time however, Art Nouveau embraced a sort of Pre-Raphaelite belief in the infallibility of nature. The curvature of nature, the flowing of vines, the expansion of branches - all of these things were considered ethereal beauty to the Nouveau artist.
Which is why one of the most common portrayals for Art Nouveau artists was the young, skinny female. Her body is natural and flowing; and her poses and facial expressions show sensuality and ambiguity. There’s a certain aura to these paintings - like a melancholic sexual tension - the feeling of grasping at something but being unable to attain it.
And thats symbolic of what Art Nouveau was. It stood at the precipice of modernism without fully committing to it. It aimed for beauty in a way that was, deep down, wrought with tension and contradiction. It’s why most of its apprentices (Picasso for example), ended up spurning Art Nouveau for more intellectually stable modernist movements. And its why I considered it both ‘thot’ and ‘depressive’.
Glad to see my lifelong disinterest in golf is paying off
let me tell you about golf
i grew up in a little desert valley called Tucson, Arizona, where it only rains 2 inches a year on average. the majority of the city’s water is pumped from an underground aquifer, which took millions of years to fill. one of the biggest conservation efforts in our city was for water, naturally, and i spent a lot of time learning about low flow toilets and 5 minute showers. i learned that filling your sink basin and washing your dishes in that water is less costly than running the tap. i learned that it only takes 2 days without water on the desert for someone to die
the city was sinking as the aquifer drained. neighborhoods fell into flood zones that didnt exist 10 years ago
there’s a road called Golf Links in the city and it is lined with golf courses. miles of green grass where grass doesn’t grow, in a valley where it doesn’t rain. why? because the rich white retirees who moved there to stop the aching in their joints decided they should also get to play golf. meanwhile our public schools taught small children like me that taking long showers would kill the world
let the golf industry burn
There are 15,500+ golf courses in the United States alone.
Each one consumes ~312,000 gallons of water per day.
That consumption is equivalent to 55+ million humans per day in the United States… roughly 1/6 the entire population.
We simply cannot sustain this frivolity, especially for something 99% of us will never use.
Destroy golf courses and plant wild grasses and butterfly bushes in their place.
This is how Samwise shows up to frodo’s funeral
frodo’s funeral?
boating accident
splish splash, “hobbit overboard”, you get the picture
don’t patronize me
chopped up by the outboard motor blades
