Artistic Maps of Pakistan and India Show Embroidery Techniques of Each Region

this site really did suck so fucking bad when its demographic was straighter

i don't believe such a time ever existed

this post always kills me bc i’m like 90% sure the picture behind him is this:

darmok laughing alone with jalad

abstract flower garden pride wallpapers

lesbian | gay

bi | trans

lgbtq | pan

ace | aro

aroace | nonbinary

please rb if saving <3

more here

Love these

on that note why is there NO medical privacy in Starfleet? there’s like no private exam rooms or hospital beds in any sickbays. random people walk into the room in the middle of exams all the time and the doctors will just share diagnoses in a room full of people. like wtf what if I didn’t need my supervisor knowing that I have IBS or im pregnant with an alien or whatever????? captains will just ask doctors for updates on someone’s condition and immediately get them?

You’re getting a pap smear done and Worf is there

Like to invite Worf to your Pap smear for moral support

Reblog to send him to someone else’s

Best scene in the whole show

im so sorry but why does peter look exactly like the guy from ctrl alt del

Because he has experienced loss

oh my god

Seattle-based artist Carol Milne knits with glass, or rather, she creates wonderful glass sculptures that make it seem as though she’s either a superhuman glass knitter or in possession of enchanted knitting needles and very specialized gloves. The reality is actually much more complicated, but no less awesome. Milne invented her glass knitting technique back in 2006. It’s a process that involves knitting with wax instead of glass, followed by lost-wax casting, mold-making and kiln-casting.

To check out more of Carol Milne’s extraordinary artwork visit the Glass Art Society, Milne’s Facebook page or her online gallery.

[via Colossal]

@fourpatch

gummy lamas

And the less talented brothers

godspeed purple llama friend

There he go

she ebbin on my neezer til i scrooge

so, here's the thing. tumblr/apple can ban as many words as they want and it will never achieve their goal of "cleaning up" this site because this wretched nonsense poetry is somehow now the single dirtiest thing I have ever read in my life and honestly thank god.

sorry

Transcript:

Hey, Big Al, why do all the people in my life with ADHD have such a weird sense of humor?

Oh, that's 'cause we're all super understimulated.

What does that even mean?

Imagine that the inside of your brain had an itch that you really couldn't scratch, but that itch was actually boredom, but that boredom was actually pain.

Oh, I see, yeah, that- that helps me none, zero at all. It also sounds pretty terrifying.

No, it- it's really not a big deal, you just kinda have to learn to restructure your life around it, including comedy.

Okay, so how does it affect the way that you interpret comedy?

So a side effect of understimulation is that your brain is constantly and more often than others' active. You're always thinking, you're always analyzing, you're always trying to problem solve. Because of exactly that, normal comedy and normal humor is a bit predictive, and doesn't really land with people with ADHD.

So what does land with people with ADHD?

Stark, abrupt chaos. Because it cannot be predicted, nor calculated.

Okay, so what would that even look like?

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Okay, why?

The Fitnessgram Pacer Test is-

That landed for me

Snuffbox

c.1740

France

MFA Boston

I have never in my life seen an objet d'art that qualified for the Tiffany Paradox, but here we are. It looks like it fell off a middle school girls bedroom desk circa 1987.

I love this.

also I went and looked it up on the MFA website and as I suspected, it’s made of mother-of-pearl! the rainbow parts are probably from iridescent blacklip shells, and the rest is carved white oyster shell.

There are some Chinese porcelains which are definitely worthy of the Tiffany paradox - I mean, sure, it was made in the 1300s but it’s a lemon yellow tea bowl - but honestly this one really epitomizes the matter.

Hey, check out these funky Chico’s necklaces from my Jewish grandmother’s collection:

SIKE they are 1400 YEARS OLD

ooh, I’ve got some more! Look at this painting.

A Caricature Group by John Hamilton Mortimer, c. 1766.

This does not look like an 18th century oil painting, it looks more like something out of Mad magazine, but nope. 1760’s.

I made a pinterest board for 18th century pottery just to save all the Weird Stuff to it, like this horrible bear jug, which is just one of many similarly horrible 18th century bear jugs! It’s hideous and I love it.

Mugs shaped like people’s heads was also A Thing, here’s one from c. 1782.

And I LOVE this teapot with fossil decoration c. 1760-65. It’s amazing. Perfect. I would so dearly love to have a replica and feature it prominently in a photoshoot with some of my 18th century costumes.

This one is also c. 1760’s.

And one more, also c. 1760!

I love pretty historical dishes with delicate floral patterns as much as the next guy, but seeing weird and bright and tacky stuff from over 2 centuries ago makes me happy.

Honourable mention to these c. 1788-93 stockings with little knitted portraits in between the brightly coloured stripes.

I discovered, when investigating what 1840s pearl earrings looked like for a ball outfit, that they look

EXTREMELY 1980s

seriously I was able to buy something from the Fancy Section of Claire’s that looked almost exactly like the top example

I can’t believe I forgot to add the 1840’s 8-bit foxes!!

This embroidered waistcoat is one of 3 I’ve seen with the same design, so it must have been published in a magazine or something. It’s so weird knowing that it’s 1840’s because it looks so pixel-y, especially with that bright blue background. (And yes, I’ve seen plenty of other pixel-y looking old needlepoint and and such, but they’re usually floral.)

Also, wow, those do look very 1980’s! Very convenient for costumers when things repeat like that!

There’s also a surprising amount of historical jewelry that looks exactly like something my middle school classmates would wear.

Necklace, 1861-67, V&A.

Ring, 1730-60, V&A.

Ring, c. 1780, V&A.

Turns out people have liked heart shaped jewelry for a very long time! …I’ll try not to reblog this a 3rd time when I inevitably think of even more stuff, because a post like this could go on forever.

@jamiebythesea

It’s funny that people picture Victorian fashion as dull an steampunkish in colour, when in reality, bright garish colours were super fashionable thanks to the invention on new dyes.

hi just wanted to let y’all know that csp is on sale right now for black friday!

you can get CSP Pro forever (no subscription model) for $30!

i really love this program. i’m not sure why but i’ve just been able to use it better than any other program i’ve ever tried.

if anyone ends up getting it and would like to hear about my favorite brushes, or specific ones i use, just let me know :)

Sixteen more hours as of reblogging time on 29 November 2021. I personally recommend CSP. There are a couple of small features it’s missing that I’d like for the vector art I do, but it’s been my go-to program for a good few years now.

絨花 ronghua

👩🏻慕容意的手工

Making DIY Chinese ronghua/絨花 (velvet flower) hairpins for hanfu. More information on ronghua here and here.

do you ever behold a kind of craft you didn’t even know existed before now and experience a moment of pure unbridled lust

Embroidered Brooches and Decor

Magical Fern on Etsy

Tailors in the marvel universe nodding unenthusiastically as yet another mutant explains to them in great detail where exactly they want the awkward X shaped cutout to be on their brightly colored catsuit with a strange neckline

[ID: screenshot of photos posted on facebook of someone holding up a green hummingbird, wings tightly tucked in, to give it water and gently cradle it. someone commented underneath saying, "I'm glad you gave your jalapeno some water"]

making the Switch

to anybody who is procrastinating switching cuz they dont want to deal with the hassle (like i was): it literally was not a hassle at all it was so fucking easy it asks you when you make it ur default browser if u wanna copy all ur bookmarks and passwords over from chrome the only part that i found a little troublesome was installing different add ons like ublock & night mode and stuff. but that was it go switch now it was very easy