thinking about the paris review anne carson interview
Period Drama Appreciation Week 2023 Day 3 ❥ Favorite Costume Design │BRIGHT STAR (2009) dir. Jane Campion
Costume Design by Janet Patterson
if u called urself a refugee from twitter or reddit you owe at least $15 to a nonprofit of your choice that provides aid to refugees
Sharing the secrets of your hearth with strangers who will never be able to meet or thank you. Honoring the dead through learning their traditions of the home; emulation and exaltation. A good carrot cake.
"I'm not a people. I'm many things. I'm! Nimona!" "I see you, Nimona." | NIMONA (2023)
There's a word in Korean: 인연 [in yun] — it means "providence" or "fate". If two strangers walk by each other in the street, and their clothes accidentally brush, that means there have been eight thousand layers of 인연 between them.
PAST LIVES (2023) dir. Celine Song
Charlie Squire, “Mattel, Malibu Stacy, and the Dialectics of the Barbie Polemic,” evil female (Substack), 2023.
....you’re lying...you must be...
noooooo
Crochet a Girl With a Purrrl Earring Amigurumi … Part of the Kitties of the Mew-seum Series! 👉 https://buff.ly/3l2Rsfq 😻
judygemstone
time for my favorite olympic tradition: mary carillo's on-air breakdown about badminton from 2004
She had no right being this funny
from marie howe’s 2017 collection of poetry, magdalene
[id: Two screenshots. First, an interview. Ms. Tippett: What do you mean? What is the assignment? 10 observations of their actual world? Ms. Howe: Just tell me what you saw this morning like in two lines. I saw a water glass on a brown tablecloth, and the light came through it in three places. No metaphor. And to resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself, which hurts us for some reason. Ms. Tippett: It does. Second, a poem, Magdalene at the Theopoetics Conference. Yes, the scholar said, but why ask your students to write these close observations? What use is it to notice the rusted drainpipe? The young woman asleep in the library her head resting on her folded arms? Why should they look inside the petals of the purple tulip to the yellow pollen-coated stamen? Or under their beds to where the dust has collected? /end]
Adrien Amilhat - Sea Witch
folding a fitted sheet
Someone I know not well enough to voice my opinion on the subject said something like why didn’t God make potatoes a low-calorie food so I am here to say: God made them like that because their nutrition density IS what makes them healthy. By God I mean Andean agricultural technicians. Potato is healthy BECAUSE potato holds calories and vitamins. Do not malign potato
mediocrity-uwu
For all evolutionary history, life has struggled against calorie deficit… So much energy goes into finding food that there is no time for anything else. Our ancestors selectively bred root vegetables to create the potato, so that we might be the first species whose daily existence doesn’t consist of trying to find the nutrients necessary for survival. One potato can rival the calorie count of many hours of foraging… Eat a potato, and you free up so much time to create and build and connect with your fellow man. Without potato where would you be?? Do not stand on the shoulders of giants and think thyself tall!!
I nearly teared up reading “Andean agricultural technicians” bc fuck yes! these were members of Pre-Inca cultures who lived 7 to 10 thousand years ago, and they were scientists! food scientists and researchers and farmers whose names and language we can never know, who lived an inconceivably long time ago (pre-dating ancient civilizations in Egypt, China, India, Greece, and even some parts of Mesopotamia) and we are separated by millennia of time and history, but still for thousands of years the fruits vegetables of their labor and research have continued to nourish countless human lives, how is that not the most earthly form of a true miracle??? anyway yes potatoes are beautiful, salute their creators.
There are approximately 4000 varieties of potato in Peru. I’ve seen an incredible variety of corn and tomatoes, and root vegetables I’ve never seen before, on the local farmer markets. Yet some expats insist on buying only imported, expensive American brands of canned veggies… 🤷🏼♀️ Peruvian potatoes 👇🏼
It is long since time for us to start viewing plant domestication as the bioscience that it is. Because while the Andeans were creating potatoes, the ancient Mesoamericans were turning teosinte into corn:
And then there’s bananas, from Papua New Guinea:
These were not small, random changes, this was real concerted effort over years to turn inedible things into highly edible ones. And I’m convinced the main reason we’re reluctant to call them scientific achievements is, well, a racist one.
i just gotta get these proto-thoughts out of my head
did anyone else with an alcoholic parent see Donna and immediately go 'ah okay, that's why Carmy is like that'
Nat is the vessel for all of Donna's scorn and Carmy is the placater.
soothing a drunk person is hard and soothing an angry drunk is even harder. And Donna is angry. the bitter kind. like, she's angry at Carmy for leaving her but angrier at herself for being the kind of mother whose kids have a desperate need to escape from her.
man. watching Carmy in the kitchen with his mom fucking hurt. it's like he's running on auto-pilot and just trying to survive. trying to do everything he possibly can to just get himself and his mother through Christmas the only way he knows how.
it feels like he's balancing on tightrope and you almost watch him fall. you just know that the tension and stress and anxiety, all of it, came from a childhood of avoiding landmines. idk just watching him navigate it all was like, yep, heard, i get it.
