And when I was hanged between earth and heaven they lifted up their heads to see me. And they were exalted, for their heads had never before been lifted.
Personal piece :) The compression may be hiding this, but written on the underside of the antelope's skin is "un jour je serai de retour près de toi" ('one day I will return to your side'), which is something I have been turning over in my brain a lot as of late.
Hope you're all taking care of yourselves!!
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson (American, 1948-2017)
STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters… S.T..R … My friend sent this to me and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks. STROKE IDENTIFICATION: During a party, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. (they offered to call ambulance) They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid’s husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00pm , Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the party . Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don’t die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead. It only takes a minute to read this… STROKE IDENTIFICATION: A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke…totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough. RECOGNIZING A STROKE Remember the ‘3’ steps, STR . Read and Learn! Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke. Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions : S * Ask the individual to SMILE .. T * = TALK. Ask the person to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) (eg ‘It is sunny out today’). R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS . If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call the ambulance and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher. NOTE : Another ‘sign’ of a stroke is 1. Ask the person to ‘stick’ out their tongue. 2. If the tongue is ‘crooked’, if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke. A prominent cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved. And it could be your own.
First reblog post that actually saves a life.
This is a life-saving post.
the more you know
yeah don’t think that this can’t happen to you or someone you know if they’re young. my cousin’s wife is 33 and she had a stroke last year
I’ve had a stroke. It happens to people, and the more you know about this kind of stuff, the better.Because it could be important to know.
LIVE SAVING. WOOOAHH. REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG
Had a family member almost die of one, so signal boosting because you never know when you could save a life.
Because I feel bad if I don’t reblog…
My mother died after being paralyzed by a stroke. Please read this^
I remember a while ago here in UK there were stroke-identifying adverts. Their catchphrase was FAST:
We managed to save my nana with this information when she had her first stroke.
"This is my weird son. He can't climb for shit, but he is handsome and strong."
Everything that isn't food is a cat from the perspective of a cat. Cats can look upon the true form of eldritch monstrosities and keep their sanity. They'd just see another cat. A fucking weird-looking cat, but a cat nonetheless.
An always-reblog. 😄
Imagine a bee rn in a hive muttering "the beekeeper is not real because he is not intervening or helping me at all with this disastrous relationship I have with another bee". now imagine that's you talking about the good lord. now imagine a dog with a propeller hat on
Filing this in my memory right next to this thread:
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My Valentine Cards
"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.
"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"
"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."
"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."
"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.
"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."
"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."
"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.
"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.
"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."
"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."
"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."
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”.
Oh! Just like the Victorians did to the Gothic, where actual Gothic cathedrals which had been built to be bright and full of light were portrayed as dark and gloomy places, because that's what happens after a cathedral is filled with candles for several hundred years.
Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006) The Umbrella Academy (2019 ─ ) Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) The Simpsons (1989 ─ )
Twilight (2008)
christmas eve what about christmas adam
happy christmas adam to all men’s rights activists
Please stop pestering us with things like this. This has nothing to do with men fighting for their rights. Eve is short for ‘evening’. Please don’t turn activism into a joke. Thanks.
Someone isn’t having a good christmas adam
Christmas Adam: December 23rd. Comes before Christmas Eve and is generally unsatisfying.
Happy Christmas Adam everyone
Really wish tumblr had a "people are appropriating and misusing elements of my faith and that is offensive" option for reporting posts...
CATHOLICISM 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 AN 👏 AESTHETIC 👏
catholicism’s only value is in its aesthetic actually. sorry :/
also the guilt thing can be kinda hot when y'all have gay sex
Catholicism is an aesthetic. When you look at Catholic art and architecture, particularly from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, cathedrals, statues, stained glass, and all the other trappings of the church were explicitly designed to be an aspirational aesthetic. Church design wasn’t just there so that illiterate people could understand biblical allegory before Mass was done in linguae francae, but to be beautiful and glorify God. Church fathers from St. Augustine to St. Thomas Aquinas had long treatises on beauty, and why it pleases God and why we should strive for it. The Church wants to be #aesthetic and always has.
But heretic! you may say, surely that beauty belongs only to the church and to believers, and only those who ascribe to Catholicism should revel in it?
Well, see now, we need to discuss Catholicism as a domineering force in Western art and how it defined what type of art was allowed to be created throughout much of Europe. Basically, the cultural hegemony of the Catholic church was so constricting in Europe that nobody was allowed to create art about anything else. Well that and portraits of kings and stuff, and maybe mythology. During the Renaissance, mythology got to be bigger, but before than in Europe, you were really limited in what you were allowed to create. Even if you aren’t Catholic, if you’re of European descent, that is honestly part of your cultural heritage. For centuries, Church art and Church architecture was the only allowable aesthetic, and it’s within peoples’ right to explore and reclaim it. We place such incredible value on the Renaissance- in Western society, we let it still inform things like our beauty standards and what we consider to be “real art.” The ghosts of the Renaissance follow us as we deem other cultural traditions worthy or unworthy. It’s a huge problem, honestly, and I think that exploring the Renaissance aesthetic- which just so happens to be Catholic, the two are uniquely intertwined- isn’t something you, OP, or anybody else should try to police. We need to reckon with the past in order to understand how it impacts the present, and using these themes as an #aesthetic can help us think critically about why we feel the way we do about art and where our artistic standards came from.
Also, this doesn’t just cover the traditions of the Renaissance in Western Europe. Look at the role Catholicism has played with Eastern European aesthetics. Look at the hard and fast rules for icon design, and how that grew as the Orthodox churches split away from the Roman church. When you claim that somebody is appropriating your religion, who are you to determine what a person’s background is? What they might be connecting to through the aesthetics of Catholicism? This is especially true for modern Eastern European diasporas- connecting through the aesthetics of faith, even if you don’t practice, is one of the ways that people can connect with distant family histories.
Blasphemer! you may say, only in the modern era have we, and by we I mean Western Culture, strayed from the loving arms of Mother Rome. Surely the modern appropriation of Catholic imagery is a modern mockery?
Now what’s interesting is that when you look at local theology during the golden ages of Catholic architecture, you actually get a variety of beliefs. Outside of Rome and the Papal States, people knew some Latin, mostly in the form of prayers- but people were arguing about theology in general a lot more than they do today. Today’s Catholicism is really tame compared to what it used to be like. The Church has the major points of its philosophy hammered down- all arguments today are minor compared to the rip-roaring pre-medieval fights about things like divinity, sainthood, trinitarian heresies, etc. etc. etc.
Point being, during the sort of golden age of Church architecture, there was a lot of theological variance. What this means is that you really did have little sects and folk beliefs in Catholicism popping up here and there. The Catholic aesthetic you’re so protective of is not modern- it’s medieval and renaissance, the grand and glorious cathedrals, the precious metalwork, the mosaics and inlays and carvings and paintings. This aesthetic was not actually created by the Church as a monolithic faith. Instead, it was created by a Church that existed as something that you aligned yourself with for political power. Church iconography wasn’t just about your belief or faith, it was about showing who you were. Like when we look at Catholic monarchs- by and large they were terrible Catholics and terrible people! It didn’t really matter though, because they looked Catholic, and that was enough. It’s always been an aesthetic. Is it not part of the grand tradition of the religion to have its trappings adopted by people outside of the faith?
It is also important to remember that the aesthetics of faith are not the faith itself. Catholic practices don’t get appropriated like other religions’ practices do. People actually take sacred practices from other faiths and do them without really engaging. But like, nobody’s walking around saying “Paternoster” like they say “Namaste.”
And this leads to what might be the most important bit: Catholicism is an imperial force, and pressed itself upon millions of people. How can you appropriate that which was forced? How can you say in the face of the religious trauma that the Church has caused that it is unfair to play with the aesthetics of it to suit one’s own identity? The Church has much to answer for, and there is no reason not to play around with the aesthetic for your own purposes. Whether you’re exploring your heritage, processing religious trauma, or you just think it looks good, the Church’s history as a global imperalist force means that it’s given up any claim to being a closed practice. In a sense, its global outreach made it public domain. The Church has always wanted to be globally appreciated; who are you, tumblr user, to interfere?
