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I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

In case you're curious here's what I mean.

Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):

Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):

Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):

Do you see the difference?

this post has re-wired my brain in the best way

I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

Thanks to whoever tried, but I knew they'd never allow it.

Let's do it the old fashioned way. Spread it far and wide.

Reminder: you can't be the whole wall against stopping fascism by yourself. Nobody can. But you damn sure can be a brick.

There's a lot of good comments and tags in the notes, but this one is very important, I feel like it deserves some emphasis.

Part of how authoritarianism works is telling you that you can't stop it. And you can't stop it by yourself. But it wants to stop the train of thought there and let you fall into despair.

You need to remember the next part: you don't have to stop it by yourself.

You're not alone. Take care of your community and let your community take care of you. Supporting each other is so vital.

~ American Institute of Public Opinion poll, 1939

The past: it was better but I don't want to live there.

#fuckcars

book from the sky (tianshu) xu bing, 1989-91

I was so excited to see a copy of this in real life bc it's something I studied in art history. this is a book that was typeset and printed by hand using wooden blocks but every one of the characters was invented for the sake of the piece and does not correspond to any word in the Chinese language

People love to say "I researched this" before saying something that literally anyone who has ever touched this topic in a semi-professional or academic setting would cry over hearing

I researched this and you know, they say all blogs are created equal but you look at me and you look at @transit-fag any you can see that that statement is not true. see normally when you go one on one against another blog you got a fifty fifty chance of learning factual information. But I’m a research FREAK and I’m not normal. So you got a 25% chance, at best, at learn me.

Then you add @massachusetts-official to the mix and your odds of learning drastic go down. See, at the three way on tumblr dot com, you got a 33 and a third percent chance of learning, but I, I got a 66 and two thirds chance of learning because @massachusetts-official knows he can’t teach me and it’s not even gonna try. So @transit-fag, you take your 33 and a third percent chance, minus your 25 percent chance, and you got an 8 and a third percent chance on learning on tumblr dot com. But you take my 75 percent chance, plus my 66 and two thirds chance, I got a 141 and two thirds chance of getting my paper accepted to the journal of transit studies. See Amtrak? The numbers don’t lie. and they spell disaster for the public education system

macarons

why did she say that.

I have a suggestion

i’m gay but i’m always gonna choose the well developed straight ship over the 2 bland and incompatible white dudes that have 500,000 fanfics written about them. you guys just hate women.

Kids don’t have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that. That’s why I sing these songs. That’s why I tell these stories, dammit. No root, no fruit! —Utah Phillips

#prev: *slips him into my pocket*#we did do that though#ff14 @ofdarklands

when I was first playing I said of The Exarch, "he's so cute, I want to put him in my pocket and carry him around!" and my brother said, "Funny You Should Say That :)" and refused to elaborate >:(

naturally pocket shaped. pokemon, even