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forgotten confession..

this is crazy what, the animation is so smooth

Oscar de la Renta: 'Crafted like a mosaic, discover the making-of the #odlrfall2024 stained glass gown — ushering in a a new House-signature embroidery technique.'

Constructed from hundreds of polyamide panes, hand-sewn together in an Art Nouveau style reminiscent of Tiffany glass. Ready-to-wear: £36,546.

the gasp i gosped

loid is actually a perfectly normal dad, the only difference is that anya can read his mind and figure out his past experiences instead of having him drop his lore 7 years later randomly on a thursday evening

Omg I cant believe I never noticed that theres a war going on outside the window on the second season opening!

And when Twilight notices, he closes the curtain:

And Yor is seeing him do it, while Anya (who has never seen war) is just happily looking foward.

I am so deeply unwell right now like😭😭😭

still so charmed by the way rose tyler is so unapologetically lower class without the narrative like. consistently telling you that. it’s all stuff you see between her flat and her bottle blonde hair with roots poking through and and her clumpy mascara and her clothes that don’t fit quite right and her passion for looking out for the underdog. it’s just so refreshing to have the protagonist of a show not be so squeaky clean and polished or a complete antihero but just some completely normal girl shaped by the way she grew up

Rose Tyler met aliens and immediately went “Hello, do you know what unions are? Do you want to learn?” and that’s so powerful of her.

Do women drunk on the trad wife fantasy know that women have been working in factories since the 1800s?

Like, why do you always assume you’re going to be middle to upper class living in the suburbs being a full time homemaker?

You’re more likely to be living in a multigenerational household while also doing some work on the side while raising your kids. Your money will go straight to your husband and he gets to decide what happens to it.

I've also seen a load banging on about how yes their husband would be Head of the House, but they would be the Woman In Charge and I'm thinking nah, that's your mother in law. You're 25. She's the boss until she dies, you're a servant who happens to have the same last name.

(I feel like we covered all of this in history class, even if you don't come from a big family yourself to hear stories. But a lot of people were busy doodling.)

Good point!!

I’m turning into a cartoon wolf and making train whistle noises

so i’m living around cats for the first time and noticed something

Elon is recruiting randos from Twitter to compete for the chance to work themselves to death figuring out how to take away your welfare.

Nothing says efficiency like creating a whole ass new department with two co-chairs.

Nothing says efficency like creating a new "department" to do the job already being done by an existing office.

"You know, I kinda like it": vampire equivalent of people eating food they're allergic to anyway

@veradragonjedi

I'll bet vampires have the spicy banana discussion sometimes too.

"It burns because you have an allergy! It's not supposed to damage your mouth!"

"I guess, but it's such an interesting experience. Maybe I'll have a little more."

Skating through Harar, Ethiopia

Courtesy of @ethiopian_girl_skaters

Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English

this is one of a [series] and they're all fantastic

joseph ford is the photographer and the knitter who made the pieces is nina dodd (ninadoddknits.com)

Gav’s Tavern Hi, I hope you like this. It is different from what I usually do. Also it was a lot of work.

They should have a version of Duolingo where you can learn a language in the dialect of that language’s country bumpkins. I sound like a hick speaking English so why should I sound like an overly formal city slicker speaking Mandarin?

This is actually a deeper problem as pointed out in the replies. Most language learning software teaches one dialect as the “proper” version of the language and it doesn’t reflect the vocabulary and speaking style of most native speakers. Why the fuck would an American want to learn Castilian Spanish, a central Iberian dialect, when most Spanish speakers they will meet in daily life will be from Mexico and the American Southwest and have a totally different cultural context, use different word choices and pronunciation?

"nasa has found a heaven-like planet where you can drink a beer by the lake—and they're calling it earth" was such a game-changer for my outlook on life