Feels like an Anne of Green Gables reread kind of day

I’m at work so I’ve been listening and I’m really enjoying this version:

Still enjoying this

How do they choose which sand to be the glass and which sand to be the sand in an hourglass... Imagine you and your best friend were two grains of sand and you had to be in the hourglass and your bestie had to be the glass. Ur together but youve never been more apart. A Sick and twisted practice hourglassery is...

This was me off 1 chocolate croissant

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)

I think it's cute how so many art movements are simply called "new art" to differentiate "not like the old stuff". Contemporary dance. New wave fashion. Pop (literally popular) music. Art Nouveau. Modernism. Postmodernism. Even terms starting with neo- (neo-classicism, neo-expressionism) all are just saying NEW ART. And yet all of these things are now distinctive styles of the past. It's kind of beautiful how humanity never stops outgrowing itself. Art is a state of matter that refuses to sit still, old as soon as it is new, original upon its thousandth performance, new forever so long as there is someone who has not yet seen it, and old the second the artist picks up their instrument again.

New new NEW art (14)(THIS ONE!).docx

"how can you be blogging about fun stuff while this horrible thing is going on?"

there's always horrible things going on somewhere. if you refuse to calm down until it all stops, all you'll do is give yourself a stroke

Fun is how you put yourself back together to face the horrors. And with skill, fun can be how you unpick the horrors as they try to horrify you.

It's maintenance. You change the oil on a car so it drives smoothly. You play to keep your soul intact.

#this is Rest.#you have to do it to function#without the Fun you can't live#it's untenable.#it's unsustainable.

why don't you remember "you are a unique constellation of attributes" and maybe you'll calm down

i love you, i’m sorry

lots about to go down in the house of everlark! enjoy and lmk what you think!

(as always, my eternal love & gratitude goes to @thesunpersists for being a baddie 💛)

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if iphones existed in panem, there's no way peeta wouldn't have a running list of things said by katniss and haymitch in his notes app

GLAD YOU ASKED

here's my contribution

this is the one Peeta sends in a group chat with the other victors like "guess which is which. no they're not all haymitch"

another mixed bag to the gc from Peeta. he gives them some freebies this time.

@atleastmymomlikesme Beetee 'emphasizes' this one and then continues to leave them on read

i used to go through my entire dash every day which on one hand is maybe insane. but on the other hand i never missed anything ☹️

Oh oh oh! I’d love to see some The Blue Castle mood boards!

@batrachised - you said goofy and I thought: what about a depressing Valancy bedroom mood board….

I only got as far as the rug:

okay I'm adding: I chose the shell covered box made by cousin stickles in her mythical girlhood, take your pick

@daydreamingandprocrastination I nominate you to add something now, if you so wish!

Thanks for tagging me!

In keeping with the Victorian craft theme and in honor of Cousin Stickles hair broach, I’m adding more Victorian hair art:

I nominate @sheet-metal-memories to add something if you’d like!

Obviously I had to go with Cousin Stickles’s old repulsive jar of dusty, dead potpourri. Valancy’s symbolic breaking of the jar is one of my favorite parts from the early chapters of the book!

It’s very hard to find pictures of potpourri which aren’t pretty! But I tried my best! Just imagine it smashing into a million pieces when she throws it out the window!!

To keep up the game I’m tagging @akallabeth-joie if you’d like to join!!

"the brown paper lambrequin with purple roses on it"

had to look up what that even is, apparently its a valance but could either be on a window or a shelf

Also had to see if I could find "beautiful, smug, self-satisfied queen louise" coming down a stairway

Adding:

The dustpile

Valancy’s hairstyle

Rain on a certain May morning

The red wallpaper

The yellow-painted floor (wtf who does that?!)

The missing teaspoon

Take your pick

I like the first for the listing (someone generations later selling the spoons and still pissed about the lost one) but the second one looks to be actually tea spoons.

was just thinking about this dumb guide that a conservative guy posted on twitter that seems to outline the difference between good and bad art - it's a completely useless heuristic obviously and it doesn't even make sense in the inverse. However there are several turns of phrase here that have permanently lodged themselves into my brain, for example - "malevolently bad map," "enfeebles the mind," "whining, coping, seething, and a waste of time," "mocks the concept of values"

who up mocking the concept of values rn

Tag urself im “unstructured and obsessively anti-rhythm”