Suzanne Collins gripping my face with her hands: listen listen the first step to evil is dehumanisation, always, the second you start to see people as less than people no matter what they’ve done to you that’s when you start heading down a path of selfish destruction and violence
Terry Pratchett nodding emphatically behind her: people as things. That’s where it starts.
Some old GO drawings!
Plastic Chair in Wood by Maarten Baas (2008)
I’m obsessed with this chair. The artist takes a flimsy hunk of injection-molded plastic that’s been cost-cut to hell and back, and insists that we look at it with fresh eyes and understand its beauty. And they went about it in the most labor-intensive way I can think of.
Absolutely nothing about this design is convenient to execute in wood. Every piece is curved, most have compound curves. This is artisan craftsmanship: it’s inherently slow, manual, and skilled. Notice, also, that most features of this chair must be thicker and heavier than on the plastic chairs being imitated. Injection-molded chairs can be produced in this shape in a matter of minutes with far less material at very low cost.
If these flowing, organic curves are so beautiful in polished wood, perhaps they are also beautiful in the mass-produced chairs that are far more accessible. Perhaps we should remember to admire designs that succeed enough to become ubiquitous. I don’t know about you, but I’ll never see injection-molded chairs the same way again.
not that either is a good thing but there is a small cosmic sort of irony to appreciate in the way that the russian invasion of ukraine and the most recent nakba happened so close together and how they through comparison made it undeniably clear how much the definition of war crime and genocide and atrocity &etc depends on the geopolitical interests of the imperial core
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From The Guardian (2 Mar 2022)
i casually scrolled liked then doubled back and audibly said “yo wait” like holy shit thats awesome
based on this thread
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I MEANT!!!
Crowley, after his 5th drink: and sometimes I just want to kiss him, like- like, you know, humans. Real humans. Like people. It that too much too ask?
Hozier, already filling his second note book: No, no, go on
Crowley (drunk on a bar): sometimes I can’t believe myself. I mean, I slithered here from Eden just to what? Hide outside his damned door?
Hozier (taking notes): tell me more…
Crowley, after his 10th drink: and it’s like, I fell for asking questions, and so you’d think, you’d think I could just ask him. but there are these questions I can’t ask, even now, at last, with the worst over. I just see the way he holds himself… and idk, maybe we should just run away. someday.
Hozier, on his fifth notebook, fighting back tears: UH HUH SURE
Aziraphale, trying to put into words what hes finally allowing himself to think after millenia of repression: of course itd be simply apalling to… to ever see him try to be a saint, of course, in the traditional sense of the word. but he does have these moments where… see, i have… i have been to every place on Earth and done so many things while on the job. and still i find no…. no love like his love, and the way he… the way he misbehaves, i see now it’s not just malice or nature, no…. and i simply couldn’t… feel this way for someone who didnt do those things…………..
hozier, scribbling furiously: oh yeah totally
hozier: *releases From Eden*
Crowley, breaking his door down: I TOLD YOU THAT IN CONFIDENCE YOU BITCH
I love doing nothing, what I don’t love is the inevitable overthinking that comes with doing nothing
Percy Jackson episode 3 + text posts
The way Percy “loyalty is my fatal flaw” Jackson didn’t even FINISH hearing out Medusa. He heard “betray-” and fucking bolted like omfg THIS is my Percy no one’s doing it like him
- Muriel Zusperreguy
- Beatriz Stix-Brunell
Leah Jeffries is playing Annabeth like she’s one thousand years old in the body of a twelve-year-old and she is so correct.