David Lynch’s photography, assorted.
1-4: Selections from photography collection “Small Stories”
5: Woman Thinking (1)
6: Woman Thinking (2)
David Lynch, selected paintings and lithographs.
“When I’m not painting, I’m thinking about painting.”-David
the reification of ghibli aesthetics to be zealously defended with copyright is funny
okay so cutesyfied ghibli was already the domain of the trad adjacent cottage core blogger. now hindutva fascists are using it. the white house is memorialising the violence of deportations with it. cute and cozy is the new fash aesthetic.
honestly: cute & cosy was the old fash aesthetic, too! cute & cosy is one of those political stylings that never goes out of fashion. people will typically point to the documented popularity of disney media amongst both the german citizenry & reich officership (despite their vocal disavowal/disapproval of it in the latter case) to illustrate this as a connection with historical precedence, but it goes far further back than that, to settling the frontiers at least. so much language in legal declarations permitting dispossession and eradicative force in the settler colony emphasises 'tranquility', a return (or accomplishment) of idyllic life. the sell of settlement was beautiful sights & endless opportunities for the intrepid and their families. peaceful life--comfort--is achieved through absenting, very deliberately, certain existences. and so the mere presence of these becomes frictions; threats. and what disturbs can be met with justifiable violence.
every 'silence' is explicitly a 'silencing', and the contemporary understanding of this could honestly be seen very well for years prior to this in how cosy lit + game fans react to any discussion of the appeal & appropriation of the prevalent aesthetics by reactionaries. people often quote baudrillard (iirc?) on the bored suburbanite waiting for something, some phenomenal and exciting violence, to wake them from their malaise, while misunderstanding that the suburbanite does not seek this excitement to live it but to then be one to extinguish it. "cosycore" often can and does--whether deliberately or not--feed into this fantasy of subjugative impetus & divine mandate.
Yall ever just want to be able to take ur body apart like a puzzle and put it back together? Idk I think if I could just pop myself open, take out my stomach and give it a good wash, re-string my spine, and squish my muscles around a bit it would fix me.
yeah i thin kthats normal
Like take all the pieces apart and give em a good shake and then put em back together.
I referred to something as a "real Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra moment" in conversation with someone who has never seen TNG, and let me tell you, that was a real Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra moment
25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025
- Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality
- Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway
- Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups
- Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay
- Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward
- Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient
- Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative
- Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!
- Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community
- DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!
- Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?
- Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.
- Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability
- Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough
- Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing
- Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work
- Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market
- Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question
- Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them
- Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area
- Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...
- Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable
- Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact
- Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive
- Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people
I liked this post so much I'm making it into a series of zines.
(Just noticed the typo on page 6 as I uploaded this, fml)
In Prince's funky name, amen.
Millennial here. All the above and:
Please send me the training or tutorial in a written format with maybe some screenshots if necessary. I don't want a video tutorial. I don't want to waste time trying to scroll to the exact moment in the instructions that I need and then have to pause and replay it because I missed the .01 seconds of actually relevant information.
Please. Text. Maybe some images for clarification. I can read. I promise.
Yes!!! Videos are such a waste of time and data.
Can you talk to men in a non-sexually charged way for a single second
This feels Tumblr-coded.
rah rah rasputin something something sour cream
He was a cat that smoked a whole bong
i have been noticing recently that people younger than me are too sensitive, while people older than me are not sensitive enough. which, if i'm correct, should be taken as a sign that the total reality penetration vortex is operating as intended -- within as few as five or six generations we may very well be producing babies who can directly perceive the wound at the heart of the world
