Bird pins (brooches) made out of scrap materials by Japanese Americans held in internment camps during World War II.
From The Art of Gaman: Arts & Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946 by Delphine Hirasuna (Ten Speed Press, 2005).
Gaman is a Japanese term of Zen Buddhist origin which means “enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity”.
I have become obsessed with long term nuclear waste disposal warnings
LOOK AT THE HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE PROPOSED TO WARN FUTURE CIVILIZATIONS I'M GOING TO CRY
Like this is the closest thing we're ever gonna have to old gods I'm really losing my mind
@jonathan-sins EXACTLY... THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKIN ABOUT BABY
OH UNFORTUNATELY, all I want in the world now is one of these bonkers 1900s German bisque “Snow Babies” figurines commemorating Robert Peary and Frederick Cook’s Messy race for the North Pole!!!! THANKS, ANTIQUES FREAKS
(I will note tho to my antiques pals that in fact!–neither of them died in the Arctic, or by murder. But there are like, a hundred other points of interest in this wild shipmates-to-nemeses story)
“Funny to think of this place as home, isn’t it?”
Photo of an Inuit drawing depicting men playing football by an unidentified masted ship, possibly Erebus or Terror:)
and a shoutout to the two Māori men who travelled to Vienna in 1859, got themselves apprenticed as printers (and incidentally became accomplished ballroom dancers), and finally had an audience with Franz Josef where they charmed him so much that he sent a printing press to New Zealand….which was promptly used from 1861 to print the newspaper of the Kingitanga anti-colonial movement.
these photos of casa susanna were the first pictures i ever saw of trans women in the past and theyve been important to me since coming out
these pictures are very rare and very important.
Read the full story of Casa Susanna here.
Make a Vampire character who’s lived through several waves of the common language’s development and can’t let go if certain gramatical habbits from different time eras.
So like, thou ist a horrid creature, an absolute cur, but go off i guess
… can i use that phrase irl?
Absolutely you can and I encourage more uses of similar phrases that just completely fuck up the chronology of the english langauge. I wanna hear 15th century english mixed with surfer speak mixed with current age internet lingo like all the time.
Like this? Well my dude, seems like a weasel hath not such a deal of splean as you’re toss’d with. Chill already, you’re not valid.
You are an unrighteous, bastardly gullion. Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell. When you die, I will face God and walk backwards into hell just so that I can beat your ass in the afterlife too.
I love the idea of a vampire who’s language travels back in time as they get pissed.
I grieve for thee in these trying times. Alexa play Despacito
Reading these is like literary whiplash
This whole post is gold, but the comment about the vampire’s dialect “devolving” into older and older periods when he’s angry stood out to me.
It’s a cinematic cliché for a person of any foreign nationality to revert to their native language when angry (I usually see it with Spanish-speaking characters), and my southern accent deepens as I get angrier.
It makes sense that an immortal character who saw the eras of his language change and evolve over time would speak more and more archaically as he got angrier.
Historical linguists decide to get especially ancient vampires pissed off in order to study ancient languages
are you telling me that if I get a 5000yo vampire angry enough I can directly test the glottalic theory?
there’s something really cool about watching people get attached to a historical figure
like, i start off every single one of my classes by reading to my students from marcus aurelius’s meditations, and you would be amazed how much a middle schooler can love a stoic philosopher from ancient rome. they love to try and figure out what each reading means (especially if it’s about death lol). they get so excited when they hear about marcus aurelius outside of class and make sure to tell me the next time they see me. when i miss a day, they insist that their substitute reads their marcus aurelius quote for them. by the end of the year, they love marcus aurelius. he’s basically their friend. anytime he has a weird quote, they fondly say things like “oh, marcus, back at it again”
there’s a certain joy people can get from realizing that somebody from the ancient past was actually super relatable and enjoyable, and i just think that’s neat
There’s also joy to be had in the opposite, in seeing kids judge the fuck out of a historical figure and give them the stink eye. Got a whole class of pre-teens fucking mad at Henry VIII and groaning every time he gets a new wife. Absolutely disgusted look on their faces, shaking their head, ready to cancel the fuck out of the entire Tudor dynasty.
