My dad was raised buddhist and when I watched bill and Ted with him he was like “these guys are unironically the most enlightened people on the planet. They are leaving Samsara for sure” and that man has never been more right about anything ever
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i love that richard siken is just chilling and having fun interacting with his fans on twitter while neilman is fighting for his fucking life everyday on tumblr
I LOVE ONE (1) POETRY MAN
i just love that he can publish 4 visceral autobiographical poems in quick succession about devastating grief and then on twitter he’s just being a silly little guy.
I want to live my hot girl summer like I’m stephen maturin in the galapagos- just a straw hat, a sexy embroidered robe, some lizards, and vibes
his robe is actually printed not embroidered! historically, fabric like this would have been hand-printed with a series of complex, interlocking carved wooden blocks like this:
this is actually better than embroidered given the goal of costuming as 'communicating a lot of info about a character without exposition'. Banyan robes like this would have been worn as fashionable 'undress' at home by gentlemen - so not really appropriate to be traipsing around doing naturalist things. But, from this production's standpoint it is serving to show Maturin as softer, more 'natural' and more casual in contrast to the more stiff/traditional naval characters.
by the early 19th c. embroidery was already largely relegated to formal wear for men, until it basically disappeared from menswear almost entirely later in the century (aside from occasional exceptions like livery or a subtle design on a waistcoat or an emblem or something).
Cottons printed in India - like chintz and calico (both words derive from Hindi) - and later, fabrics printed in Europe which basically copied Indian design & aesthetics wholesale, were very popular for more informal clothing in the west starting in the later part of the 18th century. Here's a dress with a quite similar pattern from a similar period:
The wiki lists banyans as being inspired by kimono, but considering the relatively limited exposure the west had to Japanese material goods prior to the mid 19th c. and the fact that 'banyan' has sanskrit origins, I think it's far more likely that the style of garment was inspired by the many open-robe style overgarments worn throughout the near east and through southeast Asia.
Many banyans were imported garments with minimal modification, (or even could be made directly for export to the European market - a similar thing happened in the late 19th century with Western women snapping up and wearing kimono as dishabille at the height of late 19th c. Japonisme)
There are also a lot of chintzes that were hand painted, rather than printed! Like this 18th century fragment in the Smithsonian.
To keep it real I debauch a sloth
An 8,000-year-old marble figurine of a voluptuous woman was unearthed in 2016 in the Neolithic urban settlement of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey. The figurine is 17 centimeters long, 11 centimeters wide and weighs one kilo.
#its crazy to me that 8000 years ago people shaped like that mustve existed for them to make statues shaped like that #like bodies similar to mine have always existed #crazy tags via @jellabean22
Yes! People act like fatness is an invention of the 20th century and “our hunter-gatherer ancestors wouldn’t have been obese!” Bullshit. Fat people have always existed, and our ancestors thought they were beautiful! <333
This being common is an invention of 20th century, though. And we have since learned it’s a recipe for early death.
No, it’s not a recipe for early death, please stop mindlessly rabbiting back what the multi-billion-dollar weightloss industry pumps into the world.
I beg you to listen to like one episode of Maintenance Phase or read a book or two. This modern obsession with thinness is not just wrong, it’s racist as hell.
Firmly in placeby the time the diet industry began to flourish in the 1920s, the development of fat stigma was related not only to cultural anxieties that emerged during the modern period related to consumer excess, but, even more profoundly, to prevailing ideas about race, civilization and evolution. For 19th and early 20th century thinkers, fatness was a key marker of inferiority, of an uncivilized, barbaric, and primitive body. This idea—that fatness is a sign of a primitive person—endures today, fueling both our $60 billion “war on fat” and our cultural distress over the “obesity epidemic.”
Whatever you do, stop putting this fatphobic and factually wrong bullshit on shit you reblog from me. Medical fatphobia almost lost me the use of everything below my L1 vertebra because a doctor was so BLINDED by my BIG FAT ASS that he didn’t even bother to do any tests past looking at me and saying YEAH YOU FAT. I lived in fucking agony for years because my doctor didn’t listen. He just put me on 1300 calories a day (which is about what you feed a fucking toddler, not a 35yo adult) and ignored me when I said I wasn’t getting better. I just needed to work harder to lose the weight. Never mind that I was furious with everyone all the time because I was literally starving, and couldn’t exercise because I couldn’t fucking walk from the pain.
When I needed help to walk to the bathroom at work, my wife finally got pissed off enough to demand that I go back to my family doctor, who looked at me for a very literal thirty seconds before sending me to get an MRI of my spine. That very simple test which - again - the other doctor didn’t bother ordering for two years as I slowly lost my ability to do fuck all and missed doing cool shit with my daughter from ages 10-12? Yeah, it revealed a 2.5cm tumor growing on my spinal cord sheath, compressing my spinal cord.
I was really lucky - it was benign. I didn’t die like my friend Ginny, who had a tumor in the same spot and lost the tumor lottery. I’m lucky. Genuinely. I know of far too many fat people who fucking died because their doctors didn’t do the same tests on them that they do on skinny people.
And it’s all fucking lies! It’s all fucking lies. All that suffering and fatphobia is because of racism and money.
And here you are, vomiting up the same fucking garbage.
Don’t respond. You’re wrong, and I’m not arguing with you. Sit down, shut up, and learn before you keep perpetuating the same harmful bullshit that caused me years of agony.
fatness plus fatphobia is a recipe for early death. And it’s the fatphobia that’s critical.
Being fat will not kill you.
Doctors blaming health issues on your being fat and refusing to find the actual problem will kill you.
I suppose, on paper, that if a doctor says “The problem you are having is because you are fat” and then the patient dies, it could look like being fat killed them.
But that misses the critical part where the doctor didn’t look for the actual cause.
Fatphobia kills.
Fatphobic doctors kill.
Gonna also mention that studies have found being overweight in old age as a predictor of better health
Yup! But that would require reading literally any of the things I linked rather than just going off on a fatphobic jaunt lol
*claps* Well said @vaspider !
I think “fat,” and also “female” are two diagnoses that get overdone in lieu of -actual!- medical care!
Double whammy to anyone who is both 😢
As someone who has been at various points on the scale, my comfort zone lodges me into the “obese” category when looked at purely by modern medicine.
(It totally ignores the fact that I can do a 7mi hike easily, and sling weights easily. 500lbs+ leg press, anyone?)
I try to keep my weight from getting too high because I have joint issues. If I go above my happy weight, my knees let me know. — Kinda the same with my lifts: if it’s not the good hurt, I reassess and make changes.
That being said, there’s a good 50lbs range that fits as my comfort zone. Anywhere in that range, and I’m good. If I go below it, my health suffers. If I go above, my joints suffer. Since I like to hike, and I’ve already had knee surgeries in the past, I listen to them.*
Conventional medical wisdom would say that’s wayyyy too broad a range. My body and solid health says otherwise.
Other people may have wider or narrower healthy ranges depending on their frame.
I do believe *prepares to duck* that certain medical conditions can be caused, or aggravated by, an excess of adipose tissue… BUT!, the same is true when people do not have enough body fat! Multiple studies (across multiple species), has shown that being even mildly underweight is WORSE for a creature than being mildly overweight.
*listening to one’s body is a balance, and sometimes does require adjusting one’s diet and activity for one’s preferred results. Everybody, and every BODY! is different.
Ancient Egyptian Nobleman
This relief shows a beautiful, delicately carved depiction of an unknown Ancient Egyptian Nobleman, dating from the 19th or 20th Dynasty. It is believed that this fragment may have come from a tomb in Saqqara.
Read more:
https://egypt-museum.com/ancient-egyptian-nobleman/
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