a collage of three screenshots of hbo Rome showing bathing with the use of strigil, with a picture of actual strigil in the center. eggplant emoji is used to censor a penis
I am, however, a twelve years old at heart, because this was one of the slides
I had such... Moment at con with it when I was like "watch hbo Rome, kids. oh my gods, some of you are younger than this show is"
yea, it's just so cool. I have very vivid memories of watching it collectively with friends, it was airirng in polsih tv and we would log into chatroom to watch together (funny thing, it was on tv first at 8pm with some sex/violence censored and then at 11pm uncensored)
the fact that there's not only multiple accurate scenes in bathhouses, but also one that shows strigil in use? amazing. most shows would never.
yesss
I rewatched it last year (I needed screenshots for my history of bathing talk at convention, lol) and it's just. so good. I have some fanarts planned.
Keep saying "slop" in reference to AI.
At every opportunity.
The techbros are listening, and this word makes them so sad on the inside that they'll hoist themselves on their own Streisand Effect petard.
"you wouldn't download a" meme image that says "you wouldn't download a terment nexus"
ohno
skin on the inside of my ear decided recently that it's excellent place for a pimple and it was a nightmare (I had my share of pimples in stupid places over the years, but this was definitely the stupidest)
we got internet at home in 2005 and I consumed SO MUCH fanfiction in a very short span of time, lol
(yes we had internet cafes when I was a teen, but my anxiety back then was way too strong and I was scared to use computer in public because what if everyone can tell I'm not good at it ;D)
I *think* it was Tolkien, on a polish Tolkien site (general site that had a section for ff), and I was 23. it's important to note tho that I'm polish and home internet moved from "fancy" to "regular thing" in early 2000s when I was already an adult, otherwise it would've been different story
misery loves company
people whose whole mode of engagement with media is whining, comlaining and hate need to have their reactions validated, and they love to spread those misery around
to be fair, russian history is always relevant because moscow only knows how to do one thing
real thing I just said in semi-professional context: "I didin't have time for canibalism, I was busy with degeneracy"
it was all about art
Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.
sometimes we get lucky, indeed!
the best colours are always limited edition, I hate that
(I think you'd like royal rajah ruby, I remember if having the most beautiful depth)
help I'm looking at 2008 India collection and I'm tempted to find some of these (moon over mumbai is the one polish colour that never left me since 2008, and that colection really pulled me into nail polish world after I crawled out of depression, lol)
we're not immune to the allure of a good and inspiring colour name (and all issues aside, older location inspired OPI collections were really cool)
Four years of devastating, full-scale war as the rest of the world sends barely enough support and propaganda is rampant. My wish for Ukraine is that this nightmare ends, and soon. Slava Ukraini!
The AI "race" is a race to the bottom. To be profitable, companies will be motivated to agree to the terms of the highest bidder, leading to serious social repercussions. No amount of "safety and transparency policies" should convince us otherwise. 🧵
damn, I used to have most of this collection back in a day. It was a good one. I'm morally opposed to it but the colours were great (their India collection was also good)
tho the worst is when I get vintage silk shirts (I love vintage mens silk shirts) and they came in soft packaging that's entirely covered in tape. I can't use any tool to break into it because it will damage the shirt, but breaking into the tape with bare hands is... something else
I mean I appreciate when sellers pack my order securely, but once I ordered a 500gram bag of ghassoul clay chips and the paper bag came wrapped in 7 meters of shrink wrap. I know it was 7m because I measured it before sending very confused feedback email to the shop
(being (involuntarily) fem presenting nonbinary person sucks big times sometimes, but masc presenting and perceived nb people face some really vile shit)
at first I was a bit disappointed by casting white man, but them I changed my mind, because this *can* help some people internalize the fact that nonbinary people are not in fact only women lite (tm), but can also look in amy way, including masuline
I had a friend who got into it ca. 2008, I looked into it back then and it was one of these creepy insidious trad shit designed to appeal to young eco oriented, back-to-nature types. I had no idea it's spreading so much.
I’ve also been comparing AI to asbestos and radium—technology that had a bunch of benefits but then turned out to be deadly. The only difference is we already KNOW AI is killing people and they’re shoving it into everything anyway
sounds like a student behaviour
(btw, two days agpo I woke up to upstairs neighbours' samoyed letting out long monotonous howl and for a second I thought it's alarm siren. not a fun way to wake up)
we cannot fucking have nice things, sigh
