Some Of My Favorite Tiny Love Stories

some of my favorite tiny love stories

A Perfectly Normal Interview with Carmen Maria Machado Where Everything Is Fine

tag list

#! — catch-all tag

#we're in a garden — love, things that make me go 🥺

#on horror — horror tag

#vampires — vampire tag

#metamorphosis — literal and figurative change

#art — art tag

#tunes — music tag

#aes — aesthetic tag

#laugh track — stuff that gives me serotonin

#bi — bi tag

#a hundred thousand eyes — from boykeats, angel tag

#people are all we have got — from fleabag

#nobody nobody — from mitski

#cindersap — from sdv, nature tag

#parallels — aka web weaving

#plushies — plushie tag, full of soft things

#we are not friends we are sisters — from fleabag, things siblings will understand

Hey hi hello, I saw that you criticized how art museums encourage the dismissal of modern art pieces. I am wondering which aspects of art museum design encourages this behavior, and what could be done to improve modern art appreciation in museums.

Imagine the modern art wing of a museum.

Spare white walls.

Intense, even lighting.

Hard wooden floors.

No seating.

Maze-like, interconnected galleries.

Small plaques identifying the artist, year and title in clean sans-serif font.

These design choices are all in the service of making the art museum the best possible habitat for art.  The museum is a neutral void into which we place great works of beauty to be appreciated.  The work shines.  It’s unburdened by context.  It’s alluring and impressive and an utter fucking cipher if you don’t already know why it’s interesting.

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every instance of love from my newspaper’s community announcements (obituaries, memorials, births, birthdays, anniversaries, congratulations) - saturday, june 27 2020

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