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On Happiness and Home

Lady with grain stems caught in her hair, Lady with strong hands for kneading dough, Lady with strong arms for the dough-shovel, Lady with sun-darkened skin and oven-fires caught in her eyes, Lady whose finery is a worker's tunic, Lady whose perfume is sweetwort and honey, Your voice is the music of flowing beer, Your laughter the chuckle of a clay bottle. Come home from your circling dance around the fire, Passing hand to hand and lips to lips! Come home from the young lioness's roaring tavern, From the kissing of wounds, from the heat of the sun. Ninkasi who gladdens the heart, come home! You are expected, awaited, beloved. Your strong hands have browned like good bread in the sun, And they slide over the pale skin of a fine noblewoman. Her milk-pale skin like fine holy linen, Her slender arms like slim reeds full of grace. Fingers calloused from the churning dough-shovel Twine with long digits like fragile spiders, Graceful ivory combs that spin long hair into art. She is quiet where you are joyful, She is delicate where you are vivacious, Yet her skill speaks with a voice as complex as poetry, As colorful as a tavern tale And just as clever in her transformation. Press your glad mouth to her buttoned lip, Lady. Let Uttu weave your black, barley-flecked hair. Lahar and Ashnan look upon you and smile, Emesh and Enten break bread under your roof, For what has more beauty than such perfect union Of a glad heart and a beautiful wife?

May Uttu be praised, may the name of Ninkasi be honey on my lips, And for the pen of her servant may Nisaba be praised.

——— *I wrote this with a heaping spoonful of UPG. There is no historical evidence for Ninkasi being gay for Uttu. Cool? Cool. Sumerian wives did brew beer though, as far as I can tell. **Lahar, the 'sheep' god notably referenced in the debate between Sheep and Grain, is heavily important to Uttu the goddess of weaving, just as Ashnan the grain goddess is important to Ninkasi, who is the brewer and the beer. ***Emesh, the god of 'summer', and Enten, the god of 'winter', as seen in the debate between Summer and Winter, both have a great deal to do with grain and livestock. From what I can tell by making inferences from other cultures, Summer is the time for brewing and Winter is the time for weaving, and it seemed significant enough that I had to include them.

Learned how to do basket weaving yesterday at @artisanguildofsouthernil on Instagram. Was super fun!

Some of you may have seen the nol collective go fund me post for Husam the weaver — I just wanted to also provide their PayPal name and Venmo to send over after getting in contact with them about it. They said it's encouraged to donate to these as they get the money quickly as opposed to GFM:

Paypal: @/nam2692

Venmo: @/nam26

They're a really trustworthy organization, and the people helping out are professional culture workers, so please consider donating.

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“I don’t want other people to decide who i am. i want to decide that for myself. ” – Emma Watson

Happy international women’s day!

My friends and I in middle school talking about how we would most definitely get abortions if any of us got pregnant

watching cinema as a representation of love

Atonement - Robbie scrambles down a ladder and finds himself at the foot of a giant screen where the huge face, full of doomed melancholy, of Jean Gabin leans forward to kiss the shining lips of Michèle Morgan in Quai des Brumes. As Gabin kisses her a second time, Robbie, dwarfed by the enormous black-and-white image, buries his face in his hands.

La La Land - …Everything here glows with the warmth of old 16mm home movies… These are memories, fluttering by, grabbed at random – and yet all concocted, dreamed up out of nothing…

Inglourious Basterds - Shosanna stares down the packed house of Nazis and says in french: “I have a message for Germany. That you’re all going to die.” Hitler and Goebbels react. Hirschberg reacts. Marcel smiles.

Cinema Paradiso - Salvatore is overwhelmed, moved to tears. It is the most profound act of love he has ever seen. He laughs as tears shine in his eyes. Up on the screen, another kiss, the last kiss marking the happy ending of a film. And the age-old words appear ‘THE END’.

@the2headedcalf / On Love, Alain de Botton /  @tilthat / Céline Sciamma / Twitter: Nightshiftmp3 / Twitter: Thepartypope / Portrait of a Lady on Fire / The Clean House, Sarah Ruhl / The History of the Band-Aid / weird-facts.org / @roses–and–rue

They need to make more men like this 😔

war of the foxes, richard siken / the good place (2016) / twin size mattress, the front bottoms / fleabag (2016) / jamie anderson / wandavision (2021) / in the realm of grief, noor unnahar / twin peaks (1990) / on earth we're briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong

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Milk and villains:

Let the Right One In (2008) No Country for Old Men (2007) Get Out (2017) Inglourious Basterds (2009) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Succession (S2E3)

Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield (1957) Julia Bowen and Sofia Vergara (2014) Maude Apatow and Sydney Sweeney (2021)

...Subjected thus, how can you say to me I am a king?

#shipping your faves like

gay cinema + rückenfigur, part 3. [see: part 1, part 2]

Friedrich is famous for capturing a melancholic solitude through images of lone wanderers at rest in sublime landscapes. But these figures just as often come in pairs, which complicates the sense of absolute isolation often read into these paintings. In Two Men by the Sea, Friedrich depicts two figures seen from behind standing side by side on a barren rocky coast. Their motionless silhouettes gaze independently into a cloudy vortex of sea and sky. But as much as these men are together, they seem to be alone. Their eyes do not meet, nor do they engage in an intimate embrace. The only sense of community or collectivity that their shared experience of nature evokes is one of “being singular plural” … — Nina Amstutz, “Caspar David Friedrich and the Aesthetics of Community”

1. Fire Island (2022) dir. Andrew Ahn 2. Grace and Frankie 1x01 – “The End” (2015) dir. Tate Taylor 3. My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant 4. A Girl At My Door (2014) dir. July Jung 5. Lovesong (2016) dir. So Yong Kim 6. Dead to Me 1x01 – “Pilot” (2019) dir. Amy York Rubin 7. Feel Good 2x06 (2021) dir. Luke Snellin 8. The Haunting of Bly Manor 1x04 – “The Way It Came” (2020) dir. Liam Gavin 9. Your Name Engraved Herein (2020) dir. Liu Kuang Hui 10. Hacks 2x05 – “Retired” (2022) dir. Paul W. Downs

Marilyn Monroe’s iconic subway grate scene from THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (1955) referenced in film and TV

#shipping your faves like

A collection of braided grass baskets I made last summer

This is the best of them, but there are a few more, and a whole lot of extra braided grass that I haven't used yet. I even made a hat

Unfortunately, they are now building on the empty lot that I was collecting tall grass from, so I guess this project is over.

some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps