“Nude women are only Art if there’s an urn in it,” said Fred Colon. This sounded a bit weak even to him, so he added: “Or a plinth. Both is best, o’course. It’s a secret sign, see, that they put in to say that it’s Art and okay to look at.”
As someone who does ceramics, that twisted, broken up fork would make an excellent tool for slipping and scoring, or maybe even just texturing. It would make a super cute bug print, or make easy, perfectly spaced lines at a farther difference than a typical fork. It can be used for creating, rather than just feeding some giant machine. Just because it wouldn’t be particularly good at being used as it is expected to be used, which is not to say that a creative person couldn’t find a way to make it work, does not make it useless. In the right hands, even the most seemingly “useless” object can be functional, or even groundbreaking in the right hands.
Also, people aren’t objects, and you dont need to be able to “use” them in order for them to exist.
Although the third item may not be useful as a fork, it may not be a fork at all. It might be a spongulator or breckinaid or wizmark. I don’t know,
it’s none of my business, I’m not a toolologist or a breckinmonger; I am only am amateur curator of mysterious artifacts. I
(Whatever that particular strange item is, I’m sure that some archaeologist has one of its siblings in a drawer somewhere, labeled as a “ritual object.” We’ve probably been making them since the Bronze Age. Scholars probably throw up their hands helplessly when another one of these comes up; they debate their origins, label them as a fragment of a lost conversation with unknown gods.)
But the picture presents a series of items, presented as if they already have a relationship with each other, in which one of the items has failed. And, like, I’m not pretending to be an Art Critique here, but I feel like we got over that in the early 1900s with the Surrealists, yeah?
That’s the literal entire plot of The Ugly Duckling (1843).
Just because something’s been plonked down in context with some other things that it vaguely resembles doesn’t mean that it’s somehow Bad, because it fails to Resemble the Other Things, especially if it’s a pile of things that somebody arranged. The person who arranged the photograph deliberately arranged a context to make it seem as if the item had failed at being a fork. But if they had taken the same non-matching item and lit it artistically, then that same artist would be demanding accolades for their Very Original Picture of a Breckinaid.
Figure 2. Breckinaids are frequently exploited by artists and upcyclers, due to their abundance and versatility. They are commonly thought to be more useful, beautiful and valuable than forks, although, of course, that is not everything.
However, all that being said: as OP says, people aren’t forks or breckinaids (or even wizmarks). And we are not measured by our ability to fork or breck.
Although, obviously, we are all obligated to give a fork about each other.
Hi all! With the spate of accidental blog deletions recently, I thought I’d write up a little post about a Python program by @discoinferno that I used to back up my blog!
My entire blog, all 57,649 posts at the time of backup, are now stored on my computer’s hard drive. 40 gigabytes of blog! It took about 8 hours to download, and I feel so much safer having it all saved.
Obviously I haven’t gone through the entire file to make sure all the photos and such are there, but I have gone through and spot checked, and it all looks great.
If you want to use the program I used, here is what you do:
3) Click “Download ZIP,” and put the .zip file wherever is convenient for you. I put it in Documents, but you can put it in your default Downloads folder if that’s easier.
4) Unzip the file. In Windows, you can just right click and select “Extract all” from the menu. If that doesn’t appear, you may need a program like WinRar, which is free and downloadable online.
5) In the unzipped folder, tumblr-utils-master, there will be a folder with the same name. Double click on that and take a look at the files. You are going to click on the file called “tumblr_backup_for_beginners.md” and tell Windows to open it in Microsoft Word or whatever word processor you use.
6) The instructions in that file are amusing and easy to understand, and they will walk you through the rest of the process! Just follow them exactly, and you should be all set!
Additional notes before running the program:
1) PLUG IN YOUR LAPTOP
2) You’re going to want to go into your power settings and change the settings that make your computer turn off the screen, go to screensaver, or sleep after certain amounts of time. You don’t want to have to restart this process two hours in, trust me lol
3) Make sure you have enough space on your hard disk for your entire blog. I don’t know what happens if you don’t? I assume the program just stops, which is a lot of wasted time.
Good luck!
EDIT: This does not back up videos unless you download another package. Check out the “tumblr_backup.md” file for more info.
This still works right now.
It’s a simple bit of following directions. I’ve never coded in python before, and I followed the built in beginner instructions from the .zip and it works out just fine.
I recommend if you are wanting to back stuff up, do it with this. I started the tumblr backup about a week ago and it is still not done nor is it available to me to download yet. I can’t see me getting that before the 17th either, given that there’s big old swathes of it they will want removed.
Today I have received several asks from Women specifically or indirectly asking if their weight would prevent them from training in Martial Arts. I am upset that society’s devaluation of bodies not compliant with current beauty standards has resulted in Women believing they cannot train to protect themselves and others because their bodies do not conform to Consumer Culture.
I want to say right now that weight and body type are not factors of whether or not you can take up Martial Arts or working out. Factors to consider instead are current or old injuries and how much you currently exercise and what muscle groups you exercise; this is to gauge how strong your muscles are so that you can safely push yourself in increments to meet your goals. Doing too much too quickly can result in injury or severe health problems that require medical intervention. That is why I advise people to start small and progress at their own pace. Victory lies in the slow development of skills.
That being said, I know that it helps to see those that look like you doing what you want to take up yourself. Many of the images I have seen and reblogged so far are of the same body type.
So, I need your help. I have opened the “Submit a post” page on this blog. Submit photos or videos of yourself training in Martial Arts. Let’s see if we can get all body types represented on this blog to serve as a reminder to our fellow Women that they are not alone in their quest to reach peak Femmeliness and they can do anything they set their minds and bodies to do. This is Philia, the deep friendship between women and the love of Femmeliness. It means we need to build each other up and support each other.
If you don’t want to submit a post, make a post on your blog, name what Martial Arts or workout you are doing, and tag me in it. I will reblog it from you.
““Sickness” as we speak of it today is a capitalist construct, as is its perceived binary opposite, “wellness.” The “well” person is the person well enough to go to work. The “sick” person is the one who can’t. What is so destructive about conceiving of wellness as the default, as the standard mode of existence, is that it invents illness as temporary. When being sick is an abhorrence to the norm, it allows us to conceive of care and support in the same way. Care, in this configuration, is only required sometimes. When sickness is temporary, care is not normal.”
Verylisa 