OUR PLANET 2019 – 2023・1x04 Coastal Seas
Jessica Jones Season 2 // one gif per episode "If I believed in God, I'd say her sense of humor is for shit."
MOSCHINO Spring/Summer RTW 1991 if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways
never believe anyone who tells you that corsetry was Made To Oppress Women. They don't know anything about what we've lost. They don't know about Pockets
did you know
DID YOU KNOW
DID YOU KNOW WHAT WE'VE
LOST??
Also the support! Y'all. Big boobs in proper corsets have so much less back pain.
I made myself a tie-on pocket to wear to work (because dress pants have none 🤬) and every time I use it I think of this. 1950s/60s, but still:
This is 100% the gay supervillain music video I’ve been waiting for.
I love campy gay villains, but gay villains of this type are amazing too and sorely underrepresented.
…Oh, so by “gay”, you mean. Actually gay.
I don’t usually reblog stuff like this but tbh this is the kind of content I live for.
Happy 10 year anniversary to these two, specifically
(single dropped Dec. 3, 2015, music vid hit youtube Jan 12, 2016)
I will never be accepted into the greater artist community until I learn to love the acrylic charm. Yes master the American social media artist selling mass produced acrylic charms with their own digital design printed upon it is the most exploited proletariat in the world. No master I will never ever learn about the exploitation of global south workers. Yes master the acrylic charm was spontaneously generated as soon as the Artist paid a completely arbitrary fee. No master the Artist is the only person who matters
A mid-sized western art youtuber can hire a team to design a plushie, have that plushie manufactured in a South Asian country, get it shipped to America, and sell it for 30 dollars. And this is just some arbitrary number with no geopolitical context and if you, the Consumer, think it's too expensive. Then you are Starving The Artist, the poor poor prole who can't afford to eat but can, somehow, afford to use the labor of 400 Bengali women to make a plushie of a frog wearing stockings.
Question for someone who literally grew up on the old internet: how were you supposed to find websites before the general search engine?
(With reference to this post here.)
In the very early days, the public-facing Internet was small enough that you could just, like, remember where everything was. Contrary to the modern Internet's rapid content churn and walled-garden siloing, early websites tended to have deep, statically preserved content archives and dense cross-site linking, so it wasn't uncommon to set about finding previously visited sites simply by retracing one's path from memory. Even simple bookmarking was sometimes derided as a crutch for people who were too lazy to learn how to navigate the Internet "properly"; indeed, once web browsers added built-in support for bookmark lists, some people refused to use them as a matter of principle!
Once the Internet grew to the point where this approach was no longer feasible, there was a period of a few years where various parties tried to construct human-curated, hierarchical directories of the entire Internet. This was, of course, doomed to fail, as the Internet was growing faster than it could be manually catalogued, but they gave it the old college try. Some popular search engines such as Yahoo actually started out as directories of this type, and only later added search functionality. Meanwhile, communities of interest adopted a more targeted approach, with dedicated "links" pages containing curated recommendations for other, similar sites becoming ubiquitous on personal websites, while users who lacked the time or expertise to offer curated links could participate in webrings and other volunteer-operated directory services.
(The idea of cataloguing the whole Internet according to a topical hierarchy led to some fascinating taxonomic decisions. At one point, Yahoo's directory had a subcategory specifically for sexually explicit Dungeons & Dragons resources, or "netbooks", as they were called at the time.)
Speaking of human-curated directories, I still have the family copy of The Whole Internet:
The bulk of the page count is concerned with how to use the internet, both on a concrete level (e.g. "here is a list of file transfer tools, how to use them, and a discussion of their tradeoffs") and a conceptual level (e.g. "what is the internet actually useful for", or "how do you figure out answers to questions about it this book didn't think to ask"). However, there is also a catalogue of sites -- some WWW, but many other protocols are also represented -- sorted by topic.
Here's the start of the directory of directories, listing sites that are, themselves, directories of sites:
BUCKY BARNES ✧ THE WINTER SOLDIER CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER, 2014 dir. The Russo Brothers
My sister and I by Lina Kusaite