Thursday, May 4, 2k17: EXAM TIPS

I love spring because tumblr gets all aesthetic 💐

i love spring bc persephone gets to leave the underworld and be with her mom

Ella Dawson has genital herpes, and she wants to tell you about it. 

She’s not speaking up for the shock value — she’s telling you because she wants all of us to be able to talk about STIs without shame or stigma. When we make it okay to talk about, she says, people are more likely to get tested and less likely to be afraid to share their status. 

In her badass talk at TEDxConnecticut College, Ella tells the story of her diagnosis, how she overcame feeling like “human trash,” and why we need to end the stigma — now. It’s packed with information (and a shot of humor), and if you didn’t already agree with her, you will by the time she’s done.

Watch the full talk or read the transcript here.

(Full disclosure: Ella is TED’s social media manager. This post was written by her boss who is so incredibly proud of how fearlessly she speaks out.)

Has anyone ever been in this building?

Very good sai ref

i get a ton of asks about my SAI brushes again, and these are kinda outdated (and incorrectly translated in some places, i believe?) so there you go

tip: pixel eraser is just a pixel brush with opacity on 0

The reason I've been taught is the Jewish Temple being destroyed. It's like that Temple was destroyed, but the couple now has an obligation to create a spritual one in their home.

The explanation to balance the joy of the wedding, and add seriousness to the occasion I think is based on that. (There's a story in talmud where a rabbi saw the other rabbis there were too excitable so he smashed a really fancy cup and they shut up and chilled a bit.)

I can’t believe Into the Spiderverse casually made Peter Parker canonically Jewish. I feel valid in this chili’s tonight.

Pretty. adorable. Loving. Sweet.

ily

Fish, ca. 1390-1336 B.C.E., Brooklyn Museum: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

Painted pottery fish, interior hollow and fitted with six unpainted pottery pellets. Face area, tail, dorsal and anus fins and underbody painted light blue. Scales painted with black outline on tan background, in part colored blue and red. Eyes, mouth and gills incised. Anus in raised relief. Possibly a rattle but more probably a food offering intended to furnish supply of fish to deceased. Condition: Minor chips on tail and fins. Tail assembled from two pieces. Pellets probably represent eggs. Size: 2 9/16 x 4 7/16 x 1 ¼ in. (6.5 x 11.2 x 3.2 cm) Medium: Clay, pigment

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3520

This is so lovely!

~fionahsieh

I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.