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Who knows if they'll pull a Battlestar Galactica and connect it to our world? They very well could, and I might really dig that.

Zounds! I hope Grendel comes to get you in the middle of the night 🤬

Watching Three Pines has caused much nostalgia for my time au Canada 🇨🇦 Grainy and tiny as they are, these are favorites from my photos of Été 2004 at Laval, in "la Capitale Nationale" ⚜️ From the chateau to the campus marmottes, I miss it so much... especially the tunnels that would come in handy on wintry days like these ❄️ Still mad that the whales were not too social in the gulf, and that we didn't get to perform my "ou sont les baleines?" skit for the other Anglo students 🐳 #threepines #québec #ocanada #nostalgia (at Québec) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmh8f7WM-6MINtqLEOfrP_YpnGH65GLW952uMA0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Still exploring Cassandra from the Iliad, which leads to thinking about #influence 🤓 That's essentially what she loses with the curse: "the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself." 📖 Meanwhile Helen of Sparta gets a major influence boost from the gods 🙄 beauty over brains 🙄 then again, Frederick Sandys reminded me that society prefers to pit girl against girl. I've also been thinking about grade school days, so maybe I was most influential back then 🙃 "When she speaks, they listen," is a weird phrase to remember, but it's forever in my brain. My 8th grade science teacher wrote it in a note to my parents. Was I an anti-Cassandra? Wielding such power without even speaking most of the time 😆 Who else peaked in middle school? Just me? 💁‍♀️ #cassandracomplex #iliad #helenoftroy #cassandra #fuckthepatriarchy #preraphaelite #arthistorybuff https://www.instagram.com/p/CmP-ZQnsqbUMJqhp3Tg-WZ3tLzRrRijhanFmlA0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Current situation: watching artists work 📺 "...to become again, this species of bird, of which only one individual exists in the world, and which when decrepit arises from its pyre made of aromatic plants is said fabulously to become again young, to undergo happy former periods of life. In reality it is the date palm [see P. dactylifera], undergoing happy former periods of life to become again until it finishes..." 🦚♾️🌴 Carl Linnaeus, "Paradoxa," Systema Naturae #linnaeus #museumnerd #arthistorybuff (at Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland moCa) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClG-MDuuIvBKLCuDbK496qcadHsugbSSpYUq4o0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

AKA the Just-World Fallacy Also a good example of #privilege 🧐 Which fish are you? Which would you rather be? Myself: started as a big fish (in a small pond), then I reached the ocean 🌊🫤 I think I'd rather be coral, or perhaps an anemone, something that won't overthink 🪸 #justworldphenomenon #justworldfallacy #justworldhypothesis https://www.instagram.com/p/ClEroIkuFLVrS1ncSUrKfeoPdH1c668zEYfCfs0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1983, acrylic on canvas

So I still have the itch to write or otherwise produce something about art and the body and fitness and sports... The podcast @maintenancephase is only making the itch worse, but it's excellent 😘 *Titian, Venus and the Lute Player, ca. 1565-1570, oil on canvas at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC I wouldn't mind looking like a Titian tbh 🤷‍♀️ #arthistorynerd #arthistory #recliningnude #venus #latenightideas #podcastinspo #delusionsofgrandeur #titianbody #artbody #gymhater #bodypositivity https://www.instagram.com/p/CSPd2wKrXwEDWTL0QZaSp-wDw7NjtTbn4HHHuM0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Some doodles that actually look all right from this perspective 🤔 #artathome #watercolor #suprematism #postimpressionism #cezanne (at Cleveland, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLQHmFasC3D-wfkjUn8GhhBzUEzcfdMCTGGqS40/?igshid=1163lfxmpb2cp

Stay tuned for circuitboard detailing on my shiny green table...I hope to have as few happy accidents as possible 🖌️ Meanwhile, I don't know dozens of fighters, but I know a few, and NOT ONE OF YOU TOLD ME ABOUT VIOLENT BOB ROSS!!!!! I told you boys I'm an art teacher, so what gives?!?!?! So far, he seems like a good guy with some great hair...so I'mma follow him unlike a few other MMA personalities I could name🥊👀❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤 (at Cleveland, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLQBk7lMJzwx5zb3baY4jDb5dfcQjvUvRiGpoc0/?igshid=60yagxvkityu

Some day, probably next fall, I'll work up the guts to Tweet this with Paleolithic art 🏹🍑 #huntergatherer #thicc #memestagram #historynerd #schoolofmemes https://www.instagram.com/p/CKIZ39is6vYMmmAkJo_6tB1fOcByJw-vfH8zPg0/?igshid=10q8i9l9tfny

This is the OG instagram, the square, washed-out photos of our parents' youths. Not everyone understands my capability or need to include Mom in everyday conversation, and not everyone is comfortable talking about loss, but if you can manage it, #phoebewallerbridge has written some profound moments of clarity: "I don't know what to do with it...with all the love I have for her." "I'm frightened...[of] Forgetting things. People." "I think you know how to love better than any of us. That's why you find it all so painful." "You're the way you are because of her, and it's those bits that you need to cling to." #motherlessdaughters #unmothered #grief #quotes #fleabag #oldphotos https://www.instagram.com/p/CKIWAY5sflkvG6-wj728FZxrs28ErWub8ulz7g0/?igshid=sz02im1fq6t5

Google Images is unfortunately crowded with multiple sellers of reproductions that are often flipped, recolored, no date 🙄 so this is just an informal exploration of the namesake in art. Evolution of Deborah: Doré 1865, Landelle 1901, Chagall 1956, Cruz 2000s #prophetess #deborah #arthistory #arthistorynerd #biblicalart https://www.instagram.com/p/CJrJv0Kswk_vr_LG3WX4D7J3rzQa7d62Da1Vv80/?igshid=1lzy17cbyiyfw

Love me some diagrams 👩‍🏫❤️ #memestagram #venndiagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CI_1gwRsGBIJ1UjZs__3A7R1ROU2IDkTy1g2yU0/?igshid=1it2nrt3ugwae

I think I'm finished pasting, but now it's time for shading and contrast 🤔 #artathome #collage #craftyaf (at Cleveland, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIr0EH7Mky-lLAuoPoPd7MgOp4_TvGrtvj0Njc0/?igshid=1p3q61mu30jwd