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For the inaugural Arcade Feature, I'm excited to tell you about Beatrix Potter. Most people (including me) know her best for her picture books-
-which have sold over 250 million copies since they were published in the early 1900s.
Fun fact: In 1903, Peter Rabbit was the first fictional character to be made into a patented stuffed toy, making him the oldest licensed character.
But what really caught my attention is the work she was doing before Peter Rabbit came along.
Beatrix Potter had a scientific eye for detail, and was able to faithfully depict the world around her. In particular, she was interested in mycology.
In 1897, she put forward a paper to the Linnean Society in London... but as a woman was not allowed to be a member of the society nor attend the meeting when her paper was read. When the society's members did not pay much attention to her work, and fearing her samples to be contaminated, Potter withdrew her paper, which became lost. Only after Potter left hundreds of mycological artworks to a museum in the Lake District, UK, on her death in 1943, were her scientific talents recognized... Potter's precise and beautiful paintings and drawings of fungi are now helping modern mycologists in their efforts to identify species.*
Potter eventually moved away from books in favor of land management and farming. She was a prize-winning sheep breeder and a prosperous farmer, and bought several farms surrounding her own to preserve the unique hill country landscape. Much of that land now constitutes the Lake District National Park.
Keep an eye out for more Beatrix Potter throughout the month of February.
* Fry, C., & Wayland, E. (2024). Introduction. In The Botanists’ Library, The Most Important Botanical Books in History (1st ed., pp. 9–10). introduction, Ivy Press.
permanently sharing a bedroom with someone else is insane and the expectation that that is the basic unit of life partnership is probably a main reason marriages fail. imo
heavy, heavy, heavy agree. it’s not a feasible thing to me. once in a while? sure, let’s sleep in the same bed. every single day for the rest of the foreseeable future? get the fuck out of here. i’ve had some friend in honest to god good relationships tell me they had bad sleeps because of their partner fussing or waking up so much earlier than them or what-have-you and i can’t imagine living like that. like you can’t get up and go to your own space?
One of the many stupid feelings humans are capable of having is the private, repulsive rage of seeing someone getting support and sympathy for a problem no one helped you with when you were having it, either because you didn’t have anyone or because it never occurred to you that you could ask for help. Suddenly the world seems to split into two – the realm that contains people like them, the connected and loved – and the realm that contains you, the miserable and the alone, who must suffer in solitude. This is sufficiently horrible that you grasp for reasons or world-understandings to make this reality acceptable, and a mentally available one is that it is superior to be in the miserable solitude realm, that the problem is one that should be solved with self sufficiency and dignity. That this other person is pathetic for being aided and loved when you were not. Scorn is more palatable than confronting the notion that you could have received aid (if you had made different choices or been luckier), that you desperately wish you could have been aided but were not. Scorn is more palatable than the howling hunger for things to have been different for you. So your mind chooses scorn.
It is also a bad place to be. Human existence is full of such traps.
to add to this: there’s also cases where a lot of people ARE legitimately abandoned by their previous support groups even when they do reach out and ask for help. or passively ignored when they’re obviously struggling. nevertheless, this does not make the bitterness and scorn good
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OP: I accidentally wandered into a scenic spot at night right before they turned off the lights, and it triggered my megalophobia. It really looked just like the backrooms. (cr幸运Sally) (This location is the food court at Yangshuo Romance Park. The footage is 100% real on-location shooting, with zero special effects or post-editing of any kind.)
At Target this lady told her son he couldn’t have a Wonder Woman doll because “that’s for girls” and then bought her daughter the same one. It got me thinking about how often I see people bar young boys from appreciating girls/women as protagonists and heroes, and my own experience with it as a kid.
This would have had me crucified on tumblr 10 years ago but maybe we are ready for this conversation now:
If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.
This is a PSA to about 3/4s of the Portland Youth populace
everyone who reblogs this and is like "I ordered my own tea this week" or "I only barfed once when I had to give a presentation'- you are doing amazing sweetie. Have patience with yourself, you are relearning a skill so difficult that people get 4 year degrees to do it professionally.
Animals of the Lunar Mansions: Vermillion Bird (Part 4)
The 28 lunar mansions are a Chinese astronomical concept. Basically, they function like a zodiac for the moon, where the moon passes through a different mansion each day of the month. While India also has a concept of nakshatra, the asterisms are not strict equivalents.
The Chinese Lunar Mansions are aligned with seven "planets" of seven elements: Jupiter (wood), Venus (metal), Saturn (earth), Sun (light), Moon (darkness), Mars (fire), and Mercury (water). They also each have a guardian animal. The guardian animals are based on an expansion of the Chinese zodiac called the 36 Animals of the Hours (三十六禽). Days and hours were placed first in a cycle of 12, and then each unit was separated into three decans for a total cycle of 36, with an animal assigned to each decan. This system was used for divination, and then with the coming of Buddhism, for times of prayers. However, because there are only seven elemental planets, 8 animals were removed to leave a total of 28 animals for 28 mansions.
Each direction holds seven lunar mansions. Added together, they each form one mega-constellation. The constellation and guardian god of the South is The Vermilion Bird (朱雀/Zhuque).
Well/井
Element: Wood
Guardian: Wood Moose (or Jackal) of the Well (井木犴)
The Well asterism consists of the constellations Gemini and Columba, with extra stars from Orion, Canis Minor, Canis Major, and Monoceros. It also contains Canopus, which the ancient Chinese believe to be the southern polestar. To track the movements of Jupiter (he oldest complete Chinese calendars used Jupiter to mark years, though there are records of an Antares-Orion’s belt agricultural calendar), the Moon, and the Sun, Chinese astronomers created 12 stellar regions that roughly corresponded to the 12 constellations of the Western Zodiac. Gemini was the region known as "the Quail's Head", and remains the Vermilion Bird's head crest. This asterism derives its name from its squarish shape. 井 is a well, but can also refer to any squared-off or dug-out area, including an atrium/天井 a square field/井田, and a pitfall/陷阱. The Well is capable of trapping and devouring any danger, including the star gods of an enemy's horoscope. Hence, it is an auspicious star connected to victory in battle. Its god is capricious, lustful, and uncontrollable, constantly coming up with wild schemes. Its associated animal was originally a goose, but due to the unwritten rule of the Lunar Mansions' wood and metal animal resembling each other, it was changed 犴/An. 犴/An can mean a jackal or a moose, but both definitions are foreign loanwords. The original meaning of 犴 was a small village jail, as opposed to 獄, which was a bigger city prison. Both types of prison used guard dogs, hence the dog radical. By the Han Dynasty 𨻼/Bi emerged as a general word for jailhouse. The animal decorations carved on jailhouses and courtrooms were imagined as the draconic creature 狴犴/Bi-An, the "Jailing Beast". The first reference to 犴 as an actual animal is possibly the late Warring States Rites of Zhou, but no details are given on its appearance. 犴 was used to refer to the jackal, which comes from Buddhist missionaries transliterating the sanskrit word for jackal, Shrigala, as "射干"/"Shegan". However, 射 can also be pronounced Ye, and this pronunciation was considered more sophisticated in ancient China (the dang upper class with their posh accents). Thus, the word, with its new pronunciation, mutated into 野干 and 野犴, roughly, Yakan, which is now used in Japan to refer to fox spirits. 犴 has retained the meaning of "jackal", an animal that pre-modern Chinese dictionaries place in either India or Mongolia. Meanwhile, 犴 referring to moose is borrowed from Manchu 犴達罕/Kandahan.
(Personally, I prefer the moose.)
Moose
Jackal
Wood Moose of the Well: First depiction from Qiu Ying's Ming Dynasty imitation of Zhang Sengyou's The 5 Stars and 28 Heavenly Abodes. Second from the 28 Asterism statues of Fucheng Jade Emperor Temple.
Ghost/鬼
Element: Metal
Guardian: Metal Goat of the Ghost (鬼金羊)
The Ghost asterism centers around the Beehive Cluster in Cancer, as well as including extra stars from Vela and Hydra. It derives its name from its hazy appearance, which terrified ancient Chinese astronomers, who gave it the name of 積屍氣/Accumulated Corpse Gasses (the stench of decay emerging from a mass grave). This is a unlucky star connected to deaths and funerals. It represents the Vermilion Bird's eyes. Its god is calm and silent, but vindictive and prone to evil schemes. The associated animal is a goat. While the ancient Chinese domesticated both sheep and goats and referred to them as different types of "sheep", the goat was more readily available to the average person. The Chinese believe the goat to be an ugly creature. Eyes that have visible sclera are called "goat eyes", and considered a harsh and ugly physical feature. Yet neither goats nor sheep are disliked in Chinese culture. 羊 is pronounced "Yang", which becomes a pun on Yang or light energy. The image of three sheep or goats is used to welcome the New Year in a motif called 三羊開泰/Three Goats Bring Harmony. Lambs and kids hunch down to suckle, which brings to mind the image of respecting one's elders, so they are seen as symbols of filial piety. Sheep and goats are also known to be mostly harmless, thus the phrase "肥羊"/"fat sheep" is used for an easy victim.
Goat
Metal Goat of the Ghost: First depiction from Qiu Ying's Ming Dynasty imitation of Zhang Sengyou's The 5 Stars and 28 Heavenly Abodes. Second from the 28 Asterism statues of Fucheng Jade Emperor Temple.
Willow/柳
Element: Earth
Guardian: Earth Water Deer of the Willow (柳土獐)
The Willow asterism consists of stars in the "head" of Hydra and some extra stars from Cancer and Leo. It is shaped like a bent willow. Along with the next two mansions, it belongs to the region of "Quail Fire", or the body of the fiery quail that stretches over the zodiac constellations of Cancer, Leo, and Virgo. It represents the bird's mouth. This asterism governs food, wine, and parties. However, it is prone to negative influences from other lunar mansions, making it an unlucky star. Its god is forceful, resolute, and wiling to fight against injustice. Its associated animal is the water deer, a creature said to be so cowardly that it would fear its own reflection.
Water deer
Earth Water Deer of the Willow: First depiction from Qiu Ying's Ming Dynasty imitation of Zhang Sengyou's The 5 Stars and 28 Heavenly Abodes. Second from the 28 Asterism statues of Fucheng Jade Emperor Temple.
Stars/星
Element: Sun/light
Guardian: Sun Horse of the Stars (星日馬)
All lunar mansions are called "Star Abodes" in Chinese. However, this asterism is THE abode with the Stars. It actually refers to Alphard and its neighboring stars, which makes for a total of Seven Stars. Stars from Sextans, Leo, and Leo Minor are also included in this asterism. It represents the neck of the bird. It is mostly an unlucky star, but the dates it presides over are good for starting construction projects. It is also a patron of embroidery. Its god is relaxed and cheerful, speaking softly but persuasively, and knowing all about natural sciences. Its associated animal is the horse. While respected for their strength and speed, horses are known to be hard to control. Horses are a symbol of the warrior, with "金戈鐵馬"/"Gold billhooks and iron horses" referring to military might.
Horse
Sun Horse of the Stars: First depiction from Qiu Ying's Ming Dynasty imitation of Zhang Sengyou's The 5 Stars and 28 Heavenly Abodes. Second from the 28 Asterism statues of Fucheng Jade Emperor Temple.
Extended Net/張
Element: Moon/darkness
Guardian: Moon Deer of the Extended Net (張月鹿)
The Extended Net asterism covers stars found in Hydra's "tail", as well as stars from Pyxis. 張 simply means "to extend" or "to expand". It originally referred to the act of drawing a bow. As an asterism, it portrays a purse next being stretched out. It represents the bird's crop and gullet. It rules over good food, fine clothing, and jewelry. It is an auspicious star. Its god has a haughty demeanor and a bad temper. Its associated animal is a deer. Deer are symbols of kindness and longevity in China. In Buddhism, they are a symbol of piety. Deer are also a symbol of profits and high status, due to their name sounding like the word 祿/Prosperity. Since deer were a common prey animal for hunters, 逐鹿/chasing deer means to seek dominance. Water deer, horses, deer, and muntjacs were also grouped together as animals that were easy to startle. The deer species most commonly seen in East Asia is the Sika deer.
Deer
Moon Deer of the Extended Net: First depiction from Qiu Ying's Ming Dynasty imitation of Zhang Sengyou's The 5 Stars and 28 Heavenly Abodes. Second from the 28 Asterism statues of Fucheng Jade Emperor Temple.
Wings/翼
Element: Fire
Guardian: Fire Snake of the Wings (翼火蛇)
The Wings asterism is formed from the stars of the constellation Crater and the tip of Hydra's "tail", with a few extra stars from Antila and Vela. This asterism resembles a set of wings. It is the bird's wings, of course. It is believed to light up with bright stars during the reign of a wise ruler. Its god is a haughty and ambitious vigilante prone to violence, but also endowed with knowledge of astrology. This asterism is the location for the celestial orchestra. It is a patron of music and theater, as well as a patron of diplomacy. Nevertheless it is an unlucky, stable star. Its associated animal is the snake. Snakes are feared in China. They are one of the "Five Poisons", five venomous creatures that represent disease and sin. "心如蛇蠍"/"A heart like a viper" means a cruel or villainous heart. Like the fox and monkey, they were tricksters and shapeshifters, but more likely to be evil or hostile to humanity. However, snakes were also seen as the larval form of dragons. By studying the mystic arts, they could evolve into dragons.
Snake
Fire Snake of the Wings: First depiction from Qiu Ying's Ming Dynasty imitation of Zhang Sengyou's The 5 Stars and 28 Heavenly Abodes. Second from the 28 Asterism statues of Fucheng Jade Emperor Temple.
Chariot/軫
Element: Water
Guardian: Water Earthworm of the Chariot (軫水蚓)
The Chariot asterism is formed from the stars of Corvus, with extra stars from Hydra and Centaurus. Along with the neighboring Wings, it belongs in the region of "the Quail's Tail", the equivalent to the constellation Virgo. Hence, it represents the bird's tail. This is mostly a lucky star, but it can still be negatively influenced when in conjunction with other stars. It is a patron of music and driving, which can turn into debauchery and traffic accidents when negatively affected. Its god is well-learned and empathetic. Its corresponding animal is the earthworm. It was considered to be a marvel in ancient China, a creature that had no heart and lived on dirt and air alone. Mencius compared it to people with puritanical moral standards. It was another potential larval form for the dragon. It was nicknamed the ground dragon/地龍, and was said to be capable of summoning rain. It was also believed to sing sad songs, possibly the sound of mole crickets or air moving through earthworm tunnels, which caused people to give it the kenning Singing Girl/歌女.
Earthworm
Water Earthworm of the Chariot: First depiction from Qiu Ying's Ming Dynasty imitation of Zhang Sengyou's The 5 Stars and 28 Heavenly Abodes. Second from the 28 Asterism statues of Fucheng Jade Emperor Temple.
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I'm just going to say it - body hair (and beauty standards in general) is truly one of the final frontiers of women's issues in the West. Too many women just love their gilded cage too much. It shocks me how virulently women will defend it. I barely open my mouth and the "well I like how it feels. it just makes me feel cleaner. sensory issues. I do it for me. feminism is about choosing (to conform)." brigade come rushing in by the dozens.
Well I don't like how it feels. I don't feel cleaner without body hair. I don't prefer not having body hair. But who will advocate for women like me, but me? For women who do like hair removal, they are advocated for every time they step out of the house and see 99% of the female population also conforming to that standard, or when they watch a movie and see all the shaved actresses, or view an advertisment, or open a magazine, or watch a music video, or scroll through social media, or walk down the streets without receiving insults and glares for having a completely normal bodily feature.
You genuinely can't even point out that hairlessness is a man-made standard without women losing their shit and acting like they are totally immune to propaganda they've been exposed to from birth. I'm so tired.
These days as a butch who does not shave or wear makeup, I just wanna ask women who react to being told maybe they don't have to shave or wear makeup what on earth they're so scared of.
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For those wondering about the fox. Grace has a subtle motif with this animal throughout the movie, but especially this shot where they pack this toy fox with his belongings on the Hail Mary. The pose of it looked a little haunting to me, thus prompting this illustration.
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(Small/large prints are also available on my etsy ❤️)
I haven't seen anyone talking about this and just wanted to make a quick post on here.
Akihiro Miwa recently passed away peacefully june 20th, and was not only a drag queen and a queer icon, but also the japanese voice of Arceus in the movie Arceus and the jewel of life, as well as the witch from Howl's moving castle and Moro from Princess Mononoke.
Rest in peace and thank you for the wonderfull impact you made in this world.
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