fozzie:
luminoussea:
The Sea Women of South Korea
photographs by Hyung S. Kim
“For hundreds of years, women in the South Korean island province of Jeju have made their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor. Known as haenyeo, or sea women, they use no breathing equipment, although a typical dive might last around two minutes and take them as deep as ten metres underwater. Wearing old-fashioned headlight-shaped scuba masks, most dive with lead weights strapped around their waists to help them sink faster. A round flotation device called a tewak, about the size of a basketball, sits at the surface of the water with a net hanging beneath it to collect the harvest. Some use a sharp tool to dig conch, abalone, and other creatures from the crevices on the seafloor.
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“For me, the photos of the haenyeo reflect and overlap with the images I have of my mother and grandmother,” Kim says. “They are shown exactly as they are, tired and breathless. But, at the same time, they embody incredible mental and physical stamina, as the work itself is so dangerous; every day they cross the fine line between life and death. I wanted to capture this extreme duality of the women: their utmost strength combined with human fragility.” ”
read more at the New Yorker
two of my former classmates made a beautiful animated film about the strength and legacy of these amazing women. you can (and should) see it here:
shirecorn:
shirecorn:
Harbinger
PUPPY HAS RECEIVED SO MANY PETS AND IS ALL WARMED UP NOW
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keuhkopussirotta:
keuhkopussirotta:
Why is the Fantasy Protagonist’s Cool Animal Companion always a wolf, a bird of prey, or something cool? If you live in a medieval-ish society, even if you have cool powers to bond with an animal, it’s probably going to be a farm animal.
What about a fantasy book where the heroine’s Spirit Companion Animal is a pig. And not a cute piglet, but a huge fucking sow. As clever as a human, but absolutely as ruthless as pigs can be.
And the protagonist is like “should I quit eating pork? Does it disturb you, that milk piglet could have been yours.” And the pig is like “bitch first of all the difference is that it isn’t mine, and don’t fucking pretend that - given the chance - I wouldn’t eat a human child.”
“What are we going to do with him?”
“I propose murder.”
“Where would we put the body?”
“I volunteer.”
“Are you suggesting we should kill him because you want to eat his corpse?”
“I’m sure there are plenty of other good reasons to kill him here, I just can’t think of them all right now.”
mizomei:
‘It’s beautiful isn’t it? How something so fragile can be so deadly?’
Stained glass weapons! I had so much fun designing these.
biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:
biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:
angels, deciding what shape to take when interacting with The Humans: well….eye contact is important to humans, right? they find it reassuring when they can see the eyes of the person they’re talking to. so if we have LOTS of eyes, in very visible places, that’ll be even MORE reassuring
can’t stop thinking how much sense it would make if every design choice angels made was just a misguided attempt to Relate To The Humans. imagine how those conversations went
- wings: “humans don’t like things they can’t understand, so if we’re going to levitate we should have wings. in fact we should probably have lots of wings, since we’re so big and impressive. humans like wings”
- loud, booming voices: “fuck off Azrael the humans needs to be able to hear us.”
- glowing: “no no no, it’s about visibility, right? the main human sensory organ works by detecting light, so if we emit light…”
- wheels: “why the hell are you shaped like that?” “piss off, the humans are really proud of this invention”
- multiple faces/eyes: “it makes me relatable” “i swear to God it doesn’t–” “i need to see in every direction” “
Azrael
you are a supernatural messenger of god you do not need–” “THE HUMANS NEED TO KNOW I’M WATCHING”
- multiple limbs: “humans have lots of limbs! they like limbs” “look i let you keep the wings but–” “how do you expect me to walk?” “70,000 feet is not a reasonable number of feet, Azrael!” “fuck off i’m ENORMOUS”
- general gross misapprehensions of biology: “holy shit are your wings made out of eyes?” “look before you say anything i’m like 100% sure i’ve seen animals who have both wings and eyes. and you can fit so many more in this way!” “….you godforsaken googly-eyed genius”
unsubconscious:
Piero De Martini, Model 700 La Barca Sofa for Cassina, 1975
thecollectibles:
Knightober 2020 (part 2) by Rachel Eaton
janainaart:
Clara & The Nutcracker
Illustration inspired by The Nutcracker fairy ballet.
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