I think a fundamental aspect (though not the only one) of why a lot of twitter people failed in their attempt to come to tumblr is that plenty of them are in the “sassy banter” part of the tech tree, where they think that hitting someone with a sitcom zinger is the biggest own possible, but tumblr is on the “kill yourself” part of the tree, which is the hard counter to that.
A 2:8 match-up if I ever saw one.
‘your mom suck me good and hard through my jorts’ is such a banger
people r always saying “get therapy” 2 ppl who have actually had too much therapy and need to do two years of a brutal physical labor job instead Genuinely no more therapy-speak and obsessing over the supposed intricacies of your average mind for you get your ass on the Alaskan salmon fishing boat
Putting aside the obvious fact that it is not possible or feasible or healthy for many people to be physical laborers, this is such a weird like… borderline Ayn Randian style of thought. Very conservative, “back to the land,” trad type shit that people are nonetheless eating up I guess because they are just that irritated by “therapy-speak”… which here seems to be conflated with actual therapy.
Obviously I disagree with this post on many levels but here is perhaps a more important point: companies like Amazon, FedEx, and UPS frequently poach young people so they can work them to the bone. I work with young people for a living so I often am told by an 18 year old that they’ve just been hired by UPS etc, and then it’ll usually be about 2 weeks before they quit because these jobs are terrible. That’s why they give them to 18 year old high-school dropouts, because they are looking for people who are vulnerable and desperate for money, and they’ll keep them for as long as it takes before they realize how bottom of the barrel these jobs are. You work insane hours moving heavy boxes, you drop something on your foot and they tell you to keep moving. These huge companies use up young people and throw them away at a shocking rate. Trust me when I tell you they are not better off for it.
Shitty jobs are often deeply detrimental to a person’s health both physically and mentally. Putting aside your thoughts about therapy, the way to happiness is not through labor, of all things. I wonder if there are self-described communists or anti-capitalists on this post, too. Come on, think about what you are saying.
Was at the art museum earlier and i have a new favourite painting
Is this not the cutest??? Its called ”Me and Brita” and this guy in 1895 was like ”i love this kid so much imma do a painting of us having fun so the world will always know how much i loved her and what a good time we had”
the painting in the background is looking at them like “my word what a cool pair”
More specifically that is Carl Larsson with one of his 8 children.
He came from a extremely poor and abusive background but worked his way into fine society, where he fell in love with fellow artist Karin Bergöö, and his works shifted to painting his home life.
Painting titled “My Loved Ones”
[in reference to his career] “the most immediate and lasting part of my life’s work. these pictures are of course a very genuine expression of my personality, of my deepest feelings, of all my limitless love for my wife and children.”
OMFG I used to work at Carl’s house which in now a museum in Falun, Sweden, and now his art is on my dash!
I could tell so many stories about this family, but to sum it up they lived the definition of what we would call a cottagecore life where both Carl and Karin worked as artists in their dream house that they designed and built together. It really was an artist’s home built with pure love, and also a big contrast to what a typical Swedish home looked like at the time. The late 1800s trend was to have a dark home with gothic vibes and brown and dark red colours. The Larsson’s home though is bright and colourful with big windows and homemade textiles sewn by Karin.
I also wanted to tell a bit about Brita, the cute little girl on her father’s shoulders in the painting in the original post. She was the fifth child of seven and felt sometimes like she didn’t get enough attention from her dad as a middle child in a big family. To get more time with her dad she would ask him to paint only her as often as possible since then she could talk to him without any of her siblings annoying them. This is how she became the most painted of all the children with hundreds of portraits made with her as the model. She was 89 years old when she died in 1982 and loved to talk about her childhood and those many, many painting sessions with dad.
This is one of my favourite paintings of Carl Larsson, A Viking Raid in Dalarna. Here we have all the children in a boat during a cool summer’s eve (from left, Pontus, Brita, Lisbeth, Ulf, Kersti, Esbjörn, Suzanne).
I reblogged this post too quickly before checking the notes and seeing this fantastic addition. I love how Brita came up with a solution to her problem – wanting some undivided attention from her father – in a way that worked for both of them.
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