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Take notes. "But voters still trust his positions more than his opponent’s."
Don't tell me. Show me.
I do not believe it. There's a different standard for showing, and clinging to a narrative that is dubious at best. How do we know that Americans trust Trump more. Where are the figures and whose data are we talking about. What did you know and when did you know it. Criminality is culture, too.
Americans will opt to grab at the simple solutions. They're busy. They live in terror of losing their jobs. They're hung over. Nervous. Their kids are failing. They're in debt. But they get to vote. Yet Americans want to be controlled.
They are already controlled. That is what advertising is. You being controlled. You being told there is a god and you must worship him the way we tell you to worship period. Let us away to art.
1969: They Shoot Horses, Don't They. Gig Young was Rocky Gravo, the evil ring master of ceremonies. Rocky can sell you anything. The Bob Barker of 1934. Just keep dancing. Just keep dancing. Just keep the people entertained with who dies first. Just keep the people on their toes with who dies last. Rocky Gravo has to prove that he is not ordinary. Rocky Gravo is ordinary. Look around the dance arena and you will see the people we never see at all. They blend into the walls. Rocky Gravo is dog eat dog. Complexity is not his problem.
Immigration is code for Let's Make Them Dance. Come on down.
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#interior design#architecture#art#minimal#simplicity#interior#minimalism#design#american modernism#modernism#product design#home design#modern retro#retro#modernist#retro aesthetic#vintage#1950s
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We are getting super excited about the Barbie movie around here! I used Simplicity 8280 (one of the AG branded patterns) to make this dress with scraps I already had in the sewing cupboard. Of course, Caroline is playing Barbie for us today because that hair 🎀
Here’s the outfit I used for reference:
#american girl#Barbie#Mattel#caroline abbott#the movie#margot robbie#pink gingham#Simplicity patterns
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
#walden#henry david thoreau#thoreau#americanism#american literature#american philosophy#literature#philosophy#classic#writing#simple#simplicity#universe#space#cosmos#outer space
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La Vie En Art 👗🎨🎹🎻🎭💃 - Le Monde selon Andy Warhol @Chaufferie de l'Antiquaille, Lyon 🇫🇷 Gradually settling in this beautiful city full of #history and #culture, it's time for me to explore the #artistic side of #Lyon. Whether it be #visualarts 🖌️🎨🖼️, #classicalmusic 🎻🎹🎶🎼, #opera 🎭, #ballet 🩰 or #architecture 🕍 - and especially #fashion 👗, I ❤️ all of them. I’ve created social media group, La Vie En Art 👗🎨🎹🎻🎭💃 to get the #art lovers in town together to embark on an artistic/#creative journey with me for #gallery/#museum visits, #music/#dance #performances, #exhibitions and casual get-togethers to discuss/exchange news about art on a regular basis. Our kick off meeting took place at "The world according to Andy Warhol" exhibition paying tribute to this most popular and controversial American #artist of the #60s with 50 meticulously curated #photos. An interesting contrast formed between #AndyWarhol’s #vibrant, #flamboyant and #popart #style #vinyl #designs and a series of #portraits of the artist standing with a giant #sunflower 🌻 symbolic of his love for the #beauty of #nature and #simplicity has fascinated me all the way.
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All of the rocky movies are on Netflix so I’ve been skim watching them and I truly think the greatest flaw of the character rocky balboa is not taking his brother in law out back with a baseball bat and beating him with it until something turned into pulp
#man sly stallones directing is rough in rocky 4. though I do always love to see dolph lundgren#there’s a robot here? I don���t understand the robot. I think Paulie is fucking this robot. the movie stops dead to show us the robot#I’m also not sure if rocky is supposed to have brain damage in this one? I know he for sure has it in 5#I’m sooooo fascinated about this. apollo dies because he’s trying to win the cold war and then rocky wins it for him. it’s so dumb#rocky doesn’t care about politics! he cares about making his wife laugh. also like. sly. my man. I know#okay hold on. there’s a musical number happening. obviously the point is supposed to be American flash versus Russian simplicity but it’s so#strange. anyway I know sly wrote the first one but like he gets that’s apollo isn’t especially patriotic right. it was a gimmick for the#bicentennial. that’s why he had the American flag shorts. and rocky wearing them in 3 was symbolic because it was apollo passing the torch#guys I think this movie might be bad#weird tangent tag
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Pattern Overload!
I have a LOT of doll patterns that I've picked up over the years of hoarding fabric and patterns I was planning on making when I 'got better' at sewing.
I was planning on getting better via osmosis - the knowledge in the fibers and the paper instructions would magically seep into my brain despite my never actually practicing, reading or using any of them.
So aside from a huge stash of fabric with no patterns in mind, and a whole BUNCH of patterns that I now find I have no desire to make....
These are here. I'll got through them one by one for ease:
My Etsy patterns are from Pemberley Threads - these are historical patterns based on actual dresses worn in the past. I LOVE historical dress and am really excited to start these but I'm a little nervous as they are... complicated!
PemberleyThreads:
Elizabeth 1780s Jacket and Petticoat
Anne Shirtwaist and Skirt
Antoinette 18th Century Cap and Stays Corset
Charlotte 1780s Robe a l'Anglaise
Simplicity:
1484
1443
S9500
S9566
S9567
S9516
S8942
3551
5276
8072
8714
McCalls:
M7734
M7006
Butterick:
B6150
B6320
#sewblr#home sewing#sewing#american girl dolls#our generation dolls#doll clothing#dolls#dolls patterns#butterick#mccalls pattern#simplicity
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#joseph fink#Idk man i'm trying to be an appreciator and not a hater but u know how#The One thing that's off about something that's nearly perfect is WAY more irritating than a WHOLE thing that's just Bad#this is stuck in my craw#And the burger bit in the menu bothered me So! Much!#1. It looked like a shit burger. Gross.#2. U have presumed ur American palate is universal. U have presumed that ur nostalgia is healing#3. WHAT REALLY ANNOYED ME WAS THAT ALL THE OTHER COURSES GOT A LIST OF INGREDIENCE#A DESCRIPTION#AND THEN THE BURGER IS DESCRIBED AS: just a Burger#Fuck you. Tell me where the beef is from. Tell me what kind of bread you're using#Burgers are still intricately constructed food. The fact that it's intricately constructed food u remember from childhood doesn't undermine#The intricate nature of the construction#Me Fein#Siiigh it's all metaphorical and figurative for how the chef was trying super hard to please an audience who can't be pleased.#Ergo overwrought dishes with overwrought descriptions#And even if I am outside of it the two characters involved in the burger exchange do share a cultural background which links them w/ Burger#Simplicity of burgers description speaks to the simplicity & directless of the connection in this instance between#.the artist.and. ........consumer?#Art-ee#So it.makes SENSE but it still pisses me off
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accents r so funny. other brits ask me if i'm american or welsh or whatever other nationality because "you don't sound like you're from here" and "you don't have the accent", and then every american i speak to over voice chat lets me know how strongly, unavoidably british i sound
#for the sake of simplicity i'm saying british but i'm from northwest england. for reference#i just think it's. funny#my accent gets more noticeable the more i socialise bc all my friends in this town have similar accents#but if i've been watching american shows all weekend. i sorta start mimicking them subconsciously#ye olde autism yk#i live Across The Road from the hospital i was born in and yet everybody always thinks i moved here from abroad#someone last week told me i should be glad my accent disappears so easy because 'youll make it far like that'#(again. northern england. we don't have the posh kind of accent yk)#and idk how to feel abt that. yknow?#idk#does this post make sense at all jrbfjfb#og
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Ah. Fuck.
#ah. fuck.#ah i was scared and then psychological mechanisms came in#like. 'oh well - its over there' and 'oh well maybe this will teach them' but#no this will kill hundreds of thousands of people#but psychological mechanism says: but not you!#what to do about the relentless idiocy and hate of humanity?#the desire for simplicity and violence and the greed#im sorry guys#we could have had the first black female president and trump in jail#genuinely feel that the best that could happen is a GOOD shot at him#trust me it worked here.....ha. ha. just get a rabid animal rights man.....#well anyway.#cant. really stand that the man wont go to prison what were those prosecutors doing DALLYING?#personal#my stuff#what insanity possesses the american people#similar to the dutch people i guess
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#interior design#architecture#art#minimal#simplicity#interior#minimalism#design#herman miller#george nelson#pretzel chair#american design#american modernism#modernism#product design#home design#wood chair#chair#chair design#modern retro#retro
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He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and mentoring hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture".
📌 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
“We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
#walden#henry david thoreau#thoreau#classic#writing#americanism#american literature#american philosophy#literature#philosophy#simple#simplicity#home#live for now#rich#afford#let alone#left alone#to be alone#to be left alone#leave me alone
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English speakers be like English has five vowels but then distinguish the pronunciations of beet, bit, bet, bat, but, bought, bot, boot, beaut, boat, bout, bite and bate. And I didn't even get /ə/, /ʊ/ and /ɔɪ/
#you cannot fathom the frustration of this humble hebrew speaker trying to separate the bit vowel and beet vowel. impossible#one time I was on a minecraft server's pictionary minigame and i got the word right in the last second but i guessed. bitch instead of beach#im sure the vowels i didnt get appear between a /b/ and a /t/ somewhere but man the simplicity man#these are the general american vowels btw naturally some of you pronounce pairs of these the same or have sounds that i didnt mention#original broth#english langblr#language
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Due to how I started releasing Patreon fills back in September, the year of 2022 only has one more upload, so I'm going to get this last one up before finishing 2023! August 2022's sequence was rapid Mpreg of Alex Stardew flubbing up due to a growing belly during a gridball game (which i just interpreted as american football for simplicity).
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Favorite Foods: Katara
Since Katara was forced to take on a traditionally maternal role at an early age, I'd like to think her favorite Water Tribe dishes are the ones that are quick and easy to prepare. I also feel that Katara would be fond of the few fruits and edible greens available in the arctic, as it brings back fond memories of foraging with her mother and grandmother during the warmer seasons.
Sea Prunes (Entire 1st Row)- Katara doesn't express many food preferences in the show, but she seemed pretty enthusiastic about eating sea prunes, so I assume it's a meat she enjoys. Sea prune is another name for the black katy chiton, a type of mollusk. Their shells are dark and leathery, earning them nicknames like "sea prune" and "gumboot". Sea prunes are a traditional protein source for many indigenous peoples in Alaska and western coastal Canada. I think Katara would enjoy them sauteed with Chinese (Earth Kingdom) five-spice or tossed with seal oil in a kelp salad.
Suaasat - A Greenlandic Inuit soup. It traditionally consists of a thick broth made of seal meat, barley, onions, and potatoes. I'd like to think that she likes any dish where you can just throw all the ingredients in a pot and feed a lot of people fast.
Boiled Crab - She likes crabs because they're relatively easy to catch and even easier to cook. You just boil them and crack them open!
Pitsik - Dried Arctic Char. Like crab, she enjoys the simplicity of preparing it. You simply fillet the fish with its skin on, score and salt the flesh, hang the char to let the arctic winds airdry it, and you have a delicious jerky-like snack! They are also rather visually striking when you hang them up.
Akutaq - Meaning "mixed together" in Inupiat and Yupik, this dish is traditionally made with whipped fat, boiled fish, and berries. Commonly used berries include cranberries, lingonberries, cloudberries, bearberries, and crowberries. A sweet and savory meal that Katara and her mother probably used to make together.
Suvalik - If akutaq is “Arctic Ice Cream”, then suvalik is “Arctic Fruit Salad”. It’s traditionally comprised of emulsified fish eggs and seal oil mixed with berries. It’s described as creamy and sweet. This dish is known in Yupik culture as qerpertaq.
Bannock - Also called palauga in some Inuit dialects and alatiq in Yupik. Bannock is an unleavened flatbread found throughout North American indigenous culture. Since the flour has to be imported all the way from the Earth Kingdom, it was a rare treat for Katara growing up. She also likes how easy it is to make.
For more Water Tribe dishes, check out my Cultural Cuisine tag.
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