#curated collections

[mehmetyildizmelbourne-blog]

Curated Collection and Daily Updates

Look What Aiden Found Today — Episode #261 Favorite stories I read plus community-nominated pieces tailored for avid readers of ILLUMINATION Publications on Medium Dear prolific writers and avid readers, I hope this story finds you well in good health today. I curate these stories while publishing and reading for joy, and post these collections from ILLUMINATION-Curators account for various…

[alisonzai]

[venomgaia]

gal who calls you girliepop and collects bugs

[sorryfortheyouth]

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) shooting a press photo for Female Convict Scorpion

https://www.instagram.com/sorry.for.the.youth/

https://www.instagram.com/____isle____/

[rosechata]

persephonevint

[bruttoarchives]

ann demeulemeester aw24

[margaretcruzemark]

Morgan Fernandez by Kristin-Lee Moolman for The New York Times Style Magazine November 2020

[mehmetyildizmelbourne-blog]

Curated Collection and Daily Updates from ILLUMINATION

Look What Aiden Found Today — Episode #260 Favorite stories I read plus community-nominated pieces tailored for avid readers of ILLUMINATION Publications on Medium Dear prolific writers and avid readers, I hope this story finds you well in good health today. I curate these stories while publishing and reading for joy, and post these collections from ILLUMINATION-Curators account for various…

[huellitaa]

honey, was it enough?... ♡ 🎀🍂🧸 ྀ𓂃 ࣪˖

[anghraine]

jenndoesnotcare replied to this post:

Every time LDS kids come to my neighborhood I am so so nice to them. I hope they remember the blue haired lady who was kind, when people try to convince them the outside world is bad and scary. (Also they are always so young! I want to feed them cookies and give them Diana Wynne Jones books or something)

Thank you! Honestly, this sort of kindness can go a really long way, even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.

LDS children and missionaries (and the majority of the latter are barely of age) are often the people who interact the most with non-Mormons on a daily basis, and thus are kind of the "face" of the Church to non-Mormons a lot of the time. As a result, they're frequently the ones who actually experience the brunt of antagonism towards the Church, which only reinforces the distrust they've already been taught to feel towards the rest of the world.

It's not that the Church doesn't deserve this antagonism, but a lot of people seem to take this enormous pride in showing up Mormon teenagers who have spent most of their lives under intense social pressure, instruction, expectation, and close observation from both their peers and from older authorities in the Church (it largely operates on seniority, so young unmarried people in particular tend to have very little power within its hierarchies). Being "owned" for clout by non-Mormons doesn't prove anything to most of them except that their leaders and parents are right and they can't trust people outside the Church.

The fact that the Church usually does provide a tightly-knit community, a distinct and familiar culture, and a well-developed infrastructure for supporting its members' needs as long as they do [xyz] means that there can be very concrete benefits to staying in the Church, staying closeted, whatever. So if, additionally, a Mormon kid has every reason to think that nobody outside the Church is going to extend compassion or kindness towards them, that the rest of the world really is as hostile and dangerous as they've been told, the stakes for leaving are all the higher, despite the costs of staying.

So people from "outside" who disrupt this narrative of a hostile, threatening world that cannot conceivably understand their experiences or perspectives can be really important. It's important for them to know that there are communities and reliable support systems outside the Church, that leaving the Church does not have to mean being a pariah in every context, that there are concrete resources outside the Church, that compassion and decency in ordinary day-to-day life is not the province of any particular religion or sect and can be found anywhere. This kind of information can be really important evidence for people to have when they are deciding how much they're willing to risk losing.

So yeah, all of this is to say that you're doing a good thing that may well provide a lifeline for very vulnerable people, even if you don't personally see results at the time.

[sorryfortheyouth]

Monica Bellucci by Helmut Newton for Blumarine S/S 1993

[essektheylyss]

"Average adventuring party carries two sets of manacles" is actually a statistical error. The average adventuring party carries no manacles. The Mighty Nein, who have inexplicably collected five different forms of magical restraints, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

[bruttoarchives]

ann demeulemeester autumn/winter 2024, detail

[citricjoy]

pictures of when he is a beautiful woman

[themuseumlady]

tape, cardboard, and newspaper!!!

to go a bit more into detail on this - from what I understand, this was on display* in a house for a number of years. This particular piece comes from the home of the harbormaster (a lovely man), and was exposed to light and about 50+ years of cigarette smoke. The boat in the photo is an early ferry in my area, and the cardboard it is mounted on seems to be some sort of church(??) yard sign(???)

we are still deciding the best course of action for this piece, but in all honestly, as a smallish museum/historical society with a laundry list of pieces with urgent conservation needs, we don't have the manpower to do anything other than keep it in a dark and temperature controlled space.

There are a lot of things that make me sad when I see pieces like this, because its so easy to see how important it was to its former owner, and it hurts me that we can't pour all of our time and resources into every piece that needs help. There are pieces even in this intake (which I cannot show because they contain identifying information about my location) that will be prioritized as they demand more immediate conservation efforts. Time can be a cruel opponent - and all we can do is our best.

anywho!!! all this is to say Support your local historical society!!! they are trying their darndest to preserve your local history and can't do so without community support! (and support does not always mean money!!! genuinely just interacting with your local historical societies can mean so much)

*I am unsure the specifics of where/how long it was on display for