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[ID: Every film on archive.org sorted by date published from earliest to latest. There are 66,923 results; the first page is all in black and white and covers the years from 1874 to 1895. End ID]
I've decided to watch every movie. my favourite so far is the 1895 one with the kid trying to catch the fish in the fish bowl. he's not even good at it
I can't lie, I find it very odd that posts cautioning people against donating to individual* campaigns and promoting the idea of supporting mutual aid efforts and community kitchens in Gaza can rack up 10k notes--while a post promoting a community kitchen (that I can personally vouch for) struggles to get 1k notes, and has barely pulled in a couple hundred dollars over the past week.
I actively try to avoid using guilting tactics in fundraising, but this is weird to me. It's like people are using these posts as an excuse not to do things they already didn't want to do anyway, rather than actually taking their recommendations on board...
*In my experience, these campaigns often support large extended families their neighbours
MAQMAP is a community kitchen aiming to support families in the Mawasi Al-Qarara area.
Mohammed is planning to distribute food parcels, each containing one liter of vegetable oil, one kilo of sugar, one kilo of rice, one kilo of lentils, one kilo of pasta, and a can of sauce, to the 70 families in Mawasi Al-Qarara camp later this week.
Thank you so much for all of your help so far. Any money that you can spare would really help to keep this initiative going in the coming weeks.
The organisers have begun to purchase and hand out food parcels! For the next parcels, they plan to supplement the flour and other essentials with fruits and vegetables. Not only starvation but also malnourishment are killing people in Gaza.
This fundraiser belongs to Mohammed Abu Alwan's brother and so is vetted by association.
From the fundraiser page:
I am Salah Elwan. I live in Gaza. I am 32 years old. My family consists of 5 members, me and my wife Aseel, my children Ahmed and Sham, and the newborn that my wife gave birth to during the war, Nour El-Din. Before the war, I was working as an interior designer, and the living conditions for me and my family were wonderful, but since the beginning of the aggression against Gaza and the war of extermination that we are exposed to in Gaza, we have been living with death every second and fighting the most powerful terrorist army in the world. We have been dying of hunger, thirst and killing at the hands of the Israeli occupation for more than a year. This account was created to donate to help me and my family, provide living needs, and live in peace like the rest of the people in the world. Please do not ignore us, we desperately need your donations and support.
I am opening custom tatreez commissions to support Samar and Mohammed Abu Alwan, who are trying to feed an extended family of 15 (including children and elders) and help their neighbours in Gaza.
I'll design and create a piece for you for proof of donation of a minimum of $75 USD. 100% of what you pay goes to the family: nothing will be deducted for materials, labour, or shipping.
Please consider donating even if you can't or don't wish to purchase a commission. Every member of this family needs medical care, and yet they can seldom access it because they're being forced to decide between food and medicine.
Venmo: gothhabiba Paypal: paypal.me/Najia Cashapp: $NajiaK
all with note "π" or "strawberry"
This family is in danger of being evicted. Samar is still in the hospital and needs a safe place to come back to!
ironically "stripping the original creator of the ability to make a livelihood from their work" is something that only copyright law is capable of doing
worst case scenario when someone james somerton style unambiguously maliciously jacks your shit at least you still have your original shit, no amount of plagiarism or piracy can stop you from continuing to make and monetise your own art -- for that you need a publisher, studio, or record label that can threaten to sue you into oblivion if you violate their copyright on the thing you made!
By now many Austen fans are familiar with a letter the author wrote to her sister Cassandra, claiming to have discovered Mrs. Jane Bingley's exact likeness in an exhibition of portraits:
Monday, May 24, 1813 [...] Henry & I went to the exhibition in Spring Gardens. It is not thought a good collection, but I was very well pleasedβparticularly (pray tell Fanny) with a small portrait of Mrs. Bingley, excessively like her. I went in hopes of seeing one of her Sister, but there was no Mrs. Darcy;βperhaps however, I may find her in the Great Exhibition which we shall go to, if we have time;βI have no chance of her in the collection of Sir Joshua Reynoldsβs Paintings which is now showing in Pall Mall, & which we are also to visit.βMrs. Bingleyβs is exactly herself, size, shaped face, features & sweetness; there never was a greater likeness. She is dressed in a white gown, with green ornaments, which convinces me of what I had always supposed, that green was a favourite colour with her.* I dare say Mrs. D. will be in Yellow. [β¦] βMonday evenβWe have been both to the Exhibition & Sir J. Reynoldsβ,βand I am disappointed, for there was nothing like Mrs. D. at either.βI can only imagine that Mr. D. prizes any Picture of her too much to like it should be exposed to the public eye.βI can imagine he wd have that sort [of ommitted] feelingβthat mixture of Love, Pride & Delicacy. Setting aside this disappointment, I had great amusement among the Pictures; & the Driving about, the Carriage been open, [sic] was very pleasant (Le Faye, pp. 212-3).
Of course Austen scholars have searched for this portrait. The first resource to check is of course the catalogue of this exhibition, which was The Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Oil and Water Colours at The Great Room, Spring Gardens in London.
In 1986, Lance Bertelson used this catalogue to narrow down the possibilities, as he saw them, to 5:
He writes, however, that his "inquiries to major public collections in Britain and the USA have failed to turn up any of the above paintings"; but they may still exist in private collections. He says we know the portrait of Lady Nelthorpe to have been in Mrs. C. B. Prowse's private collection as of 1929. It was described by Basil Long thusly:
It is on ivory, about 7 3/4 in. x 5 3/4 in., and is signed at the back C. J. Robertson, pinxit / Apr: 1813. It is a 3/4 length portrait of a lady seated on a rustic bench in a landscape, with her hat on her lap... The face is shaded with brown and gray.
Two years later, in 1988, Martha Rainbolt has more success: she writes that "[b]y searching through the art libraries in London and this country [the USA], I have found some of the portraits and information about some of the other ones" (very annoyingly, she does not say where). She lists out 11 possibilities for the painting of Jane Bennet Bingleyβeverything in the catalogue claiming to feature a "girl," "Miss," "Mrs.," or "Lady":
According to Rainbolt, paintings 1 and 2 can be eliminated because they are of children. Painting 3 "is a work in the Italian style, rather grand and quite romanticized. This woman with her dark hair and sentimental look could not be the likeness of Jane Bingley" (I can't say I understand why Rainbolt thinks that Jane mustn't have dark hair). Painting 4 is of "a bare bosomed, very voluptuous lady sharing the canvas with an eagle who is hovering over her cup," and Rainbolt feels that this, too, can be eliminated.
Painting 5 is a possibility which Bertelson also mentioned. However, Rainbolt points out that it is a miniature, and Austen described the picture of Mrs. Bingley as a "small portrait"; and that Lady Nelthorpe would have been middle-aged at this time, and so not a good candidate for 23-year-old Mrs. Bingley. Of painting 6, Rainbolt says that the subject would also be too old (as she had been middle-aged as of the late 1780s).
This leaves paintings 7 through 11. Rainbolt was only able to locate information about one of them: #11, Jean Huet-Villiers' "Portrait of a Lady."
We don't still have this portrait. We don't know whether it still exists, and we don't have any photographs taken of it. What we do have is what is likely a copy of the portrait, in the form of a tinted engraving by William Blake:
The title of the engraving ("Mrs. Q," referring to Harriet Quentin, mistress of the Prince of Wales) is different from what the exhibition catalogue lists as the title of the Huet-Villiers portrait, but Rainbolt doesn't see this as problematic: the title had likely been changed in the exhibition to maintain the subject's anonymity, as was common practice at the time.
Rainbolt felt that the colour of the gown and ornament, and the "sweetness" of the face depicted, made it very likely that this was the portrait in questionβthough she notes that "It would be helpful if the portraits of Mrs. Crompton, Miss Smirnove, Hewlett's 'Young Lady,' and Mrs. Clarke would surface to be examined."
There was also a small problem, in the fact that Austen wrote green ornaments, while this gown only has one: but Rainbolt thinks that "This discrepancy might be explained by the circumstances: Jane Austen was writing an informal letter to her sister recalling the exhibition; she did not have the portrait in front of her when she wrote."
Deirdre Le Faye, writing in 1997, feels the question to still be an open one:
[...] [T]he three miniatures by Charles John Robertson in the same exhibition, of Lady Nelthorpe (No. 246) and her sisters-in-law Lady Anderson (No. 15), and Mrs. Clark of Welton [not Weston] Place (No. 116), cannot be completely ruled out as alternatives. (Footnote 4, pp. 416-7)
However, in the years since Le Faye wrote, and apparently without anyone noticing (?), that first miniature has appeared on auction site Christie's:
I think we can rule out this portrait as a possibility, due to the lack of any green ornamentation to the gown.
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There are rumours that the Rafah crossing is going to re-open soon. Ghadir and her brother Mohammed want to get out of Gaza so that they can start to earn money to help the rest of their family flee. They need to raise $5,000 as quickly as possible (which will bring us up to $11k on the campaign page).
This is a really attainable goal and it could make an enormous difference, not just for Ghadir and Mohammed, but for Remas, Toleen, and the entire family.
You can also give to venmo @gothhabiba, cashapp $NajiaK, or PayPal.me/Najia with note βπβ or βorangeβ
We're already a few days into the new month and Mohammed is going to need to pay his rent very soon! He's trying to keep his three young children fed and housed, all while taking care of his wife in the hospital, and supporting his community.
You can help via: Venmo: gothhabiba Paypal: paypal.me/Najia Cashapp: $NajiaK
all with note "π" or "strawberry"
Or via GFM:
It's a new year, a time when many people set goals. Whether that's personal goals, career goals, fitness goals, you name it! Regardless of how that looks for you, I hope it goes well.
While the rest of the world celebrates a new year, the people of Gaza remain at the mercy of iof violence and displacement, and if not that, the bitter chill of winter with no shelter to protect themselves or their children. Mahmoud ( @ma7moudgaza2 ) and his family are receiving only $10-$20 per day in donations. This is not enough to meet their daily needs for survival! Please read Mahmoud's story in his own words.
In the spirit of making positive strides, why not set a goal to help those in need? It doesn't have to be a grand gesture. Donating, reblogging, sharing with your friends, queueing their campaign, it all adds up and helps this family! Please put some good into this world and lend them your support.
Tagging for reach:
βΌοΈ READ FULL POST !!! βΌοΈ
iβm going to ask you all to perform a simple thought exercise. what are you like as a person?
what do you like? do you like comics, or tv shows, or knitting? do you quilt, maybe? do you collect something? do you draw, do you play metal music, or do you build things?
whatβs your family like? is it big? small? do you live with your family? are you close?
whatβs your day like? do you work? if so, what do you do? if you donβt, do you study? do you have a specific class you like?
just like anyone, i am a person. i collect comic books, i paint my nails black because my stepmom hates it, i draw in my free time, and i like to cook even if iβm not very good at it.
and nothing ever hurt me more than the realization that people just like me endure nightmarish pain every single day, just for the crime of being born in the wrong land.
hello! iβm here on behalf of ahmed (@ilovelifetbh). the photo above is a drawing of his two children. ahmed is the brother-in-law of a dear friend of mine, and by that, ahmed is my friend as well.
none of us want to see our friends anything other than happy. but every day i hear news coming from gaza; famine, bombs, sickness, and death. i just want my friends to live! i want them to be happy! i want a world where a childβs biggest worry is that they arenβt allowed to eat sweets before dinner, not whether or not they or their family will survive a genocide!
i want to live in a world where people can be free! where people can dance, and live, and love one another without the threat of gunfire and violence!
and every day i become more and more hopeless about that world.
so iβm here to beg you to help. donate if you canβ if you canβt, reblog. please.
if you cannot help for the sake of aiding palestinians, help for the sake of making the world better all around.
crossfaded on lesbianism and perversion
[ID: reply reading "Finally someone that saw the same movie I did, all the "but it's racist, and misogynistic so it's the worse movie ever" comments are killing me"; someone replied and said "What parts are people claiming to be racist???"; the original commenter replied with "Honestly I have no idea, I just read an entire rant about how this version somehow managed to be even more racist than the original and the movie was" text cuts off. end ID]
so you don't even know what the argument is of this one person who felt that the movie was racist, but you still assume that you can dismiss that argument as obviously stupid, not worth listening to or considering, and necessarily proceeding from a complete lack of attention to the movie? despite the fact that, again, you did not even read, pay attention to, understand, or remember that argument? how arrogant can you get?
The ideas that these arrogant, incurious, & frankly racist people have, are roughlyβ
These people are uncomfortable that anyone cares about racism or is willing to talk about it and try to analyse it, and they just want those people to shut up. We deal with this again and again inside and outside the academy, it's always the same rodeo. The worst, least sensitive, most obvious misunderstanding of a text has more genuine integrity and interest than these people's arrogant dismissals.
[ID: reply reading "Finally someone that saw the same movie I did, all the "but it's racist, and misogynistic so it's the worse movie ever" comments are killing me"; someone replied and said "What parts are people claiming to be racist???"; the original commenter replied with "Honestly I have no idea, I just read an entire rant about how this version somehow managed to be even more racist than the original and the movie was" text cuts off. end ID]
so you don't even know what the argument is of this one person who felt that the movie was racist, but you still assume that you can dismiss that argument as obviously stupid, not worth listening to or considering, and necessarily proceeding from a complete lack of attention to the movie? despite the fact that, again, you did not even read, pay attention to, understand, or remember that argument? how arrogant can you get?
People not comprehending Nosferatu correctly might kill me. Yes it's erotic and about pleasure but yes it's devastating and about child sexual abuse. It's a movie about victimhood, about being already dead, about longing for the great beyond, about never feeling safe from your abuser, about always expecting one more rape must be endured. It is about being an ugly victim, a neurotic victim. About your supposed allies tying you down for fear you will rip their world to ribbons. It is about facing the abuser, facing the pleasure the abuser brought. It is about men seeking to silence a plague in the quiet of the night when grooming and abuse can only be destroyed by pulling it into the light of morning.
Nosferatu (2024)
it's now cracking me up that I described an attitude of "penetration = dominance = masculinity" & "being penetrated = submission / being dominated = femininity" as "psychosexually disturbed." but you know what? I stand by it. nothing is more grotesque and disturbing than "normal" sex and Nosferatu (2024) understands that
[ID: 1980s video game on an old mac desktop computer. In neon green on a black background are pictured a pixellated astroid belt and text reading "It is the year 2025. All telemarketers and unsolicited bulk e-mailers have been exiled to Phobos". End ID]
This fundraiser belongs to Mohammed Abu Alwan's brother and so is vetted by association.
From the fundraiser page:
I am Salah Elwan. I live in Gaza. I am 32 years old. My family consists of 5 members, me and my wife Aseel, my children Ahmed and Sham, and the newborn that my wife gave birth to during the war, Nour El-Din. Before the war, I was working as an interior designer, and the living conditions for me and my family were wonderful, but since the beginning of the aggression against Gaza and the war of extermination that we are exposed to in Gaza, we have been living with death every second and fighting the most powerful terrorist army in the world. We have been dying of hunger, thirst and killing at the hands of the Israeli occupation for more than a year. This account was created to donate to help me and my family, provide living needs, and live in peace like the rest of the people in the world. Please do not ignore us, we desperately need your donations and support.
