Category: General

thehumantrampoline:

Tumblr, I haven’t seen any good posts about my history girlfriend, so I think you should know about her so you can love her too. This sassy cutie right here is Pamela “Pixie” Colman Smith.

• She is best known for being the artist of the Rider-Waite tarot deck, the most famous and widely sold deck in the world, a job for which she got practically no credit and “very little money,” in her words (she died penniless while Waite made bundles)

• Waite, the “designer” (tarot scholar that commissioned it) was very condescending and exacting about how he wanted the major arcana done (even though she ignored him sometimes anyway; they were on a tight schedule and she’d send him fully inked and watercolored designs without his approval so they didn’t have time to redo them). But Waite turned up his nose at using the tarot for divination rather than as a spiritual guide, so he didn’t really give a shit about the minor arcana

• The designs for those are therefore p much all her, inspired by the 15th century Sola Busca deck (the only other one at that point to feature fully illustrated pip cards) which was on display at a museum near her while she was working on the project

• I’ll pause to allow you to imagine her making trip after trip to the museum with her sketchbook, studying the cards and chewing on her pencil. You in love yet? Just wait

• She was a synesthete who would listen to classical music and draw beautiful “spiritual portraits” of the music

• She was a suffragette, and drew feminist political cartoons

• She was an actress and set designer for a while; you can see the inspiration in many of the stage-like cards in her tarot deck

• She was best bros with cool people like Edith Craig, WB Yeats, and Bram Stoker

• Although she faced a lot of condescension from the men around her since they considered visual art a much less valid and sophisticated form of spiritual and intellectual pursuits, she was by all accounts very smart and wickedly funny, and ridiculously sweet and kind

• She was almost definitely super gay (had a very gay social circle, never married, lived alone with another woman for years)

• In conclusion you should all love her and we should call it the Smith deck and not the Waite, thank you and goodnight

julierthanyou:

gobs-blooper-reel:

liberalsarecool:

White shooter, black victims. Media bias will supply “lone wolf” narrative.

Racist shoots Black Lives Matter group, media makes zero connection with other white racists shooting black people.

White terrorism is invisible to media.

Not just the media. He’s being charged with 2nd degree assault with a dangerous weapon. 

Not attempted murder.

Not a hate crime.

Assault.

This is institutional white supremacy in action.

FUCKING BULLSHIT

camodadcomic:

privacy PSA

solarbird:

naamahdarling:

comparativelysuperlative:

cartographerswithoutborders:

My plan to create a perfectly flat and level Kansas by moving 5,501 cubic miles of earth from west to east. It’s the ideal Kansas. Still some details to work out about rivers, roads, etc. Watch out for the 900-foot cliff bisecting Kansas City.

I have never once had cause to use the phrase “mad cartographer” before today, but this person is amazing.

“mad cartographer”

I am filled with such delight.

Now this is some goddamn mad science engineering!

wigglyfield:

this is accidentally a better piece of art than anything banksy ever shit out

brianadeshe:

annakie:

micdotcom:

Watch: It’s your right to share your salary, not doing so could be holding you back.

At my last company, one day someone in accounting approached me at lunch and quietly told me I need to ask for a raise because I was way underpaid.

They gave me a number to shoot for.  It was about twice than what I had been making at the time.

So I went online, did some research, found some figures backing up my claim, put it all together and went to my boss.

I got what I asked for.

If it hadn’t been for that person in accounting telling me I was way underpaid, I’d have never known.  I went from barely scraping by to being able to have a savings account and getting all my debts paid thanks to them.

You should at least check sites like salary.com to start the process of seeing what you should be making.

Because this is crucially important