“Spring begins—
the stork takes
a first step.”

(Shôha) 

🎨 Katsushika Hokusai

Doves and peacocks in a garden with yellow flowers and wisteria hanging from columns. Painting.

Morning.
A Peacock and Doves in a Garden, Eugene Bidau.

Bounding Hares, swallow in flight, drawing.

Spring is in the Air, Colin See-Paynton.

“Let us eat one last cookie, and then we will stop.”

I’m on the verge of an epiphany, but I’m struggling to find the words for it.

But here goes.

Podbros are catering to racists. This is not an accident. And they think racists are one size fits all the same way Republicans think Black people are.

And just like the GOP, it blows up in their faces.

Showing Up for Racial Justice how do you square your claims that he is anti-racist and your endorsement with Graham Platner saying that Black people don't tip among other things?

Black cover with gold design of spider webs and stars.

Book Cover of the Day:

illustration inspired by Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" showing the creature standing beside a tree on a hilltop.

"It was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life."

Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" was published on this day in 1818 🫀

A side by side image that shows the front and back of a long black silk gown with a sweetheart neckline. It has generous bishop sleeves, a lace portion to the top of the bodice and a lace hood to cover the hair

Partial view of the side of the black silk and lace dress showing one of the sleeves and the hood pulled up over the head

A detail of the black floral chantilly lace that forms a distinctive part of the 1940s black evening dress

I sense that mischief could be afoot in a hooded lace gown, at least I hope so. This is a #1940s evening gown whose bishop sleeves and hood are made from black chantilly lace above a deep black silk skirt. Sold via #AugustaAuction #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

These are the same dudes who call themselves “alphas”

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

extremely relatable screenshot from Frankenstein (1931), specially on a stormy night like tonight.

mood.

I think this is the best summary and most powerful observation.

“You can’t end indifference without accountability”

A gigantic lobster attacks a diving bell.

Some seafood decide to have a go at humans-in-a-can for a change in the Strand 1927 serialization of Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea' yarn 'The Maracot Deep'. Illustration by Tom Peddie.
#WyrdWednesday #ConanDoyle #ArthurConanDoyle #fantasyfiction #BookChatWeekly

Painting of cherry tree in blossom.

Cherries in Bloom, Hasegawa Kyuzo.

💙🔥💙Circe the Enchantress - by Edmund Dulac
#MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday

Cozy evening plans courtesy of Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

This doesn’t happen with a competent government.

1 of the things that pissed me off about Biden bashing…nobody ever talked about how he had some of the most capable cabinets & staffers ever.

Even if he got sick we were still going to be in good hands & that matters more than people realized.

One can journey to the magical Irish island of Tír na nÓg by many misted paths—through ancient burial mounds and caves, over and under the sea, in an enchanted boat or on Manannán's mythical horse.

🎨 Susan Shroder
#wyrdwednesday

This has that ‘stocking-up-at-Home-Depot-the-night-before-the-hurricane’ kind of feel.

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/6a50...

Letter from Lorraine Hansberry to Langston Hughes.

Reply from Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry.

On 2/8/1958, a playwright preparing for her Broadway debut wrote to Langston Hughes asking permission to use a line from one of his poems as the title for her play. Just over a year later #otd 1959, A RAISIN IN THE SUN premiered. This #america250 post w/ @cmcanning.bsky.social explores that premiere

This is gonna go under the radar with free agency going on, but it’s nasty work by the NFL

Inside Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, this iconic Crystal Staircase rises beneath a vast glass vault, surrounded by gilded details and marble columns

Inside Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, this iconic Crystal Staircase rises beneath a vast glass vault, surrounded by gilded details and marble columns

Pastel still life with some ranunculus flowers, alstroemeria and an iris in a vase with some bits of pot pourri

Pastel still life, including a nice vase bought in a shop attached to an auction house, some ranunculus flowers, alstroemeria and an iris. The dried items on the right came from a bag of pot pourri. This was probably sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition.
#pastel #flowers

A stylized owl sculpted into a heating grate at Walter Library.

One of many owls carved into the stone wall of the Walter Library Reading Room.

An owl sculpted into a metal gate on the first floor of Walter Library.

The vast majority of the owls can be found in light fixtures of the library. There are 946 of these stylized owl logos.

Screw it. It is Spring Break here at the U and I've finally done something I have always wanted to do: count all the owls at Walter Library. For the first time since the library was renovated in 2002, here is a complete count of all the owls carved, chiseled, and sculpted into the library: 1,167!

The president would literally lose Connect Four to a prairie dog. Spare me.

Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨

art by Richard Scarry

Bam Adebayo and his mother Marilyn Blount after his 83 point classic. What an absolutely beautiful sight to see ❤️❤️❤️

#NBASky #SkyHoops

There's a reason that every holiday season, they bring out mythological, Black, SNAP recipients out there buying crab legs.

Look over THERE!

Young Jack Hawkins hangs onto the top-mast as the wind blows about him.

I know this isn't weird, but this 'Treasure Island' illustration by Mervyn Peake is so brilliant and so evocative of travelling into adventure, I'm going to tag it #WyrdWednesday anyway.
#MervynPeake #illustration #artsky