By rearticulating traditional Azerbaijani rug design, Faig Ahmed creates sculptural textiles that look like digital glitches, patterns flatlining halfway through a tapestry or gradually morphing into a digital mosaic.
Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but for centuries, archeologists and museum curators had been scrubbing away these traces of color before presenting statues and architectural reliefs to the public. Now, scholars are making a color correction.
I love how loyal Brian, Roger and John are to Freddie.
Roger and Brian appeared on TV to defend him against the vitriol of the press (some people even wrote that he deserved to die because he had a promiscuous lifestyle) eight days after his death. You can see in their faces the fresh grief and shock, but they still went because they were not going to let those bastards get away with talking shit about Fred.
They went on to create the Mercury Phoenix Trust to fight AIDS worldwide in his memory.
The documentary Days of Our Lives is particularly heartbreaking to watch. Among other things, Brian talks about how they knew but didn’t know; they kind of refused to know that Freddie was dying. They were like “No, it can’t happen to him” and until the last moment they kept thinking there had to be a way out.
They praise his gentleness, his courage in facing his illness and his dedication to music.
Roger remembers how he was on his way to see him when Peter Freestone (Freddie’s assistant) called him to say “Don’t bother coming, cause he’s gone”. And even after 20 years, he has to hold back tears.
John retired after Freddie’s death. We don’t know if that’s the sole reason because he’s a very private man, but the facts are there. He only returned to the band to finish their last album, shoot the video of Only the Good Die Young (another tearjerker) and then stepped out of the limelight.
Their last album was called Made in Heaven, and the cover was a photo of Brian, Roger and John next to Freddie’s statue in Montreaux (Switzerland).
Brian wrote said statue’s inscription: Lover of Life, Singer of Songs.
They worked for almost ten years on Bohemian Rhapsody, because they wanted to get the right people on board (and after watching the film, I can tell you they did) and not because they wanted to milk Freddie, as it has been said. Roger said on the premiere that Sacha Baron Cohen wouldn’t have taken Freddie seriously. They answered the actors’ endless questions and even visited the set. That’s how much they care about protecting him and his legacy.
Roger regularly posts old photos of Freddie (check out his Instagram @rogertaylorofficial and weep).
So if you want to talk shit about any of them, you’ll have to fight me first. And I know I’ll fucking destroy you.
Yes please consider adopting a Greyhound, they are incredibly misunderstood pets! I was inspired to look into it when seeing them on stop 5 list of perfect apartment dogs! They are not energetic in the slightest, in fact they sleep about as much as cats do.
They’re big dumb soft babies who love cuddles and don’t smell at all and have the softest ears of any good boy
They are such wonderful pets, friends. And they need some help.
As far as dogs go, greyhounds are pretty low maintenance. They’re big lovable couch potatoes. And retired racers in particular have already been trained, so they’re great pets for people who aren’t experienced dog trainers. They know how to walk on a leash, come when they’re called, not poop indoors, etc.
1. Her first major novel (Northanger Abbey) was written solely because she was so salty about how dramatic and cliche and formula Gothic novels were. You know what I mean. Every castle is foreboding. Every villain is awful but can’t bring himself to kill the heroine because she’s Too Pure. Every middle-aged female companion wants to do the heroine in. The heroine is Pure and Perfect and Is Good At Everything Young Women Should Be and recites quotes and/or the Bible whenever she’s in danger and that makes everything better. All butlers are evil. Jane Austen wrote a book specifically to go “THIS is how NORMAL people react to things!!!”
2. “She never changed her opinion about books or men”
3. “As a girl she wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances” and you know what that means. Jane Austen started off writing smut fanfiction. If that’s not writing reassurement that you can be great no matter what you choose to write, I don’t know what is.
(Both quotes from the Penguin Classics version of Northanger Abbey)
– The reason you get extra hungry before and during your period is because your body is physically burning more calories, sometimes as many as 300 more per day for the duration of your period, with an elevated BMR (base metabolic rate) in the days before it starts. So no, you’re not being weird or gross or undisciplined if you want to eat a bunch of chocolate – your body is just burning the same amount of calories you’d expend in 25 minutes on a crosstrainer to shed your uterine lining.
– This is especially important to remember if you’re already, for whatever reason, eating fewer calories per day than it takes to maintain your current weight, which is about 2000 for an adult, though it can be dangerous to have much less than 1300 per day. Think of it like this: if you’re eating 1600 calories a day out of a potential healthy 2000, and your body suddenly wants an extra 300, you’re not craving 1900, but 2300, which is the difference between wanting a chocolate bar and a slice of toast, and wanting an entire extra meal. So, I say again: DO NOT feel bad about wanting to eat more during your period. Your body is working hard, and needs fuel!
– Paradoxically, despite the rate at which you’re burning calories, you’re also retaining water, which can make you both feel and weigh as heavier. Speaking personally, I’ve noticed my weight fluctuate by as much two kilos (4.5 pounds) before and after a period, rising before and during, then dropping sharply afterwards. So if you’re struggling with body image or weight issues, this is a suboptimal time at which to get on the scales: the result you’ll get will only reflect a temporary reality, not your actual progress, and is therefore unhelpful.
– If, for whatever reason, you’re self-conscious about easing your cramps with a hot water bottle where other people can see it, whether at home or work, consider using a plastic soft drink bottle filled with hot/boiling water. Even if you put it openly on your lap, instead of tucking it under a shirt or into a front hoodie pocket, it will just look like a regular bottle of water, and any relief is better than none!
– No, it’s not weird if you shit more during your period than usual, either. The hormones your body releases that make your uterus to contract and release sometimes end up in the bowel, particularly if you happen to produce a lot of them, which means that bowel contracts and releases, too.
– If anyone tries to make a dumbass sexist joke about your being more [insert stereotypically negative feminine quality here] while on your period, you can tell them that actually, menstruation raises testosterone levels, not oestrogen. (Telling them to go fuck themselves with an angry cactus can also be therapeutic.)
– The cramps and lower back pain often experienced during menstruation, when the uterus expels its contents and your hips shift slightly wider to accommodate it, are a microcosm of what happens during actual labour. So yeah: it can hurt!
– That being said, we’ve culturally accepted the idea of massive period pain as normative to such an extent that many people don’t realise their pain is a sign that something’s wrong. Despite how common they are, a lot of conditions like PCOS and endometriosis are poorly understood in terms of their etiology, which means it can be hard to get an accurate diagnosis. But if your periods regularly have you screaming, vomiting or totally incapacitated, get checked out: you shouldn’t have to just shut up and endure because it’s ‘meant’ to feel like that. It’s not, and there are ways to manage it.
– As well as being a form of birth control, you can take the pill to control or stop your period. When used to prevent menstruation, the pill tricks the body into thinking you’re already pregnant, which stalls your cycle (and stops you from actually getting pregnant). Though some people worry that it’s unnatural not to menstruate for long periods of time, or for your body to ‘feel’ pregnant for so long, it’s also important to remember that, after an actual pregnancy, especially if you breastfeed, your period won’t resume right away. This is called
lactational amenorrhea, which can work as a form (though not, I hasten to add, a 100% reliable form) of natural birth control. Basically, it means your body is focussed on producing milk for an existing child, such that you can’t easily conceive another one until the first child is weaned. While this varies from person to person, the important thing to remember is that there’s ample biological precedent for stopping menstruation for long periods of time whether you’re pregnant or not, and that choosing to do so via the pill doesn’t make you unnatural, nor does it cause your body to do something it otherwise wouldn’t or couldn’t.
In conclusion: periods suck, but knowing how and why they work and how best to manage them can make them suck slightly less. So go ye forth, and be educated!
As someone who had to have a uterus removed for severe endometriosis, I will always reblog this sort of information. Don’t sit and endure, and don’t listen to the twatwaffles who insist that the pain is normal or you’re just overreacting. It isn’t just in your head and you are in legitimate pain.
Also!!!! From personal experience: if you find you get really unbearably tired/physically exhausted and depressed for no discernible reason right before/during the heaviest part of of your period, consider asking your doctor about getting your blood checked!!
I assumed for years that being exhausted and depressed to the point of barely being able to move from bed or focus on anything during my period was just part of the normal suffering, and then when I mentioned it to my doctor while troubleshooting for possible depression she said “Hmm… that’s uh, not normal.” and made me get a test to check for blood disorders. Turns out my blood iron levels were at like, critical rock-bottom (aka I now had severe anemia) due to me having pretty heavy periods for such a small person! I was basically living a week of my life every month like a person dying of severe blood loss, exhausted because my cells weren’t getting the oxygen they needed to make energy. She said it probably had been that way for a long while and getting worse over time, and I had no idea, because nobody in health class or anywhere else had ever told me it was a thing that might happen!
Trying to get birth control sorted out such that it minimizes/eliminates my period is still a work in progress, but in the meantime I’ve also been on (relatively inexpensive, like $10 buys 105 of them) daily over-the-counter oral iron supplements which in six months brought my blood back to healthy iron levels and allowed me to function with something more like a normal human level of energy again, no matter what time of the month it is!
If your period is causing side effects that are severely interfering with your ability to live your life, even if you think that might be “normal” please talk to a healthcare expert about it if you can! There are more options to help with this stuff than you might think, and way way more layers to the subject than anyone ever taught you in middle school sex ed.
If your period makes you bonkers-over-Yonkers crazy, you might have PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder).
If you have bipolar, PMDD might trigger depressive OR manic episodes.
If you have PCOS or amenorrhea or really really infrequent periods, it’s important to get them semi regularly or not at all in a way your lining doesn’t build up. Lining buildup can cause cancer later on in life. Options that have been presented to me are birth control, a hormonal IUD and a 10-day progesterone regiment that induces it every three months.
The PCOS-PMDD-bipolar trifecta makes it really difficult to manage and if I figure something out I’ll let y’all know.
I’m not a doctor, by the way. I just deal with a lot of period hell.
I’m free of period hell, but rebloging for anyone who’s not. Good info here.
Explore your options for birth/hormone control, like bluedream said! Often people who have tried the Pill and it hasn’t helped with heavy periods can get improved results with other hormones or different applications. A friend of mine who used to get crippling periods (heavy, super painful but no PCOS or anything) had her output dropped by over two thirds when she used an intra-uterine hormonal contraceptive (IUD), Mirena. I used to get average periods but now have mild spotting at most. The Mirena works for 5 years as well! Injected capsules are also multi-month and have similar results.
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