Ensemble

first you create the circle then you fold yourself through it recursively until you find what you are looking for it's a subtle art

Sorry if you have to see ads, here's my cat Cassie to soften the blow

TRAINA-NORELL MINK TRIMMED CHIFFON GOWN, 1948.

Long sleeve green silk with V-neck and back edged in brown mink, ruched midriff band and full skirt, neck having chiffon over nude insert and large cloth flower.

we cannot go through ONE family meal without my parents going ok can someone set up the cheese board :)

@madgrad

Another stone/creature.

I made a small series of these, I'm pretty sure I've posted these before - but I'm looking at them again because I like it when the edge becomes so important in a piece, and want to capture that in some new work.

Yueqi Qi Fall 2025 Ready-To-Wear

We are losing nearly ten percent of the planet’s insect population every decade due to human influence. If you have taken even an entry level biology course you understand how terrifying that figure is for not just humans but all life on Earth. As EO Wilson put it,

“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos”

Even despite the urgency of this issue, there are few conservation initiatives focused solely on preserving invertebrates. The Xerces Society is one such organization! If you share my concern about insect population decline (and you are able to do so), please consider donating to their current fundraiser to help protect our most vulnerable neighbors. They are still short of their fundraising goal!

My fundraiser for Xerces

My fundraiser for Xerces

The Xerces Society is a science-based conservation organization that promotes pollinator health, endangered species conservation, and pestic

was talking to my mom about how white people ignore the contributions of poc to academia and I found myself saying the words "I bet those idiots think Louis Pasteur was the first to discover germ theory"

which admittedly sounded pretentious as fuck but I'm just so angry that so few people know about the academic advancements during the golden age of Islam.

Islamic doctors were washing their hands and equipment when Europeans were still shoving dirty ass hands into bullet wounds. ancient Indians were describing tiny organisms worsening illness that could travel from person to person before Greece and Rome even started theorizing that some illnesses could be transmitted

also, not related to germ theory, but during the golden age of Islam, they developed an early version of surgery on the cornea. as in the fucking eye. and they were successful

and what have white people contributed exactly?

please go research the golden age of Islamic academia. so many of us wouldn't be alive today if not for their discoveries

people ask sometimes how I can be proud to be Muslim. this is just one of many reasons

some sources to get you started:

PubMed Central (PMC)

Arabic Medicine in Literature

Google Books

A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine

but keep in mind, it wasn't just science and medicine! we contributed to literature and philosophy and mathematics and political theory and more!

maybe show us some damn respect

Hello! It’s been a while. I’ve been meaning to do an update post on Doris’ new tank setup but honestly I did not have the motivation to write it. To make it up to everyone I’ve decided to write on something equally if not more exciting:

Doris’ first shed (with me) !!!!

For a while I’d found Doris to be more reclusive. She’d stopped asking for handling sessions, was fully hiding under her substrate (whereas she would usually keep her head on the surface) and would make puffing sounds to signify irritability. While at first worrying, after discussing these changes with my mentor, we figured out the reasoning for this behaviour change… she was starting her shedding cycle!

I very quickly got to work accommodating her shed; I bumped the humidity up to 90% and gave her more moss to hide under. Within a few days her eyes started clouding over, her skin started dulling and her face seemed somewhat baggy. She was definitely not looking her best…

Then, one day as I came back from uni, a wonderful thing happened. As I entered my room, I noticed an odd stick that wasn’t usually in Doris’ tank. And then I realised… it wasn’t a stick! Doris had shed in one long piece; it was a perfect shed!!

I was overjoyed! My first shed with Doris coming out so perfectly was a sign that she was healthy and comfortable with the conditions I had provided for her.

I very quickly grabbed my microscope to have a close up look at her shed. There is so much beauty in how life is constructed and I felt so privileged to be able to have such a personal relationship with it.

And when I saw Doris again… she was stunning.

Evening Dress

Pierre Balmain

1949

Museum at FIT