carapace shell

@carapaceshell

failed librarian, archivist, celticist, medievalist, and linguist; long covid and m.e. enjoyer somewhere near tacoma fix your hearts or die pfp: skeleton cradling flower (hugo simberg's garden of death) banner: siamese cat tucked into bed watching tv

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carapace shell@carapaceshell· 1d

Got lost in the camera roll in 2020-2021 (when we lived in a house in Tacoma with a big backyard). This little feller was a regular who enjoyed the Bringing Out of the Cob

A blurry dried corncob is in the foreground. In the middle distance, on the other side of a glass door, a squirrel stands on his haunches, hands clasped expectantly

carapace shell@carapaceshell· 2d

the vibes at age 48

Still from THE PRISONER showing a sign an office that says, in the Village typeface, QUESTIONS ARE A BURDEN TO OTHERS; ANSWERS A PRISON FOR ONESELF

Still from THE PRISONER showing a nurse pushing an elderly woman all snugged up in a wheelchair with a full face sun visor and snuggie-looking cape

carapace shell@carapaceshell· 7d

"(I've Had) The Time of My Life" is a uniquely terrible song

Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech meme guy

carapace shell@carapaceshell· 7d

(fumbling professor voice) "MY PUMPKINS!"

Product image showing a black and white BEFORE image and a color AFTER image. The BEFORE image shows a kitchen with various pumpkins spilled everywhere on the floor near a Le Creuset dutch oven and jars and things of that nature. The after image shows everything nearly arranged in a 3-tiered rolling cart.

carapace shell@carapaceshell· 9d

Photographs from the Hugo Simberg archive, Finnish National Gallery

Late 1800s or early 1900s photograph of two women standing on swings (or perhaps sharing a swing), facing different directions but both at a 45 degree angle, against a backdrop of forest and cabin.

Photograph labeled 1904 of a man with him arm outstretched. A blurry dog is in the foreground, mid jump.

carapace shell@carapaceshell· 10d

In Paul Schrader's CAT PEOPLE (1982) the zoo gift shop sells at least two models of stuffed animal I owned around this time. Only have photo proof of one

Dirty laptop screen showing a still from CAT PEOPLE (1982) of the zoo gift shop and all the stuffed animals

Closeup of the still showing a row of stuffed beavers or woodchucks in yellow SMILE T-shirts

Another closeup of the movie still showing a shelf full of colorful Macaw or parrot stuffies behind Nastassja Kinski

3-year-old with Captain and Tennille haircut holding the very same parrot stuffie

carapace shell@carapaceshell· 10d

Going to start a thread of old Roger + Terry pics because I need to remember them

White and orange cat face with paws resting on a UV lamp. Big old balloon head. Looking like Falcor. Or Kilroy

Orange and white cat resting his jowl on a railing on the stairs in a sunbeam. His eyes sparkle and contain the universe

Two orange and white cats in a golden hour sunbeam on a dining table. One has big eyes and one has tiny eyes

Orange and white cat craning its neck and looking concerned

carapace shell@carapaceshell· 10d

Orange cat on a couch slumped over like Pooh Bear suckling on his arm and sitting like people

Orange cat with tongue sticking out looking scrunge

Really good angle of an orange cat taken with a potato phone

tiny scrungly kitten resting its chin on an arm

carapace shell@carapaceshell· 10d

Week after week i am upset to find that Henry Jr. and Nigel are still looking for a home ws.petango.com/webservices/...

two big boy cats huddled together in a shelter, one is big orange and the other is big tabby. they look sad

carapace shell@carapaceshell· 13d

I think of this one every time I buy too many art supplies

David Shrigley painting of a tired looking elephant sitting down and resting, slumped over. It reads I MUST REST; MY RAMPAGE IS OVER

carapace shell@carapaceshell· 15d

It was a very good weekend, movie-wise

Letterboxd screenshot showing five movies: Cat People (4 stars), 12 Angry Men (4.5 stars), Tootsie (3.5 stars), The Apartment (4.5 stars), and Hester Street (4 stars).

carapace shell@carapaceshell· 16d

attempts at representational art crash my brain, so i can only use my sketchbooks to do stuff like this currently

scribbly little sketches of abstract landscapes with ochres and neon oranges

smudgy sketch of orange flowers with bright green stems

carapace shell@carapaceshell· Jul 11

Screengrab from Letterboxd of two popular reviews. First is by Toni and says, "Lars Von Trier's films got me through a bad time in my life by making it worse (heart emoji)." Second is by Karsten and says, "i feel like shit"

carapace shell@carapaceshell· Jul 3

more chaos swatching

Gray toned paper sketchbook open on a desk with some nasty ass swatches of paint

big sketchbook open on a desk covered in inchoate swatches of acrylic gouache

carapace shell@carapaceshell· Jun 28

Ah no,

Tumblr post by username dyke-uncle, which is a screenshot of another post or maybe a video, with Spanish captions. On the left side, a small green bird shaped object is visible on the side of the road in the distance, with the caption "Poor little parrot, killed by the high temperatures." Right side image is a close up of the object, which is actually an unshucked ear of corn. The caption on this side is "Ah no, it's a corn"

carapace shell@carapaceshell· Jun 27

Happy World Sunglasses Day

John Candy as Dean Andrews in JFK looking cool as hell in some mid-1960s sunglasses and a suit

carapace shell@carapaceshell· Jun 25

How your email finds me

Grainy crop of a diagram for hypervolemic POTS showing a sitting stick figure full of blood but the blood doesn't reach past their shoulders like a partially empty vessel. Labeled "reduced sitting blood volume"

carapace shell@carapaceshell· Jun 24

it's CALLED uglyswatching

A sketchbook open to two pages covered in messy strokes of gansai paints labeled as 12 different colors

carapace shell@carapaceshell· Jun 24

He then proceeded to crop and zoom so I wouldn't miss it

carapace shell@carapaceshell· Jun 24

My husband texted me this pic of our next door neighbor's cat and look at this Big Boy Face

A grey tuxedo cat in a second story window. He has a notched ear and a very strong face and tiny little sad eyes

carapace shell@carapaceshell· Jun 20

loose sketchbook time with gansai paints (actually happier with how the little ones came out; ironic because they started out as "i'm using these pages to wipe my brush on" while working on the bigger one)

two sketchbooks open on a desk, showing loose watercolor landscapes

bigger sketchbook open to another loose landscape

carapace shell@carapaceshell· Jun 12

this is me if you even care

Closeup zoom of the baby hippo at the german zoo's face; looks like they just told a joke

carapace shell@carapaceshell· Jun 10

We don't usually see each other's headers. Here's mine.

black and white 1970 photo of a siamese cat tucked into bed watching tv. national football league poster on wall

carapace shell@carapaceshell· Jun 4

This is a cat-lamp checkpoint. Post cat with lamp

An orange cat warming up his noggin inside the hood of a desk lamp

carapace shell@carapaceshell· May 26

Bad art is a trash chute for my soul

Open mini sketchbook showing an abstract colored pencil mess

Open mini sketchbook showing a nasty little sketch of trees

Graph notebook highlighter and gel pen drawing of a quote unquote flower

Graph notebook high liter and gel pen drawing of one sad little flowers in a jar or something

carapace shell@carapaceshell· May 23

Aug. 2016: When my friend Johanna took me under and behind the stage at Drottningholms Slottsteater in Stockholm to look at original 18th-century opera house contraptions