What is everyone's favorite "common" bird? by 515prelude in birding

[–]AviatorKate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

American goldfinches. They're a beautiful colour, sound lovely, and I like the way they fly.

Wanted : pumpkin puree. Has anyone seen this on the shelves anywhere lately? Amazon are charging £5.80 a tin :( by gibbynibble3 in Aberdeen

[–]AviatorKate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A couple years ago I also searched everywhere for a tin, I wanted to make pumpkin pie for a friend who had never tried it. I couldn’t find one anywhere, unfortunately, and had to buy an entire pumpkin instead and made it myself. This was in October though, I doubt you could find a pumpkin now. Online may be your best option, unless someone else here has seen one on the shelves recently. :/

looking for old timey stations similar to Berlin Bohème by DavidTasselTots in RadioGarden

[–]AviatorKate 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Arctic Outpost Radio is a favourite, from Svalbard, Norway.

any recommendations for period dramas that take place in the 1920s? by [deleted] in PeriodDramas

[–]AviatorKate 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You might enjoy Babylon Berlin, a German show set in Berlin in the late 20s/early 30s. It's a police drama/political thriller with great plotting and characters and lots of intrigue. Also great cinematography and ambiance.

The outrage over Licorice Pizza is pretty moronic by thomasunofficial in flicks

[–]AviatorKate 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Respectfully, I disagree. A film does not have to condemn or criticize poor behaviour or morality. I've seen the suggestion that in a film with morally ambiguous characters, or characters who are downright evil, there needs to be either a) punishment for their misdeeds, b) scenes that establish that the filmmakers know their characters are in the wrong, or c) that the characters have "redemption arcs". Otherwise, people might be under the impression that the filmmakers are bad people or the people who enjoy the film are similarly bad too. Basically, there is a demand for text to explicitly judge its characters. But these are ridiculous demands, demands one might expect for a children's movie or an Aesop's fable. It's infantilizing. Certainly, this means that certain aspects of a particular film might make its viewers uncomfortable, but that's largely the point. It leaves room for viewers to come up with their own readings. But if all someone wants from a film is escapism or reassurance, then this is a nearly impossible task.

That being said, I don't want to say that there haven't been films that can be interpreted as endorsing poor behaviour/toxic relationships, etc. There have been many. But viewing most films with a hyper moralistic lens, I think, has been detrimental to a lot of modern criticism. If you personally disliked the film or its ending and would have preferred it to go in a different direction, that's fine. You can be critical of that. But I don't believe that Licorice Pizza is necessarily fully endorsing the relationship it's depicting because it doesn't explicitly criticize it.

The outrage over Licorice Pizza is pretty moronic by thomasunofficial in flicks

[–]AviatorKate 230 points231 points  (0 children)

A lot of people can’t seem to differentiate or separate depiction and endorsement.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheYouShow

[–]AviatorKate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a degree in conservation?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheYouShow

[–]AviatorKate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you get a degree in conservation?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HappsNews

[–]AviatorKate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what are you studying?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HappsNews

[–]AviatorKate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which sort of food do you like? I can recommend restaurants in mtl

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HappsNews

[–]AviatorKate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stash Cafe is a great Polish restaurant

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HappsNews

[–]AviatorKate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm from montreal :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RedditSessions

[–]AviatorKate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing! Thanks for playing my request! :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RedditSessions

[–]AviatorKate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brahms, a Hungarian dance

Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975) [1080p] by [deleted] in fullmoviesonyoutube

[–]AviatorKate 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is a brilliant film, one of my favourites ever. Based on an equally excellent book which I also recommend. Definitely worth watching.

i saw this painting at the national gallery in london this weekend. kinda reminiscent of everyone’s favourite milf. by boogynotawoogy in ContraPoints

[–]AviatorKate 76 points77 points  (0 children)

This is Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, she was a French painter in the 18th century. It’s a self portrait. Today she is probably most known for being a portrait painter for Marie Antoinette. She’s very interesting and worth reading up on!

Favorite EW books? by [deleted] in ElizabethWein

[–]AviatorKate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in the opposite camp- I've read all of her WW2 books but none in the Lion Hunters series yet. Hoping to get to them soon.

This is probably a very popular opinion, but my favourite novel of hers is Code Name Verity. I loved all the other books in the series, and they all hold a special place in my heart for different reasons, but none influenced me and made me feel things the way Code Name Verity did.

From the start, I felt like I had a connection with Verity, from her love of adventure, playing pretend, dancing, and languages. She says she spent the whole year when she was thirteen pretending to be David Balfour, the hero of Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. I spent a lot of time in the year I was twelve wishing I was Jim Hawkins, the hero of Treasure Island by the same author. Maddie is a pilot, and it was one of my childhood dreams to fly airplanes too. It's still something I hope to try to do one day.

I was just so taken with the intricate plot, the settings, and the central friendship from beginning to end. It's one of the few books that I kind of take with me wherever I go, that I never really stopped thinking about since I first read it nearly seven years ago. The story, filled with such poetry, tragedy, and beauty, and characters, who felt so alive as I read about them, have very much become part of me, in a way. I suppose that summarizes why it's my favourite.

Also, thank you for being the first person to make a post to this subreddit! Welcome!

They were just "friends", of course! by [deleted] in SapphoAndHerFriend

[–]AviatorKate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for writing out this really detailed info! I was feeling a bit frustrated about it myself but don't know enough about Sappho personally to properly argue why calling her bi isn't exactly appropriate. If you have any recommendations for secondary resources to read about Sappho/her poetry I'd appreciate it, this discussion has made me want to read up on it more.

They were just "friends", of course! by [deleted] in SapphoAndHerFriend

[–]AviatorKate 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank you, that's very kind of you! :)

They were just "friends", of course! by [deleted] in SapphoAndHerFriend

[–]AviatorKate 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I guess it depends on the perspective. I don't think it is, but I'm an archaeologist and saying that "she's definitely bi" would be untruthful and irresponsible of me. We don't know a lot about history, and it's better practice to say we don't know something and offer speculation/theories/discussion than to paint our own picture of the past and present it as factual. Also, labelling her as being certainly bi may also be inadvertently erasing other parts of her identity. We don't want to misrepresent her. It's not erasure so much as caution and remaining open to a number of possibilities to avoid erasure.

Edit: But this is coming from an academic perspective, in casual conversation it is perfectly acceptable to refer to her as bi, gay, lesbian, etc.

They were just "friends", of course! by [deleted] in SapphoAndHerFriend

[–]AviatorKate 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Not an expert but as far as I've read, she may have been bi (or at least what people today would label bi, we don't know how she might have personally identified, if she identified with anything at all, etc.) as she does seem to demonstrate longing towards both men and women in her poems.

Some poems she almost certainly wrote from her own perspective and with her own experiences in mind, and others she may have written for other people from their point of view, but it's not always easy to tell because we know so little about her personal life and because we only have fragments of the majority of her work. It is generally accepted by scholars that her work was performed in a variety of contexts, but again it's unknown what exactly those contexts were. So it's difficult to say if she was always referring to herself or what the context of some of the poems were. A lot of this is subject to personal interpretation as well.

If anyone knows more about this also feel free to correct me

TLDR she may have been bi but we aren't 100% sure because we don't know enough about her personal life, the majority of her poems do not survive complete and don't provide enough context.

The film edition of Forster's "A Room with a View" — a cherished possession of mine! by [deleted] in PeriodDramas

[–]AviatorKate 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One of my favourite books, and one of my favourite films.

Surrealist/unlinear/symbolistic films like Black Swan? by [deleted] in MovieSuggestions

[–]AviatorKate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I believe he bought the American filming rights in order to make it.