#zee talks
*revives this blog during a global pandemic*
queue is low again, let me know if there’s anything in particular y’all would like to see!!
this 2004 Åland Islands stamp of an ermine is very nice (it’s too small of a resolution to format in my normal style)
[id: a postage stamp with a realistic illustration of a white ermine posing on a snowy rock. the stamp is mostly white and grey. end id]
did not mean to post the properly formated Mali stamp immediately after the post talking about it -_-
i’ll format it in a normal post in a bit, but holy FUCK look at this 1996 Mali stamp
[id: a postage stamp with an intricate illustration of Hailey’s Comet flying past a nebula in the Andromeda galaxy. the nebula is represented by small dots of color that form a sweeping spiral. Hailey’s Comet is represented by a streak of white. end id]
anyway thanks for listening to me complain, here’s a 1999 Bulgarian mushroom stamp. for your troubles.
[id: a postage stamp with a highly detailed illustration of white mushrooms in different stages of their lives. surrounding the mushrooms are sprigs of grass, clover, and one ladybug. end id]
it’s too goddamn early for me to discover creepy fetish blogs interacting with this blog -_-
i imagine there’s some context im missing but Japan released a jeans stamp this year
[id: a stamp depicting a stylized illustration of a pair of blue jeans. the outline of the stamp is roughly in the shape of the jeans. end id]
jamp (jeans stamp)
a 1976 West Germany stamp depicting violets from a series on garden flowers
this post is literally my biggest regret on this blog because i was up late and brain tired and saw the latin name “Viola tricolor” and went “ok, violets” without thinking about it and after posting this, what felt like a million snide fools sidled up to inform me that they aren’t VIOLETS they’re PANSIES-_-
i believe a kind soul tried to help and said that they could be African violets, but after reviewing the catalog entry again and googling the latin name given, they are, in fact, pansies
second biggest regret is that post where i referred to a sea slug as a sea snail because, again, up late and brain tired
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omg Japan did a fairly large series on Peanuts characters in 2014, many involving Snoopy, look at this one
[id: a postage stamp with a stylized illustration of the Charles Schulz characters Snoopy and Woodstock sitting at a typewriter. end id]
i’m not sure how i want to or should articulate this (so bear with me lol) but it does suck sometimes that postage stamps are inherently political because they’re produced by governments with their own agendas.
(and i say ‘sometimes’ only because there are very rare instances where the inherent political aspect of a postage stamp elevates it in my eyes - there’s a particular stamp that comes to mind that i can’t for the life of me find the link to atm, but it was a stamp released as a condemnation of the apartheid system in South Africa)
like obviously nothing exists in a vacuum! but the inherent political nature of postage stamps does trouble me often. and it’s important for us to remember that when engaging with stamps and think critically about what we’re being shown, who’s showing it to us, and why
going thru the ‘bison’ stamp catagory on this late sunday afternoon and it’s uncomfortable and strange to see United States stamps ‘proudly’ depicting buffalo when the US govt is directly responsible for their near extinction in a genuine effort to commit genocide against the Indigenous tribes that relied on them.
idk maybe it would seem less… awful and unrepentant if the govt were using the funds from the stamps to directly fund Indigenous stewardship and buffalo conservation but they are not
i don’t know why that post about preferring paperback books to hardcovers reblogged here (since deleted) and not my main blog, but i stand by my beliefs
“you’re my best friend for the rest of my life”
listening to “for youth” moodboard
