the point of art is not to be great but to make it transparently obvious that there is something wrong with you
Oh I’m so sleepy… won’t you use !tuck to tuck me into bed?
!cursedoak
did anyone else have terrible dreams about a gnarled, twisted forest with one tree more terrible and hateful than all the rest
i want you all to know that today i saw someone with a tuba get into a subaru with the license plate "tubaru"
I just need everyone to know how much I really, really, REALLY hate Aristotle.
And there are three kinds of hatred for Aristotle, the first being visceral, so called because it rises from the intestines and through the middle of a person, yet never wanes nor increases but remains constant; and the second is called passive, and this occurs when a scholar or reader comes upon the works of Aristotle by chance, without seeking them out of their own volition, but rather confronted with them unexpectedly as a man set upon by bandits along a lonely road, but this sort of anger passes quickly; but indeed the third is active, and this occurs when a person seeks out Aristotle with the particular intention of becoming choleric; this sort of person seeks out the works of Aristotle wherever they may be found so that they might read them and thereby conjure up some bilious reason to cast invective and rebuke upon his theories and observations, and this anger is kept by its possessor at a boil.
earlier today i told an acquaintance in passing that i'll often be in the middle of a novel and think "man i wish this shit were more ambiguous" and had to reiterate twice that i wasn't being sarcastic before they believed me, so this post is to say: i love when writers don't bother to explain everything, i love when stories end uncertain and unsettling, i love being required to think as a reader, i love when stuff makes no damn sense, no i'm not kidding
the thing about piracy is that i know i deserve everything for free forever
This is what Google Maps looked like on launch day in 2005
(via u/Mackelowsky)
recently came across some plates and bowls that would be perfect for a children's hospital
ONE
SINGLE
JOKE
(vía Mary Magdalene with Angels)
Mary Magdalene with Angels. Completed c. 1490. Medium, limewood.
This piece is located in Munich’s Bavarian National Museum, the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. Tilman Riemenschneider.
Tilman Riemenschneider was a master sculptor and woodcarver from the late medieval.
i immediately thought this too and i wanted to check the tags and see if anyone else did first so thank you. lanugo hairs are a type of body hair that people are born with as newborns, which is replaced with the adult “peach fuzz” type hair we have as adults, which is called vellus. lanugo can grow back during long periods of starvation. its one of the symptoms of long term anorexia nervosa. if youre observant you can often see it on hollywood actresses. fasting was an almost universal activity of saints and holy people, so it would make sense if a general fuzziness was noticed by the laity and artists, and eventually conflated with the theatrical costumes the wikipedia section linked above talks about, in depictions of saints
im just speculating though, not making any assertions