TheFourthGuardian

This blog serves as a scrapbook for art and quotes that I am either intrigued by, mystified by, or resound with and some that help me process traumatic events from my past.They are all culled from other tumblr blogs, and I am profoundly grateful to those whom they are from. I have spent my life in the midst of suffering and death, personally and professionally. Survivor of brain surgery. Trying to have a life amid the ashes of the loss of my life partner of forty years. My body is a mid-century relic, but my spirit is ageless and my mind is like that of a 22 year old.

[ducissatenebrarum]

Satan Selling Indulgences

Jena Codex (f. 56r), c. 1490–1510

Illumination on parchment

This striking detail depicts the Devil in papal attire, with horns, webbed wings, and talons, distributing papal bulls of indulgence. Created in Bohemia during the Hussite movement, this sharp anti-clerical satire critiques the corrupt Catholic practice of selling the forgiveness of sins.

Location: Library of the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic.

[spiritualseeker777]

[eyeoftheeagle]

You’re not flying above the ground,

you’re flying above your fears.

🔥🏍🔥

Those who fear falling never rise like this.

[klassizismus]

A winged skeleton (1779), etching by Jacques Gamelin (French, 1738-1803)

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[thememedaddy]

[vintage-tigre]

[anxeious]

[queensinchains]

THE SHEEP DETECTIVES (2026) dir. Kyle Balda

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

Yip, this is Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[ingridverse]

"God never gives you more than you can handle" is survivorship bias. People who got more than they could handle are dead.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Oh, dear. I can't reblog that fast enough.

[snizabelle]

you ever think about how famous poet conrad aiken used to visit his parents graves (murder-suicide when he was 11) and would boat watch and one time he saw a boat called 'cosmos mariner' and was like holy SHIT that goes HARD and he went to look up where it was going and it just said 'destination unknown' and he was like OH MY GODDDDDDD so he ended up putting "COSMOS MARINER: DESTINATION UNKNOWN" on his grave which is also a bench so you too can sit by his parents graves and look out for boats with cool names?

[snizabelle]

He was so real for this

[formlines]

The Lightkeeper 3.5" x 2.5"; 2mm embossed metal magnet  

Adam Lewis

[thememedaddy]

[littlewickedthings]

Matt Bailey

[undisclosed-desires-4]

:)(:

[bebsi-cola]

you shouldn't be getting all your medical information from social media but apparently you can't be getting it from doctors either. getting them to explain is like trying to wring blood from a stone

[bebsi-cola]

i don't think it's fair for medical professionals to get snarky about "doctor google" or whatever when stuff like having auto-immune markers show up clearly in a test you did 5 years ago that's not communicated or explained to you at all isn't even that uncommon an experience

[charnel-grounds]

“What’s Humane Life, Where Nothing Long Can Stand? Time Flyes, Our Glory Fades, and Death’s at Hand.”

William Faithorne the Younger (c. 1669–1703) after William Faithorne (c. 1620–1691) after Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674)

mezzotint & etching on paper, c. 1669–1703 — source