May your life be merry, and filled with awesome

IDK man it’s just the internet it’s not that deep I’ve been here forever

[maswartz]

[jeniferprince]

can we? 🥺

patreon // buy prints here

[littlestpersimmon]

Beloved cats I have painted for people lately

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

I've just found the single most homoerotic piece of LOTR art ever who wants to see

[outlaw-monarch]

Um, YES?

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

This is The Taming of Smeagol by Donato Giancola and by god they're gonna have a threeway with that wriggly guy

[shisasan]

13 June 1936 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[redlipstickresurrected]

Catherine Gogerty (British, b. Worcestershire, England, based Ibid) - Cat's Sabbath, Paintings: Watercolor, Gouache and Color Pencils

[iseulcottage]

Babushcats by Selynn Lee ≽ܫ≼ ˙ᵕ˙

[southcarolinagoddess]

Since it's watermelon season!

My grandfather used to grow watermelons, among other things, and he told me about most of this, especially the orange spot. Those are the absolute best!

[southcarolinagoddess]

My most popular post ever is getting likes again, so that means it's getting close to watermelon season!!

[nostalgicbones]

a rainbow of van gogh—

in order: Peach Tree in Bloom (in memory of Mauve), 1888 / Red Poppies and Daisies, 1890 / Willows at Sunset, 1888 / The Sower (Sower with Setting Sun), 1888 / Undergrowth with Two Figures, 1890 / Landscape with Couple Walking and Crescent Moon, 1890 / Branches with Almond Blossom, 1890 / Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888 / Irises, 1889 / Wheat Field With Cypresses, 1889

[pwlanier]

Hedgehog-shaped jar, Neolithic period (3500-3000 BCE)

Courtesy Alain Truong

[redscharlach]

I feel you, Neolithic hedgehog. I feel you.

[depsidase]

[kurhanchyk]

my preemptive answer is that because people refuse to commit main characters to it but i'm sure there are many reasons

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

#i think it's also because many people write about them from an atheist's perspective#i.e. they write like they can't believe a character would take a religion and its tenets seriously#without being a caricature of fundamentalism

(from @lilybarthes)

[fivekoboldsinacoat]

It's a good video! I highly recommend it. Watched it a few hours after it dropped and was thinking about it again this morning.

OP isn't wrong, exactly (saying this for everyone else reading, not at you, OP) and the pasted tags are excellent & about a real issue, but actually further from the thesis of the video.

That thesis boils down to fiction that creates religions, like fantasy novels or RPGs, is very prone to only really depicting the religion's myths and sacred texts. The creation stories, the pantheon melodramas, that kind of thing. Adjacent to this is a big focus on belief. Both of these, ReligionForBreakfast (RFB) suggests, are due at least in part to (unexamined or deliberate) Christocentrism.

The thing that's missing, that RFB proposes as what he thinks would make a big difference and be good to see in fictional worlds, is action. ("Ritual", for certain definitions of the word.) What do followers of a religion, or people within that religion's culture, actually do? How does it appear in daily life, in art and architecture, customs and food, etc.? And not just the Official Approved actions or activities, either.

It's a really solid video, just under 20 minutes long, link here for the interested.

[catoswound-moved]

you cant even begin poems with "i will sodomise and facef uck you" anymore. because of woke .

[queixumes]

[unquietgravekeeper]

Holy fuck

[barbwritesstuff]

AI bros think their machine can hold a candle to human art. It cannot. "I'll fuck you in the arse, I'll fuck you in the face." The anger, the passion, the love. 10/10. This is art. 💙

[escuerzoresucitado]

monday

[farewell-to-lorien]

Art by Winsor Kinkade, poem by Palestinian poet Marwan Makhoul.

[dailycatsblog]

[freakytikigifs]

Ryan Gosling and James Ortiz as Ryland Grace and Rocky PROJECT HAIL MARY