what's the thought you think all your life long?

hec. 20s.

[sashimi55]

Human bodies are so weird like the upper half consists of every single vital organ and the lower half is legs

[dambiex]

[andromacheflint]

I know I'm not a very good friend like across the board but sometimes it's like sorry good for you for going out and partying with your better friends but I'm too suicidal to think of a nuanced beautiful comment to your insta post about it

[andromacheflint]

i know im being a stupid baby but its actually so scary when you ask someone for advice in a social situation and they not only not have anything helpful to say but seem mad at you for having this problem

[playthings2007]

Completely lost all concepts of joke comprehension for a moment because my instinct was to register this as a new type of kitchencel

[thestuffedalligator]

“When we were kids, the Phonics Wizard came to our town to show off how the letter E can change the sounds of vowels. He turned a can into a cane, a pin into a pine. This one kid had a cap and he changed it into a cape, that kind of thing.

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

After a moment, she put the ball of twine back onto its pillow. “Anyways. They tried to arrest the Phonics Wizard, but he had a plan in case something went wrong and he turned it into a plane and flew away.”

[ouroborosorder]

this is such a profoundly stupid thing to be mad about but. i periodically think about how banksy made one of my single favorite pieces of art of all time, and everything else he's ever done has sucked. man, how did you nail it once

[ouroborosorder]

It's this piece, titled The Banality of the Banality of Evil. Because on first glance, you're like. Yeah, okay, it's obvious what it's saying. Even nazis, even evil people can appreciate beauty, too. But then you learn its name, and suddenly the interpretation shifts a bit. The idea that evil is banal has in itself become banal. my first response to seeing a nazi on a bench is "oh it's about the banality of evil" and not "jesus christ there's a nazi on the bench."

and like. i dunno i think that's a really interesting way for a title to recontextualize a piece. it's finding nuance by tearing out the nuance you want to project onto it. it's not the greatest piece of art ever made, but i'd be lying if i said i didn't have a huge soft spot for it

[manwhorewednesdays]

Okay but I have to add to this

what I find really interesting is how the way this is drawn (especially considering who drew it) the art style seems extremely deliberate. This type of nostalgic landscape painting is very reminiscent of nazi art and specifically, Hitler's art.

Nazis were extremely judgmental of "entartete Kunst" (degenerate art). Bansky's usual work very well fall into this category! So for him to go for this style of painting in particular is another choice I find very interesting, because I can see some people react to this painting with some variation of "oh, I didn't know he could actually draw! I thought he is a hack but he is a real artist!" - and that is where they would agree with the Nazis.

I dunno I just find this piece very compelling

[ouroborosorder]

oh that is actually fascinating. in fact, to add on- a detail I omitted because I just kinda forgot to mention it. The reason there’s two signatures in the corner is because it was a painting in a thrift shop, Banksy adding the Nazi, and then returning it to the shop.

I think there’s something interesting about recognizing the lineage of this type of art and wanting to mess with it, subvert the intent, and explore the topic and legacy. It’s potent. I really like this piece

[fairycosmos]

oh what just because im ugly and unskilled and untalented and incapable and emotionally closed off and weird and uncomfortable you don’t want to be my friend . Wowww

[andromacheflint]

i went to see bearcave btw #sorrywomen for not mentioning it earlier. I liked it, i think sapphic narratives as a rule tend to be unempathetic to the ssa woman who "has" a hetero "option" so i always appreciate when it's highlighted that the option is. well.

[andromacheflint]

I generally consider the whole affair beneath me but the odyssey trailer came on at the cinema yesterday and I will say that robert pattinson is like the only person thats well cast, that's about the image i had for antinous in my mind since school. which is strange cause the Ithaca scenes in general are giving "wanted to make a movie abt the Saxons and got the wrong script" and he does not look out of place or any less Saxon or whatever but he *feels* like the aptest choice made. and I do like that sexy wolf thing he got going on but that's beside the point

[ukulelehitter-deactivated202603]

its been about 10 years since she showed me this but i am STILL thinking about how my (then) 4 year old cousin drew birds

OBSESSED with this creature; she draws the body from above/below and the head from the side, with a giant eyeball that takes up the entire head and never looks in a specific direction. in a very old-fashioned sense: iconic

[ape-of-naples]

researchers at the vatican archives have announced the rediscovery of a medieval manuscript believed to be the sole surviving copy of aristotles lost treatise on video essays

[tumbwr]

u cant be hieronymous. its just not boschipple. poschibble. bosichibble.

[ceruleanheaven]

month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in

[ceruleanheaven]

yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second

[ceruleanheaven]

many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[andromacheflint]

whatever i got wine. and. ok whiny rant incoming sorry for that but my mum and my sister think that it's bad that I drink when im upset, right? which is a reasonable thing to worry about I get it i have a think w losing ny temper and they are thinking of tv violent alcoholics. ofc the case w me is that i DONT snap at people when ive drunk, only when I'm completely sober, but I get the worry. and I do think that there could be other ways I could handle being upset w/o snapping at people if I wanted to. twee shit like screaming at pillows* or more advanced therapy stuff idk. but none of that would make ME actually feel BETTER. and I'm so tired of this like low level ambient misery I have going on all the time that I don't want a fuckin soothing technique to help me get through being extra miserable so i can go back to being regular miserable. and at least drinking does other stuff as well idk

[andromacheflint]

it's kinda like sneezing I think. you can hold in a sneeze buiant it just frustrating? 99% of the time, isn't it easier and more pleasurable to just do it?

[andromacheflint]

whatever i got wine. and. ok whiny rant incoming sorry for that but my mum and my sister think that it's bad that I drink when im upset, right? which is a reasonable thing to worry about I get it i have a think w losing ny temper and they are thinking of tv violent alcoholics. ofc the case w me is that i DONT snap at people when ive drunk, only when I'm completely sober, but I get the worry. and I do think that there could be other ways I could handle being upset w/o snapping at people if I wanted to. twee shit like screaming at pillows* or more advanced therapy stuff idk. but none of that would make ME actually feel BETTER. and I'm so tired of this like low level ambient misery I have going on all the time that I don't want a fuckin soothing technique to help me get through being extra miserable so i can go back to being regular miserable. and at least drinking does other stuff as well idk

[andromacheflint]

my parents are both very "well that's life" kind of people and I don't think anything has contributed more to my being suicidal