your friendly neighborhood vampire

they/them 21yo - trying my best but with a bad fucking attitude - and now with a girlfriend !

[transfaguette]

Here's my take. I don't care if Christian lawmakers are just reading the bible wrong. I don't care about the bible. I don't care about Christianity. Religion and government should not mix. There is no way to be a good religious politician if your religion influences your politics. Even if your religion is about peace and love. Human rights are areligious.

[thefloatingstone]

Still watching this youtube channel about what I can only describe as "Dark Classical art" and this one absolutely floored me because I was unaware of it and I want to share it because it changes my perspective on this artist completely.

You might be aware of Louis Wain. If not by name then by his art. He's the artist behind that series of cat drawings that slowly became more and more abstract and bizarre.

This series of paintings of cats are often labelled as a visual representation of Wain's deteriorating mental illness and schizophrenia. Even more so often labelled as "a tragic display of a painter's failing battle with schizophrenia."

The paintings look like this and were painted around the very early 1900s.

Ok got all that?

So here's the thing.

Although Wain did suffer from a mental illness that was strong enough for him to be institutionalized, his mental illness was never diagnosed with clear certainty. Although "Schizophrenia" is so heavily applied to him based purely on how his series of paintings LOOK, despite actual specialists widely disputing this. On top of this, although he did paint the kaleidoscope cat portraits during this time, it was not the only things he painted, and he was quite capable of painting "normal" pictures of cats.

The Kaleidoscope Cat portraits are more images of him experimenting with colour and shapes, something the Smithsonian themselves state on their website.

Wain had actually made his entire living painting whimsical images of cats, often for product adverts, before he was incarcerated and was actually a very beloved artist at the time. When his friends learned of his incarceration, they started a collection of donation money to help transfer Wain to the Bethlam Royal Hospital instead, one of the best mental health facilities of the time. Even the Prime Minster of the time donated, and they raised a large amount of money across England to help him.

4 years later, Wain drew this as his final image which he released publicly

I knew all about "the Schizophrenic cat Guy" but he had always been presented to me as some tragic case of an artist going mad and his skills and work unraveling as he went insane.

Which is why I wanted to share this information which was new to me. And because I think it's important.

[batteryacidfires]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[caralarm-bicycles]

You can really sense the tumblr userbase aging

[huffylemon]

[swankyjami]

This is what happens when you're still on tumblr as an adult, you start reblogging shit like this

[boeing-787]

[datsumi]

🍜🍥!

[reaking-havoc]

[masteraqua]

i flipping hate ao3's layout there's too many goddamn words

[masteraqua]

you know what i deserve this

[grand-theft-grotto]

Broke: Encanto isn't really set in a narrow time range but it must after the invention of telenovelas because Bruno references them

Woke: It's not recent at all and Bruno literally watches Telenovelas from the future.

Streams that shit like HBO Max. Frickin eyes glowing green and shit, in his room back there in the walls, meanwhile no one else knows what a TV is.

[soloikismos]

screaming

[kallimakhos]

[image description: screenshot of a five-star review. the review is cropped so that it does not include the name of the business or the reviewer. it reads, "Do not believe any ratings that is less than 5. Its a bagel spot with the most pleasant staff. What's the last star you're holding off. Is it the fat bagels were too big, too fresh, the cream was spread too generously. Stop being jerks." end image description]

[dhoomtwo]

call me a cd player the way im sitting in the sun and eating oranges

[dhoomtwo]

vitamin c and d. its a thinker

[straightboyfriend]

my favorite AITA ruling comments

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

may your hearth be warm, your clothesline dry, and may the chittering faceless things that surround your bedside at night never quite rouse the attention of your slumbering form

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I have so much appreciation for all the utterly unphased cat owners in the notes

[marisatomay]

huge congratulations to drugs for continuing to win the war on drugs

[sistertaxon]

types of stard

mu

ba

[brunhiddensmusings]

this is oddly close to real ‘ard’ is a real suffix in the english language just like ‘ly’ or ‘ify’, it just isnt common enough for us to notice its usage. ‘ard’ means ‘too much’ or ‘too easily’ so ‘mustard’ is something that is ‘too pungent’, just as ‘wizard’ is someone who is too wise, ‘coward’ is someone too easily cowed, and ‘drunkard’ is someone too often drunk

this implies that ‘bastard’ is someone who is too ‘bast’ and this needs experimentation and research

[sistertaxon]

Are you fucking serious omg

[necromancy-savant]

This is pretty much correct. According to the OED bastard is from Old French and the bast- part means “pack saddle” which was used as a bed by mule drivers, giving the phrase fils de bast, a child conceived on the pack saddle instead of the marriage bed. In English it becomes bastard, the -ard being a pejorative. It is the same one as wizard and coward and drunkard.

[ritavonbees]

types of ard

must

bast

wiz

cow

[ghast505-deactivated20220904]

my brain feels Expanded

[allthingslinguistic]

further types of ard, since etymonline has a whole section about it (art is an accepted variant)

buzz

bragg

lagg

dast

[thegleamoftheknife]

Had to label the old trash barrels so the collectors would know to take them

[sabrecmc]

This should be the last post on tumblr before it is shut down.

[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

Actually there are only two genders, and they’re “went through a toxic identity crisis because you wanted to be the kind of woman people write songs about” and “went through a toxic identity crisis because you wanted to be the kind of man people write shows and movies about” and neither of them are tied to what’s in your pants

[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

Growing up you either wanted to be desirable in toxic way or you wanted to be in control in a toxic way. And those are the two genders

[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

(asking someone’s pronouns) so uhh.. would you rather be walter white or have bette davis eyes?