We are not wise, not very often kind

[huariqueje]

In the Early Summer Forest - Paula von Goeschen-Rösler

German , 1875-1941

Paper cut, gouache on Japanese paper , 40 x 38 cm. 

[giveherswords]

Jenny Holzer, Black Book Posters, 1979

[charnel-grounds]

Julia Soboleva, “Love is a dog from hell”

[aqua-regia009]

Illustrations by Theodor Kittelsen (Norwegian, 1857-1914) for Svartedauen (Black Death), 1900

[cavatas]

Three Black Horses, Leo Gestel 

[freakoutgirl]

This is how June is going to feel

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[centuriespast]

Illustration from a Persian 1632 edition of 'Ajāyib al-makhlūqāt' ('Wonders of Creation') by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī (c.1203–1283). The Sannaja, large, bluish, hairy, lion-footed, boar-headed, with flaming eyes and wings of green and gold.

[boggbitch]

I couldn't part with the illustrations from a calendar by @s-u-w-i so I made them into a little scrappy booklet

[wetfawn]

Kiki Smith, Regalo, 2003.

[pmamtraveller]

Full Moon by Tao Lengyue

[389]

12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 11 medieval suns. (Getty Museum)

[innerchildabortionclinic]

the problem with genetically modified crops is not so much the genetic modification but the patenting of genetic codes (and crops in general) as a tool of maintaining agricultural imperialism, and for this reason I can't talk to most people about GMOs

[sioltach]

[boggbitch]

Hot tip for appreciating horror is that it makes it possible to empathize with and see yourself in the villain while not making them less of a villain figure

Yes this is aimed at everyone who's interpretation of Obsession is different from my own (and Jennifer's body and Midsommer)

If you slap some Instagram reading of attachment theory on a movie I'm going to get mad at my phone

[archiveofcanvas]

Anonymous painter (circle of Gerolamo Tessari), Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fish (detail), 1518, Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua

[matka--boska]

no i obie skarpetki mokre 🧦