Cardinal Cringe’s Scattered Thoughts

Overly sincere and oddly aggressive, riding the line between irony and genuinity. Link to Other sites: gaffjuran.tumblr.com/other My Webcomic: colonyhomeroom.com

[cardinalcringe]

I’ll take the first three art requests, whenever they come in.

Simple art, one to two characters, full body, simple backgrounds, pencil/ink, BW/color, due within a week.

Go.

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Slots filled: 2

[socialjusticeinamerica]

I wonder if those of us on the left will ever rise up or just keep on being robbed and mistreated.

[bowlby4]

[cardinalcringe]

Corporations will be able to vote soon.

This is the end.

[erinnixeen]

So. Since I'm not too satisfied with my latest works, I've decided to study and copy other works before starting my own work again. I'll start with some statues for the study of volumes and chiaroscuro. In this case, it's the Kronos of Cape Artemisium. It's a bronze statue about two meters tall, one of the very few original bronze statues that has survived to this day! Unfortunately, we don't know who the artist is, and it's not entirely certain whether it depicts Zeus or Poseidon. Personally, I think it's Poseidon, but that's just my personal opinion! The Kronos of Cape Artemisium is in the severe style, an artistic style used between 480 BC and 500 BC. and around 450 BC, a transitional period between statues and works created in the Archaic style and Greek Classicism (for example! An example of the Classical style is the Doryphoros by Polykleitos ✨). The statue is located at the Archaeological Museum of Athens.

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[mrsterlingeverything]

Im your lolcow and i love you

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[cardinalcringe]

Jesus? Don’t you mean Moses?

[ellewantsrevenge]

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[cardinalcringe]

@tommyboy0690.bsky.social

OK forget about what I said yesterday - THIS is the absolute worst picture of Trump ever taken. So for fuck’s sake, out of basic human decen

In case you don’t feel like surfing Bluesky, this is the picture they’re warning you not to share under any circumstances.

[kat-with-eleven-lives]

Normally I don’t support attacking people for their appearance (especially when there are so many legit and real reasons to attack them), but because he does it so frequently to others, and because the proliferation of this image will drive him crazy, I’m gonna make an exception. This picture is magnificent!

[cardinalcringe]

Completely agreed, I’ve always said as much. He really does seem to exemplify every negative trait a person (and especially an American) can have, and vanity is one of his worst aspects.

He is just too ugly a mother fucker to be judging so many people by their appearances, by far. It’s already an ugly trait in beautiful people.

[bowlby4]

[depsidase]

[charlesoberonn]

[nonbinary-octopus]

Sour Cream has a mom, doesn’t he? Vidalia?

[cardinalcringe]

Sour Cream is a big fat liar. Or more likely Rebecca just didn’t come up with Vidalia yet.

[thememedaddy]

[cardinalcringe]

Just remember, a disc might skip, and maybe it can’t hold more than one album, but that CD will never need permission from the corporate overlords to play music for you.

Physical media has its advantages.

[fidelcostco]

the human brain is so cool, if you're tired and stressed enough, your brain will go, "don't worry, I got you" and shadows will start moving

[fidelcostco]

and what's the genital situation on the shadows

[fidelcostco]

oh this is my post

[cardinalcringe]

Well? What IS the genital situation on the shadows?

[liberalsarecool]

MAGA are cultural arsonists.

[69-fastbird]

Wow look who’s the newest FA&FO members

[passionpeachy]

The way adult fandom people hold indie online creators and cartoons to a much higher standard than their actual local politicians. You could be putting that energy into terrorizing and protesting conservatives at your town hall and actually make a good material impact on the world but instead you're background checking everything the trans woman who made the amazing digital circus has ever said

[victusinveritas]

[21st-century-minutiae]

The above is a joke about classical art and architecture.

In antiquity, in the Grecco-Roman cultural world across multiple centuries, marble was a common and extravagant material used for sculpture and architecture both. In the centuries since the Roman empire, much of these works fell into ruin, from lack of maintenance or from explicit quarrying for materials by the people that lived there. Between the 1400s and 1800s, archaeology developed and classical art became popular again, as a direct reference to antiquity. This lead to the rise of the Neoclassical movement, a style of art and architecture that sought to directly emulate the stark white marble and architectural forms of Roman art. Cities like Washington DC in the United States were built in this style, to evoke Rome.

It was only with further advances in archaeology was it discovered that Classical architecture and statuary was not white: it was painted. Buildings were colorful and statues were painted to appear as lifelike as possible. But the paints were far less equipped to survive the ages compared to the marble, so the visuals did not persist.

This became a piece of common trivia in the early twenty-first century. Perceptions of classical art are locked to the stark white seen in museums and in neoclassical buildings, so this deviation from trained expectations made for a striking bit of information, similar to dinosaurs having feathers (in violation of previous expectations).

In comparison, Brutalism, an architectural style from the mid 20th century, is explicitly a dreary, colorless brutal style. The drab grey of concrete is the intended feature, made to evoke utilitarianism and drab reality, without ostentation beyond form and function.

The joke is imaging Brutalism as having the same "lost" color as classical architecture. It would be equivalently shocking. However, Brutalism is well documented and was developed in living memory. It is known that there was no colorful paint, which would be a complete violation of its intended themes.

[the-haiku-bot]

The above is a

joke about classical art

and architecture.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[cardinalcringe]

Some people see a joke.

I see an open suggestion…

Grab your paints, let’s improve some architecture.