Tip of the yikesburg.

24 | indian | virgo sun | infj | she/her | ca

[boringkate]

*Google searches "thank you meaning" before saying "thank you" just in case I've been mistaken about it this whole time*

[memewhore]

[voidsnout]

hold on let me google something

[voidsnout]

what the fuck

[adaine]

the death of dvds is so fucked. what about bonus features

[adaine]

far far away idol would never happen now

[sailorsally]

Hayao Miyazaki on AI

[zegalba]

Gaza City, Palestine (2015)

Palestinian schoolgirls walk in front of a rainbow illuminating the sky over Gaza City's shore.

[miniangel]

everywhere i go, i'm home

photos by Sierra Madre Photograpy

[miniangel]

moody me

[kosmogrl]

sundays rule number 1: DON'T THINK ABOUT YOUR LIFE

[zarry-deactivated20110907]

[quitefinished]

#previously on The O.C.

[transmortifried]

genuinely fucking horrifying to try and be more mindful about your plastic consumption

[transmortifried]

i'm making a conscious effort to try and buy more durable/biodegradable alternatives to plastic where i can and it's excruciating! everything's made of fucking plastic and nothing's made to last and you have to really dig to find anything durable that won't turn into hazardous microparticles in a landfill in five years when it inevitably breaks or wears out and even when you do manage to find it it's five times as expensive!

how are we meant to live like this? what are we doing?

[transmortifried]

how is everyone not out-of-their-minds mad about this every second of every day?

[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.

[christos]

Pavel Koziy by Leonardo Corredor

[morbidology]

A tiger bursting to freedom after being rescued from a poacher’s snare in the Russian Far East.

[mournfulroses]

Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

[chappellsource]

chappellroan: JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED & U WILL LIKE IT

[stuckinapril]

“you should be at the club” Brother I should literally be sent to the seaside for my health

[politicalprof]

Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.

[madfishmonger]

Red marker handwriting on a bathroom wall. Text reads:

“Boss made a dollar Granddad made a dime But that was a poem From a simpler time.

Boss made a thousand Gave pa a cent But that penny paid the mortgage Or at least it paid the rent

Now Boss makes a million And gives us jack Smugly blames the workers For the labor that he lacks.”

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.