[xshayarsha]

“But there is something of a lighthousekeeper in me, and I am not afraid of solitude, nor of nature in her wildness.”

— Jeanette Winterson, from Frankissstein.

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[tikkunolamorgtfo]

This is a headline on an actual news website.

[thebestoftimes]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

March 15th, 1933 - September 18th, 2020

"I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability."

[slowspinningredemption]

it’s bisexual awareness week? good. I am bisexual. I am Aware

[canisalbus]

When the last tree has fallen and the rivers are poison You cannot eat money

[officialdamonalbarn]

where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop

[officialdamonalbarn]

THANK YOU

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

somebody please explain

[dykemisspiggy]

Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.

[iwilltrytobereasonable]

…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle

[caecilius-est-pater]

There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.

[crtter]

In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:

It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.

[midnightvoyager]

honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here

You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!

jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!

HANS OH MY GOD

anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit

[queen-sammie]

No, I think you’re missing the real deal here

[anais-ninja-bitch]

as an art historian, i think this is the best post on tumblr

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[goodatyugioh]

me walking into the animal shelter: hi id like the stupidest cat you have

[goodatyugioh]

sometimes my cat won’t eat her dinner so i thought i was tricking her into eating by putting a few treats on it but she’s actually tricked me into feeding her treats and i want a stupider cat

[amodevotee]

Literally what I said to the woman at the shelter. I want the dumbest cat you have

Look at him, he’s got no brain cells. You can hear the elevator music playing in his empty skull. I love him

[goodatyugioh]

you look into this animals eyes and you can tell absolutely nothing is going on in there i am so happy for you

[heartseeker]

[typhlonectes]

[duplicitous-nature]

Amazing Toph cosplay

[oaluz]

How FKA twigs is using art to tackle Magdalene’s complicated legacy

[kafk-a]

“She hints at approaching Magdalene as an icon of transformation and female strength, the legacy of a devoted woman unwittingly cast as a “whore” by the sin-obsessed Western world. Her “truth” is convoluted and muddled. While the more recent view of Magdalene may be unsympathetic, she was once a character who was loved and provided hope for being freed from sin, much like Christ. The act of blurring and taking advantage of visually iconic moments in religion allows for twigs to connect Magdalene — and herself — to the hopeful narrative of redemption, both spiritual and physical.”

[odinsblog]

PSA: less diet culture, more dietitians like this

[rneadowsoprano-deactivated20211]

I’m crying like a baby

[bigwordsandsharpedges]

KING