[victusinveritas]

Two Women Teaching a Child to walk by Rembrandt.

Circa 1640, sketch

British Museum, London

[hagcrone]

Spotify glitched

[were--ralph]

not allowed to say Harry Potter, but what was your book series obsession as a teen

mine was definitely Eragon

[musashi]

hunting down this post to find that OP turned of reblogs has me heartbroken.

it's time.

[spending-life-pretending]

*Spoilers for Swordcrossed by Freya Marske incoming*:

…

everybody pour one out for Roland and Wynn because goddamn what a whirlwind

[daily-spooky]

[lyctorihardlyknowher000]

camilla and palamedes core

[stricktlyco]

"It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself!"

Emma, Jane Austen

[victusinveritas]

[tpwrtrmnky]

Fucked up that you have to go to work during the winter. Should be curled up in a little nest with several months' supply of food stocked up right now.

[jdragsky]

i find it so interesting how people act like "critically examining a piece of media" is the opposite of "enjoying that piece of media." rip to you but i actually find it really enjoyable and compelling to dissect and think through the art i engage with

[vaspider]

You can find this and other relevant writing for $1/mo (or more) here.

[amandasmurfee]

*throws some patterns in your face* These will all be lanyards and probably gold foil washi tape as well. Pattern inspiration from top to bottom: Ukrainian egg dying, Chinese blue porcelain, Japanese kimono motifs, the locked tomb, Norwegian rosemaling

[bimbogollum]

Damn

[f-identity]

[Image description:

Cropped image of medieval-stylized printed text, focused on a line which reads: “This wenche thikke”

/end image description]

[bimbogollum]

Thank you for adding this image description! Just wanted to clarify that it’s not stylised, but actual Middle English. The text is from The Canterbury Tales.

[kiralamouse]

Okay, had to track it down. It’s from the Reeve’s Tale, and it’s a description of a 20yo young woman:

This wenche thikke and wel y-growen was, With camuse nose and yën greye as glas; With buttokes brode and brestes rounde and hye, But right fair was hir heer, I wol nat lye.

In modern English (had to look up “camuse”, so that’s as good as my source, but I know the rest)

This wench was thick and well-grown With a pug nose and eyes grey as glass; With buttocks broad and breasts round and high, But right fair was her hair, I will not lie.

The fact that Chaucer had “big butt” and “I will not lie” within two lines of each other is causing me disproportionate amusement. Also the fact that “this wenche thikke” works equally well in Middle English and in modern slang.

[glowluminance]

i love you visible brushstrokes. i love you glue warped scrapbook pages. i love you awkward poems. i love you junk journal with faded receipts. i love you poorly composed journal layout. I love you unintentionally blurry photographs. i love you asymmetrical beading. i love you curling freeform crochet. i love you fingerprints on pottery. i love you reused materials. i love you improvised instruments. i love you mistakes. i love you bravery to make it anyway. i love you creativity that hasn't been wiped clean of every drop of humanity and sanitized and commodified.

[aurorathedragon45]

theres something so beautiful about human error in art. it gives it life

[hagcrone]

Earth mother, grant me the strength to babysit grown men through the simplest tasks without losing my shit.

[ishartedrealloud]

💀💀💀

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