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[harkthorn]

African elephant sketch

Ballpoint scribbles, random blobs of Ecoline blended together with a water wash, with black ink outlines and detailing on top

-3439

[cheeri1yfrancis]

the frev wall is complete!! (for now…)

(plus my the last dinner party poster…)

liberty leading the people, lafayette, and le brun (i don’t like lafayette but he was in the newspaper so i cut him out anyway)

jj rousseau, napoleon’s coronation, my shitty art, the constitution of 1793, the pantheon national convention monument, the republic’s symbol, and louise michel who i cut out of an encyclopaedia from my old art classroom…

napoleon (2x), camille from the encyclopaedia, marat in the bath, a sansculotte woman, more of my shitty art, the tickets to the pantheon and conciergerie :)) and a cockade

[blood-gutz-and-chocolate-cake]

What a wonderful idea and composition! I have little portraits of Saint-Just, Camille, Léon, the Robespierre brothers, and Eléonore Duplay on my wall… but nothing like yours! This is super neat, citoyenne. 💕

[cheeri1yfrancis]

that’s so cute!! i need to print out more pictures for it, bc these are just postcards

[all-class-darling]

[kaylasfineart]

Bubble Daydream

Bubble Daydream 2026 4x6" watercolor on 140 lb cold press Rembrandt watercolors - lots of 366 Quin Rose Just wanted to paint something cute. No thumbnail. First time painting a raccoon and first bubble attempt? Idk just having fun

[sailorloneperblog]

"Sunrise over a calm sea and numerous sailboats"- Carl Locher (1851-1915) was a Danish realist painter

[croaksac]

the complete and total defeat in the prosecutor's voice at the very end..... im 💀💀💀

[bogleech]

Havent seen a lot about this on tumblr so maybe not a lot of people know:

He was wrongfully raided by police in 2022

He used footage and names of the specific cops in posts, videos and songs making fun of them

The cops sued for defamation and cried in court about the songs ruining their lives

He won anyway

[creatingblackcharacters]

I love how unapologetic he is. And rightfully so!! How you gone cry about being embarrassed when you weren't crying about barging into my home and threatening my life? No one was worried about anybody's children when they weren't the right color. They good. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[7pleiades7]

The Progress of Love: Reverie, (Detail), (1771-1772), by Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732 – 1806), oil on canvas, 317.8 cm (10.4 ft) x 197.2 cm (77.6 in), The Frick Collection

[2productive]

[leebrontide]

Now and then I end up mentioning to a therapy client that I research potential mental health effects of medical implants for fun and they usually laugh at me.

[lexsreadingcorner]

Weird bookish question of the week (picking this back up, but inconsistently):

Say you're in possession of your most hated book and you aren't allowed to sell, donate, give away to friends/family, or throw it out. If you had to repurpose it, how would you do it?

(Reblog and comment, please, instead of leaving answers in tags)

[illimitable-freedom]

I don't know what book this would be, but it would probably wind up being repurposed as a paperweight or leveling out a table with uneven legs. I don't know that I can bring myself to destroy it (say to use the paper for something else).

[millie8012]

✧⋆.˚ her favorite historical figure is Thomas Jefferson ˚ .⋆✧

[melhyan-writes]

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐔𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐨 𝐌𝐞)

Bring back illustrations in books.

I want full page art that makes me pause mid-sentence and go “oh.”

Bring back little drawings at the start of chapters. Bring back weird decorative headers. Bring back maps that are slightly confusing but I will stare at them like I’m planning a military campaign anyway.

Where is my glossary. Where is my pronunciation guide. I am tired of guessing. I want to know if I’ve been saying a name wrong for 300 pages so I can feel betrayed properly.

Give me marginalia. Give me fake documents. Letters. Diagrams that look important but are emotionally suspicious. Let the book look like it’s been handled.

Why did we decide everything had to be Just Text. Who voted for this. Show yourself-

I want footnotes that feel like the author is whispering additional lore directly into my ear. I want diagrams that explain nothing and somehow make everything worse.

Give me endpapers with art. Give me symbols that repeat until I start connecting dots like a conspiracy theorist. Give me one illustration halfway through that alters my brain chemistry permanently.

Books used to come with bonus content like they were slightly haunted objects and now we’re just… behaving? No.

If I am committing to 300 pages, I deserve enrichment.

Let the text do things. Let it shift. Let it breathe. Give me a page that’s just one line in the center so I can sit there like I’ve been personally attacked.

We have the technology. We have the printing capabilities. Why are we acting like books have to behave.

Also imagine the DRAMA. A character dies and suddenly the chapter header symbol changes. A map detail you ignored becomes relevant. A little drawing you thought was decorative is actually foreshadowing. Hello???

Anyway this is my formal petition to make books a little more unhinged again. Add the art. Add the maps. Add the weird glossary entries.

This is not a want. This is a need. Publishers, please let books be weird again- I AM BEGGING

[tabellae-rex-in-sui]

Frederick saying the world wouldn't have lost much if Voltaire succeeded in killing himself that one time

Vs

Voltaire publishing and critiquing Fredrick's suicide note

What's worse?

[tabellae-rex-in-sui]

[Frederick the Great: The Memoirs of his Reader Henri de Catt vol 1]

Vs

[Memoirs of the Life of Voltaire: Written by Himself]

[apolladay]

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

* I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

*The King in Yellow

* The Lottery

* The Masque of the Red Death

* The Monkey’s Paw

* The Most Dangerous Game

* The Nameless City

* The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

* There Will Come Soft Rains

*The Yellow Wallpaper

* The Veldt

* “you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

The King in Yellow

The Lottery

The Masque of the Red Death

The Monkey’s Paw

The Most Dangerous Game

The Nameless City

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

There Will Come Soft Rains

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Veldt

“you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Voting ended onApr 30

[it-grrl]

Okay I have things I should be seeing to but I couldn't help myself. In case you, like me, have not read all of these stories and would like to be amongst the lucky 10,000 today:

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

The King in Yellow by Robert W Chambers*

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson**

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard O'Connell

The Nameless City by HP Lovecraft

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

Honorable Mention from the comments/reblogs:

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

*note: this is actually a collection of short stories and clocks in at about 72k words

**Originally published in the New Yorker in 1948; interestingly, the New Yorker still has this story archived on their website BEHIND A PAYWALL. CAN YOU IMAGINE.

[shepp-1755]

happy birthday,Mr.Jefferson

[marlowe-art]

a bridge & a tree

[philcollinsenjoyer]

saying this in a soft tone but i dislike this presentation of artemis 2 in the least political way possible as a wholesome and uncomplicated win for humanity as a whole like it's not american propagandism of the highest and most vulgar degree

[voicelessv]

"For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock."

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

[kingcatnine]

the thing about nonfiction is you come out of it with several more books to put on your to be read list and it's only gonna branch out from there so really the only solution is to read every book in human history starting at the beginning