sic parvis magna

cat • xxvii • she/her • italy gaming sideblog: @ghil-assan

[ltwilliammowett]

A Frigate and Other Vessels Becalmed Inshore, by Martinus Schouman (1770–1848)

[igorafvckassbowlcut]

there are days where NO ❌️ video games are played and there are days where video games are played for 10 or maybe 14 hours straight

[twobeesornottwobees]

printers behave like that because the medieval monks they put out of work are haunting them

[expressions-of-nature]

by Zach Kessinger

[expressions-of-nature]

by Thomas Marquize

[holespoles]

"Shimmering night" by Inaslind.

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[rottingfacade]

i love those blinking red lights they put on top of radio towers and windmills and skyscrapers etc, theyre like electronic flowers or something to me

[rottingfacade]

[raibura]

when you like a music artist/band do you pay any attention to the people behind it (knowing the names/faces of the people involved, etc) y/n… the idea of being that invested is odd to me, but im curious about the frequency

Consensus

Yes

No

Voting ended onJul 21

[classicalcanvas]

Water painted by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900)

[52stations]

dude im soooo gonna come into my own at the age of 30 #TRUST

[389]

Santa Ceia: A Reprodução das Flores, 1990 Nelson Leirner

[rosettyller]

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

[lestogrifoni]

Passages like this always make me chuckle. A place isn't dying and forgotten simply because you're not there, isn't it?

[luxwing]

GAMING NEWS !!

expensive

[luxwing]

[crackedpolishedblackstonebrick]

posts funnier with timestamps on

[intactics]

"The combat is, in its origin, the expression of hostile feeling, but in our great combats, which we call Wars, the hostile feeling frequently resolves itself into merely a hostile view, and there is usually no innate hostile feeling residing in individual against individual. Nevertheless, the combat never passes off without such feelings being brought into activity. National hatred, which is seldom wanting in our Wars, is a substitute for personal hostility in the breast of individual opposed to individual. But where this also is wanting, and at first no animosity of feeling subsists, a hostile feeling is kindled by the combat itself: for an act of violence which anyone commits upon us by order of his superior, will excite in us a desire to retaliate and be revenged on him, sooner than on the superior power at whose command the act was done. This is human, or animal is we will; still it is so. We are very apt to regard the combat in theory as an abstract trial of strength, without any participation on the part of the feelings, and that is one of the thousand errors which theorists deliberately commit, because they do not see its consequences."

On War, von Clausewitz, book II chapter II part 17

[loveridden1999]

bring back shame

[loveridden1999]

peer reviewed tags

[fox-bright]

The worst person you could ever meet in your lifetime still has a favorite breakfast cereal.

I knew a rapist who was an absolute ride-or-die friend to his gamer bros. Like, give the last dollar from his pocket to a friend who got a flat tire, and then turn around and go rape a Freshman that evening.

I knew a vicious child abuser who wept like a baby when her dog died.

The nastiest human being on the planet nevertheless feels obscurely melancholy sometimes, or has high spirits when they step out doors on the first warm day of spring, or has opinions on their favorite TV show and which side the toilet paper should hang on and whether or not the room should be cold or warm when you go to sleep.

We're all still just people. Complex, with fully-realized interior worlds.

None of that will save you from becoming a monster, if you decide to do monstrous things.

None of it makes you exempt from the consequences of monstrosity.