A sentimental heart and a skeptical mind

🇫🇮 / I'm back 2 - electric boogaloo / real life crazy scientist (STEM) / interest in noir, classic cinema&literature, classical music, art, etc. / occasional own art under tag #mydrawings

[pixytrixx]

Cornerhouse, Manchester

[catchymemes]

[wumbreon]

May we all know decadence such as this

[animals-with-fan-art]

Added to the collection by @sir-libearian

[vamptits]

UNWARRANTED?

[mandywondering]

I'm a pervert little leftist short and stout here is my handle here is my [censored]

[quasi-normalcy]

“Thinking about the maneuvers performed by self-defined“literary” novelists to preserve their purity from genre pollution, I realized that I am in the unusual position of being able to perform the same poses and contortions, only backwards. How am I to protect my unspotted name as a science fiction writer from the scorn of those who might think I have been shamelessly performing acts of realism in public? Thus: How dare you call me a realist? My book “Searoad” has nothing to do with the commercial realism found in all the chain bookstores. I call the book “Social Reality Enhancement.” Realistic novels are for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and conventional subject-matter. Realistic fiction, or re-fi as its fans call it, is an outworn genre, written by unimaginative hacks who rely on mere mimesis. If they had any self-respect they’d be writing memoir, but they’re too lazy to fact-check. Of course I never read re-fi, but my children keep bringing home these garish realistic novels and talking about them, so I know that it’s an incredibly narrow genre, completely centered on one species, incredibly culture-bound, full of wornout clichés and predictable situations: the quest for the father, mother-bashing, obsessive lust, suburban guilt, and so forth. All it’s good for is being made into mass-market movies. Given its old-fashioned means and limited subject-matter, realism is quite incapable of describing the com-plexity of contemporary experience. Now, would you believe that tripe? There’s some truth in it. But it’s tripe. All judgment of literature by genre is tripe. All judgment of a category of literature as inherently superior or inferior is tripe.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, Genre: A Word only a Frenchman Could Love

[tosharchives]

i have the kind of melancholy that attracts me to large bodies of water.

[vogelpsittacines]

Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

[byjove]

*English man with a mustache in a period drama voice* GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF, MAN.

[byjove]

YOU have an angel and devil on your shoulder. I have some sort of WW1 infantry commander standing behind me screaming at me during stressful situations.

[getanshi]

wears a big t-shirt that says I ♥️ WHEN CHARACTERS ARE NASTY AND FLAWED AND ANNOYING AND HURT EACH OTHER AND THEMSELVES

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[pngblog]

Transparent!

[cutecipher]

think i got music poisoning

[ayshx-deactivated20251028]

So many people inspire me to be nothing like them.

[dyk-tv-theme-song]

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Do you recognize this TV theme song? #684

I know this and can name the series

I know this but can't name the series

I might know this

I've never heard this

Voting ended onJul 12

[dyk-tv-theme-song]

Series: Urpo ja Turpo (1996-1997)

Composer: Unsure, let me know if you know!

[anglofranco]

[charnel-grounds]

Odilon Redon (1840–1916), “Germination”

from ‘Dans le rêve’ series

lithograph, 1897

[charnel-grounds]

Randy Ortiz, “Battles”

oil on canvas, 2026

[sufjansjoy]

mm you’re being such an okay boy for daddy. could be better could be worse. you will receive neither reward nor punishment for your forgettable behavior. that’s my okay boy, keep doing whatever …

[huariqueje]

Cat on Stripes - Felicity House

British , b. 1950 -

Pastel on paper ,  20 x 30 cm.