A miscellany

Art, musings on books and poetry, some worldbuilding thoughts. All takes are works in progress. He/him, 29.

[cuntgirldyke]

The woman of your dreams is an autistic pervert on tumblr.com

[st-just]

It's probably inevitable (even necessary) that the people who devote their lives to becoming as good as possible at some particular art or trade or w/e also develop a horrible outsized and self-congratulatory conception of how important and vital and fundamentally human it is. Doesn't make listening to them wax poetic about it in an interview any less insufferable though.

[mynodon]

I feel like the music thing is a bit more forgivable because it's often more about the virtue of experiencing music rather than creating music, so you're connecting with the creator on the same level (you both think experiencing music is awesome) and it just becomes a banger that you can dance to in the club.

[mynodon]

I love it when a history book breaks out the vector algebra less than 10 pages in.

[infiniteartmachine]

"a very large building that looks like a castle with a red door"

[ducissatenebrarum]

Èmile Bayard. 1870

[lonelyvampx]

Anastasia Trusova

[atrusovaartist]

I travel to France quite often, but I have a special love for the south and its lavender fields. Whenever I think of France, those endless purple landscapes are the first thing that comes to mind. I’m sure there are lavender fields in other regions too, but it’s the ones in the south that have stayed with me the most.Three years ago, I traveled through southern France, visiting Montpellier and several beautiful towns along the coast. I also visited a monastery, wandered through the lavender fields, and came home with hundreds of photographs that I later shared on my social media.Some time later, those memories inspired this painting. Of course, I didn’t paint the scene exactly as I saw it. I made the colors richer, the sunset brighter, and the atmosphere more expressive. That’s what I love about Impressionism—it isn’t about copying reality perfectly, but about capturing an emotion. Perhaps this wasn’t the exact feeling I had at that moment, but it’s the emotion that remained with me as a beautiful memory of that journey.

[ineed-to-sleep]

I can make another mean looking woman with dark eyeshadow. As a treat

[infiniteartmachine]

"an art painting shows an island and the sky with water"

[nevver]

Black hole sun, Angela Lane

[sandpontiff]

On a trip

[theaudientvoid]

If you've spent any amount of time studying Medieval Europe, one thing that you are bound to notice is how many different types of monks there are. Just considering monks proper, you've got Benedictines and Cistercians, and that's not even getting into all of the pseudo-monk-like religious orders. For friars, there are Dominicans, Fransiscians, Augustinians and Carmelites. When you get into canons, there are Agustinian and Norbertines. And all of the above have multiple offshoots and schisms. I'm reminded of the old jokes about the "crab cycle". Just another of the Church's attempts at evolving a monk. There is one step and it is monk.

The only way to make sense of all this is by recognizing the underlying paradox that lies at the heart of medieval monasticism: that monks were fundamentally rich people LARPing at being poor. Monks, nuns, friars, canons and what-have-you all predominantly came from the landed aristocracy, and monestaries themselves were some of the largest landowners in medieval Europe. And at the end of the day, no amount of rules or reforms about what is and isn't acceptable in for your peasantsona is ever going to change that. But the Church remained at least nominally committed to preaching holiness through poverty. And so every hundred years or so, a new order would be founded in a vain attempt to finally square that circle.

[random-brushstrokes]

Frank Cadogan Cowper - Lucrezia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI (1908-14)

This is a re-creation of an obscure and scandalous incident from the history of the Popes. In 1501 the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI, Lucrezia Borgia, took his place at a meeting. Frank Cowper has invented this suggestive moment in which two noblemen part Lucrezia’s dress so that a Francisan friar can kiss her shoe.The room in the Vatican in which Lucrezia Borgia appeared still exists. It was decorated by the Italian Renaissance artist Pinturrichio. Cowper went there to copy it and painted the faces of the Cardinals from their original portraits. (source)

[st-just]

Fantasy RPG where you get hired to go 'clear out bandits' and end up hopelessly entangled in a court case between the merchant's guild that hired you and a local knight over whether he actually had the authority to raise the toll he charged to go over his bridge when the only other one for fifty miles in either direction collapsed last winter.

[yagodnyizefir]

Wip exoditeand his pet

[nigelgraz]

I offer you another alt Alucard while i continue experimenting with different artstyles <3

[1five1two]

'Two Friends'. Josef Liesler. 1984.