Nope

(she/her/they/them, minors DNI thanks) no longer a naive art curator blog for the moment, sadly

[officialpenisenvy]

new york city is basically to america what rome was to the roman empire which means there were probably so many insufferable ancient romans going "only in rome 🤪 provincial transfers wouldn't get it" at any given occasion. and those ancient romans had children and their children had children and they eventually begot Every Single Annoying Roman Guy

[paralessi]

this is literally in Virgil's first Bucolic:

TITYRUS. Urbem quam dicunt Romam, Meliboee, putavi stultus ego huic nostrae similem, quo saepe solemus pastores ovium teneros depellere fetus. Sic canibus catulos similis, sic matribus haedos noram, sic parvis componere magna solebam. Verum haec tantum alias inter caput extulit urbes quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.

paraphrasing, this means Meliboeus you wouldn't believe I was an idiot thinking Rome was going to be like our city but bigger instead it's not only bigger but way cooler than any other city ever

and then further on in the Bucolic he goes on to lick the god-emperor's boots, obviously.

[mumblesplash]

no but the “”ai”” boom is crazy bc they made the entire internet so shitty that the only reason to use it is because it’s where all the people are and now they’re getting rid of the people. like i’m straight up logging off and going to the library there’s nothing on here anymore

[mumblesplash]

‘here’s how to tell if an image is ai’ ‘signs the person you’re talking to is a bot’ ‘how to tell if a song is ai generated’ ah but consider this: i am shutting my laptop and walking outside

[jedusaur]

I saw a bsky post last year where someone said their grandma couldn't tell what was real on the internet anymore so she stopped using it and I really, genuinely think the techbros currently ruining everything have never even considered that possibility. their projections and pie charts and market share research and whatever simply do not take into account a scenario where people lose interest in being online. like yeah we're pretty much all gonna keep using the internet to book travel and look up words and order pizza, but in terms of how we spend our leisure time? I'm still extremely online, but in the last few years I've been learning candlemaking and carpentry and sewing, and I was already spending a lot of time cooking and reading books and skating at the rink and hiking, and an afternoon spent on any of those things always leaves me feeling better about myself than an afternoon spent doomscrolling. I think my daily life is going to keep reflecting that more and more as the slop encroaches, and it sounds like I'm far from the only one feeling that way. silver lining the everything, I suppose.

[lionofchaeronea]

Taking up carpentry sounds nice. No, I'm not being sarcastic. I'd like to do something with my hands other than typing, and it would be deeply satisfying to make something tangible.

[lets-steal-an-archive]

[paralessi]

yeah

[novahazard24]

get your medals everyone

[pointless-achievements]

cosigned, good work everyone, have your bricks at the ready when they try it again.

[paralessi]

SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMMUNICATION

[historicalbookimages]

🐸 North American herpetology: Philadelphia, J. Dobson;1842. Original source Image description: Illustration from 1842 showing two views of the amphibian species Salamandra rubra, a red salamander. The top image depicts a side profile, highlighting its elongated body, smooth reddish skin with subtle darker speckling, and four small legs with distinct toes. The bottom image presents a dorsal view with limbs splayed, emphasizing the salamander’s slender tail and uniform coloration. The background is plain, focusing attention solely on the detailed depiction of the amphibian’s form and texture. The image is part of a historical North American herpetology collection published in Philadelphia by J. Dobson.

[paralessi]

me before lunch vs me after lunch

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

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Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

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[icannotgetoverbirds]

hey folks do we like this. reblog without commentary for reach

do we want this?

yes

no

Voting ended onMar 23

[paralessi]

circle

so in the translation I finally delivered today

(go forth you stupid baby, goodbye, I hope I didn't mess you up but I'm also not your parent but I care about you and I hope I did you no wrong—as I always think in these moments)

so as I was saying the translation I finally delivered today contained an anagnorisis AND a pretend death AND a Summation Gathering and basically ALL of the tropes.

and a part of me was disappointed because when I was young I used to wonder what kind of crazy experimental literature would humanity come up with when I got older, and i forgot it goes in a circle and that Daphnis and Chloe already contained all the elements that make up most of today's genre novels.

but also another part of me was like oh god an IRL agnition for real in 2026 I love it bring it on, proving that these things go in a circle for a reason.

(tbh umanity actually did come up with insane new stuff to read and then put agnitions in it which is great)

[swordsman-jing-ke]

“My emperor is fine” your emperor has commissioned over 8000 life-sized terracotta soldiers and buried them facing east, in the direction of his recently conquered enemies in the hopes that they will protect him in the afterlife.

[qin-shi-huang-di]

DELETE THIS IMMEDIATELY

[paralessi]

or what, you'll send your fearsome army of bricks against us?

I always wanted to see them but I can't afford to so I'll be waiting.

[enki2]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“everyone is mad at me and they just won’t tell me” —> “no one has said anything about being mad at me and i haven’t done anything to warrant being mad at so if someone is silently fuming about me and not saying anything that’s their problem and actually quite weird of them and i can effortlessly move on with my life”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this took SUCH a huge deal of unlearning because, like so many of you, i came out of a home where being quietly in trouble WAS the default state, and i DID grow up not just with the assumption but borderline religious conviction that Everyone Is Mad At Me, I Am Bad, I Must Exist In A Constant State of Attempting to Pacify The Natural Rage I Inspire In Everyone. and no it actually turns out that my family are the freaks . and yours are too

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“this isn’t true because i DEFINITELY silently fume at people in the hopes they’ll figure out what they did and apologize” that’s not good. you shouldn’t do that

“this isn’t true because the ex-friendship that traumatized me ended explosively after they were mad at me and never told me why” that’s not good. they shouldn’t be doing that

“i don’t think this is true because my current friend group is constantly icing me out until i figure out what ive done to upset them and properly apologized without being told” hey thats not good. they should not be doing that

if the peacefulness of your relationship with someone (familial, romantic, friendly, anything) can be destroyed by effective communication/asking them for effective communication, you have got to get out of there. if you can’t get out of there, you’ve got to throw away any ideas about what that person thinks of you because they have their own shit to figure out before they can accurately read anyone else

[bimboficationblues]

as Marx said in the 18th Brumaire, I think the apple's rotten right to the core, from all the things passed down from all the other apples coming before,

[bimboficationblues]

and as XCX said in “Apple”, the tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living

[historicalbookimages]

🪡 Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, . A Amsterdam, Chez Reinier & Josué Ottens, 1754.. Original source Image description: Historical illustration shows three colorful, stylized fish labeled with scientific notes. The top fish is elongated with a red body, yellow markings, blue spots, and green-striped fins. The middle fish, associated with the keyword “porcupine,” has a rounded, red body with black dots and yellow bands, resembling a porcupine’s spines. The bottom fish features large, fan-like, spotted pectoral fins in pale green and pink hues, a long pointed snout with teeth, and a scaled greenish-blue body. The artwork is detailed with vibrant colors and patterns, typical of 18th-century natural history illustrations.

[paralessi]

the little derp on the last one

[valdevia]

Don't Go Into the Pool.

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign

[paralessi]

upsides and downsides

the upside of translating dark romance smut is that now whenever in a show I see a character approaching another with pure hate in their eyes I immediately think: "oh they're about to kiss"

the downside is that during sexy times my mind jumps to editing mode: is the position of the bodies believable. did I make the dirty talk too archaic. what were they doing before, where did her shirt go.

[trainwiz]

My brother made this comic and thought it should be shared.

[pomrania]

[Image description: four-panel comic. In the first three panels, various things -- "eye of newt!" "tail of newt!" "bone of newt!" "blood of newt!" -- get added to a cauldron. In the fourth panel, a newt emerges, with the caption "newt! newt! newt!" End description.]

[tpwrtrmnky]

Fucking incredible that this is the first example they used lmao

[katjohnadams]

And they close it out with this homerun???

[paralessi]

I was just now old when I finally learnt the name of the thing that has been destroying Italian public debate for decades, great. My favourite is 'it's my opinion', but it's not listed maybe because it's gotten old?

[moleshow]