worldes blis

omne animal post coitum triste, praeter gallum mulieremque

[discoursedrome]

hmm, "venereal", "venerate", and "venison" are all cognates. don't like that

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[jareckiworld]

Laurent Grasso — Sans titre (oil on wood panel, 2026)

[tyger-land]

Ancient Roman frescoes (c. 70-60 BC) at the Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy.

[aloneholy]

florence + excerpts of light, april 2026

[neshamama]

wang zibo, "ladies," 2022, oil on canvas

[useless-catalanfacts]

Cloister of the Cathedral of Elna, Northern Catalonia. The Cathedral was built between the 11th and 12th centuries, with some additions in the 14th century.

Photos by sabichouquette on Instagram.

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[eloquentedition]

Architecture Wave

https://www.instagram.com/eloquentedition/

Source

[seraphimfrog]

I wasn’t researching anything close to this but yknow what. Pop off jstor

[nevver]

Liminal Bingo, Pat Perry

[nonexistent-triangle]

the irredeemable pervert is generally well regarded among their friends for their insightful thoughts and all around pleasant demeanour

[atramentumnoctis]

getting older and weirder and sexier and more perverted and gluttonous and intelligent and blunt and eloquent and spontaneous and skilled is literally what it's all about

[heartofstanding]

girls (and at least one bishop) don't want scar-free henry v. girls and (and at least one bishop) want wound man henry v. st sebastian henry v. they want henry v's messiah-complex to get even worse as a result of him undergoing massive physical suffering that leaves his body permanently altered.

[vargulfur]

[garaktime]

Not a new take but rome hbo mark antony should have been bisexual

[pie-pellicane]

Is this not canon?

[aethelflaedel]

hbo rome is so funny (part 2) because when mark antony can't get his way with someone he just hits them with the bisexual blast. sir WHY do you have to stand two inches away from all your enemies. why do you have to stare deeply into their eyes. he knows everyone wants him soooo bad