"I'll start with small things."

“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort—and disappointment and perseverance.” -VvG

[animationsource]

“I never had a dad, but I always had you.”

[babyanimalgifs]

An elephant casually stealing and then returning a wildlife photographer’s hat 

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[theninjamouse]

I’m a simple woman, I hear the Pirates of the Caribbean music, I become gripped with the urge to don pirate garb and fight cursed skeletons upon the open sea

[justdailynews]

Man Has Been Planting Flowers for 30 Years for His Blind Wife to Smell

[softwarmboy]

BRB SOBBING

THATS SO SWEET, LOOK HOW HAPPY SHE IS

[officialdamonalbarn]

where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop

[officialdamonalbarn]

THANK YOU

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

somebody please explain

[dykemisspiggy]

Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.

[iwilltrytobereasonable]

…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle

[caecilius-est-pater]

There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.

[crtter]

In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:

It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.

[midnightvoyager]

honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here

You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!

jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!

HANS OH MY GOD

anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit

[queen-sammie]

No, I think you’re missing the real deal here

[glaxobabies-deactivated20240905]

[darlingsterns]

i’m watching an art theft documentary and they’re interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they weren’t the fbi, that they were some private buyer about to pay $3.5 million for it, and the fbi was like “this is a VERY delicate operation because you never know how they will react to what you have to say so let the agent do all of the talking, don’t say a word to anyone just nod if it’s the rubens, the last operation we did the guy in your position got shot because things went wrong in a second” and then it cuts to the professor’s interview and he says “i wasn’t going to fly down to miami to be a part of an undercover fbi sting operation to handle what could be rubens’s aurora and just NOT say anything. i was gonna have to ad lib a little” and then he tells the interviewer that when he & the fbi agent got to the hotel while he was examining the painting he started lecturing the other people, first on how badly they had wrapped it, and then about like how it had been painted, the history of it, what the subject was and what she was doing, etc etc, and he was like “i hadn’t taught a class on rubens in 15 years, so for me it was like being back in the classroom except my students couldn’t leave” 

[darlingsterns]

at one point during the deal the professor turned to the woman selling it and he said “isn’t this just the most beautiful rubens you’ve ever seen outside of a museum?” (because the fbi had told him earlier that this piece had been stolen from a museum) and THEN he said “where on earth did you get it from?” and the group of people the woman had with her was like taxidermy-fox.png but the woman was like “inheritance” can you IMAGINE the fbi agent about to have a fucking aneurysm when this random guy you’ve brought in just to nod if it’s the right painting not only starts giving an impromptu lecture but then he asks how they got it

[valtsv]

taking stock meme phrases and translating them into Ye Olde English is literally top tier comedy

[valtsv]

“hoes mad” - average, basic, possibly funny in the right context and if it appeals to your personal sense of humor

“wenches vexed” - instant kill shot

[valtsv]

this post RUINED my sense of humor ever since i first saw it nothing else has even come CLOSE to making me laugh as hard and probably never will

[ruinedchildhood]

The sad story of the Three Bears in Shrek

Papa bear on the rebound though

[drearyhours]

what message is sk8r boi even trying to convey

[blackpyrefly]

she can’t make it any more obvious :/

[vittyyluvscookies]

Am I wet? Am I on my period? Did I pee my pants?- next on wtf is going on down there.

[submissivefeminist]

I’m so glad this is a universal wondering among vagina-owners, haha.

[chaotichowlite]

‘Vagina-owners’

[anxiousnerd]

Tune in next time for: Are these menstrual cramps? Am I pregnant? Is it just gas? I wouldn’t have to ask these questions if I didn’t have a damn uterus

[sexylibrarian1]

Next week: Is it a bladder infection? An ovarian cyst? Do I have endometriosis? Oh God please do not let it be cervical cancer! A 20/20 special

[occupyvenus]

Y'all are forgetting the all-time classic: Is it just my period or is my appendix about to burst? Some nice tea and a heatpack or 911 and emergency surgery?

[phantoms-lair]

There is actually a test for that last one!

Place your hand over the pain, press down slightly and release. If the pain doesn’t change by any great margin, you’re fine. If it suddenly becomes some painful you can barely stand, Get thee to an Emergency Room

[taysweetbae]

reblog for the safety of vaginas and their owners

[greedyagain]

The appendix test works with or without a vagina so reblogging for everyone.

[catchymemes]

[thebrothersjonas]

when friend’s parents pay for your food and you have to pretend you don’t want them to

[what-is-a-fibroid-blog]

symptoms of uterine fibroids

ovarian cyst pain

[thebrothersjonas]

What

[memesandlaughs]

[kwestiadumy]

[sketchlm]

WHO THE FUCK IS THE DORA MOVIE FOR??? WHAT IS THEIR TARGET AUDIENCE

“Film not yet rated” HELLO????

[traveling-madness]

-highschool students who grew up watching Dora -stoned college kids who grew up watching Dora -people who think the line “oh look, Dora brought a knife on the fieldtrip everyone!” is the funniest fucking thing thats ever been said -me

[my-meowing-romance]