Gryffindor Chameleon

secretly Hufflepuff

[spirit-of-art]

Daniel Maclise, Madeline after prayer, 1868

[anxeious]

this is making me emotional

[hildegards-abbey]

A dragon encircled

From “The Sherborne Missal” (Add MS 74236) c.1399-1407

[oldpaintings]

Winter morning with frost, 1941 by Jan Voerman jr. (Dutch, 1890-1976)

[somerabbitholes]

some essays to fill your time

Just a bunch of things I've read recently.

The Authoritarian Roots of India's Democracy by Tripurdaman Singh

Why is Everything So Ugly?

Casual Viewing by Will Tavlin

“You are Next”: Unmarried Urban Women in India and the “Marriage Talk” by Shilpa Phadke

Crossing Days by Thomas Dai

Inside the Indian Manosphere by Lhendup Bhatia

Optimism and Desperation by Camilla Grudova

Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College by James Walsh

Blunt-Force Ethnic Credibility by Som-Mai Nguyen

When My Authentic is Your Exotic by Soniah Kamal

The discontent of Russia by Joy Neumeyer

On anti-political projects by Kat Rosenfield

'Correcting' historical wrongs is a slippery slope by Manu Pillai

[somerabbitholes]

some more:

Social media and the collapse of ritual

Where are Lucy's friends in Materialists?

Sociologism Literature by Harry Schiller

Passion and Palestine by Derek Penslar

New TV Novels by Lisa Borst

From Progress to Catastrophe by Perry Anderson

The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser

The Trouble with Friends by Weike Wang

[somerabbitholes]

and more:

Is There a God-Shaped Hole at the Heart of Mathematics?

How China Carved up Myanmar

How the Left misread Gramsci

Wildness: Feminism, identity, and the willingness to be defeated

There are no pure cultures

The desperation of the Instagram photo dump

Rethinking maps

[starrywisdomsect]

Jan Švankmajer’s Castle of Otranto (1977) is an animated adaptation of Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel of the same name. This novel is credited with the start of the genre of gothic fiction, and was heavily influential on the horror genre as a whole.

[dreamyvixen]

[infectiouspiss]

2026

FUCK HARD

FUCK FAST

FUCK BADLY

NEVER USE GENERATIVE AI

CREATE JOY

MUSIC ALWAYS

PSPSPSPS AT KITTIES ON THE STREET

YUMMY SOUP

go see the doctor about that thing

BE TRANSGENDER

KISS YOUR FRIENDS

EAT CHEESE

NEVER KILL YOURSELF

THRIVE

[c0ssette]

François-Hubert Drouais,Madame de Pompadour (detail) 1763.

[vintage-ukraine]

Autumnal Kyiv, 1983

[japantheon]

the Duomo in Milan, Italy

[nymphastral]

Lady Anne Pope (1615) and Portrait of a Woman (ca.1615), both by Robert Peake the Elder

[detail-detail-detail]

Simone Martini. “Meditation” ca. 1285-1344

[diioonysus]

"there perseus slew medousa gorgon-eyed by the stars' baths and utmost bounds of earth and fountains of deep-flowing okeanos, where night in the far west meets the setting sun."

[uhhgoodd]

Tarot card coat, Christian Dior Haute Couture, A/W 2017-18

[lightthereis]

The Lament of Ingeborg by August Malmström, 1880s

[gharasham]

Vampire decals pt2