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[phantastische-illustrationen]

Artwork for 'Planet of the Apes - Colony' by William T. Quick, 2003 (Jean-Pierre Targete)

[dandyads]

Layer Pak, 1947

[taediosum]

:-)

[theodorafrompluto]

Tomb in the Crypt of Arundel Castle (19th century)

by Samuel Rayner

[lightthereis]

Henri Martin - Esquisse pour la bibliothèque de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris , les Muses (Plafond) - Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris

[campsis]

Joana Galego, Eating little jewels very slowly, 2026

Oil on linen, 40 x 30 cm

[jamescullen]

[nobrashfestivity]

Bakufu Ohno, 1930s

[charnel-grounds]

George Dance (1741–1825)

“A ghost appearing to a group of figures”

pen & ink & watercolour with gouache (?) on laid paper, n.d. — source

[clawmarks]

Matthias Withoos - A forest floor still life with a frog and mushroom, mountains beyond - 17th c. via Christie's

[songesoleil]

Le Prince Grenouille / The Frog Prince. Window designed and executed by J.S. Melville for Oscar Paterson. The Studio Year-Book of Decorative Art.1906.

[die-rosastrasse]

Wandering the Old Town with my camera to look for fantastical & whimsical architecture details 🌞🏰

Gdańsk, 22 VII 2026

[gleamingvessel]

John Singer Sargent, Study for "The Winds," 1921-1925

[dovesick]

various types of pigeons

[taediosum]

July 29, 2026

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

I have some rather fun vintage bear imagery collected here.

[tockthewatchdog]

genuinely the number one thing animating populists on the right and the left is the idea that we all lack free will. classical liberalism treats free will as an absolute truth and a necessity for its function. neopopulism treats free will like a mirage. every idea is organized around the core belief that you fundamentally lack control over your behavior. not just that you're influenced by your circumstances but that you are a complete and absolute victim to them. the vast majority of the time, in this ideology, "the elite" aren't even a coherent group, it's whoever you don't personally like or are polarized against, who you can scapegoat as having complete and total control over your life. every disagreeable circumstance is a machination. it's like a version of OCD that exports control to someone else. instead of being a hostage to your own obsessions or compulsions because you're convinced this will prevent bad outcomes, you pin the source of the bad outcomes to this external force which can be killed, imprisoned, or chased away, and obsess over that

unfortunately this idea is appealing to basically everyone. when people consciously turn away from it, for the most part it's because they've seen the absolute worst things this idea can do, or it's because they know that if a majority gives into it, their life will get much worse. at some level, even those of us who are tempted by the idea that we don't have free will understand that we don't want OTHERS thinking they don't have free will. we understand that this can easily be used as an excuse to harm and exploit us

but the more we are disconnected from the known risks of this mentality, the more we feel disconnected from others, the more we can entirely avoid dealing with other people (especially strangers), the more we think of other people as not quite real, and the more propaganda we consume that tells us we have no free will, the easier it is to justify it to ourselves