#this is not

[pathologions]

17yo brother just asked if i wanted to say hi to his friends on a discord call

[talldecafcappuccino]

I am not enjoying Every Year After.

[churchedcannibal]

houses are inherently perverted because windows are almost always positioned at the same height as the opposing house's windows, allowing for free view of the other person's living space

[carlenalvr]

i have to keep reminding myself that these are my ocs now and i can do whatever i want lol 😭😭 and i dont need to worry if its “cringe” or “doesnt make sense” because only i know what makes sense. caught myself saying “fire spirit wouldn’t be a popstar people r going to complain”. bitch what does he have to do witb this!?? nothing???!!!!! CARLOS would be a popstar. and if people complain, idgaf?? 😭😭😭 theyre my OCS…??! likeeee 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[belleybbean]

hi monster fandom i’m issuing a formal apology before i fuck people up with this song by pairing it to johan and nina’s failing sibling relationship

stay tuned for the vision in my mind. you will hate it as much as i do. they make me so sick

[heartsoftruth]

https://www.tumblr.com/heartsoftruth/816335132106555392/i-dont-think-hes-that-dumb-tbh-yeah-but-i?source=share

"And also he might not be easy to manipulate but I think his biggest opp is himself. He likes being told no you’re right and seems to value the validation more than fair criticism from time to time."

I don't know why, but this feels like narcissism to me. Surrounding yourself with people who only tell you what you want to hear and rejecting the ones who give you the truth sounds like someone with a huge ego.

Someone on LSA also said Lewis might have borderline personality disorder and when I looked it up, I have to say they might be right. Google says it's a mental health condition characterized by long-term instability in moods, emotions, self-image, and behavior, often resulting in impulsive actions and chaotic relationships. Fear of abandonment is one of the first symptoms listed and I believe Lewis has that. Lewis doesn't seem to take rejection well at all. A lot of people don't, but I think it's especially deep for him. That's probably why it took so long for him to recover from his Nicole S breakup and he probably still hasn't recovered. He went out and found someone who reminds him of her.

"And he does seem intellectual when you see the stuff he speaks about but I’m afraid there is one thing him and his gf have in common which is being extremely obnoxious."

This is where I have to push back a little. I don't think Lewis is an intellectual at all. That doesn't make him dumb, but he's far from an intellectual. Lewis is well traveled, but he's not well read and doesn't have a deep understanding of world affairs. When he tried to explain his MetGala outfit, I think it was in 2024(?) when he mentioned his necklace being inspired by slavery, it was cringe. He clearly had no idea what he was talking about. His trip to Africa in 2022 showed how ignorant he was about the cultures that he encountered, calling the tribal people living in villages poor and barefoot, saying he was grateful he didn't have to live like them. Then his recent comments about Africa taking it's power back just seemed so...uninformed. Mind you, these were comments to F1 journalists shortly after the Kim K rumours surfaced from the first race of the 2026 season. Lewis performs quite a bit and he gets a lot of credit as an "intellectual" because he's British.

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[thewitcheswaag]

VITRUVIAN MAN, ACTUALLY pt. 2

Literally the next page, this nonsense happens.

So after renowned art and symbol expert Robert Langdon figures out from a half-completed image that Saunière intended to die like a Da Vinci, we once again do a little callback to the imagery Langdon decided was there.

I have already sort of touched upon iconography and how Dan Brown is allergic to that word and Panovsky's entire life's work in pioneering the study of it (also the sole method of analysis art historians use to stem directly from art history, as opposed to another academic field), but I'll mention it once again: Dan Brown hates iconography in this book, because it ruins his entire premise.

While I also kind of want to talk about how we're constantly told how Langdon feels, I don't even have the time or the energy for it. There is no male and female harmony left within my core after all of this, let me tell you.

Also yes, I am aware that we could be having a whole discussion about gender here, but since this book was published in 2003, I think I'm going to have to let it slide. Just know that I'm eyeing Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender? as I'm working through this section.

To start with, WHAT is Dan Brown saying Da Vinci's meaning was when he was drawing up the Vitruvian Man?! "Male and female harmony".

CITATION NEEDED.

In my previous posts on this issue, I explained that the concept of the Vitruvian man is derived from an ancient text. This is the Renaissance, so it should be not surprising to you in the least that they were reading Roman and Greek shit.

Sometimes, these texts that had no pictures required a lot of tinkering on the Renaissance side, because they had no idea what the ancient author was talking about. Many such cases, though I mostly know of this one.

Langdon asks a question inside of his own head, and Fache somehow instantly spits out an answer. Fine. Whatever. Thing is that the premise is not just wonky, but completely made-up.

Brown has a habit of doing this. He'll have his self-insert state something with absolute confidence while being completely wrong. Here's a brand new concept: an older white guy being confidently incorrect. Never before seen, truly.

And again, the worst part for me is the real-life plothole that Dan Brown at least studied art history in passing. Now, while I don't hold a degree yet either (hopefully in a year or so), a year of studying it formally, which Brown did, should be sufficient to snuff out any tendency he has towards making things up as he goes.

As it stands, he's a guy who took classes for a couple of semesters and subsequently decided he was an expert in it. Kind of hits the same as those physicists laughing at Elon Musk posting pictures of his first semester physicist homework as if he was somehow good at it, all while being able to figure out that people who hold master's degrees and have jobs in the field have eyes and can see those images too.

And we all feel the same way when people who know next to nothing about our special interest prance about the place like our actual knowledge on the subject doesn't even matter.

You might be wondering why I included that bit about Da Vinci being into the "dark arts". I left it in, because I'm fairly sure it's a prelude of things to come. Kind of the bell that tolls my mental doom, in a way. If it starts approaching territory like that one author who made family-man Johannes Vermeer out to be a cheater who didn't care so deeply about his wife that he made her faith his own and included it in his own work all the time, I don't want to hear it.

But we all know I'm going to have to deal with it, because it is absolutely going to be in this book. Da Vinci has been dead since 1519, but in 2003, Dan Brown probably decided his grave could use a little dancing on for whatever reason.

[quicksilver21]

Guys, be honest, is this anything?

I got the urge to write at 2am