The ramblings of a grouchy classicist

Batman, The Owls Are Not What They Seem, OMG!! Tea!

[thesensibleone13]

I did a thing!!!

[thesensibleone13]

I did a thing!!!

[thesensibleone13]

This evening hair forecast: pre-raphaelite

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Meet the Mona Lisa of the Prado, the earliest known copy of Da Vinci’s best portrait. Similarity in the undersketch of the painting indicates that this was very likely painted concurrently with the original Mona Lisa, by a student of Da Vinci.

There is much controversy in the art world over the question of whether or not to clean the fragile Mona Lisa, but her sister has been restored and some fairly odd later alterations removed to show the original vibrant colors and lighting. Some details, such as the sheerness of her shawl and the pattern on the neckline of her dress, have become utterly obscured in the original, but in the restored copy they’re perfectly clear.

It blows my mind a little bit to look at these two sisters side-by-side and imagine how much vivid detail could be hiding in the Mona Lisa under 500 years of rotten varnish. 

[the-theatre-ghost]

THE COPY HAS EYEBROWS

[rxseblue-archive]

Your response to a beautiful piece of artwork done by Leonardo Da Vinci himself is “SHES GOT EYEBROWS”. Alright. All intelligent life has been lost.

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Yo Snooty McSnotwhine, the Mona Lisa’s vanished eyebrows have been the subject of debate and analysis in the art expert community for hundreds of years, long before your parents squirted water at each other from across the clown car and then honked their bicycle horns to indicate they really wanted to make a smug, insufferable little clown baby together. 

[mmkayn]

this continues to be the best reply to a criticizing comment on this site

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

one of my favorite phrases is ‘that’s a problem for future me’ because it combines two of my favorite things, mild humor and intense, panic inducing procrastination 

[grimmjow-jaegerjaquez-san]

ლ(=ↀωↀ=)ლ

[thesensibleone13]

@hika-bika-boo I can barely tell the difference.

[badboysgoodlove]

When someone says me that I need to stop shipping gay couples.

[dailydcheroes]

"Justice League Dark" Film Moving Forward with Director Doug Liman

The long-gestating “Justice League Dark” movie – which has also gone under the name “Dark Universe” – is indeed happening with “Edge of Tomorrow” and “Bourne Identity” helmer Doug Liman attached to direct. Due to Liman’s commitment to direct “Justice League Dark,” he’ll no longer helm the X-Men spinoff “Gambit.” Sources say Liman’s departure is a “mutual split” between him and the studio, 20th Century Fox. According to Variety, revered filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Pacific Rim”), who was originally set to direct the project, and contributed to the original script, is still attached as producer. The site notes that the team featured in the film will consist of John Constantine, Swamp Thing, Deadman, Zatanna and Etrigan the Demon – all members super-team in the original DC Comics series. Produced by Scott Rudin and written by Michael Gilio, “Justice League Dark” hasn’t been given a release date.

[writingabeautifuldisaster-deact]

I saw your message/email/text/voicemail and told myself I’d return it later when I was more awake/alert/in a better mood/had more information and I pretty much forgot about it until now I’m sorry I’m trash: an autobiography

[chrissysky]

I really don’t understand why more people don’t read Bombshells though.

[grassprint-deactivated20240101]

The holy trinities 

[wenchyfloozymoo]

[hashtagparksandrec]

[fantasticfelicityfox]

My favorite part about 1931 Dracula is that there are armadillos running around Dracula’s castle.

Look at this it’s like they couldn’t find any rats so they just were like “eh close enough no one will notice”. But I noticed. I noticed.

[fuck-yeah-classic-monsters]

“WE NAILED IT BOYS”

[mllemusketeer]

Apparently in the 20s and 30s, armadillos weren’t very commonly known, so moviemakers would use them wherever they needed some creepy, ‘demonic’ animal running around. So there were a lot of armadillos in early filmmaking, and it was often people’s only source of reference for armadillos.

Fast forward twenty years to when the father of the biology professor who told me this is driving out from the east coast to see his son in California. Crossing the southwest at night.

An armadillo runs across the road. 

He comes to a screeching halt and the Thing Of Evil, which he never knew was actually a real animal, trots the rest of the way across the road and vanishes into the desert.

Apparently it shook him up rather a bit.

[theblamegabe-deactivated2019102]

@mortalityplays

[protom-lad]

Ok but what about Dracula’s Bee.

A single, solitary bee with his own tiny custom-built coffin. 

[justcatposts]

LOOK AT EM ALL GO

More cute animal vines?

[fantasticfelicityfox]

My favorite part about 1931 Dracula is that there are armadillos running around Dracula’s castle.

Look at this it’s like they couldn’t find any rats so they just were like “eh close enough no one will notice”. But I noticed. I noticed.

[fuck-yeah-classic-monsters]

“WE NAILED IT BOYS”

[mllemusketeer]

Apparently in the 20s and 30s, armadillos weren’t very commonly known, so moviemakers would use them wherever they needed some creepy, ‘demonic’ animal running around. So there were a lot of armadillos in early filmmaking, and it was often people’s only source of reference for armadillos.

Fast forward twenty years to when the father of the biology professor who told me this is driving out from the east coast to see his son in California. Crossing the southwest at night.

An armadillo runs across the road. 

He comes to a screeching halt and the Thing Of Evil, which he never knew was actually a real animal, trots the rest of the way across the road and vanishes into the desert.

Apparently it shook him up rather a bit.

[theblamegabe-deactivated2019102]

@mortalityplays

[protom-lad]

Ok but what about Dracula’s Bee.

A single, solitary bee with his own tiny custom-built coffin. 

[berlynn-wohl]

The different fanfic eras explained as lunch

Pre-internet era: You walk into a room and sit down at a table. Someone brings you a turkey sandwich, a bag of potato chips, and a soda. Perhaps you are a vegetarian, or gluten-free. Doesn’t matter; you get a turkey sandwich, a bag of potato chips, and a soda.

Usenet era: You walk into a room and sit down to your turkey sandwich, a bag of potato chips, and a soda. Someone tells you that over at the University they are also serving BLTs, pizza, coffee, and beer.

Web 1.0 (aka The Great Schism): You walk into a room. The room is lined with 50 unmarked doors. Someone tells you, “We have enough food to feed you and a hundred more…but we’ve scattered it behind these fifty doors. Good luck!”

Web 2.0 (present): You walk into a room. Someone points at the buffet and says, “Enjoy!” You turn to see a 100-foot-long buffet table, piled high with every kind of food imaginable. To be fair, some of the food is durian, head cheese, and chilled monkey brains, but that’s cool, some people are into those…and trust me, they are even more psyched to be here than you are.

[roachpatrol]

Tumblr (a hell pit): You try to serve yourself a baked potato. An angry child runs up and slaps the plate out of your hand. “NIGHTSHADE PLANTS ARE POISONOUS,” the child yells. You are hungry. The child gives you a turkey sandwich, a bag of potato chips, and a kick on the shin.

[annachibi]

AO3: You walk into a room, rubbing your shin and holding your turkey sandwich and potato chips. It is almost the same as the Web 2.0 room but everything is neatly labeled. There is new food coming in all the time. A few people are helping to expand the room to make space for it and all the guests. As long as they are supported, you will never go hungry again.

[theoldcoffeetragedy]

but also AO3: you want a turkey sandwich with tomato. There is a table filled with turkey sandwiches labelled ‘with tomato’. You take one. No tomato. You throw it away and take another. Still no tomato. The next one still has no tomato, but it has pickles in it, even though it wasn’t labelled (and you hate pickles). There’s a couple with tomatoes in the bottom. You’ll have to taste every sandwich to find them, though. You give up. (Still can’t complain, though, the sandwiches were available for free.)