The Smiling Spider

I am the Smiling Spider and these are the things I write.

[geritsel]

Leonora Carrington - paintings

[nemfrog]

Plate II. Kalla Jin. An account of Indian serpents, collected on the coast of Coromandel. 1801.

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

gimme the peat boys and free my soul I wanna lay down in a mossy hole and drift away

[cousinnick]

Tollund man I know it’s you

[technoceanic]

moodboard: cryptid hunting

[fog6v7a4m8p5i8r3i8s1m0]

[xxstargoddessxx]

- Teagan White

[thesmilingspider]

Damn I just reread The Golden Compass and got hella excited about how LIN MANUEL MIRANDA is going to play Lee Scoresby in the His Dark Materials TV series

[bandtshirt]

[mattandjones]

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN!!

[thesmilingspider]

I got this UWorld question today

[whereshadowsthrive]

Please google crocodile skinks

I love them 

[z-paladin]

Small and loving dragons with hoards of friends

[jaded-mandarin]

Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1816 Stage Designs for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute.

[krinkshaming-deactivated2017021]

[skypig357]

Lmao

[bigwordsandsharpedges]

modern art

[cuentosallaround]

Okay, at this point there has to be something wrong with me, right? I’ve watched this 20 times in the last half hour, I still don’t know what they are saying half the time, but it doesn’t seem to matter because i’ve been crying my eyes out laughing for the entire last half hour …

[vergak]

what the fuck is this from i gotta know

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

it’s called letterkenny and it’s about a man who gets dumped and then goes on to shirk his pacifism and reclaim and hold his title as the toughest dude in the rural town of letterkenny ontario. every episode cold opens like this in increasingly bizarre ways.

[shiftingpath]

I read the bit about not being able to parse what’s being said and then I read the bit about it being set in this fuckin province, and I thought, like, what kind of accent could they possibly use that was so incomprehensible while still setting it in northern goddamn Ontario? and actually, okay, you know what, despite having lived immersed in it my entire life I’m not sure i’ve ever seen this exact accent on tv before, it is just weird to see actors using it

[neonbonsaii]

My cousins grew up with the guy who wrote this show and is the main actor. It’s scary accurate for hick town Ontario (it’s based on the town of Listowel) and apparently some of the characters are based so closely on real people that they’ve recognized themselves while watching.

[gayworstenemy-deactivated201803]

ARE YOU GONNA FIGHT IN THOSE SHADES OR PLAY POKER STARS DOT COM

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

Distribute some free literature.

[cyrilthewolf]

I lived near Ontario in rural NY and we picked up this sort of similar affect. It’s so scary how true-to-life this is in that area of the contintent

[gentlepanpirate]

I’m just gonna leave a link to season one episode one right here…

annnnnnd here’s all of season one

annnnnnnnnnnnnnd all of season two

Don’t say I never did anything for ya. Enjoy glorious Canadian humor.

[copperbadge]

SEASON THREE PREMIERES THIS CANADA DAY

I AM PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT IT. 

[thetiniestbabby]

THAT WAS THE GREATEST ALLITERATIVE MASTERPIECE I HAVE EVER SEEN

[thesmilingspider]

@cousinnick these dudes

[livemasbrand-deactivated2017053]

at the press of a button burt will send you his bees

[nemfrog]

Snake fight. Life in its lower, intermediate, and higher forms. 1857. 

[deejay]

[koredzas]

Maestro dei Cassoni Campana - Theseus and Minotaur. Detail. 1510 - 1515

[sammymationsart]

Sun Wukong 

These are some of the stages I see him as according to the books but I wouldn’t say they all are 100% spot-on. In the first book it’s mentioned that he looks like a rhesus macaque so tried to make his fur light brown, red face and short tail. When making these I developed a head canon that his red face changes according to his level of confidence. His red butt tho, is canon. The Great Sage, 3heads&6arms-form and Buddha outfit was inspired from the 2011 TV series by Zhang Jizhong. The paper talisman bears the mantra ǎn ma ne bā mī hōng (Om Mani Padme Hum) that Buddha uses to seal him under the mountain.

If you get the chance to read Journey to the West pls do so, it’s very enjoyable and you get to learn much about the Handsome Monkey King and a bit of chinese mythology in general. Also it’s fun how Wukong gives no shit and kicks everyones asses (or in most cases just kills them)

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[achasma]

The Last Judgment and the Seven Deadly Sins (detail) by Jacob van Swanenburg, c. 1600-1638.