This Bitter Language

Callie. Italy/UK. Maximum ambition, maximum audacity, programmatic disobedience.

[slimetony]

Just tried to play an ancient flute and it started filling the room with this awful miasma that wont go away

[slimetony]

Why does staff still allow people funnier than you to leave tags on your posts. They should have fixed that by now

[zahraa17]

Malcesine, Italy.

[effemimaniac]

group sighing in ten minutes

[effemimaniac]

wistful, exasperated, strung-out, mournful, content, it matters not. all sighers are welcome for group sighing. in nine minutes

[kaijuno]

🌊

[shieldfoss]

#oh thats what he meant by wine-dark sea

[halondrus]

babygirl what that carapace do

[kaylmao]

10000 YEAR OLD ROCK ART OF GIRAFFES FOUND IN LIBYA LET'S GO

[kaylmao]

YES!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mangoslixes]

“Shadow and light are the most stable and perfect tools of creation: they unite colors, shapes, and dimensions,” says Moldovan artist Sergiu Ciochină, adding that “shadows move us through diversity, enhancing our perception, while light fills us with the joy of discovery.” In saturated hues, he captures dappled sunlight as it filters through the trees and the rich tones of the golden hour as it casts deep bluish-purple shade onto the sides of houses.

Taking cues from the Impressionists, Ciochină focuses on the nuances of light and its ability to reveal outlines and forms. He works in thick, impasto oil paint on board, emphasizing the shapes of windows, doors, and stoops and transforming otherwise ordinary buildings into compositions glowing with the patterns of foliage, architectural angles, and the texture of brushstrokes. “The symbiosis I create between nature and architecture is intended to evoke a love for space,” he says.

on Sergiu Ciochină

[dreadwedge]

One thing most people don't realize about Gazebos is how bloodthirsty they used to be until the 1930s or so. It used to be that in order to appease your average small town gazebo you had to feed it 4-5 marching bands a year, or roughly 2 dozen barbershop groups. Noawadays? Throw it a steely dan cover act every 6 months, maybe a bridal party every few years if you're actively trying to court its favor, and you're pretty much in the clear. And the crazy thing is nobody knows why they calmed down, or that their appetite for flesh won't return to its 19th century heights one day. It's actually an increasingly popular theory among modern Gazebo researchers that we're at the tail end of a period of dormancy and it's only a matter of time until they start howling for blood again. And if/when that does happen there's the question of whether our modern zeeb-keepers are really ready for the task of booking enough sacrificial acts to meet that increased demand. Guild policy has gotten lax in the century since the heyday of Dark Pavillionism and a lot of local keepers refuse to even look at newer research that threatens to upset their status quo. Kind of scary to think about

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

14000 years old bisons sculptures found in Le Tuc d'Audoubert cave. Ariege, France [1850x1250]

[inatungulates]

Przewalski's horse Equus ferus przewalskii

Observed by mani_raab, CC BY-NC

[winter-wise]

it's her...

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Ivan Pokidyshev Silence, 2023 Oil on canvas.

[cosmonautroger]

[neonknight]

The Lord of the Rings acrylic paintings (70s) by Tim and Greg Hildebrandt

[regicidal-defenestration]

One time I saw a fake headline about the Vatican announcing the virgin Mary's new nemesis, la puta Waría, and ever since that day I've quoted it like anybody else knows what I'm talking about

[funeral]

Maria Denise Dessimoz, The Inevitable Anguish of Desire

[atomic-chronoscaph]

art by Eyvind Earle

[antoniabishop]

some favorites from my illustrations based on greek mythology