empiricist

| entp | they/them | chaotic academia | lover of art history and revolution

[the-dust-jacket]

I finally saw Sinners! Yes, it was amazing!

In honor of this gorgeous movie, here are a few books featuring history, horror, race and colorism, music, monsters, siblings, and things that go bump in the night.

Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

Fledgling by Octavia Butler

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

That Self-Same Metal by Brittany Williams

[tortured-romanticist]

black horror 😍😱

[oldpaintings]

The Venetian at the Masked Ball, 1837 byJoseph-Désiré Court (French, 1797–1865)

[cuties-in-codices]

drawings of flowers and cherries at the margins of a manuscript made to look like real material objects affixed to the page

in a book of hours, flanders, ca. 1520

source: Vienna, Österr. Nationalbibl., Cod. 2730, f. 7r-9r.

[bernard-jackson]

[random-brushstrokes]

James Tissot - The Princesse De Broglie (1895)

[mossbawn]

people on here are always saying “we NEED a story where the art of storytelling is abandoned” like ugh literary devices are soo annoying like that wouldn’t happen in real life that only happened to further the story (why is there story in my story) why would orpheus turn around when he was explicitly told not to why would icarus fly so close to the sun romeo&juliet catcher in the rye why are they so earnest why pour your heart and soul into anything why bother why cant all art be quippy logical monotony like my marvel movies there’s a void in my heart bc i refused to fill it and the curtains were blue

[mossbawn]

“i hate poetry its so pretentious” but then you reblog a quote or a throwaway line and say “why does this go so hard” you are desperate for poetry you are starved for it and u dont even realise you’re hungry

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Bear

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Bear

[detailedart]

Cloudscape. Details: Wooded Hilly Landscape, 1785, London, by Abraham Pether.

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

My collection of rats and mice, some giant, some playing while the cat’s away.

[sivavakkiyar]

Walter Benjamin, from One-Way Street

[monstersovka]

TRANS RIGHS 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[fashionsfromhistory]

Fan

1895

Rodeck Brothers (Austria)

The MET (Accession Number: 2009.300.2803)

[hungwy]

guess my favorite rene descartes quote

[frqp-deactivated20200918]

who give a shit.

[hungwy]

[clove-pinks]

A tender mother, among the inferior ranks of people, is often afraid to send her son to school at a seaport town, lest the sight of the ships and the conversation and adventures of the sailors should entice him to go to sea.

— Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

William Redmore Bigg (British, 1755–1828), The sailor's farewell

[iiireflexiii]

On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour. At the time, many thought it was the end of the world, so much so that it inspired this woodcut by Adolf Vollmy.

[dyatlovpassingprivilege]

better quality version

[pukicho]

I inhaled a fuck load of harmful plastic fumes a couple months ago by burning ziploc bags with a hot scalding knife 

[trans-an4rchy]

lore

[pukicho]

What the fuck are you talking about