choose a religion, choose a goddamn sport

24 // mournful and ghostly presence

[soviet-furries]

Cap with a Crucian Carp (Кепка с карасями)

N. Ustinov / Н. Устинов

1974

[polkadotmotmot]

Lijing Zheng - Departure, 2024 - Tempera on wood panel

[fairycosmos]

what if i just manipulate reality with my mind and make everything perfect and good

[serpercival]

@nedlittle

[sailermoon]

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

[sailermoon]

[danskjavlarna]

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Bizarre money imagery? Here’s an entire vault’s worth.

[nemfrog]

“Total eclipse of the sun, 1860, Tarragona.” Sun, moon, and stars. 1893. Frontispiece. 

[enchantedbook]

From The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962) Joan Aiken, illustrated by Pat Marriott.

[jakeperalta]

not using AI genuinely feels like the rest of the world is experiencing some kind of mass amnesia. if someone says they never use it, the immediate response is that can't be true because "everyone" uses it to write their emails or answer their questions. saw a comment suggesting that not using chatgpt to write an essay is "like the 90s". girl I graduated in 2021 and we weren't doing that! how is it that everyone has suddenly forgotten that they were entirely capable of doing these things all by themselves for their entire lives up until the past few years!! am I going crazy!!!

[sexhaver]

Who deserved to live more?

The Romanovs (entire royal family circa 1917 including the kids)

Harambe the gorilla

Voting ended onMay 30

[braaaaain]

A polling group that never read accounts of of the children were executed.

[sexhaver]

oh my god Harambe had kids?

[ltwilliammowett]

Signet ring, England, 1880

[bethanythebogwitch]

Some writers: *meticulously plan out every plot point and the tone and meanings before they start writing*

Me:

[catboybiologist]

Imagine if a like 8 foot tall guy that looked kinda like an alien species just kinda showed up at the house you rent a room in and crashed on the couch and at first everyone hated him but you kinda just accepted this weird massive kinda-human alien species thing as a part of your group even though he's like twice the size of everyone else there

[catboybiologist]

Cuz that's literally happening to sea lions in San Francisco right now

[catboybiologist]

So there's two species of sea lion in North America: the California sea lion, ranging along California (including Baja) but not ranging into the north coast or into oregon

And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska

A male Stellars sea lion showed up in SF like a month ago and just kinda. Didn't know what to do, and joined a colony of California sea lions, and is just kinda chilling there now.

[catboybiologist]

Weird vagrant species happen from time to time, but this is just a particularly funny instance of a highly social species getting very lost, and just trying to blend in with its closest nearby relatives

[trailertrashgrog]

OJ treating Angel like a horse.

[turtleonaskateboard]

also, what if. Carmilla where there are NO vampires. they're just lezzing out ur honor

[turtleonaskateboard]

spending so much time with wuthering heights... pondering a horror adaptation where Heathcliff IS a vampire...

[danskjavlarna]

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Howl at my collection of vintage wolf imagery.

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.