Aesthetics and Strife

I love the surreal, the light, the dark, and shocking revelations. I love horror movies that have happy endings. I mostly reblog art, corsets, armor, swords, frills, social justice, feminism, fandom, and so much goddamn tabletop RPG stuff. Link to my art...

[dicegrimorium]

Greetings!

Along the path in the snowy landscape there’s an old watchtower that saw plenty of use in wars of yore. Now abandoned by the royal army, the tower is mostly inhabited by bandits and other wrong-doers who happen to be strong enough take a hold of it.

These crafty individuals have even managed to repair one of the war-era ballistae and use it to rob travelers blind.

But the party of adventurers who happen to find themselves in this place are no strangers to danger. And even though the advantage provided by the fortification is plenty, the heroes always seem to find a way to succeed.

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[dicegrimorium]

Greetings!

While traveling in the woods, the party stumbles upon a very old, very large tree trunk. The trunk, carved and imposing, serves as a bridge between the elevated surfaces of the terrain.

A battle soon ensues, the adventurers surprised by the group of owlbears that came seemingly out of nowhere. But a refined strategic positioning, along with a clever use of the bridge as cover, can ensure the survival of our heroes once more.

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[sailor-moon-rei]

by pillow_som

art republished with artist’s permission

[memes-to-show-my-therapist]

[stream]

[charlesreeza]

Dead Guy - Roman, c. 300 BCE, terra cotta

Part of a tableau depicting a battle between the Greeks and the Amazons.  Photo by Charles Reeza at the Museum of Art and History, Geneva.

[jovialchaoss]

[stereofeathers]

[studentlifeproblems]

[lsleofskye]

Parkview, Johannesburg, South Africa | traveltrotters_za

[alivehouse]

fun fact about me is that when i was a kid id write capital E’s with as many of those little horizontal lines as possible and id call them ladder E’s and adults fucking hated them

[alivehouse]

artistic rendition

[ceekari]

All capital letters should have a leveled-up form

So far I’ve got

ladder letters: A, E, F, H, T

humpback B’s and P’s get as many bumps as you think they need

circle O’s, you just keep spiraling in til you feel like you’ve made your point

tree letters branch into smaller versions of themselves ad nauseum: X, Y

spider Q’s, so many legs

Please add your own unsettling godtier capitals!

[catgirltoes]

New alphabet dropped!

[ceekari]

oh my god, it’s beautiful

(future handwritten notes are gonna be so wonderfully cursed now, thank you! :D )

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

well it’s going to take some getting used to, @ceekari (don’t mind the redacted letter between T and U)

But I think i’ve taken a real shine to it! 

[kingdokgo-deactivated20220123]

90′s anime

[miggylol]

[glumshoe]

“Nobody joins a cult. You join a self-help group, a religious movement, a political organization. They change so gradually, by the time you realize you’re entrapped – and almost everybody does – you can’t figure a safe way back out.”

— Deborah Layton, survivor of Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple cult

[beardbriarandrose]

Sidney Harold Meteyard (1868-1947), Lucifer and His Angels, watercolor with bodycolor

[mysteriousartcentury]

Attributed to Sidney Harold Meteyard (1868-1947), Penelope at her loom, oil on canvas, 99 x 66 cm. Sold at Christie’s for GBP 43,750.

[discovernow]

“Disconnection. That’s how this future began. One moment in time that radiated outward, until no one even remembered that connection was possible anymore. But it is. The need to connect is at our core as sentient beings. It takes time, effort and understanding. Sometimes, it feels impossible. But if we work at it… miracles can happen.”

[jewish-privilege]

New York, January 8, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today called for the removal of President Donald Trump from office, either by the means afforded by the U.S. Constitution or through his own resignation.

“As this week comes to a close, we must not allow the historic and horrific events of the past 48 hours to simply fade without significant consequences,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. “In our over 100 years of history, ADL has never called for the President of the United States to be removed from office, but what occurred on Wednesday was inexcusable. It will forever be remembered as one of the darkest days of American democracy and it makes unambiguously clear: President Trump is unfit for office and needs to be removed.”

“Violence and sedition. Confederate flags being proudly displayed by rioters in the United States Capitol. White supremacists and far-right extremists marauding through the hallowed halls of one our nation’s most sacred institutions. This was incited by President Trump and organized on social media for all the world to see,” Greenblatt said. “The horrific events of this week are a culmination of years spent denigrating our democratic institutions, months of delegitimizing the electoral process, and innumerable tweets demonizing his perceived enemies, with zero regard for the consequences of his actions.”

Further, ADL is calling for a complete, thorough, and transparent investigation into the failings of law enforcement and Capitol Hill security. While there were those who bravely sought to repel the invasion of the building, including one officer who tragically lost his life, we need to understand why there was such a dangerously inadequate deployment of law enforcement despite the mob assembled on the National Mall. Additionally, investigations must be conducted regarding the disturbing inequities between how peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters were handled last summer in comparison to armed extremists storming the Capitol.

Finally, ADL, along with the Stop Hate for Profit coalition, which ADL co-founded with eight other storied civil rights and advocacy organizations, has called on all social media platforms to #BanTrumpSaveDemocracy and permanently remove him from their services by January 20. Brands and companies should pull back on advertising on these social media networks, like Facebook and Twitter, until Trump is entirely removed from these platforms.

“These are the bare minimum steps that must occur,” Greenblatt said. “Racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and so many other forms of hate were on full display as extremists perpetrated violence and sedition. We must root out this evil if we are ever to heal as a nation.”

[tikkety-tok]