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Erté, La vampire (Illustration for Les Fleurs du mal of Charles Baudelaire), 1917

Erté, La dionée dite gobe-mouches (Illustration for Les Fleurs du mal of Charles Baudelaire), 1917

i've always wanted to visit the beautiful city of chicago because i love their citation style

Ratatouille concept art by Robert Kondo and Harley Jessup

Sunfish.

it doesn’t have to be good it just has to be done

wake up

deny yourself

4. phone in bed

"sound of the summer is this song" WRONG. its cicadas

Paintings done on paper towels by Polish artist Helena Minginowicz.

see and be seen

the last couple of days I've been noticing way more buds than usual on the branches of trees and bushes. I think something big is about to happen

Beco+81 aka Beco Plus81 (Japanese, based Japan) - 星屑まみれ (I am surrounded by Stars), 2023, Drawings: Digital Art

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

letter ґ >>>>>>> soviet union

Y’all look at this set of Napoleonic playing cards I found by Philipp Otto Runge, early 19th century.

They depict figures from the Napoleonic era including famous military figures and women wearing really pretty empire style.

The first one is supposed to be Murat.

Source: Hamburger Kunsthalle

no offense but why do cat owners let them on counter tops? do they not shed and it gets on the food

You think i have any control over these bitches

(via)

Freeway Traffic At Night - 1962

The Conference of the Birds, Persian Manuscript, circa 1600; Safavid Iran (Isfahan)

Agnes Pelton

The Conference of the Birds, Persian Manuscript, circa 1600; Safavid Iran (Isfahan)

Full Moons 2023

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not a big fan of those gimmick posts tbh [¹][²][ᵃʳᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ˢᵘʳᵉ?]

References [ edit ]

^ Britomart, V. (2023) "not a big fan of those gimmick posts". Internet: Tumblr.[ᵃ]

^ Britomart, V. (2023) "Drafts". Internet: Tumblr.

Notes [ edit ] a. ^ Have you heard of Inception?

See also [ edit ]

Gimmicks

Jokes

Punch lines

Further Reading [ edit ]

Reading Comprehension Questions (2023). Reading Comprehension Questions. ⇗ Text Post Tropes (2023). Text Post Tropes. ⇗

External links [ edit ]

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COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:

Define irony and discuss its usage here.

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What does this post say about how much time the author spends on the internet?

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES:

a) Try making your own post!

I really like how many of the world’s most iconic structures and places are just right next to some of the most mundane stuff imaginable, for example

Stonehenge

Is right next to a busy road

The Pyramids of Giza

Are at the outskirts of Cairo

Niagara Falls

Are part of the town of the same name

And Agrippa’s Pantheon

Is crammed inside downtown Rome

It just so interesting to notice.

cosmic art x | x

I was reading a book containing a collection of secular Polish poems from before 1500 for my thesis and most of them were all pretty serious - either love poems, odes or satires - but at the very end I found my favorite one:

“This is my rhyme: Warm bread with butter in it.”

Rokuro Taniuchi "Field Trip"

谷内六郎 「遠足」

Nüshu (literally “women’s writing” in Chinese) is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. Up until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) women were forbidden access to formal education, and so Nüshu was developed in secrecy as a means to communicate. Since its discovery in 1982, Nüshu remains to be the only gender-specific writing system in the world. Read more here.