Juliana

imagine what it must be like to do scholarship on the odyssey when your name is odysseus. big brain move like who is going to disagree w odysseus’ takes on the odyssey. nobody

Getting ready for the show!!

the lotr casting director is an all-knowing goddess

Just Like the First Time.

Cells drawn in their corresponding sizes.

constraints on Chinese artists and effects on culture

Alastor + tropes

It’s much harder to do Disney things with birds when you live in Hell

A piece of heaven in hell

                    Even as I drag myself through the mud, love me.

What if to redeem them, Charlie has to witness all their sins first hand?

i worked on this until 1am pls appreciate

original

Sorry for the long post :)

@sedatayuun @ffxiv-angora @tiergan-vashir @tenten-ooc @humanmagi @bennettdiction @noche-nightfuse

I CANT STOP LAUGHING THIS IS SO GOOD

Finland :

Sorry for the long post but it is worth it!

@surmai

Recent newspaper blackouts by austinkleon

This Restaurant Has The Wildest Wing Pricing Structure And People Are Doing Math To Try To Figure It Out

What kind of maniac orders 200 chicken wings?

I mean the whole damn point of the Nativity story is that the supposed son of God (interpret Jesus how you fucking want, of course) was born to a couple of poor, exhausted peasants in the stable for the inn, and his first bed was a feeding trough for animals. That would nowadays be like a poor couple where the mother gives birth in a parking garage behind the motel because they couldn’t find a better place and nobody else would take them in. It’s a pretty gritty setting, and the idea is that God was reborn in some of the rock-bottom lowest circumstances. The only thing majestic was all the angels and shit, and of course motherly love

I get that a lot of the art portraying Madonna and Child as fabulously wealthy europeans in splendid robes and golden light was meant to glorify God + whichever nobility was sponsoring the artist, and while of course it’s genuinely beautiful art, it just always struck me as horribly missing the point, which is that the supposed son of God started in incredibly humble circumstances, among the kind of people that everyone else looks down on

‘Massacre des Innocents’ by Leon Cogniét, 1824. Although the Feast of the Holy Innocents is in a couple of days time, this painting is still really relevant in that it portrays Mary as how She really was: a scared refugee mum, so fearful that Her son was going to be one of the Innocents killed by King Herod.

My new favorite mordern interpretation is this work, José y Maria by Everett Patterson (http://www.everettpatterson.com)

I had to look at this like FIVE TIMES to register all the layers of symbolism going into the piece by Patterson. 

The hoodie as a veil. 

Weisman cigarettes

Each of them is haloed by an advertisement sticker. 

No Vacancy sign on the motel. 

Dove sticker over Maria’s head. 

Neon sign with a star symbol also over Maria’s head. 

The crown over the ‘Dave’s City Motel’ sign. “New Manger.”

The sign behind Jose’s elbow likely says ‘Herod.’

The wee little plant growing through the cracks at their feet. 

It’s like a New Testament ‘I Spy.’ I love it!

Ugh.

New favorite interpretation of the nativity. 

The paper at José’s feet has an advert for Shepard Watches Maria’s hoodie says Nazareth High School The sign above José’s head proclaims ‘Good News!’

This is incredible and lovely.

Maria on the coin operated pony instead of an ass.

in another life, this would have ended much differently.

writing oogway pre-kfp3: yeah he probably has stress about being leader of the most respected art form in china but like. hes chill

writing oogway post-kfp3: This Tortoise Has Compartmentalized 500 Years' Worth Of Problems, how is he chill