Red Scharlach Points At Interesting Things

The Call-Leader, Elwood, Indiana, July 29, 1915

Sending a revised version of the Pioneer plaque out into space to warn all other civilizations that we're a LOT and they probably don't want to get into anything this messy

Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Quiet, minions. The queen is speaking.

Orestes Pursued by the Furies by John Singer Sargent

Currently being pursued by Furies.

Back shortly.

Organized panic at the worm disco

Sound up for this one!

Bronze aquamanile in the form of a centaur fighting a serpent, Germany, circa 1200-1250

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This chap looks worried. Possible he's anxious because the serpent looks like part of him, so if he chops its head off with his knife, he'll be chopping a bit of himself off, and then he'll look pretty darn silly in front of his centaur friends.

William Blake really drew Eve having full-on fruit-based snake-out make-out time and Adam being all "hello tree, hello fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, better do my butt clenches for the day, wonder what my wife's up to?"

Oakland Tribune, California, January 17, 1915

My name is Cat And I intend To make this bird My brand new friend

Folk stare at me They point and mock But I don't care I love this cock

Frank Stella Portrait of Jill as the Very Exquisite and Dangerous Black Diamond 1959 Graphite on paper

Extremely accurate portraiture. I, Jill, am indeed a very exquisite and dangerous diamond. And if you stare at me too long, your eyes may go funny.

“As if an angel dropped down from the clouds”, William Blake’s 1809 illustration to Henry IV by a certain William Shakespeare whose birthday is celebrated #onthisday in 1564 (also his death day in 1616).

See our collection of art inspired by his plays: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/shakespeare-in-art

When you've got a comfy place to recline and some decent reading material and therefore you don't give a hoot about whatever-the-fuck's meant to be happening in the rest of the picture

Carnelian stamp seal featuring a kitty, Minoan, 1900-1600 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Well done, Minoan civilization, inventing a way to put a strangely timeless cartoon kitty on all your correspondence.

Boris Vallejo

The barbarian within (1984)

This is basically the entire plot of He-Man, isn't it. Only somehow with even worse hairstyling.

Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Hawaii, May 26, 1913

My name is Poll I fuckin swear My squawks and cusses Fill the air My mistress didn't Know rude words But now she does I'm cunty bird

Taskmaster rewatch | Series 11: Deliver all the plates to Alex. 

[I.D - A stylized drawing of Mike Wozniak in Taskmaster Series 11. He’s carefully carrying a pile of plates while driving a hoverboard. End ID.]

Action!Wozniak is always welcome

A few of the many wonderful images from an early 19th-century Indian manuscript detailing hatha yoga poses. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hatha-yoga-images-from-the-joga-pradipika @britishlibrary

Ideal if you're looking for summertime fun-in-the-garden ideas that will REALLY get the neighbours talking

Feel its power.

I do not fear the duck of shame. But the goose of regret regularly gives me the heebie-jeebies.