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Delphinidin

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Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes; Hearts starve as well as bodies; Give us bread but give us roses.

where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop

THANK YOU

somebody please explain

Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.

…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle

There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.

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In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:

It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.

honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here

You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!

jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!

HANS OH MY GOD

anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit

No, I think you’re missing the real deal here

as an art historian, i think this is the best post on tumblr

Reblog this to RSVP to the Pride Month orgy.

Also, for those not sexually inclined we have a craft table and smash bros tournament.

Can we have karaoke?

Of course we can.

Ive never been to an orgy. Is there food? Should i bring a lasagna?

Please bring lasagna. I need everyone to sign up for a main dish or a side.

I can do a Cincinnati chili.

I... cinci chili? This is an orgy.

That said, got three full trays of foccacia on the rise, just waiting for the oven to finish preheating- two traditional olive oil, sea salt and rosemary, and one with balsamic, parmesan, and garlic.

YOU HAD ME AT CRAFT TABLE.

the trick to including powerful poetry in your original fiction when you are a shitass garbage poet is to write shitass garbage poetry and have one character recite it and the other go “hey that was shitass garbage poetry, what gives” and then explain that it’s beautiful in the original language spoken on Glaxbatrone 5 but because Modern Standard Oureenian doesn’t even have a concept of glaxons all the beauty is lost in translation.

me: so..... see anything interesting lately?

the many eyed creature living in my basement: YOUR LAUNDRY IN THE WASHING MACHINE. IT WAS DONE CYCLING 4 HOURS AGO

me: oh shit i forgot thanks

Just so you know… There is no “the queen”. Why? 

There are so, so many queens.

They make up half of the human population.

We call them “women”. 

And I am a loyal knight fighting for all of them. I slaughtered a dragon for women today, actually. Here’s a picture

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