I don't think I am supposed to think the Guillotine monster is supposed to look fun, but I think it looks like a Cuphead enemy. Gill O'Tean in Bastille My Beating Heart!
Illustration by George Cruikshank who is apparently the originator of a lot of old timey pictures I find amusing.
Also very important
hi im complaining about tiktok again and i know this has been said a million times but i despise how the self-censorship that got really popular on there is quickly becoming the norm. why is my podcast that i listen to that is by and for adults and swears regularly censoring the word "sex" in its episode descriptions on spotify, a platform where they dont even censor officially uploaded song titles for songs like "fuck the pain away." why are there book blurbs using "unalive" completely in earnest. why are people on twitter writing s3x. youtubers can at least handwave having to bleep terms like "heroin" bc that's specifically a youtube problem but why in an era where everyone is handwringing about how everything is Literally 1984 do people not seem to care about grown adults gleefully regressing into homestuck typing quirks and ugly babytalk
We should piss on the poor
How dare you say that reading comprehension on this site is piss poor
if The Great was on netflix, everyone would be obsessed with elle fanning and nicholas hoult playing murderous royal lovers right now
430. Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss, Antonio Canova - Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Anonymous asked:
but what is the sewing bird for?
For holding the fabric, it's like a third hand to help you while you hand sew. It clamps to the table and the bird's body and head are a big spring loaded clip that holds things. I've never used one, but it would be neat to try.
A lot of them also have pincushions.
There appears to be a decent amount of reproductions available out there!
I have one I got off Etsy and it's an absolute joy and delight. It really helps save my left hand on long straight seams, though it's not as useful for short ones.
i cannot EXPRESS how important it is to me that people used to approach making everyday little gadgets and tools, like this very simple-in-design clamp/clip combo, with the attitude of “hey why not make it a cute little bird?” it’s such a simple thing but i think the shift away from making things useful, long lasting, AND lovely is pretty significant.
today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.
but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.
the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.
The objectively funniest part of this is actually that the city that holds his remains, Ravenna, refused to give his remains back. This was a ploy from florence to have his remains moved back for the tourist money and its been ongoing for a long time. Florence had a fake tomb built in the city to trick people into visiting, and have tried to force the return of the remains.
His actual caretakers have been very steadfast in keeping them hidden, moved, or generally out of reach to respect his choice in life to never, ever, ever return to florence, even when he was first offered the chance to return. This is at this point an almost millenium long feud that florence is really, really mad about losing
Lately I'm having a lot of fun with gouache... and magic the gathering, so idk, decided to do this small project of painting all the basic lands.
I already have posted the swamp too
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