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@scoutsdesk / scoutsdesk.tumblr.com

I'm Scout (he/him; 22) and I like a lot of things. My art tag is 'scout draws' and my fic tag is 'scout writes.’ On Twitter as @scoutsotherdesk

*group activities are canceled across the country, traveling is shut down, cities are quarantined, people are fist-fighting over toilet paper, entire countries are put on lock-down*

me: huh… I am once more living through a History Book Moment as I go to work, file my taxes, and do dishes about it. Wild.

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Meowth: Hey, what’s this?

Jessie: It’s a fence, genius.

Meowth: I mean what’s it doin’ here?

Jessie: What do you think its doing here?! [quietly turns to James] What’s it doing here?

James: I’d say someone doesn’t want us on their property!

Jessie: [turns back to Meowth] Obviously someone doesn’t want us on their property!

Meowth: But how come?

Jessie: Of all the dumb–! Hold on. [turns to James] How come?

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this is one of my favourite pointless chains of dialogue in the whole fucking anime. there is no reason for them to be this way

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I’m opening commissions! Again

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