Synapses Firing

Kristin Chenoweth as Olive Snook in Pushing Daisies (2007—2009)

I dont think anything on this earth tickles me so hard as how busted white people look in the yakuza franchise

its so dhsjdjfjxjfjgk

A man who goes by his first name

A man who goes by his last name

A woman who goes by just one name

A woman who goes by many names

...and Nathan Ford sorry I can't think of a nice way to end this. Really bringing down the team aesthetic here Nate

#Grifter. Hitter. Hacker. Thief. LOSER WHO RUINS MY TUMBLR POSTS

Lara de Moor (Dutch, 1969) - Spiller (2020)

Lara de Moor (Dutch, 1969), Spiller, 2020. Oil on canvas, 145 x 175 cm.

I love you cloud eben though you have holes in your brain!!!!!!!!

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not to be a nerd but it’s so crazy how he (Bernini) really did that from cold hard stone……. truly a spectacle, truly breathtaking, an honor to behold

I think you should know he was 23 when he finished this and the ass gets a lot of attention but the hand on Persepina’s side/tummy is also exquisite

before i saw the caption I knew that HAD to be bernini.

I try not to make sweeping statements but I think there’s a case to be made for bernini as the greater sculptor there’s ever been.

here’s his bust of costanza bonarelli

here’s apollo and daphne from the front, where she’s mostly human

from the back, where she’s mostly tree

and details

this is the one art form I genuinely just cannot get my brain to accept as real. I’ve watched sped-up videos of it being done, read about it, seen in-progress marble statues and I still just can’t get it to sink in or stick. My mind doesn’t want to believe that any person has ever been able to start with a big block and break little bits off of it until it looks like a finely detailed person. At some point it has no recognizable shape and they still know where and how deep they should take a chip out of it that’ll still be the right decision 50,000 fucking chips later?!?

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa has a hidden skylight for gold rays of actual light to shine down on their expressions and clothes and clouds.

When the Middle Ages is considered to have ended in different European countries

The good news of April.

Hey this isn't my usual thing, but

This is (ordinarily) a Hollow Knight youtuber I like; I get that y'all probably give negative shits about Some Guy From Youtube but you presumably give a shit about copyright trolling and labor rights, so, to contextualize: They made a video concerning the treatment of contract workers by Valnet inc., the parent company of known dogshit SEO Mills ScreenRant and GameRant, among numerous others. Valnet are the subject of numerous individual suits, as well as a Class Action complaint in California for misclassification of workers- a practice which would allow them to avoid compliance with labor regulations

Their reward for this piece of investigation was having the video removed due to a transparently specious copyright claim, in the usual "YouTube simply cannot guzzle enough corpo smeg" manner They have made the understandable decision not to reupload the video, since three copyright strikes = a deactivated channel, a nearly irretrievable loss

Therefore, I am sharing this little incident because if there's one thing I love, it's the Streisand Effect nailing shitbirds to the wall as much as possible because they just can't fucking help themselves when it comes to abusing labor and/or power

Therefore reblogs are appreciated

I've watched the people boosting this gofundme become more and more desperate as the Rafah invasion draws near:

This baby was born during this genocide and has only ever known this genocide. If you can donate to help her family evacuate, please do.

If you were thinking about donating to any evacuation, now is the time. They don't have much left.

Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

Michelle Rodriguez as Holga in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

when i hear "found family" in relation to an ensemble of fictional characters in media there's two different things that could be happening here.

often it's what i think of as forced family, which is like "i found myself in a situation with these people" but a key part of the trope is that, like most families of origin, they're stuck with each other and can't leave without taking extreme action. voyager's "found family" is a forced family. i'm watching m*a*s*h now and it seems that way too. in both cases there's an outside constraint where you literally cannot escape these people and so grow to love them as a result, often in a codependent or unhealthy way but you are closer to them than you will ever be to anyone who did not share this experience. you would sell some of them to satan for one corn chip but god help any outsider who tries to break you up or even understand the situation. sometimes you get lucky and there's a person or two in there that you would choose to spend every day with regardless of circumstance (but would you really? can you even tell for sure??). but also it's "i will never ever speak to you again as long as i live but i'm really bored so can you give me a ride to the 7-11 first."

meanwhile chosen family is more like star trek the next generation where they are placed in this group at random but there's no hostage element to it. any one of them could request a transfer at any time, but they never will because this community and group of people have become an inseparable part of their identity. in both cases they'd saddle up and risk their lives to save each other forever at any personal cost ("not to me, not if it's you") but forced family also contains the element of "i'll fucking do it but christ alive." not every ensemble fits into one or the other but i think it's fun to distinguish as a concept.

I love petting cats so much

this is not a random post