so it goes

Elixirs of Absence by Hisham Echafaki

Mr. Collins would be such a fan of ai. He would love it. He would have it write scripts for him to use for complimenting people. He'd ask it what to do in social situations and then when someone would tell him "I think that's a bad idea" he'd be like "my dear madam it's so good of you to be concerned but I think the highly esteemed Grok knows a little more about this than a lady like yourself" and then he'd go humiliate himself publicly.

Gertrude Abercrombie - Woman with her Shadow (1954)

The binturong unit

The ruins of Haughmond Abbey, near Shrewsbury. The breath-taking remains of a large medieval Augustinian abbey.

Nighttime view of the harbor at Petoskey, Michigan. Printed on front: "50. The harbor at Petoskey, Mich." Printed on back: "Published by Mrs. A.G. Cook, Petoskey, Mich. C.T. American Art Colored. CT Co., Chicago." Handwritten on back: "Dear Flora, We are having a swell time. It was a beautiful drive. Thank you [undecipherable]. Will see you later. We are going to Traverse Bay today. Love, Dorothy." Card is postmarked August 1932.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

“The Skating Rink” (1932) ✦ Sulho Sipilä — Light pooling against the Nordic night

John Duncan - Ladies of the Minoan Court

they should do emmys for gifs

René Magritte (1938) ꩜ Glass fragments mirror what they can’t contain

Black-figure lekythos with Heracles and Iolaus fighting the Lernaean Hydra 

Attica, Greece, c. 500 B.C.

terracotta

Walters Art Museum

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

on a similar note, working an office job has me thinking a lot abt the weird dissonance between the projected disembodied identity of the Professional and the reality of a person as like. an oozing sweating animal. like you think abt it enough and the whole building starts to feel like a lot of dogs wearing collared shirts

The Circleville Herald, Ohio, April 18, 1957

The skull of Maria Domin, c. 1823. The Charnel House a.k.a. ‘Bone House’ in St. Michael’s Chapel in Halstatt, Austria

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