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Pietro Tenerani, 1789-1869

Psyche in a Feint, 1869, marble

National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, Italy

Tuscan sculptor Pietro Tenerani captured Psyche fainting in this marble work of art… but it is not the only version of it that Tenerani represented. In fact, a purist at heart, Tenerani had so much compassion for Psyche in a Faint at the hand of Venus’ jealousy that he represented it in much of his work.

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People who say that Benítez's election was a Deus ex Machina (which it wasn't because his last minute presence at the Conclave, his courage and love of God's creation, symbolised by the turtles, make it obvious that he is the best man out of all those in the run, and this is established very early on in the movie) do not understand that Cardinals choosing a new Pope are meant to be moved by the Holy Spirit. That is what Thomas feels when he looks up at the open blasted window and hears the birds outside. In the context of the movie, Vincent Benitez *is* the Holy Spirit's choice, he is the divinely inspired choice - therefore, a part of this "choice" would never be fully rational. Most of them didn't sit down before that last voting session and planned to vote for Benítez. It happened, it came to them through the intervention of the Holy Ghost. His choice would always be part of the mystery that Thomas references in his homily.

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Werner Herzog and a fox

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everyone talks a lot about suffering and despair as it pertains to Dostoevsky’s work which is totally fair and understandable given the subject matter but I rarely see discussion of how deeply and sacredly tender the end of C&P is. I think there’s a very important lesson to be learned which is that you do not unilaterally get to decide that you are horrid beyond redemption and unworthy of love, no matter what horrible things you’ve done. Sonya and Razumikhin and Dunya do not abandon Rodya as he thinks they should and in fact they uproot their entire lives to make sure there will still be a place for him in the world when he gets out of prison. Other people have free will and they can use that free will to unconditionally love and forgive you and there’s nothing you can do about that, whether you choose to receive it or not so you may as well receive it- even if you feel unworthy. And that is like the very beginning of hope and coming back from the place of no return. Is letting yourself be loved. And letting yourself be loved—- even if you don’t feel that you deserve it—- opens the gateway to experiencing love for others yourself after a prolonged period of cutting yourself off from feeling those feelings of positive regard. It’s a stream that flows both ways. And it doesn’t change any of the horrifying facts about the past. But it makes it possible to begin to live again.

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honestly if you dont have some type of cringe-ass autism-induced deviantart-tier fetish you arent truly living life

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i think it shld be more widespread for ppl to read aloud to each other as a means of spending time together. like even just a bunch of adults sitting together reading wikipedia articles or something

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I made another thing

I did not literally make myself dizzy making this for my stuff to keep flopping

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Ok so, I'm a bit stupid and decided to paint this slightly blasphemous version of that disturbing encounter between Sansa and The Hound during the Battle of the Blackwater.

(I basically ripped off an annunciation I saw in Urbino) (yes that green stuff is supposed to be wildfire, it looks like a bunch of plants).

Here's the print!

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The Vision of Saint Catherine (1878) by Edward Burne-Jones

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Art by Laura Benson

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Merlin Hendy, Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Wuthering Heights (2015, Northern Ballet) Georgina May as Cathy and Tobias Batley as Heathcliff

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yeah

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Severance (2022) dir. Ben Stiller // Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

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Burlesque dancers, circa 1920

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Nosferatu (1979)