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I could totally see there being an industry for euphonia wigs if she had taken off

Dressing up your Labubu but it's your home Euphonia 

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Just back away slowly because she is VERY SCARY! Ca. 1909. Source.

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@maureen-corpse

Honse Confusion (ft. blankies)

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My favourite form of humour on this site is the panneau of a banal, non-sexual, everyday circumstance acted out by traditional caricatures borrowed from popular BDSM roleplay

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500-year-old Snake Figure from Peru (Incan Empire), c. 1450-1532 CE: this fiber craft snake was made from cotton and camelid hair, and it has a total length of 86.4cm (about 34in)

This piece was crafted by shaping a cotton core into the basic form of a snake and then wrapping it in structural cords. Colorful threads were then used to create the surface pattern, producing a zig-zag design that covers most of the snake's body. Some of its facial features were also decorated with embroidery.

A double-braided rope is attached to the distal end of the snake's body, near the tip of its tail, and another rope is attached along the ventral side, where it forms a small loop just behind the snake's lower jaw. Similar features have been found in other serpentine figures from the same region/time period, suggesting that these objects may have been designed for a common purpose.

Very little is known about the original function and significance of these artifacts; they may have been created as decorative elements, costume elements, ceremonial props, toys, gifts, grave goods, or simply as pieces of artwork.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art argues that this figure might have been used as a prop during a particular Andean tradition:

In a ritual combat known as ayllar, snakes made of wool were used as projectiles. This effigy snake may have been worn around the neck—a powerful personal adornment of the paramount Inca and his allies—until it was needed as a weapon. The wearer would then grab the cord, swing the snake, and hurl it in the direction of the opponent. The heavy head would propel the figure forward. The simultaneous release of many would produce a scenario of “flying snakes” thrown at enemies.

The same custom is described in an account from a Spanish chronicler named Cristóbal de Albornoz, who referred to the tradition as "the game of the ayllus and the Amaru" ("El juego de los ayllus y el Amaru").

The image below depicts a very similar artifact from the same region/time period.

Why Indigenous Artifacts Should be Returned to Indigenous Communities.

Sources & More Info:

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Snake Ornament

Serpent Symbology: Representations of Snakes in Art

Journal de la Société des Américanistes: El Juego de los ayllus y el Amaru

Yale University Art Gallery: Votive Fiber Sculpture of an Anaconda

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im CERTAIN this has to be a typo and its supposed to say "JRPGS" but i am going to become addicted to saying "i saw this in a jpeg once" now

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Sorrow, Vardges Sureniants National Gallery of Armenia (May 17, 2025)

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my favorite thing right now is how mad the official french language people are that parts of african languages are getting mixed into french

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sees art with thick smooth line art: ah yes i want my art to look like that

sees art with sketchy thin line art: ah yes i want my art to look like that

sees lineless art: ah yes i want my art to

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hey kinda messed up that 1st degree burn is the mildest burn but 1st degree murder is the worst murder. they should have collaborated more on that one.

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Losing my mind at this van that's formatted like a fucking meme

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Reblog and put in the tags what the first fandom you ever read fanfic for was

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tonight i swore a blood oath to the minimum wage workers at my local subway

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especially because the whole reason this happened was the "life begins at conception mindset"

the woman whose embryos were frozen in 1994 didn't want to discard them or donate them to medical research since she's a conservative Christian (she had a daughter from the frozen embryos in 1995). so she just...kept them on ice until she learned about Embryo Adoption. which is what this couple did

interesting to me that the reason for this "30-year-old baby" is the logical conclusion of an anti-abortion attitude, when some anti-choice people also oppose IVF

They’re calling me every slur under the sun over on twitter for this post

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this is from the Good Place?!

not like. a 1970s horror movie?!

amazing