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hamletthedane · 5 months ago

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Thinking about him (the soldier in Poynter’s Faithful Until Death painting watching an apocalypse unfold around him with horror in his eyes as he tries to keep himself standing beneath a doorway, based on an actual 19th century archeological find of a man in full soldier’s garb under a doorway at Pompeii)

#edward poynter #art #faithful until death #Pompeii #Do I think this man was actually ~standing guard until death~? unlikely. he probably just succumbed to the smoke early #do i think this is a devastating representation of the actual last moments of thousands of people? absolutely #it’s such a good painting

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demaparbat-hp · 2 months ago

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That infamous prison escape.

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katsigian · 10 months ago

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Changing my belief system from "this is the hill I'll die on" to "this is the hill I'll kill you on" has done absolute wonders for me 10/10 do recommend

#reject martyrdom embrace conquest #or whatever #and i do not mean only actively fighting someone #i mean even just withstanding the enemy on the hill until they decide to go home because they've realized they're beat by your sheer #willpower and devotion to the subject #misc: personal #misc: bestseller

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lylahammar · 5 months ago

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My take on unicorns! I'd really love to make a mythical creature field guide someday, since the Spiderwick Field Guide is what inspired me to start drawing in the first place 🥰

#also I actually drew this in like. March lmao #I just kept telling myself I was gonna do a full painting of them in their natural environment and then I kept putting it off #until I realized I didn't actually wanna do that 😂 maybe someday if I get a chance to make that book then I'll do it #my art #unicorn #junicorn #speculative biology #unicorn art

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ink-the-artist · 1 year ago

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Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol

#i think its cute #they took the mars rover approach #humanizing the space craft making it cute making us (me) project emotions onto it #the soviets also used imagery of laika in propaganda a lot #which is pretty fucked up imo #but if i grew up in the soviet union that shit wouldve definetly worked on me lmao #the narrative of a heroic little dog going to space and being honored by the whole country #as cruely wrong as it is its very appealing #the soviets knew what they were doing man they didnt reveal how laika really died until like. the 2000s #bc they knew people really cared about that dog #they liked the narrative around her

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choodraws · 2 months ago

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#oldie from patreon #drew the girls a year ago in a blank void #didnt know what to do w it until i pulled it out of the vault a few days ago #some things need to marinate for a long time i guess

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harocat · 3 months ago

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I have a theory about gen z and millennials, so please help me out with this poll.

Please make sure to vote as to whether you got vaccinated as a child or not, if you did not get chicken pox. Take care, spread this around, and vaccinate your fucking kids. Poll is not exclusive to any country. Vote no matter where you're from.

#poll #ps i'm not sure about every single country but the vaccine for chicken pox wasn't available to the US until 1995 #i think the earliest was 1989 in japan?#so millennials you do not have to shame your parents if you didn't get vaxxed

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foolsocracy · 6 months ago

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