#comings and goings of men

[sherbertilluminated]

What's the name of that Stan Rogers song where the guy gets into a barfight and eggshell skulls a dude and then freezes to death "38 miles up the [name of the song I can't remember for the life of me]" ?

Canol Road. I love it because it's another Stan Rogers Song where the oil industry is the bad guy. And also there's murder

[mellosghosts]

hes a little confused, but hes got the spirit 🫡

[sherbertilluminated]

I remember when I thought I was going to be a codicologist...

Typography Tuesday

We return to our facsimile of a 16th-cnetury calligraphic manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, or Model Book of Calligraphy, written in 1561/62 by Georg Bocskay, the Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and illuminated 30 years later by Flemish painter Joris Hoefnagel for the grandson of Ferdinand I, Emperor Rudolph II. The manuscript was produced by Bocskay in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him. To complement and augment Bocskay's calligraphy, Hoefnagel added fruit, flowers, and insects to nearly every page, composing them so as to enhance the unity and balance of the page’s design. Although the two never met, the manuscript has an uncanny quality of collaboration about it.

Our facsimile was the first facsimile produced from the collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It was printed in Lausanne, Switzerland by Imprimeries Reunies and published by Christopher Hudson in 1992. 

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[gongyussy]

j… jesus oppa ;____;

[call-me-pup2]

Watched a video of someone making a guy cum six times in a row with little to no time in between and honestly that's how I'm trying to be with someone

[anotherlikeyou]

Ah shit, here we go again

[wellnoe]

first and favorite

[id in ALT]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

All he knows is flirt with men and lie.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

ANTAGONIST FIDDLEFORD❗️⁉️❗️❗️💥💥💥 FUCK SHIT UP BABYGIRL, I BELIEVE WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND WRONGS <33

30 years ago, during Ford and Bill's fallout; instead of threatening to steal Ford's eyeballs, Bill just goes ahead and steals Fiddleford's! Which then further leads to Fiddleford parting ways with Ford as his research assistant.

In my perfect world, where my AU is a 40-episode fully animated show; this episode would reveal the seemingly unsuspecting Old Man Mcgucket as the leader of a powerful secret cult of memory erasure. Mcgucket, believing Ford to still be under the influence of "the demon that stares," kidnaps him and attempts to "exorcise"/erase the so-called demon out of Ford's brain.

However, with the metal plate bolted into Ford's skull not only keeping out demons such as Bill, but also keeping them in; Bill is forced to instead take over Ford's body with nowhere else to go. Together with the twins who've come to rescue their Grunkle Ford, they frantically run from a hoard of cultists and their terrifying leader.

The twins discover that their Grunkle Ford's past goes much deeper than they had originally anticipated, and that their Uncle Bill isn't who they think he is....

[vampiresinthedaylight]

drawing w this post on loop in my mind

[lucabyte]

siffrin starts the game with oddly empty pockets for a rogue who has a habit of stashing away every little trinket that isn't nailed down

and a hardy pocketwatch is an indispensable tool for oceanic navigation

[sherbertilluminated]

Thinking about the death of Mendelssohn again because I get to do a presentation on the Pantheism Controversy for class. And. It's just so meaningful.

I'm pretty consistent in my conviction that Mendelssohn and Lessing were the only two straight men in the Aufklärung. But one of the reasons they wrote so beautifully about the Power of Friendship is because they had experienced it firsthand with each other. According to Altmann, Mendelssohn was responsible for Lessing's philosophical/rhetorical development. And Lessing helped Mendelssohn find the platform (and the confidence) to share his writing with the public. Neither is entirely conventional in their beliefs—Lessing was an ex-PK who rejected organized religion altogether and Mendelssohn spent his teenage years concealing his shameful double life of Reading German Books from the community leaders upon whom his life and safety depended. Both men *got* each other, and although they drifted apart as they aged, each knew they could depend on the other to accept him when he was pushed aside by 18th-century Prussian society's demands for obedience and conformity.

So when Lessing is posthumously, publicly accused of Spinozism, Mendelssohn knows he needs to stand up for the friend who can no longer defend himself in print. He runs himself ragged writing polemic—a style Lessing preferred in his youth—and on the last day of 1785 gets horribly sick delivering it to the press. While he had suffered from various physical/immune disabilities since his youth, Knobloch claims that the stress and exposure of this final delivery is what killed him.

Lessing and Mendelssohn entered the public sphere together, and they left it together: Lessing's last great work, Nathan the Wise, is often read as being inspired by Mendelssohn*, while Mendelssohn’s final writing is literally called "to Lessing's Friends." And while the 18th century produced some fascinating romantic entanglements—Voltaire and du Châtelet, Voltaire and F2, Gleim and Kleist and Karsch, Goethe and Schiller (?) etc, I cannot name anyone but Herr Moses who died in defense of the people they loved.

[inkskinned]

love when men cry about body hair bc "it's hygiene" and yet 15% of cis men leave the bathroom without washing their hands at all and an additional 35% only just wet their hands without using soap. that is nearly half of all men. that means statistically you have probably shaken hands with or been in direct contact with one of these people.

love when men say that women "only want money" when it turns out that even in equal-earning homes, women are actually adding caregiver burdens and housework from previous years, whereas men have been expanding leisure time and hobbies. in equal-earning households, men spend an average of 3.5 hours extra in leisure time per week, which is 182 hours per year - a little over a week of paid vacation time that the other partner does not receive. kinda sounds like he wants her money.

love that men have decided women are frail and weak and annoying when we scream in surprise but it turns out it's actually women who are more reliable in an emergency because men need to be convinced to actually take action and respond to the threat. like, actually, for-real: men experience such a strong sense of pride about their pre-supposed abilities that it gets them and their families killed. they are so used to dismissing women that it literally kills them.

love it. told my father this and he said there's lies, damned lies, and statistics. a year ago i tried to get him to evacuate the house during a flash flood. he ignored me and got injured. he has told me, laughing, that he never washes his hands. he has said in the last week that women are just happier when we're cooking or cleaning.

maybe i'm overly nostalgic. but it didn't used to feel so fucking bleak. it used to feel like at least a little shameful to consider women to be sheep. it just feels like the earth is round and we are still having conversations about it being flat - except these conversations are about the most obvious forms of patriarchy. like, we know about this stuff. we've known since well before the 50's.

recently andrew tate tried to justify cheating on his partner as being the "male prerogative." i don't know what the prerogative for the rest of us would be. just sitting at home, watching the slow erosion of our humanity.

[tk-duveraun]

PIDW future AU -

SY is born into the modern world, only its time having passed from PIDW canon. Demons still live dude by side with humans, but it's all terribly mundane.

And the population increase means that even though the percentage of cultivators is any the same, there's a lot less spiritual energy to go around so Foundation Establishment is seen as the "peak" and Golden Core Cultivators might as well be gods.

LBH is still the emperor in name, but he's long since fucked off or home into hibernation or something. Few people believe he's both real and still in this world.

SY's family pay more than average respects to the emperor (they're wealthy and would like to stay that way thank you!) but SY personally doesn't see the point. LBH is a dead beat at this point

He's still a recluse NEET, still gets way too invested in weird webnovels, still has a one way feud with Airplane Shooting Towards the sky, whose latest disaster is a fictional retelling of LBH's backstory so bad and tawdry he better hope the emperor is gone for good

But then one day in the capital, the State museum announces the opening of the Beloved exhibit. What is it? Well, recent excavations of one of the many abandoned imperial palaces found a staggering collection of paintings, statues and other artifacts depicting or relating to a single figure, with the only title being the ancient imperial word for beloved.

SY doesn't super care, the emperor had countless wives over the years and while the museum announcement says they don't know the identity of Beloved, it's confirmed not one of the big 3.

A Liu Mingyan exhibit might tempt him, but this is nothing of interest.

...

Until his phone starts blowing up.

Occasionally he's cameo'd in his little sister's influencer videos and HER feed has blown up because apparently Beloved is a dead ringer for SY.

She begs him to go to the exhibit with her. With their family's money, she's already gotten special permission to film in the exhibit hall! Please!

So SY finds himself standing in front of a larger than life painting of...

No one notices the long-haired demon man sitting on the bench in the middle of the exhibit hall, who had been staring at the painting, switch his gaze to SY.

"Caught you, Shizun"

[sherbertilluminated]

The other day my classmates and I were on an excursion with a prof. who had changed her name for marriage reasons. So we were complimenting her on how she chose her name, and someone asked what we would chose for our last names if not the ones we'd been given.

I have surnames that go with my Boyname (mother's Lastname) and my Girlname (father's Lastname) and I like both sets but there was this phenomenon in the 19th century where Central and Eastern European bureaucracies wanted to record Jewish subjects for taxation/draft purposes, which resulted in the creation of a lot of Ashkenazi patronymic/locative/professional/attributive surnames today.

When people were given a choice, which was not always the case, a not-insignificant number of people chose the surname Lessing. Maybe because they had read/seen/heard of Nathan the Wise and thought association with the playwright might recreate that ideal of tolerant, nonviolent coexistance. Maybe they lived near the woods in a Slavic-language community. Or maybe they thought the name was badass.

But Lessing goes with my Girlname and Boyname and I've spent enough time being weird about him that I think I could take that on.

What I'm saying is. In short. If you take Gotthold we could go halvsies on the whole name.

If i pay 40 euros for a new name and gender maybe i should give myself at least one (1) badass name like fucking Gotthold.. Im not religious but Gotthold goes hard

[the-last-butter]

HC they first met a year or two after Yelan got her vision; post fighting the in abyss but when Kaeya was still navigating his identity from Kaeya, Brother and Right hand of Diluc Ragnvindr to Kaeya Alberich, Cavalry Captain and Quarter master of the Knights of Favonius.