#r/accidentalrenaissance?????

[stcavalier]

[thelatecaptainpierce]

r/AccidentalRenaissance

[settlercolonialismisbad]

“As of this writing, ModCodeofConduct is also the sole moderator of:

r/ShittyLifeProTips (though ModCodeofConduct posted an open call on Thursday for new mods that has gotten some, uh, snarky responses)

r/AccidentalRenaissance (which was private as of last week after its moderators resigned)

r/oldbabies (pictures of babies with faces that look like old people)

r/BeardAdvice (according to the Reddark tracker, this community participated in the recent blackouts)

r/plumbingporn (also participated in the recent blackouts, per the Reddark tracker)

r/fordtransit (a community dedicated to Ford Transit cargo vans)”

Now, based on the Reddark tracker, the biggest subreddit still private is r/streetwear. According to Zach, who told me last week that he is also a mod of that community, it has more than 4 million subscribers. The subreddit also has a Discord.”

[thehappyloaf]

I would have crossposted this on r/accidentalrenaissance but alas, reddit has labelled me persona non grata

[ahhvernin]

Have Art block?

Go to subreddit r/AccidentalRenaissance.

Its an entire subreddit full of modern candid photos that emanate classic Renaissance art energy.

Have fun, laugh, draw, paint, or whatever you do.

[ghw-archive]

Caddo Lake

[steamedtangerine]

/u/dramabeanie on /r/AccidentalRenaissance

[phenomenologst]

Accidental Madonna. Influenced by r/accidentalrenaissance, this is the go-to sub for all art styles. Found a candid photo that looks like it could be right out of a painting from the Middle Ages, Pop Art, or even an Ice Age cave drawing? Former President Donald Trump’s legal troubles got dramatically worse Tuesday, when he was indicted on criminal charges by a federal grand jury in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Trump has now been indicted on nearly 80 felony counts and has dug himself into the deepest possible hole. berkeleybarbaryannonagenarian

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Similar: https://old.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/comments/wvr1dk/village_of_cotignac_shrouded_in_morning_mist/

John Tanner

[whateverbringsyouthroughthenight]

girl with goose

[ughquaria]

imagine not having a single bad angle wow can’t relate (x/x)

[soracities]

brief primer for the hopeless days, pt. IV

"I felt I should embrace him and tell him not to suffer; that he wasn't alone, that I was his friend and we were living on the same planet, at the same time, in the same country; that now the two of us were in the same park, on the same bench; that human beings should talk to each other, be aware of each other, and love each other; that each man who passes by offers us the chance for companionship and warmth."

Josefina Vicens, The Empty Book (tr. David Lauer)

[James Baldwin & Friends, Istanbul. ph. Sedat Pakay]

"On love: always the great gestures, or that it is incompatible with ambition and individuality. Rarely the small gestures, rarely that these make the other accomplishments possible. A work in progress. A chain of kindnesses fashioned a link at a time. Clumsy effort, but effort nonetheless."

Katie Ward, Girl Reading

Paul Eluard, “Gabriel Péri” tr. Gilbert Brown

[Two old men hand in hand rush for taking place for prayer time in the Yeni Cami mosque in Istanbul. ph. Marco Vacca]

"We find comfort only in another beauty, in others' music, in the poetry of others. Salvation lies with others, though solitude may taste like opium. Other people aren't hell if you glimpse them at dawn, when their brows are clean, rinsed by dreams."

Adam Zagajewski, “Another Beauty”, tr. Clare Cavanagh

"We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other’s opposite and complement."

Hermann Hesse, Narcissus & Goldmund

"Down the road there is an old man who sits in a chair under the porch of his front door to enjoy the sun. He is very old. In fact, he is dying. And because I know this, every time I pass him I pass the time of day with him. I tell him he is getting brown in the sun. Or he asks me about the price of the vegetables in my shopping bag – once he lived in the country – and I answer him at length and with great warmth. Why do I do this? It is a natural reaction. Soon he will die [and] I want him between now and then, and perhaps even at the moment of dying, to have good thoughts, not of me personally, but of the living, of the world he leaves. I want to give him reason for thinking the best possible thoughts."

John Berger, A Painter of Our Time

[waves of handprints dating between 7,300 BC & 700 AD, Cueva de las Manos (Cave of Hands), Santa Cruz, Argentina. ph. Pablo A. Gimenez]

“Something strange happens when people are in a small boat, something that rarely happens with people in a car or an elevator, in a train or even a boat large enough to say that you are on it instead of in it. What they experience is the sense of solitude. There are only a few thin boards keeping them from being totally engulfed by the surrounding deep sea. They are lonely, but it’s not an isolated loneliness, because they feel lonesome together, together with others in the boat. This is why a temporary bond forms between people in a small boat. They only have each other, the deep sea is frightening, and small boats are very fragile. Therefore, each one of them becomes the other’s lifebuoy. If you’re not afraid, then neither am I, so we shouldn’t scare each other, and we ought to be nice to each other as long as the water surrounds us.”

Stig Dagerman, A Moth to a Flame (Burnt Child), tr. Benjamin Mier-Cruz

["The Ride Home", submitted by slyburger13 r/AccidentalRenaissance]

"I tried to focus on something small, the smallest thing I could think of. Someone once made this pew I’m sitting on, I thought. Someone sanded the wood and varnished it. Someone carried it into the church. Someone laid the tiles on the floor, someone fitted the windows. Each brick was placed by human hands, each hinge fitted on each door, every road surface outside, every bulb in every streetlight. And even things built by machines were really built by human beings, who built the machines initially. And human beings themselves, made by other humans, struggling to create happy children and families. Me, all the clothing I wear, all the language I know. Who put me here in this church, thinking these thoughts? Other people, some I know very well and others I have never met. Am I myself, or am I them? Is this me, Frances? No, it is not me. It is the others. Do I sometimes hurt and harm myself, do I abuse the unearned cultural privilege of whiteness, do I take the labor of others for granted, have I sometimes exploited a reductive iteration of gender theory to avoid serious moral engagement, do I have a troubled relationship with my body, yes. Do I want to be free of pain and therefore demand that others also live free of pain, the pain that is mine and therefore also theirs, yes, yes.”

Sally Rooney, Conversations With Friends

[”Pale Blue Dot”: photo of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 space probe]

[anonymous, Jan. 15, 2022]

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love

"A single stranger sleeps next to me and I feel like a whole crowd has come in with him. He hasn’t said anything to me, I haven’t said anything to him, but I feel I have nothing else to say to him, nor to hide from him."

Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years (tr. Philip Ó Ceallaigh)

[tiktok @ shanrizwan]

Michael Onyebuchi Eze, Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa

[”A full bottle of wine just rolled out from under a subway seat and now these 2 strangers popped it open & are drinking it. This is peak NYC”, ph. Colleen Hagerty]

"Nobody can claim that humanity is in the process of decay without having observed the same putrid symptoms in himself. Nobody can say that humanity is evil without he himself having been part of evil deeds. There is no such thing as unshackled observation. He who lives is the life-long prisoner of humanity and contributes, willingly or unwillingly, to an increase or decrease of the human inventory of happiness and misfortune, greatness and humiliation, hope and despondence […] the fate of humanity is at stake everywhere and at all times, and the responsibility of one life for another is immeasurable."

Stig Dagerman, "Do We Have Faith in Humankind?"

[fightingrivalry]

r/accidentalrenaissance

top contender for the weirdest things I've looked reference for

[horreurscopes]

details from this beta kids 413 piece featuring r/ACCIDENTALRENAISSANCE and BLATANT NEON 90s NOSTALGIA

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ok left to right:

rose's upside down cross (shout out to rosemary's baby, and ~the spooky occult~ in general)

rose's socks featuring the two cherubs from raphael's sistina madonna (twin motif? in my rose lalonde? more likely than you think) and her tiny little light symbol anklet.

dave's old school golden days of RadioShack shopping bag

dave's back to the future nike kicks (you know, the ones with the automatic lace up system)

jade's OBSCURE PHILOSOPHY SHIRT (you won't believe what happens next... suscribe to my patreon for extremely niche references)

john's dipping dots are red, blue, green, and purple. duh.

rose did dave's nails. also stole one of his rings.

aesthetic etsy "homesick" patch, because of the old time classic: it's like i'm homestuck for a place that doesn't even exist.

viewmaster patch for extremely specific nostalgia (literally only old people will remember).

mcdonald's

me

ok, that's it -- whole lot more ramblings behind the dollar paywall. i love this piece and it was so fun to put so much creative intent and as much time as i wanted to behind it. currently i live off commission work, so my goal in promoting my patreon + print store is that it will allow me to do this kind of stuff on the regular and achieve an era of fanart + original art never before seen in the history of this blog :')

[nevver]

Accidental Renaissance (r/AccidentalRenaissance)

[evilbuildingsblog]

when r/EvilBuildings meets r/AccidentalRenaissance