#solarism

[thenewolympian]

DCXLIII Ghengis Khan believed the sky was god, and so naturally, was unimpressed by holy books and temples. “God cannot fit inside these things.” Here we have a barbarian with a greater understanding of transcendence; an understanding acquired from looking Up, not down at a book with hunched shoulders.

[satyrradio]

Heliotheistic Christian cross

Made by combining the symbol of the sun (⊙) and the Christian cross (✝)

[librarycomic]

Harvey Knight's Odyssey by Nick Maandag. Drawn & Quarterly, 2023. 9781770466326. 168pp. http://www.powells.com/book/-9781770466326?partnerid=34778&p_bt

This graphic novel contains three separate strange, deadpan stories. Two of them star author and artist Nick Maandag himself.

In "The Plunge" Maandag decides to start making his own coffee at work with a French press, and the process becomes something of an event for everyone there.

"Full Day" starts with a trash machine sucking the hat right off Maandag's head as he goes to work in the morning. Thus begins a day that includes a meeting that's difficult to interpret and a random efficiency check of his work, among other bits of weirdness. Toward the end there's a lewd act (or brilliant piece of performance art, you be the judge) on a subway. (It's my favorite story and reminds me of my strangest day working at a public library.)

"Harvey Knight's Odyssey" is the longest story. It involves the religion Solarism, whose members believe humans are products of both light and dark, and that over time, through exposure to light, they can become pure beings. (They use high-powered tanning beds.) The story contains corruption, nudity, cavity searches, sunburns, spiders, and owl-eating.

Worth noting: The endpapers contain ten comic strips. And, despite the cover image, I don't remember a shark or a bird with human feet anywhere in the book, though it's full of so many odd moments that I feel like I may have overlooked both.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[ur-daily-inspiration]

Someone captured the solar eclipse on an airplane

[catchymemes]

Ohio Total Solar Eclipse

[destielgaysex]

NO OTHER PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM GETS TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES!! THE SIZE AND DISTANCE OF OUR MOON FROM EARTH AND THE SUN MAKE THE PERFECT CIRCUMSTANCES TO GET TOTALITY!!! THE EARTH AND MOON ARE SOOOO COOL AND OF COURSE OUR SUN!! I LOVE LIVING ON EARTH I LOVE YOU EARTH I LOVE YOUUUUU MOON I LOVE YOU SUN

[maculategiraffe]

nasa: we're going to shoot three rockets directly at the sun during the total eclipse. for study and research purposes.

me: oh cool

nasa: we have named the rockets apep. this stands for atmospheric perturbations [in the] eclipse path.

me: oh cool

nasa: apep is also the ancient egyptian deity of chaos and darkness, who ceaselessly seeks to extinguish the sun. we launch these rockets directly at the sun in the name of apep.

me: oh... cool?

[suddenlysomewherethatsgreen]

[sleepyyghostt]

inspired by the scariest words my dm has ever said to me and the subsequent coolest (AND SCARIEST) scene of my life

[thenewolympian]

XXI Impose joyful rigor onto the self. Take back what you have been robbed of.

[ibis-radish]

I don't have any glasses for the eclipse someone relay it to me when it happens

[mysharona1987]

[without-ado]

Total Solar Eclipse l April 2024 l U.S. & Canada

Cr. Deran Hall l Rami Ammoun(236) l GabeWasylko l REUTERS l KendallRust l Joshua Intini l Alfredo Juárez l KuzcoKhanda

[ur-daily-inspiration]