we have to make it legal for men to sit all fruity again

someday this war's gonna end

Mouse and Top Hat, by Takeuchi Seiho (1864-1942), Japan

John Walker, Numinous I, 1977-78 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135584

the copestone of small erections

For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity.

are there people who are not in physical pain like most of the time? is that real?

this album features the first tuba playing i think i've ever heard on a free jazz album, courtesy of bassist William Parker. the drumming is really incredible and super well recorded too though

"come on, take my [lit. this] hand" "oh...is that you!?" "it *is* you"

me about a delightful midnight snack of eggo waffles and welches fruit gummy pacj

2/2 Who is he, that boy with an arrow? Painted in 1505 by Giorgione.

i post from here

sometimes when i'm reading staff i am like "why are half of the notes greyed out? is this some deliberate extended notation thing?" and then i remember i am a moron with untreated astigmatism

quite fond of this record, and houben in general i think is just wonderful

morning

David Smith, Australia, 1951 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136896

That is a beautiful name. Far too beautiful a name to be found in the mouth of a contemptible worm like you. It will give me great pleasure to beat that beautiful name right out of your maggoty mouth.

The greater idiot ever scolds the lesser

new HxH chapters will save us.

Painting (Head) https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/painting-head-1927

Snow Falling in the Lane 1906 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25479

it seems like the currency that "communitarianism" had since Macintyre published After Virtue has really faded among everybody but leftcaths, and good riddance. it's amazing how many people took "return social relations to the configuration of the feudal peasantry" seriously

the solemnity with which the Supreme Court is regarded is completely impossible to take seriously if one, as a modestly intelligent person, actually reads the shit they say in those opinions

Quince, cabbage, melon, & cucumber. Precisely arranged & painted in 1600 by Juan Sanchez Cotán, born OTD in 1560.

This meisen omeshi haori features a striking pattern of circular motifs, likely representing yukiwa (snow crystal) designs, set against adynamic background that evokes flowing water or wind. 1926-1940, Japan

just realized 塊 as "katamari", meaning clump or cluster, derives from the verbal noun of 固まる ("katamaru"), primarily meaning hardening or solidification. so the idea of hardening as gaining density and solidification as accumulating support or mass have a lexico-conceptual commonality

the burden of having "interesting taste" and trying to define oneself oppositionally with regard to the Canon or canons writ large seems so exhausting. and for what? the aesthetics of the reactionary pose, of persistent adventurist rebellion against whatever swims into your ken?

Nothing more happened on the passage worthy the mentioning

Worthless Peon Friend: I deleted social media and picked up whittling You: Ayy looks like the vessel is getting filled! Other friend: W fullness

how it fucjinh feels

fake pissers would be put off by how close together these urinals are. real pissers wouldn't miss a beat

So. Many. Slivers. [Anonymous French painter, The Christian Soul accepts the Cross, c. 1630 (Museo del Prado, Madrid)]

Joseph Glasco, Man Walking, 1955 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136325

as a medium-ugly chubby gay with a huge ego and the general disposition of one of those little bitey purse dogs i have pretty much accepted that romantic love is probs not forthcoming for me in this lifetime and that's kind of just fine? i got other stuff to do man

got a tablet and it auto-installed roblox without my permission. brother i'm 26 years old i can't be doing this shit.

Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

Take this: you'll need it where you're going

It's too damn hot! 🥵 BnF MS Latin 14410; Apocalypsis cum figuris; 1275-1300 CE; Abbaye de Saint-Victor de Paris; f.19 @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Aurore https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-honore-fragonard/aurore

Diego Rivera, El Pintor en Reposo (The Painter in Repose), 1916

Here you go

everything really is terribly interesting, on the whole, and yet so many particularities arise in the course of life that are dreadfully boring