Jacob Lawrence : 'The 1920’s . . . The Migrants Cast Their Ballots' , from the Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence , 1974 Serigraph in seven colors plus white on domestic etching paper

The Crusader Kings crowd was having a field day with the disinheritance memes.

Woman in park, 1914 #expressionism #augustmacke

there was a deadliest warrior episode which was 'pol pot vs saddam hussein' and one of the pol pot 'experts' was a cambodian genocide survivor

how some of you post

I am mightier than the Lord of Terror; I copulate and I have power over myriads. (BDF)

i dont think people treating religion as principally a cultural and social heritage and not necessarily 'the life and the length of our days' is necessarily a bad thing, but

a great game doesnt need to ostentatiously use gameplay mechanics to tell its story, the same way that a great book may have prose which is drab and inconspicuous, a great movie can communicate things in ways other than cinematography, etc.

In The Black Marble Clock (c. 1870), Cézanne arranges a handless clock alongside objects chosen for their dramatic contrasts of light and dark. One of his masterly early still lifes, it recalls Manet in its bold touch and cool tonal drama.

some 20 year olds accused me of using a slur when i used theword 'twink.' woke has gone too far

"ontology" is the study of placing one thing on top of, or onto, another thing

How it feels to be 1/8 Alsatian

You're not rooting for the USMT because you believe it was lend credence to the policies of the Trump regime. I'm not rooting for the USMT because I believe that them winning would be a baleful omen for the midterm elections. We are not the same.

age of mythology giving a unit the information "diet: solar energy and children" is an incredible bit

important to note that judaism as a whole is not really a religion built around 'systemizers'. we had like one in the rambam and we decided never again

Houses in the Snow - 1895 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10595

I like that she's dressed like a command and conquer fmv cutscene character

both of these people are atheists lmao

The Monk, by Hans Holbein, the younger German, 1497-1543 n.d. More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/30495

Neon Genesis Evangelion 2

Study to 'War' https://www.wikiart.org/en/arnold-bocklin/study-to-war-1896

think this is a bit of a stricter binary than needs to exist. like. casablanca is propaganda and also great art. by the definition of 'trying to Do Something' with art, 'raise the red lantern' is propaganda, and its also a movie even better than casablanca.

On this Canada day, we remember our two great building styles: Haunted Hotel with the mean ghosts, or Matrix Fight Scene Gigastructure

honestly i can very easily imagine anyone who lives in europe west of prague writing this exact line

creeping sense of dread as i realize the 2010s are going to cast a cultural shadow over the next 40 years equivalent to the one the '80s cast over the previous 40

kingdom hearts shit is making its way into my recs

i feel insane but you know that the chud graphic artist who put this together did exactly this

The Sunni caliphs looking at al-Numan codifying the first sweeping Shii legal code.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJsn... i watch this video periodically, to refresh my soul

it seems like there are more and more world cups each and every year

football is the greatest sport on the planet

the thing about watching yuribait anime is you never argue with anyone calling it yuribait because they can hit you with an instant kill 'so which chapter do they kiss'. you have to be humble and pick your battles

This is one of the most Russian things I've ever heard

interesting thing i learned recently is some russian orthodox antisemites expressed an appreciation for Jews they believed were engaging in ritual murder because at least that meant acknowledgement of the mysterious and corporeal aspects of faith, better in a sense than the bloodless deists

calvinist who believes in building a big bouncy castle for everyone who isnt Elect because they need their non-hell time to be as pleasant as possible

the lesson i take from 'all about eve' is 'show dont tell' is cowards advice for people who cant write dialogue so good that the telling is more entertaining

me and another self-hating Jew talking about how vulgar and base gentile antisemitism is. you cant even trust the goyim to hate Jews as well as we do it

you noticing that im using racist innuendo is proof that you yourself are racist, see how cleverly im running rings around you

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will say 'the declaration of independence is wrong because the first line makes no sense in a world without G-d' is funny on its own because guys guess what theres a second line

4chan shitposters and Xitter users when a real Instagram Reels Commenter pulls up

ok i will be honest 'if you object just join' is giving me real 'if you have problems with israeli policy move to israel and vote for a different party' vibes

come the fuck on these things are not remotely comparable. the amount of distance in time matters.

i think GRRM does suffer from being in an age where fan wikis exist tbh

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