hey guys can you help me find that old portrait of a girl holding a little painting of a naked dude and cracking up about it?? I want to say it’s by Rembrandt but that’s probably not right
It’s “Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image” by Gerard van Honthorst!!
It’s the best painting that exists
I don’t know about you, but I really want to know what’s written on there - wait, I found a higher res image, can anyone translate this?
also it’s kind of an amazing little vignette
Hahahaa
Okay it says “who knows my arse from behind” and I will never recover from this
OKAY— so i LOVE this painting, it’s in the St. Louis Art Museum, and on a tour i found out the story. it’s not a naked dude, at all. It’s actually a smaller depiction of her, she’s a sex worker! She’s showing off her advertising for her services. It’s a really cool historical example of sex work, and a gorgeous painting to see in person.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
This is such a wild story like holy shit dude
“let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards” 🤝 “a faggot is doing this to them”
Holy fuck I just read this whole damn article and it is G R I P P I N G. I strongly recommend giving it a read if you get a chance
So I’ve been thinking about @macdenlover ’s “levels of headcanon” chart (about how heavily a HC is influenced by canon), so I decided to make my own scale about how likely a HC is to be true (including different levels of canon) using queer cartoon characters as examples :)
I just spent an hour making this because I was bored. Enjoy.
who’s gonna tell tumblr that executive dysfunction is more than Not Doing Things?
okay
these are the executive functions. impairment of these functions is executive dysfunction
Oh.
OH
Girl, help. None of my executives are functioning
Note: These things are not on/off switches and having executive dysfunction doesn’t mean none of them are online ever. It means that at least some of them are low enough to be problems often enough that it’s impairing your ability to function overall.
For example, I tend to have serious issues with Activation, Focus, and Effort, but I’m usually good with Memory, Emotion, and Action. What that looks like is that I suck at getting started on things (good at planning, shit at follow-through), switching tasks, and staying on task (and staying alert/awake), but I have a pretty even emotional keel even when I’m frustrated, I’m not super impulsive, and when I do get into a working groove, my working memory and recall are great.
The bastards are also supposed to work in tandem with each other, so when one starts slacking off it drags everything else off-balance too.
It has been way over a decade since this happened, so some details are a little blurry, but I still have to tell this story here too:
So, my dad’s colleague was on a trip with their friends, who were a couple. Now, the wife of this couple was a huge U2 fan, and the highlight of this trip was going to a U2 concert. Later that night, after the concert, they went to a restaurant, and who do they see there at another table? Bono. The wife wants so badly to go and ask for an autograph, but in a typical Finnish fashion, she doesn’t want to be a bother because surely Bono just wants to enjoy his night and not be surrounded by fans all the time, so she doesn’t go.
Then, she notices that someone from Bono’s table gets up and goes to the men’s restroom, so she also gets up and goes to wait outside the men’s room, until the guy comes out. She then stops him and goes excuse me, I saw that you were at the same table as Bono, would it be in any way possible that you could ask for an autograph from him for me? (because apparently it is much less mortifying to bother someone else you don’t know than to bother the guy directly, I guess).
The man apparently kinda stands there for a moment, just looking at her, before he asks, sounding just a tad bit confused, if he heard her right. You want me to go and ask Bono for an autograph for you?
Yes, she says. She’s being very polite about it. If you would be so kind. That would be great.
The man says yes, sure, I’ll see what I can do about it.
They then part ways and go back to their own tables and continue the night, and some time later, they notice that Bono and the rest of the people who had been at that table have left.
Oh well, the wife thinks. No can do, maybe he just forgot or something or just didn’t want to do it. It’s okay.
They finish up their meal and ask for the bill. The waiter tells them that their meal has already been paid for, and then tells that they were left with two notes.
The waiter gives them the notes. They are both autographs. One of them says Bono.
An important writing lesson I’m taking away from Murderbot is that you don’t always have to ease your readers into the world and the characters and speculative concepts. Sometimes you can just start with the fun part where there’s a sandworm trying to eat someone and that’s fine too.
Don’t have to do a lot of world building if your main character would rather not be bothered by the rest of the world.
OK genuine question, what is Trumps obsession with Greenland??? I'm so confused as to why he's fixated on it. Canada I can sort get, they're upstairs sharing a border but why Greenland?
It’s in a pretty strategic position in the North Atlantic so it makes sense in a “If it was the 18/early 1900s” kinda way but no idea why he’s personally so fixated on it.
So… apparently, it’s because of how Mercator maps work, because he’s a fucking child.
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