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Paintings of couples in traditional Chinese hanfu, Pt 4 (Pt 1/2/3/5) by Chinese artist loli武士. Link to artist’s weibo here.

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Fun fact! Saint Valentine was beheaded, and here is a photo of his supposed skull! (which is kept in a reliquary in rome because catholics are freaky that way)

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i lose 80% of respect for a movie the moment a female protagonist wakes up in bed with artfully tousled hair and a full face of unsmudged makeup what is that mcfuckery

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some letters to the vampire queen work in progress illustrations some fun things i'm doing for my novel

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I dunno what I am doing guys...

Part 1 / Part 2 / The comment section that started it all

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Odysseus is "There are other way"-ing Zeus This is to everyone in that comment section!

There is a part 2 now...

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why haven’t I seen anyone posting about that giant fucking baby penguin in Melbourne that’s bigger than some of the adults already

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little pumpkin thief

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We have so much trouble, don't we, accepting that bad people can create good art? And yet, as an artist myself, I should know that there's no real connection.

If I went down a horrible destructive path in life, it wouldn't stop me making art. Art is ultimately a self-absorbed pursuit, and when in the process of creation, you compartmentalise the rest of your life away and exist only in your innermost mind cupboard.

Thankfully the rest of my cupboards don't contain anything worse than being ratty and lazy about cleaning and bad at keeping in touch with people, but even if they were stuffed with skeletons, I'm quite sure I would still be able to wedge them shut while I worked - just as I could wedge my humanity and conscience into a cupboard if I chose to do something awful. And never the twain shall meet.

Artistic talent is not a moral virtue, and the quality of an artist's work is not evidence of their character. It's so hard to accept, because good art touches us through our shared humanity, and nobody wants to share humanity with a monster. But that's reality. Artists can be bad people. Don't automatically trust them just because you love their art.

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Dungeon Meshi x Edmund Blair Leighton

Art by: felixoesinghaus

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ok kids repeat after me

vinegar and bleach makes chlorine gas, which is highly toxic

ammonia and bleach makes chloramine, which is highly toxic

rubbing alcohol and bleach makes chloroform, which is highly toxic

hydrogen peroxide and vinegar makes peracetic/peroxyacetic acid, which can be highly corrosive

be careful about your cleaning products and dont get yourself injured or potentially killed ok

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Listen kids: You need to commit today's memes and slang to memory so in another twenty years, you can periodically spring them on your friends and give them flashbacks to their teenage years. Trust me on this.

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A lot of Danes I’ve talked to express guilt at “taking advantage” of our universal healthcare and I sometimes wonder if it’s based on the knowledge that it’s not a universal right everywhere? Because these people are never “taking advantage” of it. They feel sick so they go see a doctor who then tell them there’s nothing wrong and they can relax. Stress less.

I have to see the doctor every month due to other illness which I don’t feel the least bit bad about but I fell victim to this feeling too once. At one point I started feeling pain in my chest, arm and neck and got really worried I was experiencing a hart attack or blood clot. At the same time I worried I was overreacting but my housemate convinced me to call Lægevagten, which isn’t the alarm center but more like a group of on-call doctors you can call if you have questions or worries. I told her about my symptoms and suddenly she said “Are you calling from this address?” having clearly looked it up on some sort of location gps system from my phone. I confirmed and she just said “Okay, I’m sending an ambulance” and within minutes two paramedics were at my door. They decided to take me to the nearest hospital where I spent the night going through all sorts of tests, from blood work, having radiation pumped into my lungs for a CT scan and several other X-ray images.

Nothing. They found nothing.

I felt so SO bad but before I even said anything they assured me “This is good. We’d rather people come here and nothing is wrong than people not come here when something is wrong and they end up dying. Now you don’t have to stress about this”

A few days later I realized the pain came from a sliiightly dislocated rib that randomly popped back into place while I was riding my bike.

I felt so silly but my friends reminded me that I didn’t make a huge fuss about it at the time. I just told the doctor my symptoms and she set the whole thing in motion. Like the doctors said, this is what universal healthcare is for. People need to feel like they can call for help even at the slightest sign of illness so it can be caught early. This is how you keep a population healthy.

But yeah, it’s such a silly feeling. We pay taxes to have universal healthcare so there’s no reason to feel guilty about using it. We just can’t help ourselves I suppose. (Let’s not even get into the fact my doctor diagnosed me with early diabetes “just to be on the safe side” that seemed to vanish almost immediately but it still means I get free yearly vaccinations and I have very mixed feelings about it)

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The only valid thief is a magpie.

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Gortash: The need for love and trust is responsible for the downfall of many a great man. It will not be my downfall.

Dark Urge: Sweetie, I killed this guy for you, here's his head.

Gortash: Good morning, my downfall.