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im gonna kill myself [remembers that suicide jokes make people uncomfortable] uhh [in valley girl voice] im like soooo totally gonna blow my brains out... [waiting for polite laughter that never comes] sorry [remembering that i apologise too much and i need to work on that] No im not

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Donnie Darko (2001) - dir. Richard Kelly

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your mama so wealthy she went on a shocking spree 100 dollar Gucci’s

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After the Misdeed (1885-90) by Jean Béraud

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Salvatore Mancini

12 Throwing a Rock, Rhode Island, 1970

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Xie Kun

Topological Cracks, 2025

Acrylic on canvas.

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Top 5 favorite museums—or top fave works of art currently?

Current fav (visual) art off the top of my head and in no particular order

Didactic scagliola panel by Franz Josef Eger and Carl Ernst Bock, 1860

The struggle for woman by Franz von Stuck, 1905

Secret by Edvard Munch, 1913

Imaginary Prisons VII by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1745-1750

Yard with lunatics by Francisco Goya, 1793-1794

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Temple Vase Japan. Edo period. 10" x 14"  A heavily cast Japanese temple flower vase. 

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Kristijonas Gurčinas - The Reap, 2025 - Oil, acrylic, and spray paint on canvas

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People are always saying this or that society has/had a completely sui generis understanding of gender and sexuality that doesn't map onto modern Western categories in the least, and when you look inside.jpg it's just

Older men in positions of power fucking younger men and boys

Lesbians who consider themselves sort of male

Desexed men (eunuchs, monks)

Transgender women

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腐朽菌      YELLOW__VITAMIN

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Ambera Wellmann (Canadian, 1982) - Two Things Are True (2022)

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put “top 5” anything in my ask and i will answer ok go

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top 5 ancient artistic cultures (not sure about phrasing. yknow like "jomon style" or "anglo saxon art")

the jade creatures of Hongshen, a late Neolithic culture of northeast China contemporaneous w the latest stages of Sredny Stog and just about all of Yamnaya. attempts to find analogues to these critters in nature have borne little fruit, not least bc the Hongshen appear to had been perfectly capable of pursuing realism in their art – when they wanted to. this article argues the creatures draw inspiration from the shape of human bone and cartillage, like so:

the rest go as follows:

2. figurines of Bronze Age Scandinavia. I just think these look really aesthetically pleasing. look at those curves! idk what to think about attempts to interpret the figurines as depicting historically attested Nordic deities. the most famous artefact to survive from the Nordic Bronze Age, the Trundholm Chariot, seems to depict a myth of only marginal significance to later Norse civilisation

3. the erotic pottery of the Moche, predecessors of the Chimor, who flourished on the coast of northwestern Peru prior to their conquest by the Inca. this post goes a little into the various theories concerning the purpose of the so-called "porn pottery" – I like Larco Hoyle's idea that the pottery (none of which appears to depict penis-in-vagina intercourse) was used by the Moche in order to teach and show methods of natural birth control. but ofc there's a direct analogue in depictions of sodomy on Greek pottery, which doesn't really seem to had served a didactic purpose

4. the Thinkers of Hamangia - not much of a "style" given that it's only these two figurines, I suppose, but these two are my favourite sculptures to come out of Neolithic Europe by far. could write a whole post about them, honestly; definitely among my favourite pieces of prehistoric art in general. afaict, the figurines are nowadays mostly interpreted as a prehistoric equivalent to Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? - I personally prefer to think of them as analogous to his Grape Harvest at Arles

5. cosmetic palettes of late Neolithic Egypt, or what is properly known as the Naqada III phase of Protodynastic Egypt. I just find them to be really pretty – and I kind of love the idea of decorating what is basically a make-up container with depictions of your country's military conquests. the most famous of these palettes is the Narmer Palette; my personal favourite is the Bull Palette, shown on the left. I'd totally use them to mix my kohl

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i think the best thing about go is it works the way people who don't play chess think chess works where you can bluff that a strategy totally works or play something so stupid that it catches your opponent off guard