Le rêve de Pierrot / Pierrot’s Dream.
Oil on Canvas.
38 x 55.5 cm. (14.96 x 21.25 in.)
Art by Edouard Menta.(1858-1915).
on the one hand I have just had a deeply unpleasant few weeks*, but on the other I have had a lot of support from people I love. and perhaps more importantly: I have also had a lot of (early) birthday cake 🧁
* I got covid immediately before my december trip home, causing me to miss a third consecutive christmas with my family. this was immediately followed by my dad being hospitalized with heart problems, but I was still covid positive so I couldn’t even get on a goddamn train and go see him with my eyeballs. a few days later he was released and I recovered from my initial covid infection, which was immediately followed by me getting a rebound covid infection, after which my dad was hospitalized again with kidney failure.**
** I did finally make it home and was able to stay for a while thanks to the flexibility of remote work. we’re both ok for now.***
*** but I mean who even knows, right. anyway
Gold three-finger ring
Roman Syria, 3rd–4th century A.D., Late Imperial or Late Antique
This ring exemplifies a flamboyant type of costume jewelry that was especially popular in the eastern half of the Roman Empire. The three finger bands support five colorful settings, containing pearls, glass imitation gems, and a central green bead (a modern replacement).
Source: Met Museum
a few of my favs from this oddities flea market a couple weeks ago. this year I took home some real treasures including mounted beetles from red scale for both me and my dad 🪲💀🪲
Bringing you more Bad Books and Immodest Pictures, your Impure Thoughts Stockpile was getting low.
If you’re cold, they’re cold.
I have been an admirer of lady weird for years and in 2022 I finally went ahead and got myself a perfect tiny expensive spanking figurine. no regrets. except possibly one regret which is that I did not get all three.
i love john brosio paintings bc theyll be an absolute gut punch that forces you to consider your own morality like two earthlings and they will also be Big Crab
“two earthlings”, an absolutely devastating oil painting that i think about every single day
“fatigue 2”, Big Crab
I hadn’t seen the second one. You can just tell that guy is standing where his car should be. He’s too tired to worry about the crab directly, he’s just thinking about how this means he’s gotta call the insurance company and lord knows if giant crab attacks are covered. He’s looking off to the left because that’s where the bus stop is, he’s watching a bus pull up right now and thinking that while there’s a chance he could sprint for it and make it on he absolutely cannot bring himself to run right now - not from the crab, not to the bus, not for anything. Fuck the diet, though, he’s getting fast food tonight. Not like he can drive to the store now anyway.
gotta deal with capitalism and a giant crab now. hope he's got some wine in that briefcase
grounding techniques, ok 5 things i can see. I see bricks, I see mortar, I see a trowel, I see a cask of wine, I see that asshole Montresor glaring at me over the top of the wall…