Hieronymus Bosch, Detail from the Triptych of The temptations of St. Anthony

"The Kiss", a 12,000-year-old rock painting at Pedra Furada in Brazil

Often there is no more than a little plaque to reveal that, against all gynaecological probability, someone very famous was born halfway up a wall. ~ Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites (1987)

Today (28 April) would have been Terry Pratchett’s 74th birthday. The above plaque is on the wall of the Discworld Emporium.

Celebrating Terry Pratchett Day, 28th April.

we talk a lot about ohhhh what if my calling is to be the greatest mammoth hunter ever and I'm wasting my talents in the modern era but we never think about what if Thog from 30,000 BCE was the only person ever born who could get a sub-7min Donkey Kong Country any%, and he never got the chance. what about thog

taylor swift fans are so scary it's like i'm in the truman show. watching taylor swift fans talk about how she soo gets neurospicy mental illness grippy sock vacation is exactly how truman felt when his wife started advertising coffee or something to nobody in particular

We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions.

Anaïs Nin, In Favour of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

Do not go to my grave and weep you are so annoying

finding out there's a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING

look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth

— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘The Third Hour of the Night’", published c. 2017.

dating simulator where it starts normal but it slowly becomes clear that all of the romanceable characters are attempting to cover up an extremely specific murder they committed a year ago before you arrived

Neo-gothic mausoleum of Robert Karl von Lachmann-Falkenau in Jałowiec, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. Photos by abandoned_nordic.

you come to me on my scheduled hair wash day

Every few seconds we have to close our eyelids for a moment to keep our eyeballs moist and on paper that's a trivial detail in the grand scheme of our complex biology but if a fake cartoon human never blinks it bothers us so all cartoonists have to add the blinking even though it takes only a frame or two. I just think that's really interesting. If there's aliens and they make cartoons do they have anything like that? Zoblop your characters aren't gloobering, how could you forget to make them gloober, no one wants to watch stiff freaky ungloobering characters, Zoblop you need to go back to space calarts

Details from Jane Birkin's home in Jane B. par Agnès V. (1988)

you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy

“nobody likes abortion” i do. i think its awesome actually.