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Hi, I'm Rayless. This is where I reblog. You can find some of my artwork here, but if you'd like the full barrage, please visit my daily art blog

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Old school.

#is that a taxidermied fly hunting trophy?#frog #frogger

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Once again randomly remembered this story about a couple who had a small parrot - pretty sure it was a budgie - who didn't talk but learned to communicate with people in its own way. Once it figured out that people always turn to check their phones when the notification sound comes on, it started making the text message notification sound to request human attention. The parrot also liked to follow people to the door whenever guests were leaving, and would use its wings to pantomime the motions of a person putting their coat on. A very clever, charming bird.

And every once in a while it just randomly hated some people. Not for any real reason, or even reason to suspect bad vibes, but by deciding "fuck this person in particular" for shits and giggles alone. And one time when the owners had invited a new friend to their home, the bird decided that it Did Not Like Her.

So in the middle of polite conversation, the bird - who was free to roam around the apartment at the time - hopped onto the living room coffee table, right in front of the unwanted guest. And in that moment, the owners put two and two together and understood that whatever mischief the bird had decided to do, it was now too late to stop it.

But instead of unleashing the absolute hell that even the tiniest displeased parrot could be capable of, the little budgie made its little "may I have your attention please" cell phone notification sound, and once the guest was focused on the bird, looked at her dead in the eye while doing the putting-my-coat-on wing motion.

The guest did not recognise the pantomime for what it was, but she was nonetheless delighted that the parrot would do a little wing-roll dance for her. And the host couple were at first too stunned and then too polite to tell her how impressive that gesture truly was. Their bird had shown both remarkable restraint and cleverness by using its entire vocabulary of human communication just to say

"I have an important announcement: I think you should leave."

#fortunately the bird didn't come with subtitles #bird #budgerigar #parrot

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I've started the process of documentation on the last labyrinth, which is...an undertaking.

#sculpture #minotaur #theseus #asterius #greek mythology #meta #nudity

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These interview sections with the director of The Caligula Effect, Takuya Yamanaka, are really part of why I adore the cast so much.

People constantly sand down characters they like because they cannot do no wrong, or grapple with the concept of a character they like 'doing wrong' (hence years of pointless three houses discourse).

Meanwhile, Caligula Effect 1 characters have internal prejudices. They have character flaws they need to work on or realise, they say shit that is super uncomfortable and having a traumatic past doesn't get to justify it....

#caligula really is a special series #i wish the games had more resources #the caligula effect #meta

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Sleeping Endymion, Agostino Cornacchini, 1716

#not the most relaxing way to sleep #but okay #endymion #greek mythology #sculpture #agostino cornacchini

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Dragon Bones by artist Stefan Koidl.

#gorgeous #dragon #skeleton

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Lioness head made from translucent limestone, Knossos Palace, Crete.1600-1500 BCE

#nose got booped too hard #lion #sculpture #crete

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Portrait of Urania, British School of the 19th century.

#the muse of astronomy #urania #greek mythology

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Salomé (1922)

[letterboxd | imdb]

Director: Charles Bryant & Nazimova

Cinematographer: Charles Van Enger

Performer: Nazimova

Art Director & Costume Designer: Natacha Rambova (inspired by Aubrey Beardsley's Salomé illustrations)

#i wonder how hot that thing was #salome #nazimova #fashion #costume #christianity #gif

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I love this photo. I love the cat’s position and expression, I love the textures, I love the ethereal light leaks. From my collection, no info known.

#hearing a message from on high?#cat #old photo

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Over time 90s music will get boiled down to just cheap nostalgia for boy bands. This is disgusting. How dare you erase the year where everyone was inexplicably super into Gregorian Chants

#'scuse me #gotta go put on delerium featuring sarah mclachlan #music #1990s #gregorian chant #pure moods #clip

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