killin time tbh

rebagel if the flu shot made you gay

the worst part about reading ancient roman philosophy is that sometimes you’ll read something expressly saying that people shouldn’t do something that you do frequently and it’s like diogenes threw a plucked chicken at you from 2000 years ago

YES I WAS BORN TO HUDDLE UNDER BLANKETS YOU DON’T KNOW ME MARK

I love how you have no fucking idea of the scope and majesty you are about to witness until you realize just what KIND of whale is zooming up to the surface and how fucking FAST that thing has to be going to catch that kind of air time.

Whales are scary fast!

Look at this little baby go!

Humpback whales look all slow and majestic riiight up to the point where they decide they need to be somewhere else like, immediately

FUCK YOU FUCKING FUCK YOU FUVK WHY FUVK THIS WHY

N-

Art forgery is the best crime tbh. It requires absolutely incredible artistic talent, technical skill, and attention to detail to make convincing fakes. Does anyone get hurt from it? No! The only people who suffer for it are the extremely wealthy who want the prestige of having original paintings in their own homes. It’s full of international intrigue and mystery. Perfect.

Also… art forgers like van Meegeren sometimes become a kind of folk hero. A swindler, sure, but a gentleman’s swindler.

I liked this guy’s story, Mark Landis, who conned several dozen museums into displaying his forgeries, but when the FBI came after him they couldn’t do anything because he had always given them away as donations. They said if they could have found that he’d ever taken anything in exchange they would have prosecuted him, but all he wanted was get to out of the house and meet people.

“The first painting Landis “donated” was a copy of a work by Maynard Dixon, an artist well-known for his paintings of cowboys and Indians. It started as impulse, Landis says, but then “everybody was just so nice and treated me with respect and deference and friendship, things I was very unused to — I mean, actually not used to at all. And I got addicted to it.”” And it looks like all his forgeries are done with cheap materials, like markers and Hobby Lobby frames.

Just … the levels of con there, the fake photos and … wow. That’s incredible. 

Heroes

Also fun fact we learned in class today: Michelangelo carved a sculpture of a Roman god, broke off the arm, and then buried it. The sculpture was dug up and was considered to be an authentic Roman artefact, until Michelangelo came along with the missing arm and called shenanigans on himself, just to prove he was as skilled a sculptor as the ancient Romans.

honestly mike? chill.

YEHS U GO ARTISTS

OH MY GOOOODDDDDDD

just bought this tapeworm from etsy!

where are you gonna keep it

:)

I don’t like this post very much

one day im just gonna do it. im gonna vanish into the scottish highlands like god intended

i love that i have to go to menswear to find a shirt a human being in the world would wear and then when i do it takes me .5 seconds to find it. I love that

It took me a solid 3 minutes to process this venn diagram and I loved every second of it.

what the hell

i have some issues with my past self but she was young and i forgive her my real beef is with present me what is she doing im embarrassed to even look

Update: she fancies me

Update: She’s my girlfriend

Update: We live together

Update: We just got our first house 🏡

THIS IS THE CUTEST THING EVER