Qui Velit Ingenio Cedere

And so let us beginne.

Imagine ignoring someone so hard that they literally die never receiving your answer?

Yeah, Constantijn Sr.

A conversation that never happened

1. As Dutch Light puts it, "The practical empiricist in Christiaan found Spinoza’s tendency to abstract thinking hard to take, and their relationship remained cordial but distant”—or as we put it, Christiaan couldn’t stand any discussions about causality if dependent origination was ignored (my friends didn’t find it wheezing, can you believe that?)

I was lucky to see De Rosen’s frescos irl. In person, they are unsettling, and I’ve always wanted to recreate this feeling but failed. I can’t say that this time is a win but maybe it’s the closest to the idea.

It took me 4.5 years to realise that theōros means contemplator (and thankfully my hellenistics department can’t see this confession), and then I was only one step from finding out that Cosmotheoros and Avalokitesvara have at least one thing in common—which is mindblowingly cool naming with similar translations

Since I discovered Mercury pen in Procreate I’ve made some sketches sweet enough to be posted idk

I was ready to draw glowing lungs but god is merciful and spared us all from another Dolores Dei reference no one ever asked for

You see, it’s either tons of WIPs or me endlessly ranting about how Ethics is a ragebait whose author must’ve been on the spectrum even when you read it knowing it’s a ragebait whose author must’ve been on the spectrum (affectionately, spectrally)

The council has decided that you aren’t ethical enough

Do you think he can regulate the brightness of his halo or he can’t or he can but tells everyone he can’t (also how many times he was denied entrance in cinema halls)