It’s a mini sprite me!!! One alone and the other with a Fawful plushie :3 thank you @seanhicksart 💖

seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from T1
seen from United States
seen from South Korea
seen from China

seen from Australia
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Russia
seen from Indonesia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom

seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Malaysia
seen from China
seen from T1
seen from China
seen from Australia
It’s a mini sprite me!!! One alone and the other with a Fawful plushie :3 thank you @seanhicksart 💖

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Hi Us Americans I am once more coming to you confused
My daily word game says "faff" isn't in your dictionary, so I want to know what you say instead?
In the UK, (to) faff is to spend a lot of time doing little bits and pieces of things, either to distract yourself from a bigger task or because what you're trying to achieve is tricky and possibly pointless. In a sentence:
"I wanted to get XYZ done today but I was just faffing about"
"I considered getting a waffle machine but making them yourself is a bit of a faff"
What word would you use in those sentences, if you don't use "faff"? I think procrastination is similar, but not exact. Maybe something like "busywork" but idk.
"NOW HOLD STILL."
REX VENENATUM, a gift for @darkfawful of Jolligig just seconds away from violating the Geneva Convention! Mario Bros, beware!
Posting it here too
Faffy~
You cannot escape from my Gom Jabar Malcolm

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Find a frog Friday!
Today's image is of a celebri-toad. It’s PJ of @toadschooled fame! PJ is an American toad Anaxyrus americanus. These toads are natural dirt hiders due to their camouflage, strong digging legs and years of training. Because of this, at first, you might be sprised to hear that this picture even contains a toad but if you look carefully for a few days I’m sure you’ll be able to spot her. A true master of the arts.
Submission by @toadschooled
“The concept was, pure, simple and true... it inspired me; lit a rebellious fire, yet ultimately, i learned the lesson that Goldman Proudhon and the others learned... that true freedom requires sacrifice and pain. Most human beings only think they want freedom...in truth they yearn for the bondage of social order, rigid laws, and materialism. The only freedom man really wants is the freedom to become comfortable” #JohnTeller #Anarchy #ModernDayOutlawPhilosopher #EmmaGoldman #FAFF #FilteredAsF#%kFriday #LiVE #LoVE #NEvEREvERSuRReNDeR
New Writer Favorite Artwork Fact File
To welcome our new IASblog writers, we thought it would be wonderful if they introduce themselves by sharing their favorite work as one of our “Favorite Artwork Fact Files (FAFF). Our fourth and final FAFF comes from Rachel Hiser Remmes.
What is your favorite artwork? The eleventh-century fresco program in the Basilica of Sant’Angelo in Formis in Capua, Italy, undertaken circa 1072-85/7.
...and your favorite detail? My favorite detail is the donor portrait of Abbot Desiderius in the lower register of the apse on the left-hand side. He holds a model of the church of Sant’Angelo and is curiously dressed in non-abbatial garb.
Why? My Master’s thesis focused on the reception of the fresco program during the church’s dedication ritual. Curiously enough, my visit to the space affirmed my contention that the receptive import of the frescoes cannot be experienced properly except when viewed from within the space. Even though I had spent time researching Sant’Angelo in Formis before my trip, when I stepped into the church it was as if I was seeing it for the first time. Details emerged that I had never noticed, and it was these details that prompted my thesis.
IASblog (Rachel) explains... Originally a pagan temple dedicated to Diana, the current structure at Sant’Angelo underwent several major renovations in the early Christian and medieval eras. It is tucked away on Mount Tifata in the town of Capua.
The fresco program in Sant’Angelo is one of the earliest fresco programs preserved in-situ, of which a majority is still intact. Most of the program that is visible today is from the eleventh-century campaign initiated by Abbot Desiderius of Montecassino in 1072, shortly after he finished the famous Basilica of St. Benedict’s at Montecassino. The program has gained some of its fame because of its temporal and patronal relationship to St. Benedict’s Basilica, which was devastated by an earthquake in the fourteenth century and then completely demolished in bombings during World War II. Many scholars believe Sant’Angelo to be a near identical replica of the grander Basilica of St. Benedict’s, but this is still open for debate. Regardless, Sant’Angelo preserves the architectural and spatial thought of Abbot Desiderius more fully than any other extant building.
Furthermore, the patron portrait of Abbot Desiderius himself has also initiated interest. Unlike many of the earlier patron portraits found within apsidal spaces in Rome, usually within the conch of the apse, as at SS. Cosmos and Damien, Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Santa Prassede, Abbot Desiderius is placed in the lower register at the edge of the apse and closest to the nave. Furthermore, an intercessor saint does not present him to Christ in Majesty, a common medieval iconography. His lavish dress and life-like size only enhance his prestige and intrigue as a historical figure and artistic patron.
Additionally, the church is unique because it diverges from the more typical organization of nave imagery. Unlike the nave of Old St. Peter’s or the Basilica of St. Benedict’s, both of which display both Old and New Testament imagery in the nave, Sant’Angelo’s nave is covered with New Testament scenes, while those from the Old Testament decorate the two side aisles. Unique themes emerge within the New Testament program, including the focus on the parables and an unprecedented image of St. John the Baptist.
References Cowdery, H.E.J. The Age of Abbot Desiderius: Montecassino, the Papacy, the
Normans in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.
Gunhouse, Glenn. “The Fresco Decoration of Sant’Angelo in Formis.” Dissertation, John Hopkins University, 1991.
Kessler, Herbert L. Old St. Peter’s and Church Decoration in Medieval Italy. Spoleto:Centro Italiano di studi sull’alto Medioevo, 2002.
Lipsmeyer, Elizabeth. “The Donor and His Church Model In Medieval Art form Early Christian to the Late Romanesque Period.” Dissertation, Rutgers University, 1981.
Minott, Charles. “The Iconography of the Life of Christ in the Church of Sant’Angelo.” Dissertation, Princeton University, 1967.
Thunø, Erik. The Apse Mosaic in Early Medieval Rome, Time, Network, and Repetition. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Main façade of the Basilica of Sant’Angelo in Formis, Capua.
Various views of the interior fresco program, including a view of Abbot Desiderius and Christ Pantoktrator in the main apse, Basilica of Sant’Angelo in Formis, Capua. Images courtesy of the author.