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#kittens #cats

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Erika Lee Sears

#erika lee sears #paintings #art

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Not Denji and Asa getting into a Ladybug and Chat Noir situation 😭😭😭😭😭😭

#chainsaw man #chainsawman chapter 135

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#dog

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Pigeons are doves. They are rock doves, and I wonder if we began to call them that if people would hesitate to hate them, as doves have that history as messengers of peace. It is true that in my neighborhood nobody hates the mourning doves, dusky and elegant with wings that squeak as if they flap on rusty hinges. They roost on the wires like little Audrey Hepburns, while the pigeons troll the ground, tough and fat, some of them look like they should be smoking cigarettes. They look poor and banged up, like they could kick the mourning doves’ asses but are wise to the divide-and-conquer tactics we use on one another, so they coo wearily at the mourning doves and waddle forth in search of scavenged delights. What you may not know is when you call a pigeon “a rat with wings” you have given it a compliment. The only thing a rat lacks is a pair of wings to lift it, so you have named the pigeon perfectly. When you say to me, “I hate pigeons,” I want to ask you who else you hate. It makes me suspicious.

I once met a girl who was so proud to have hit such a bird on her bicycle, I swear, I thought that it was me she hit. I felt her handlebars in my stomach and now it is your job to feel it also. The pigeons are birds, they are doves. They are the nature of the city and the ones who no one loves. When people say they hate pigeons, I want to ask them if they hate themselves, too. Does it prick the well of your loathing? Do they make you feel dirty and ashamed? Are you embarrassed about how little or how much you have, for how you have had to hustle? Being dirty is not a problem for the pigeon. You can ask it, “How do you feel about having the city coating your feathers, having the streets gunked up in the crease of your eye?” and the pigeon would say, “Not a problem.” You will now stop blaming the pigeon. It is not the pigeon’s fault. The pigeon was once a dove, and then we built our filthy empire up around it, came to hate it for simply thriving in the midst our decay, came to hate it for not dying. The pigeon is your ally. They are chameleons, gray as the concrete they troll for scraps, at night they huddle and sing like cats. Their necks are glistening, iridescent as an oil-slick rainbow, they mate for life, and they fly.

Michelle Tea, Against Memoir. [emphasis mine]

#the disdain for pigeons when we brought them into cities in the first place & abandoned them when a faster postal service arrived is... #very telling i think #quotes

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when they first met laurent and nikandros's rivalry was one-sided bc laurent was just like really busy at the time with what he believed to be his impending inevitable death and whatnot. post-canon though when nikandros has warmed up to laurent it is laurent who now has beef with nikandros bc laurent's best friend is damen 100% but damen's best friend is nikandros. so you see the issue. "but damen is laurent's husband!" laurent doesn't give a shit. his best friend has another best friend who isn't laurent that shit is embarassing!! and nikandros must die about it

#he’s friendless fr😭

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god he's so fucking pathetic. what a god damn loser. (insane with lust)

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laurent is so brave bc he has the mentality of a prey animal being hunted for sport at all times and yet he behaves like cruella de vil

#laurent #captive prince #his cruelty is as vaste as his vulnerability #my boy #MY BABYBOY !

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the mere existence of the when you make love to me like that i can't think quote when damen once attempted to communicate to laurent that the night they shared was very special to him by saying the words ‘you fucked like a virgin’

#clown couple <3 #god hes so funny he rlly said laurent you suck at sex. this is proof that my feelings are genuine #damen x laurent #captive prince

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An archivist found a long forgotten 8mm film reel in an old metal box, marked "Philippines 1942". Thinking it was lost WWII footage, he sent it in to be restored/digitized. When he got the footage back, he found puppies instead (via)

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All theses cuts and he's not shirtless!? Gege let my man be a whore at least.

#jjk 226 #jujutsu kaisen 223

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When I realise that despite their respective foul mouths Laurent and Nicaise really did consider each other as brothers…

#captive prince #laurent of vere #c.s pacat

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Bye gonna kill myself it’s Bram and Aya

BSD 108 in 10 MINUTES ITS GONNA BE SKK MAKING OUT I KNOW IT TRUST ME, SOURCE :

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BSD 108 in 10 MINUTES ITS GONNA BE SKK MAKING OUT I KNOW IT TRUST ME, SOURCE :

#bsd #soukoku

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I will become an ever bigger annoyance now that I ship asaden 🙁

#chainsaw man #asa mitaka #denji #asaden

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200% Hollow Purple

#jjk 223 #gojo satoru #gojou satoru

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So, in my art history class today, my professor was talking about something that is so fuckin awesome.

These are warrior shields from the Wahgi people of Papua New Guinea. The warriors paint them with imagery meant to symbolize animals who have traits they wish to embody in battle. These depictions are intended to give the person using it the powers of what they’re depicting.

Now. Look at this Wahgi shield:

Hmm. That looks a bit different from the others.

That looks VERY different. Why, it looks like

The Phantom… American comic book character by Lee Falk. And that’s because it is.

The Wahgi people were isolated from the rest of the “modern” world until 1933. They came into contact with WWII service men who shared some aspects of western culture with the tribesmen. In particular, they showed them the comic books they read while shipped out. The Wahgi loved them. In particular, the Wahgi adored the stories of the Phantom, who wasn’t even particularly popular in its home of America.

He is so popular that the few Wahgi who can read english will read the comics out loud in the village center and hold out the pages for everyone to see, so the whole tripe can enjoy them and marvel at the Phantom’s might in battle.

They identify with the Phantom because he came from a jungle territory, like them, wore a mask to fight, like them, and came from a long line of warriors, which the Wahgi, who worshiped their ancestors, deeply respected. Further, despite not really having superpowers, the Phantom is strong, clever, and incredibly fast. He was so fast that his enemies began to believe that he was impervious to bullets and could not be killed.

Therefore, the Wahgi began painting HIM on their shields to invoke HIS abilities in battle. There are TONS of Phantom-Wahgi shields out there.

So, you might think that you’re huge comic book fan, but the Wahgi have taken their Phantom fandom to the next level and have made the Phantom a fucking talisman to carry into battle for strength.

#art