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“Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life’s fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. (+)

The cadence of the nun here is so beautiful. Inquiring, but not too boldly, lest she is found out; on edge cause she couldn’t be there but also knowing that the cardinal yaoi could only enfold in her absence. Her not knowing the details opening the imagination all the more , filling the gaps with years of intricate fantasizing about men who wouldn’t suspect her attentive gaze to be anything more than a nuns virtuous humanitas. The tantalizing bittersweet eros in wanting what she could never be a part of. eating at her, walking the tightrope of concealing and needing to know. Reaching for that apple but with the pretend nonchalance of not wanting it at all. How was it indeed, monsignore, how was it indeed

Taylor Swift is literally Elon Musk for liberal women

This post resulted in me and a mutual of several years blocking each other akcnskcmKcmxkvbclfmskv

One field that badly needs to be purged of "Great Man-ism" is architecture.

In my hometown there's a hospital that won awards for the brilliant architectural vision of the great man who designed it.

The fact that even before it opened they'd begun building the extension, because it was too small to accommodate the number of patients, and even then too small to accommodate visitors, apparently didn't matter.

Standard "visionary design"

I've worked in multiple award-winning buildings, and every one of them was a terrible work environment. Confusing internal layouts, bad HVAC, inaccessible spaces, lacking basic amenities, horrible acoustics, just bad places to work all around.

But hey, the lines of the buildings look great from the outside.

there was an award-winning building at my college that, due to its oddly-curved roof, every year, produced icicles that could kill people

I worked as an admin for 2 months at a multiple award-winning architectural firm. When I got to see a restaurant design in progress, I pointed out that the design of the bar in said restaurant would end up causing injuries to the workers. I was told that I didn't know what I was talking about.

I had left bartending to go to that job and I left that job to go back to bartending.

The fact that everyone has a story like this and yet architects are still allowed to ply their trade as if they were visionary artistic geniuses rather than glorified contractors with ideas above their station will never cease to grate my gears. Why do we, collectively, tolerate this bullshit?

Never gonna forget that episode of Grand Designs where the architect no longer wanted his name assosciated with the build because the folks who were going to live in it (and are paying to have it built...) raised the garage roof line high enough to be able to fit their regular-sized car into the garage.

I have basically been radicalized into feeling like architecture as a field is full of a lot of people who want to make really big sculptures and make other people pay for it. (There is also livable architecture. But when I look at architecture magazines, all I see are malevolent staircases that will murder you.)

I've got my story, too. Worked in a brand new school building. The architects DID ask us -- we the people who would use the building -- for input, and then ignored all of it. So the whiteboards were unuseable (we had asked for chalkboards anyway, but that got turned down) because they were placed behind screens that blocked them from the students' view and every classroom had an unlabeled panel of buttons that did different things in every room and you had to just hit them randomly to find out what they did. The reason for both of these design choices was to keep things "sleek."

And we were stuck in that building for basically ever because of how expensive it was to build so it was going to take so, so long to pay it off so we would never be able to justify the cost of a new building.

unbelievable that its 4/20 and absolutely nobody has put the objectively best rage comic on my dash yet. i have to do everything around here

runner up

this probably doesn't count as a rage comic but its up there

my message to everyone who posts queer poetry is: stop what you're doing right now and gather up all your journal entries and notes app pages and etc because you could put them to better use. become a white rapper. look up some xxxtentacion type beats on youtube. I just really really want to hear this

minotaur costumes from the lion, the witch and the wardrobe

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hamtarokratom

I had an unsavory thought that I won’t share

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inneskeeper

I’ll share mine. I want him to fuck me so deep you can see his cock pushing out of my stomach

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