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INTRO POST!!

⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ she/her | vietnamese | hellenic polytheist | minor

INTERESTS & FANDOMS

sherlock holmes, epic the musical, hamilton, stanger things, yaelokre, arcane, dungeons and dragons, house md, omori, percy jackson, greek myth, harry potter/marauders, liana flores, my chemical romance, the beatles, dead poets society, lotr (or just jrr tolkien in general), classic lit, etc

HOBBIES

reading, writing, watching movies, sewing, bookbinding, playing the guitar (and violin every once in a blue moon), singing, drawing, playing badminton

(there's probably more but i don't remember them rn)

i mainly reblog from other people and sometimes post rants about my day under the tag #yippity yap (my brain came up with it at 2am okay)

asks and dms are always welcomed! unless you're a trump supporter. seriously, why?

have a good day/night! thanks for checking out my silly little blog :)

last updated: march 16th 2025

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Reblogged totallysilvergirl
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Meet the Mona Lisa of the Prado, the earliest known copy of Da Vinci’s best portrait. Similarity in the undersketch of the painting indicates that this was very likely painted concurrently with the original Mona Lisa, by a student of Da Vinci.

There is much controversy in the art world over the question of whether or not to clean the fragile Mona Lisa, but her sister has been restored and some fairly odd later alterations removed to show the original vibrant colors and lighting. Some details, such as the sheerness of her shawl and the pattern on the neckline of her dress, have become utterly obscured in the original, but in the restored copy they’re perfectly clear.

It blows my mind a little bit to look at these two sisters side-by-side and imagine how much vivid detail could be hiding in the Mona Lisa under 500 years of rotten varnish. 

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theatre-whovian

THE COPY HAS EYEBROWS

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lalaland1212

Your response to a beautiful piece of artwork done by Leonardo Da Vinci himself is “SHES GOT EYEBROWS”. Alright. All intelligent life has been lost.

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vastderp

Yo Snooty McSnotwhine, the Mona Lisa’s vanished eyebrows have been the subject of debate and analysis in the art expert community for hundreds of years, long before your parents squirted water at each other from across the clown car and then honked their bicycle horns to indicate they really wanted to make a smug, insufferable little clown baby together. 

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this continues to be the best reply to a criticizing comment on this site

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Reblogged neil-perrys-suicidal-tendencies
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colestyle-deactivated20231123

sending people wikipedia articles is my favorite form of humor. one time a long time friend of mine asked why i was using a different name and acting different i sent him the wikipedia page for DID. ryder just asked me why its 108 degrees in nevada right now and i sent him the wikipedia page for global warming and the season of summer.

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colestyle-deactivated20231123

i see you all in the tags going "this is so funny" you better not steal my fucking bit. im copyrighting this joke

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colestyle-deactivated20231123

you cant do this to me

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Reblogged neil-perrys-suicidal-tendencies
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everytime I remember that lesbian couple that have a marble statue of the two of them embracing and sleeping on a bed together over where their graves will be because the artists didn’t believe they would be able to be married before they died, so what they couldn’t have in life they could have in death, I fucking breakdown

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memorial to a marriage; patricia cronin

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“on july 24th, 2011- the first day that same sex marriage was legal in new york state, particia cronin and deborah kass got married. that same year the marble ‘memorial to a marriage’ was replaced with a bronze version. rainwater pools in the space between their two sculpted bodies, and falling leaves catch on the metal in the autumn. the two women sleep peacefully through snow and ice, and the scorching days of summer. over time the hands of cemetery visitors will wear down the bronze, burnishing it into a smooth shine. one day this will mark the final resting place of the two women. and someday people will have to remember that there was a time, long ago, when this was a memorial to a marriage that two women never thought they’d have.” 

- Caitlin Doughty, on the Death in the Afternoon podcast

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damnedifyoudeeohh

For those curious:

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Here’s the real-life couple in 2019 💖

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happy 20th anniversary (nov 3, 2002) to patricia cronin’s marble sculpture that furthered art, advocacy, and lesbian breakdowns everywhere

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