He Who Fights With Monsters Might Take Care Lest He Thereby Become A Monster. And If You Gaze For Long

The Wellington Daily News, Kansas, June 1, 1916

Art History Themed Asks

Renaissance: (Rebirth)  Who would you have been in another life, and why?

Classicism: (Classical) What is your favorite Greek or Roman myth and what’s it about?

Naturalism: (Representation) What song would you use to describe yourself, and why?

Mannerism: (Contortion) Do you remember your weirdest dream, what was it?

Baroque: (Drama) What’s the most dramatic show or movie you’ve ever seen?

Rococo: (Decorative) What is your favorite musical and/or ballet?

Romanticism: (Emotion) What is the most impulsive thing you’ve done, or that you want to do?

Pre-Raphaelitism: (Purity) Do you drink or do drugs regularly?

Realism: (Critique) How much of yourself are you on social media versus in real life?

Impressionism: (Sensory) What physical sensations evokes happiness in you?

Symbolism: (Spiritualism) Are you religious, and/or do you have items that bring you closer to God?

Modernism: (Experimental) Do you enjoy trying new things?

Expressionism: (Alienation) Have you ever been isolated for expressing your identity/beliefs?

Surrealism: (Irrational) What’s the most unusual way you’ve reacted to something?

TED-Ed for the curious mind.

Here are some TED videos that will give you a quick and easy breakdown of some of the most fascinating histories behind the who, what, why, when, where, and how of the world.

Why do we dream?

How do carbohydrates impact your health?

Where is sugar hiding?

Who invented dumplings?

Why is this painting a masterpiece?

What OCD really means

How to stay calm under pressure

Who am I?

Why are we so attached to things?

Where do superstitions come from?

What will happen if you didn't sleep

Where did english come from?

1993 guerrilla marquee by Jenny Holzer who fought the good fight on 42nd street ‘fore they tore it down. 

it’s so true that the greatest weapon against nihilism and existential despair is to find joy in the mundane and never stop chasing after love

Can Al pacino in a hoodie shut the fuck up and let me live?

What part of your morning routine takes the longest?

Finding the will to live.

Can’t stop thinking about how attack on titan is not a romance but how its narrative hinges upon the most devastating love stories I’ve encountered in fiction.

How Ymir and Historia cling to each other under the burden of a crown they didn’t ask for.

How Eren, the definition of an “attack” protagonist does anything and everything for Armin, who shrinks away from violence (despite having to become the embodiment of war).

How Erwin gave Levi the sky, and it is a debt that Levi knows he can never repay.

How subtly yet thoroughly they work Moblit into every scene, a step behind Hanji, cautioning them and supporting them, so that you don’t even notice him until he’s gone.

How Mikasa’s “Akerbond” to Eren goes so much further, so much deeper, because he exhibited such raw, unfettered inhumanity in the name of protecting her when she was a child, when he barely even knew her, and that is all she knows of love.

How Connie feels like he’s lost half of himself with Sasha gone.

How much Carla loved her son.

How much of an impact Marco made on Jean.

How Armin could eat Bertoldt’s love for Annie and have it latch onto his own admiration of her.

How Marlowe thought of Hitch as he was dying.

How Reiner keeps going for the kids he has to mentor.

How Falco put himself between Gabi and danger over and over again.

How violently Sasha’s family mourned but how reverent of her spirit they were to forgive her killer.

Idk man I just think for a show that started off as kids fighting giants and turned into “my war crime is worse than your war crime”, it is driven almost entirely by unique, poignant and thoroughly convincing love stories.

Morning 💖