the progress of a technical object is measured by the progressive convergence of functional directions between the functions of plurivalent structures.
the progress of a technical object is measured by the progressive convergence of functional directions between the functions of plurivalent structures.
I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old “the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power” route, but it’s almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.
Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren’t keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn’t one of those “well, it’s okay when we do it” deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.
It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.
It wasn’t just the hoity-toity ritual magic stuff, either. Popular media often frames a fundamental opposition between the Church and practitioners of the Old Ways™, but on the ground, any given medieval European community’s foremost practitioner of traditional folk magic was likely to be the village priest. And again, they very much were not supposed to be doing this. There were some very pointed letters going around reminding people to cut that shit out, not that we’re naming any names, Jeremy, and no, “if you invoke the saints first it’s fine” is not going to fly with the bishop.
I feel like a lot of folks in the notes are missing a critical piece of context here because they’re not clear on what the Church’s official position toward magic actually was during the Medieval period.
In brief, the idea that magic is a. real and b. Satanic was not the party line for the greater part of the Middle Ages. Obviously the particulars varied both regionally and over time, but for the most part, the official position of the Church was that there is no power but God’s and magic is fake. The Church’s principal objection to the practices of divination, spirit-binding, etc. was that they were fraudulent, not that they imperilled one’s soul. Sometimes this was even carried to the point that accusations of witchcraft would result in the accuser getting in trouble rather than the accused; after all, if your neighbour is pretending to do wizard shit, that’s fraud, but if you actually believe your neighbour is capable of wizard shit, that’s heresy!
The hardline “magic is the work of Satan” stance that most folks are thinking of when they think of magic and the Church wasn’t particularly widespread until very late in the Medieval period, and is really more characteristic of the post-Reformation era – which adds an extra layer of hilarity to the aforementioned local clergy doing wizard shit, because from the perspective of their superiors, the problem was less “oh no, our priests are consorting with Satan” and more “god fucking damn it, our priests keep scamming people with this wizard shit”.
Queer confession: IDK if i have a forcefem fetish while being straight or am repressed trans that wants the burden of decision stripped away from me by someone who's on the other side of transition.
on Zillow like. that is not a house. words have meaning. you cannot call that a house.
what’s even worse than seeing a dilapidated shack listed for $75k is seeing a glorified shopping crate with a wall to wall millennial white interior being listed for $600k like it’s a real home. girl, that isn’t even a trailer. trailers are fine. what is up with flippers getting their hands on Home Depot sheds. like, I have no problem with improvised tiny homes but to try to sell that like it is a permanent housing solution is crazy.
i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good
Can you really imagine that dorito as anything else??? I can’t
i mean like. uh. hm. uhhh. y eah. i don’t think he’s capable of anything other than a twink
are you fucks forgetting canon human bill. on this sacred dashboard
hey man i watched the show not too long ago im not ‘forgetting’ ive never heard of this in my life
canon human bill cipher. if you even care
awful
YOU ARE AWFUL, BUDDY.
i think if uray became a human he’d be a twink
well, that’s just true - ya don’t have to flatter me like that~
…c'mon. OLD?! WRINKLED!?!?!? get REAL! that’s just NOT the Uray Way™! if I was a human, I’d be young FOREVER!
I’d have a little nub for a head like you all do, but, really - that’s just the trade-off for having The Bone™s inside of me. and y'know what they say about skulls, right? they’re sick.
The old wrinkled bill is more triangular than the twink version, at least
hi if ur unaware georgia 🇬🇪 (where i live) has officially banned gay marriage, gay ‘propaganda’, gender reassignment surgery and anything ’promoting’ it. a trans model, kesaria abramidze, has been murdered as a direct consequence of this legislation. if you have a queer georgian in your life pls let them know they are loved and let this solidify why we Need pride and hope cause jesus fuck man
some of you drive me insane. i am not speaking about the usa or the state
i feel like i have the right to be very upset at the people who after reading this blatantly ignore me mentioning georgia as my country, with the flag and assume it’s the state. please educate yourself you are making yourself look deeply ignorant this is very upsetting and frustrating. fucks sake
Reminder that aroallo people exist. Stop shaming them for wanting to have sex. Adults can consent, and having sex without wanting/having a romantic relationship is okay.
i seriously cannot comprehend the sex drive that makes one exclusively horny for captain america looking movie hunks or the victorias secret angel archetype of tall underweight women with generically pretty faces in bikinis. that shit is like carbon monoxide or infrasonic noise to my libido like my sexual senses cant even clock it
I will happily delete this if I’m derailing or taking away from the original message (initially I put this in the tags, but a friend asked me to reblog as text)
If you don’t want to pursue an autism or adhd diagnosis and you have access to a doctor or therapist you can get them to write you a note attesting to a symptom of your neurodivergence (rather than naming the condition itself) and stating the need for accommodation.
It’s something my therapist told me about when we were still working in offices. I have sensory processing issues and on multiple occasions the noise in my office was so bad I broke the skin on my hand clenching my fist.
This work-around of course won’t fix structural ableism and relies on you having access to a doctor/therapist who actually gives a crap, so still might only help a couple of folks.
I hate tech that tell me media bias without transparency in how they determine bias. Personally I think if you have to use a media bias website then you lack an understanding of how to examine the world around you.
Also the idea that certain outlets are center/left/right by virtue… like that’s not true at all lol you gotta see different sources for different types of news. Like I do not trust CNN for news about Palestine or really most of the world outside of domestic US policy and European news but I still see what they say about the US. Idk it just is so odd to me that people take those media bias charts seriously.
NYT conducted one of the biggest false stories in the decade that actually helped accelerate the genocide on Palestinians and refused to retract ANYTHING about the stories despite being proven verifiable false by multiple agencies. But it’s still considered “reliable” on Palestine by the general American public. Nevermind Israel lobby groups like CAMERA that has an impact on specifically NYT to ensure Israeli talking points are pushed.
And just from a case study of Palestine coverage, you can see why I don’t think “media bias charts” should be taken seriously.
Israel have repeatedly invaded Lebanon, supporting the Phalanges and committing massacres one after the other to such a point, Ronald Reagen had to step in to tell the Settler state to fuck off, and this stupid zionist fuck can’t figure out history before Oct 7.
where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop
THANK YOU
somebody please explain
Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.
…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle
There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.
In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:
It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.
honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here
You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!
jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!
HANS OH MY GOD
anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit
No, I think you’re missing the real deal here
as an art historian, i think this is the best post on tumblr
As I understand it (as it was taught to me), this is an example of Momento Mori (Wikipedia link): “Remember that you must die:” an allegory about how, regardless of whatever worldly power or knowledge we obtain (The globe, the jewels, the rich clothing, etc.), death is ever present, and we’ll all be equal when we’re food for maggots.
It’s also a major flex for an artist to show off their skills.
(The irony is, of course, that that the painting, and the palace where it is displayed, are both examples of the wealth and power that the painting is criticizing & mocking).
where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop
THANK YOU
somebody please explain
Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.
…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle
There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.
In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:
It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.
honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here
You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!
jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!
HANS OH MY GOD
anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit
No, I think you’re missing the real deal here
as an art historian, i think this is the best post on tumblr
As I understand it (as it was taught to me), this is an example of Momento Mori (Wikipedia link): “Remember that you must die:” an allegory about how, regardless of whatever worldly power or knowledge we obtain (The globe, the jewels, the rich clothing, etc.), death is ever present, and we’ll all be equal when we’re food for maggots.
It’s also a major flex for an artist to show off their skills.
(The irony is, of course, that that the painting, and the palace where it is displayed, are both examples of the wealth and power that the painting is criticizing & mocking).
I’ve noticed at a lot of the social stuff I go to now, I’m one of the few there who doesn’t drink, and I was reminded of the smoking poll. So now I’m curious.
where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop
THANK YOU
somebody please explain
Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.
…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle
There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.
In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:
It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.
honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here
You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!
jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!
HANS OH MY GOD
anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit
No, I think you’re missing the real deal here
as an art historian, i think this is the best post on tumblr
As I understand it (as it was taught to me), this is an example of Momento Mori (Wikipedia link): “Remember that you must die:” an allegory about how, regardless of whatever worldly power or knowledge we obtain (The globe, the jewels, the rich clothing, etc.), death is ever present, and we’ll all be equal when we’re food for maggots.
It’s also a major flex for an artist to show off their skills.
(The irony is, of course, that that the painting, and the palace where it is displayed, are both examples of the wealth and power that the painting is criticizing & mocking).
