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Rape Escape

Easy and very effective

Requires nothing but your body

Includes attack

fuck all philosophy except for whatever the hell Diogenes was trying to teach

Studio Card - Christopher Wool, 1988

Adrienne Rich, from Poetry & Prose: Poems, Prose, Reviews and Criticism; “The Knight,” (x)

machiavelli: dude how many levels of sucking up to the medici family are you on right now

some other italian guy: idk maybe like 4 or 5 

machiavelli: you are like a little baby. watch this

Why do you love Leonardo Da Vinci so much?

LET’S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in order to get a better understanding of who leonardo was, it’s important to understand the people around him. in florence, his main influences were verrocchio (also michelangelo to a lesser extent) and the medici family, particularly lorenzo. and then in rome, he’s mostly around the borgia (cesare in particular) and machiavelli. the thing that most of these people have in common is the fact that they were all either pretty bitter, political figures, or they were literally homicidal (and then there’s michelangelo, who was just an asshole. and also verrocchio, who was alright i guess). the reason that this is important is because leonardo was the complete opposite of all of this. in fact, he was described as having: “outstanding physical beauty”, “infinite grace”, “great strength and generosity”, “regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind” by this dude vasari. leonardo was incredibly gentle and kind, he was known to buy caged birds in order to set them free, and he also was reputed to be a vegetarian b/c he didn’t want to harm animals. the fact that leonardo was surrounded by some of the most vicious players during the renaissance, and still managed to stay soft and warm makes me so !!!!!!

it’s doubly incredible when u start to learn that leonardo’s life actually kinda sucked. he had it pretty good while he was growing up, apprenticed to verrocchio and living a pretty good life, up until he was arrested in his early twenties for sodomy. the charges were dropped, but leonardo drops off the map for a few years where there is no record of his works or whereabouts. he left (got kicked out of) verrocchio’s workshop and was no longer a resident at his father’s house. he shows up again in a few years working for the medici, but his name would have been pretty tarnished in florence. he then went to milan, which were said to be the ‘happiest years of his life’ where his occupation was more or less a professional shit stirrer. he never finished any commissions and was distracted easily by other inventions. he was a talented artist, but his genius obviously lay in science. a lot of people lost their patience with him because of this but he basically ‘one-linered’ his way out of everything and people ?? still ?? loved ??? him ???? so ?? much ????? this was basically b/c he was such a nice guy!!!! he was also like, super intelligent, like unparalleled. but his issues with focusing and finishing tasks means none of his stuff got finished (a semi popular theory is that my guy had autism which is probably quite likely). another thing that kept him from finishing anything was literal human garbage: cesare borgia

leonardo was more or less enslaved to the borgia, he wasn’t paid much and he was forced to create weapons for destroying his hometown. not to mention it directly went against his pacifict nature to make shit like this. he hated war:  "and thou, man, who by these labours dost look upon the marvelous works of nature, if thou judgest it to be an atrocious act to destroy the same, reflect that it is an infinitely atrocious act to take away the life of man.” and once the borgia got rekt, leonardo couldn’t find patronship in italy, and ended up in france, missing home :):):):):):)

see, i find that ppl love to talk abt the edgy and politically badass people of history, which i am definitely not exempt from!!! (see cleopatra, akhenaten/nefertiti/tiye, machiavelli, livia) but there needs to be love for the good, the unquestionably lovely and kind people of history, who stayed gentle against all odds. leonardo had every reason to be bitter and angry about his lot in life but he wasn’t!!!! he was just wonderful and i love him A Lot.

Stop for a minute and realize you are just a 3 pound brain that’s piloting a slab of meat.

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

true

“Once you become an adult your acne will clear up!”

The Winged Victory of Samothrace, Musée du Louvre

“what’s up everybody i’m pandora and welcome to my unboxing video”

Not hiring someone because they have tattoos completely ignores the fact that they clearly have no issues with pain or commitment.

Hey tumblr people, I am fully aware how cringe self-promo is, however, I have just decided to start a blog so if you feel like it, check it out. Also, it's funny, like hella funny. And now you don't know if that's true until you've seen it, right? 

So, fun fact for all of you history dorks, but you know that legend about Cleopatra being so rich and trashy that she would drink her wine with crushed up pearls in it?

Pearls are mostly Calcium Carbonate. When they mix with acids (such as those in wine) they produce carbon dioxide like little balls of fancy alkaseltzer.

What Im saying is, call Cleopatra a trashy hoe all you want, but she was the trashy hoe who invented instant champagne. Bitch was living in 3018 while everyone else was in 18

Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

Just a little video I made for fun of some of the reasons I love this tiny guy so very much.

omg so yesterday i put a salt line on the pathway to our front door because i was fucking around and my brother was pretending to be a demon

and today we ordered pizza and the salt line was still there

and my brother went outside to sign for the pizza

and the pizzaman refused to step over the salt line, like he almost did and then he backed up and handed my bro the pizza and left; which is pretty ridiculous because it’s far from our door

so a heads up to everyone i’m pretty sure domino’s is actually run by demons??? kind of like how in men in black the post office is run by aliens

my patronus is

roomba w/ knives

you: fuck you me, an intellectual: intercourse thee

How I get my summer body:

1) Bone of the father, unwillingly given 

2) Flesh of the servant, willingly sacrificed 

3) Blood of the enemy, forcefully taken 

HARRY STYLES + GUCCI (DETAILS) ©

Humans Are Weird

So there has been a bit of “what if humans were the weird ones?” going around tumblr at the moment and Earth Day got me thinking. Earth is a wonky place, the axis tilts, the orbit wobbles, and the ground spews molten rock for goodness sakes. What if what makes humans weird is just our capacity to survive? What if all the other life bearing planets are these mild, Mediterranean climates with no seasons, no tectonic plates, and no intense weather? 

What if several species (including humans) land on a world and the humans are all “SCORE! Earth like world! Let’s get exploring before we get out competed!” And the planet starts offing the other aliens right and left, electric storms, hypothermia, tornadoes and the humans are just … there… counting seconds between flashes, having snowball fights, and just surviving. 

One thing I’ve learned in life, if you act really self-assured and confident you can pretty much get away with anything.

answer: love myself, bts