It's Interesting How Rose Of Versailles Makes The Aesthetics Of The Monarchy And The Revolution Fit Together

only 70s era Tadanori Yokoo can hit the same feel as Gustave Moreau

so that I don't forget

THE LESSON OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS, OF GREEK TRAGEDY, AND ULTIMATELY, OF ALL RELIGIONS, IS THAT THERE IS AN INSTINCTIVE TENDENCY TOWARDS DIVINE INTOXICATION WHICH THE RATIONAL WORLD OF CALCULATION CANNOT BEAR.* IF YOURE LISTENING!! IF YOU EVEN CARE!!!!

*Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil

attr. Sang Schichuan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple

new Touhou game title idea

texture of ultradimensional sin

second favourite anime.

The intense way they communicate feelings is infinitely valuable

is that a Higanbana?

I like the... pixellated? look of the textures esp on the kimono

It's really hard to understand what is and isn't bodily autonomy when it comes to social pressures. Do people want to alter their bodies or are they being pressured into it... but really, there is no such thing as an authentic individual self that can make these decisions free of pressure. We are social pressure, it's part of us just like our bodies

It's a probably a distortion based on whoever stopped sending Zheng He

*Looks up* the Hongxi and Xuande emperors.

Totally a wrong narrative, really it was admirable that these emperors didn't want to go down the overseas colonization path + they never closed off the country

a while ago i heard someone say “it’s crazy to think that china used to be a world superpower, and then one of their emperors decided he hated all foreigners and completely closed the country off, and they’ve never recovered since. imagine what they could have been if not for that one man’s decision” and the thing that drives me nuts is i know a lot of chinese history and i cannot for the life of me think who this might be about

Maurice Chédel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

This picture of a 'shanty town' in Peru looks quite similar to the Barracks Settlement in Yume Nikki! Especially how it is located in a desert. This lines up with the other Peruvian references in Yume Nikki, namely the Paracas style art and the Inca motif on Madotsuki's character design.

I thought this was about Li Bai. I guess it really is commonplace.

a good poet never dies, he just oh my god he’s gone into the water, i can’t see him, i don’t think he’s coming up, does anyone have a rope or like a long branch we can throw, how does this keep happening oh my god