Silver Tongue

Apr 08

humansofcolor:
“ prokopetz:
“ sarahtypeswords:
“ wetorturedsomefolks:
“ memejacker:
“ several-talking-corpses:
“ memejacker:
“ caligula had anime eyes
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wait romans painted their marble sculptures
it looks like a cheap theme park ride...

humansofcolor:

prokopetz:

sarahtypeswords:

wetorturedsomefolks:

memejacker:

several-talking-corpses:

memejacker:

caligula had anime eyes

wait romans painted their marble sculptures

it looks like a cheap theme park ride mascot

yep

here’s a statue of Augustus

and here’s a reproduction of the statue with the colors restored 

i honestly think that what we consider the height of sculpture in all of Western civilization being essentially the leftover templates of gaudy pieces of theme park shit to be evidence of the potential merit of found art

“I tried coloring it and then I ruined it”

And you know what the funniest part is? The paint didn’t just wear off over time. A bunch of asshole British historians back in the Victorian era actually went around scrubbing the remaining paint off of Greek and Roman statues - often destroying the fine details of the carving in the process - because the bright colours didn’t fit the dignified image they wished to present of the the cultures they claimed to be heirs to. This process also removed visible evidence of the fact that at least some of the statues thus stripped of paint had originally depicted non-white individuals.

Whenever you look at a Roman statue with a bare marble face, you’re looking at the face of imperialist historical revisionism.

(The missing noses on a lot of Egyptian statues are a similar deal. It’s not that the ancient Egyptians made statues with strangely fragile noses. Many Victorian archaeologists had a habit of chipping the noses off of the statues they brought back, then claiming that they’d found them that way - because with the noses intact, it was too obvious that the statues were meant to depict individuals of black African descent.)

Sorry, I keep reblogging this over and over, the last comment is unbelievable. Wow.

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It’s not a phase, Maurice

outofcontextdnd:

Ranger: I take all the free weapons.

Thief: Wow, you are so selfish.

Ranger: Says the gnome that almost sabotaged our quest to get black hair dye.

Thief: This is who I am, Maurice!!

NO JUST NO.

the-archangel-of-zeref:

unashamed-shipper:

miss-zei:

loveandlucky:

kipio:

Let me get one thing straight. 

Don’t befriend me for free art. 

Don’t befriend an artist for free art. 

DON’T befriend ANY ARTIST for FREE ART. 

NO JUST NO. 

Ok? Do I need to repeat myself? yes? 

DON’T BEFRIEND AN ARTIST FOR FREE ART!!

MAY IT BE FOR DRAWINGS

WRITINGS

COLORINGS

DON’T FUCKING DO THAT CRAP

👏👏 BEFRIEND ARTISTS BECAUSE YOU LIKE THEM AND WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH THEM NOT BECAUSE YOU WANT FREE SHIT. DON’T BE *THAT* PERSON. 👏👏

This has happened to me several times, it sucks man.

Never had this happen to me before, but if it did I’d be super angry.

Holy god no

if you befriend an artist just for art, they will know and they will spend the rest of their lives paranoid that all their friends are fake and just want art. It’s manipulative, low and will cause them a lifetime of anxiety and paranoia.

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solas-the-dreamboat:

darthlenaplant:

cosmicspacequeen:

cosmicspacequeen:

hey tell me fun facts about pirates

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this is everything i could ever want

Pirates of the Carribean WHO?

That last one was Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny and Mary Read.

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worthikids:
“this new season of scooby doo looks great
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worthikids:

this new season of scooby doo looks great

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chefpyro:

The many worlds theory means that there is a universe where tortoises have the mental capacity to understand the many worlds theory

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