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10,000 drafts and counting. I'm trying to empty my drafts this year. If I'm rebloging something from 2 years ago that's why. Feel free to msg me if you want something tagged, the cloud isn't workin rn sorry.THEY UPPED THE QUEUE AMOUNT TO 1000 SO IF IM REBLOGGING THINGS FROM MONTHS/YEARS AGO SORRY NOT SORRY
Genies can only grant wishes that are things that an ordinary person could do, just better and faster. The jinn are the creations of a divine being, and so they are part of the divine plan and cannot defy the natural order of things; a wish granted by a jinni can’t turn the day into night or the sea into yogurt, but if you wish for a temple to be built, a jinni will build it by hand, the way men do, and have it done in a day.
If you need a wish granted that defies the natural order you gotta catch a leprechaun, because no god was involved in their creation whatsoever. They just kinda showed up one day in the nineteenth century. The Aos Sí have no idea what their deal is
Hey if you ever worry that your art is too self-indulgent and weird, consider the following:
You know Franciso de Goya? Yeah that Goya. The one who painted “saturn devouring his son” and the other 13 of what are called his “black paintings”, which are dark, creepy, and while you might not know all the other ones, if you only vaguely recognise the name Goya, the first image to pop into your head is probably this one:
Unless you’ve got an art history degree. This post isn’t aimed at people with an art history degree. Anyway, those of you who aren’t into art history probably only vaguely know the story, of how he was a painter and these 14 were his private paintings, only painted for himself, not commissioned by a customer and never intended to be publicly displayed. People were shocked when they were first discovered, due to how starkly different they were from his other, more traditional and conventional paintings.
This is the part I want you to meditate on: Goya also made plenty of normal art for normal people. A whole bunch of perfectly normal paintings.
How many of those can you name?
You probably want us to say none but I remember the Naked Maja because I was looking at a book of his paintings in middle school and the other kids made fun of me for looking at naked people.
I should have figured out a way to word “no art history nerds” in a more clear, explicit way.
