people liked this phrase from tom cruise that he used in an interview: “put your manners back in”. its a twist on L. ron hubbard’s language: you have your ethics out, then correct it and “put your ethics back in”, as you can see in a definition for his use of another term below: https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f36d7f1e79a69aaa2a1d30ba0d707b700e14117ee0d60f17e6dd4d08d45eefbf.file

was listening to an “official” theology talk sometime recently and one of the guys said “most people get their theology from things like far side cartoons”. the others panelists laughed, as it’s obviously true. huge artist flex. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/faf0677abf31338db1ac75282fa48032aa8c5ce774624aafb0282b153bef2cb1.file

i’ve internally called this color, even while painting, “255 blue” my entire life https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7001f8a74c750fca1f18b7326412ac6555092c55c04e2b9a4e8f743687c7ac50.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b97d340ce5578fbe7a219fa8c61ae23515832db0a853f5f2f7c76cb6a7813c37.file

tiny man at the theology desk disappearing into the endless rows of books behind him to look up what specific heresy it is that i often picture God as an ultimate mad scientist creating and running the universe from some far off simple looking yet unfathomably complex laboratory

'the benevolent cat', arthur rackham https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e7780c99290e6174c454d37aa9b26d01108b2bc9340cae14a4761d0b802e4a59.file

a psychologist described a process he observed wherein daughters are physically close with their fathers, until they go through puberty, then the fathers physically recede - theorizing this causes the young women to associate their female physical traits with males withdrawing.

places online are now the equivalent of the avant garde coffee houses from the 1800s and early 1900s where a variety of men often spent a perplexing amount of time, either doing literally nothing or work of world historical importance

cousin is showing me photos of people who are really into early 2000s fashion, but i cant see it because thats just how people normally dress in my mind. i think this moment is as close as ive come to inhabiting multiple temporal planes at once.