Mid-Morning Art Thread

Fairy dream
Theodor Severin Kittelsen

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Do fairies dream of chicks?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:30 AM (ExV1e)

2 Too much melatonin.

Posted by: Tuna at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (lJ0H4)

3 Is she catching him in mosquito netting?

Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (Dd38x)

4 Why did my comment disappear?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (ExV1e)

5 And now it's back.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (ExV1e)

6
A dog would have caught that minx. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (O0L8i)

7 The fairy has no boobs and looks like a little kid.

No likey.

Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

8 Oh, one of those dreams.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 28, 2026 09:32 AM (ibDUx)

9 She looks a little young

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 28, 2026 09:32 AM (MjgAv)

10 Tinkerbell is nekkid.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 09:32 AM (+mpku)

11 "Theodor Severin Kittelsen (27 April 1857 – 21 January 1914) was a Norwegian artist. He is one of the most popular artists in Norway. Kittelsen became famous for his nature paintings, as well as for his illustrations of fairy tales and legends, especially of trolls."

Posted by: Tuna at July 28, 2026 09:33 AM (lJ0H4)

12 Freaks and Hairies,
Dykes and fairies...

Posted by: Ten Years After at July 28, 2026 09:33 AM (JM9I6)

13 The fairy was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at July 28, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

14 Is it harvest season already?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 09:34 AM (ndZc7)

15 And that fairy's name is Socialism.

Posted by: davidt at July 28, 2026 09:34 AM (Q+gd/)

16 The original Grimm’s Fairy Tales are scary af.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 28, 2026 09:34 AM (/NJmz)

17 Alterante title:

"Chasing Nekkid Sky Ladies Never Ends Well"

Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 09:34 AM (iJfKG)

18 Is she catching him in mosquito netting?
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (Dd38x)

I think she's trying to slow him down.

Posted by: dantesed at July 28, 2026 09:35 AM (Oy/m2)

19 He is supposed to be struggling, but it looks like a fake struggle - like “oh please, naked beautiful fairy, don’t kidnap me! Especially don’t take me to your lair where we….”

Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:35 AM (Dd38x)

20 It is wonderful that CBD has returned to the fertile trough of Scandi Mental Illness Art. I approve!

Posted by: Jens Jenssen at July 28, 2026 09:35 AM (JM9I6)

21 Weird…. For some reason it makes me think of CS Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew…. The boy is Digory and the fairy is Jadis

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 09:35 AM (+gA9j)

22 Carnal knowledge with a minor.

Posted by: Atticus Finch at July 28, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)

23 Sweet dreams are made of cheese...

Posted by: Don't Give Edam! at July 28, 2026 09:36 AM (JM9I6)

24 A lot more interesting than my dreams, I'll tell ya.

"Theodor Severin Kittelsen (27 April 1857 – 21 January 1914) was a Norwegian artist. He is one of the most popular artists in Norway. Kittelsen became famous for his nature paintings, as well as for his illustrations of fairy tales and legends, especially of trolls."
Posted by: Tuna at July 28, 2026

***
I'd much rather see this than a painting of a nekkid troll.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

25 16 they were designed to keep your kids in bed.
long lankin?

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:37 AM (Bep7s)

26 It's whimsical, yet creepy.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2026 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

27 She has a mature face. Not a kid fairy.

Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:37 AM (Dd38x)

28 She is almost undetailed, as if lacking features, while the guy's suit and the grass around him are well rendered.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2026 09:37 AM (wzUl9)

29 he doesn't look paki.

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:38 AM (Bep7s)

30 Nice painting almost ruined by terrible rendering of bro’s jacket pocket. Looks like an incongruent eye sticking out and drawing your eye to where it shouldn’t be.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 28, 2026 09:38 AM (771KI)

31 Morning wood?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 09:39 AM (jehhT)

32 Alternate title:

"In 1962, Marvel's Nekkid SpiderGirl Failed After Three Issues Following Condemnation By Boston's AntiNekkid League"

Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 09:39 AM (iJfKG)

33 alterante.

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:39 AM (Bep7s)

34 All affluent countries have negative birth rates from all the Fairy chasing.

Posted by: Ramrod Lounge at July 28, 2026 09:39 AM (JM9I6)

35 It's a fairytale about chasing fairy tail.

Posted by: SWIDT? at July 28, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

36 Sweet dreams are made of cheese...
Posted by: Don't Give Edam! at July 28, 2026 09:36 AM

Who am I to dis a brie?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c)

37 27 well that makes it ok then.

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:41 AM (Bep7s)

38 Come, feel my hydrangeas!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 28, 2026 09:41 AM (w9Wax)

39 It's like looking into a young Joe Biden's brain. Before it turned into a sponge.

Posted by: PabloD at July 28, 2026 09:41 AM (OygQN)

40 I don't very much care for this piece

Posted by: Otto Penn at July 28, 2026 09:41 AM (JHVDg)

41 Was King Kong real?

No, he was just a Faywray tale.

Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

42 This could be representative of the backstage area at a disney studio.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 28, 2026 09:42 AM (3oLiU)

43 lol RMBS!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 28, 2026 09:42 AM (ibDUx)

44 alterante.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:39 AM (Bep7s)

That's...uh...the Italian spelling like Spumante!

Yeah...

Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (iJfKG)

45 "An Incongruent Eye" was one of my favorite Nancy Drew books!

Posted by: My twelve year old self at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

46 Not what I think of when a woodland nymph is mentioned.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (wVcYX)

47 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (2YhKe)

48 "Your wife, zee little girl.....How much for zee women?!?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (2YhKe)

49 This could be representative of the backstage area at a disney studio.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

No couch.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (+mpku)

50 How much LSD was consumed here?

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (4g5V+)

51 Dude ate a shroom, didn't he.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2026 09:43 AM (vDZgA)

52 "...and let me tell you 'bout phaedra..."

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (Bep7s)

53 Who is catching whom in the little scene?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (Fh5di)

54
Who am I to dis a brie?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c)

I cheddar the world and feta cheese…

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (4g5V+)

55 A 20 year old male lurching after a 13 year old girl........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (2YhKe)

56 it's over, he's got her calf.

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (Bep7s)

57 Originally titled "Arnold And The Maid", but lawsuits.

Posted by: Sex And The Help at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (e2lsi)

58 Sweet dreams are made of cheese...
Posted by: Don't Give Edam! at July 28, 2026 09:36 AM

Who am I to dis a brie?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c)

Cheese it! It's the pun police!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (wVcYX)

59 I guess we are fetad to endure cheese puns.

Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

60 44 asti spumante!

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:45 AM (Bep7s)

61 Keep Calm and Fairy On.

Posted by: The UK version at July 28, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)

62 Hmmmmm

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2026 09:45 AM (ZZsBy)

63
Who am I to dis a brie?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c)

IT'S NOT MY FAULT!!!!!

Posted by: Brie Larson at July 28, 2026 09:46 AM (2YhKe)

64 Rapunzel? Dat you?

Posted by: Man in Painting at July 28, 2026 09:47 AM (wVcYX)

65 58 Sweet dreams are made of cheese...
Posted by: Don't Give Edam! at July 28, 2026 09:36 AM

Who am I to dis a brie?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c

I traveled the world looking for feta

Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:48 AM (hftzA)

66 the puddlegum bush... and the other one. sheesh what a tease.

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:48 AM (Bep7s)

67 Greetings from Doolin!

Posted by: Mick at July 28, 2026 09:48 AM (nPUv/)

68 58 Sweet dreams are made of cheese...
Posted by: Don't Give Edam! at July 28, 2026 09:36 AM

Who am I to dis a brie?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c)

Cheese it! It's the pun police!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2026 09:44 AM (wVcYX)

::: puffs face with cheesy smile :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2026 09:48 AM (l3cgK)

69 Who am I to dis a brie?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c)

IT'S NOT MY FAULT!!!!!
Posted by: Brie Larson at July 28, 2026 09:46 AM (2YhKe)

Now, Brie. Nobody blames you for having no Butterkase!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 09:48 AM (iJfKG)

70 These cheese puns are no gouda.

Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

71 65 and then i jumped out, onion roll!
i found no love, no love in korea!

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:49 AM (Bep7s)

72 ham banner

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:51 AM (Bep7s)

73 Morning all! For those who skipped the ONT, I'm requesting prayers for my interview in about 90 minutes. Second-stage for a job I really need and want.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 09:51 AM (aJQbY)

74 And to post something on topic, the guy's suit is surprisely modern-looking. I guess suits haven't changed much in 125 years?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 09:52 AM (aJQbY)

75 I can always tell when I’m in the vicinity of cheese.

‘Cause I’ve got ched-dar:

Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

76 Sweet dreams are made of cheese...
Posted by: Don't Give Edam!

Who am I to dis a brie?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I traveled the world looking for feta
Posted by: Piper

Everybody's looking for mozz string.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 28, 2026 09:52 AM (Fh5di)

77 Fairy dust: it’s snow ordinary thing.

Posted by: Oh, no... at July 28, 2026 09:53 AM (2Ez/1)

78 one hundred!

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:53 AM (Bep7s)

79 74 Prayer up, RD.

Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

80 Cheese Gromit!

Posted by: Wallace at July 28, 2026 09:53 AM (skR0U)

81 73. Done!

Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:54 AM (hftzA)

82 "wensleydale"

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:54 AM (Bep7s)

83 He is supposed to be struggling, but it looks like a fake struggle - like “oh please, naked beautiful fairy, don’t kidnap me! Especially don’t take me to your lair where we….”
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:35 AM (Dd38x)

He's just stoic, facing his hardships without letting his distress show.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:55 AM (ExV1e)

84 These cheese puns are no gouda.
You're going soft

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 28, 2026 09:55 AM (MjgAv)

85 No whey would I hang this.

Posted by: The Lonely Cheesemonger at July 28, 2026 09:55 AM (JM9I6)

86 [frantic desperation] The pod people are here! They're here already! You're next! You're next, You're next...!

Posted by: Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles J. Bennell (1956) at July 28, 2026 09:55 AM (wVcYX)

87 Howdy.

Well, that's different. The pastel colors certainly add to the fairy feel. Horndog guy could improve his approach.

And she could turn slightly so we can get some boobie credits for this week's art threads.

Posted by: mindful webworker - life's been fairy fairy good to me at July 28, 2026 09:55 AM (cvo3J)

88 "the cats eaten it"

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:55 AM (Bep7s)

89 The cheese puns… groan-alone

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2026 09:56 AM (yz/88)

90 Sweet dreams are made of cheese...
Posted by: Don't Give Edam! at July 28, 2026 09:36 AM

Who am I to dis a brie?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:40 AM (kgE5c

I traveled the world looking for feta
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 09:48 AM (hftzA)

ACK! Stick to ghosting.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:56 AM (2YhKe)

91 I like some of his other nature paintings better, including one of a red breasted bird in a snowy landscape but the purple and blue colors against the light here is very nice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 09:56 AM (W90Ou)

92 Originally titled "Arnold And The Maid", but lawsuits.
LOL

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 28, 2026 09:56 AM (MjgAv)

93 where are her boots?

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:57 AM (Bep7s)

94
I traveled the world and the 7 seas......

Everybody's lookin' for some cheese.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:57 AM (2YhKe)

95 Never, ever strike a bargain with fairies.

It will always come back to bite you.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2026 09:57 AM (FZ29D)

96 Everybody's looking for mozz string.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 28, 2026 09:52 AM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:57 AM (kgE5c)

97 Do fairies dream of chicks?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:30 AM (ExV1e)

Well, if the fairy is Dylan Mulvaney...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 09:57 AM (1z8ji)

98 Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 09:51 AM (aJQbY

Prayed this morning for you, brother, and will also pray in about an hour and a half.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 09:57 AM (W90Ou)

99 Prayers up, RD.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 09:58 AM (kgE5c)

100 It will always come back to bite you.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I thought fairies did nice things, like granting wishes.

Posted by: Naive Sarah at July 28, 2026 09:59 AM (Fh5di)

101 SHUT THAT BLOODY BOUZOUKI OFF!!

Posted by: Cheese Shoppe Customer at July 28, 2026 09:59 AM (wVcYX)

102 Morning all! For those who skipped the ONT, I'm requesting prayers for my interview in about 90 minutes. Second-stage for a job I really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 09:51 AM (aJQbY)

Give 'em hell!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 09:59 AM (2YhKe)

103 Nice painting almost ruined by terrible rendering of bro’s jacket pocket. Looks like an incongruent eye sticking out and drawing your eye to where it shouldn’t be.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at July 28, 2026 09:38 AM (771KI)

That's where he packs the .455 Webley.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 09:59 AM (1z8ji)

104 95 i struck a bargain with brian. worked out for me, short term.

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 09:59 AM (Bep7s)

105 Kind of like it

Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2026 10:00 AM (8l4/j)

106 Neither knowing nor caring what the official story of it is, I'm spitballing:
Fairy was off somewhere, maybe bathing in dew or something who knows. Boy sees her, hides, falls asleep on 'a blanket' that is actually her dress made of starlight and mist.

She saw him, was intrigued, but all these darned fasteners that mortals use... so complicated... oops, he's awake!

Now she's embarassed and trying to flee, but her dress... she's trying to unravel it from where it got tangled on him, hopefully without tearing it.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 10:01 AM (aJQbY)

107 Speaking of fairies . . .

Cultural Suicide: Berlin Pride Organizers Defend Multiculturalism After Islamist Terror Attack

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:01 AM (ndZc7)

108 Do fairies dream of chicks?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:30 AM

I know where you can get 'em for free.

Posted by: M. Knopfler at July 28, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)

109 Cultural Suicide: Berlin Pride Organizers Defend Multiculturalism After Islamist Terror Attack

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:01 AM (ndZc7)

I say, LET 'em crash.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:02 AM (2YhKe)

110 106 racy!

Posted by: unpublished forum submissions at July 28, 2026 10:02 AM (Bep7s)

111 108 i know where i can get felt for free.

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:03 AM (Bep7s)

112 I thought fairies did nice things, like granting wishes.
Posted by: Naive Sarah at July 28, 2026 09:59 AM (Fh5di)

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 10:04 AM (ExV1e)

113 Me liketh this muchly.

Posted by: Edmund Spenser, IYKYK at July 28, 2026 10:04 AM (skR0U)

114 What I wouldn't give to be
When I was fairy's prayer

Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 10:04 AM (viF8m)

115 Cultural Suicide: Berlin Pride Organizers Defend Multiculturalism After Islamist Terror Attack

I still want someone to send Queers for Palestine to Palestine.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (2ocoG)

116 Well. That's my second post to disappear.
WTF???
Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (dokM/)

Are you using a VPN? The IP you're posting from appears to be on the banned list.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (2YhKe)

117 A painting which captured Gary Gygax's forray into Hollywood.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (iOHVb)

118 Morning all! For those who skipped the ONT, I'm requesting prayers for my interview in about 90 minutes. Second-stage for a job I really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 09:51 AM (aJQbY)

Who would ever skip an ONT??

Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (S0M0K)

119 The blog’s not liking Diogenes today, it seems.

Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

120
I still want someone to send Queers for Palestine to Palestine.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (2ocoG)

I would be willing to bet they wouldn't go.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe)

121 Who would ever skip an ONT??
Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (S0M0K)

*sheepishly raises hand*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (2YhKe)

122 Fairy dream
Theodor Severin Kittelsen

*************

Well Hello, Sailor! - a limerick

A young confirmed bachelor named Larry
Whose mother feared never would marry
Her fears turned out right
When one Saturday night
He took a ride on the Long Island Ferry

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (I0N4X)

123 118 Morning all! For those who skipped the ONT, I'm requesting prayers for my interview in about 90 minutes. Second-stage for a job I really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 28, 2026 09:51 AM (aJQbY)

Who would ever skip an ONT??
Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (S0

I assumed that was just nerves making him a little silly.

Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (hftzA)

124 Hmmm…in other fake news, the U.S. Consulate in Toronto was shot at again.

I’m calling bullshit. Canada’s strict gun control laws make that completely impossible.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (4g5V+)

125 I still want someone to send Queers for Palestine to Palestine.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (2ocoG)

I would be willing to bet they wouldn't go.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe)

I didn't say to give them a choice.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (2ocoG)

126 119 The blog’s not liking Diogenes today, it seems.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (77rzZ)
--------------
Heh.

Posted by: Big Penguin at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (skR0U)

127 Well. That's my second post to disappear.
WTF???
Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (dokM/)

Are you using a VPN? The IP you're posting from appears to be on the banned list.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (2YhKe)

Diogenes likes golf so much, his posts are becoming like those shots that you know you hit dead center of the fairway but then you get there and it's nowhere to be found!

Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (S0M0K)

128 I enjoy these Scandi painters with scenes from folk tales and northern myths. There is a dreamlike, sometimes nightmarish, quality that invites the viewer's attention. In this painting everything is bright and soft, the foliage and the fairy figure, except the man in his dark clothing. He is tied to the earth. The contrast between the two figures emphasize each. Even if you don't know the specific source of the image you almost have to start thinking about a story. (At least I do.) There is a whimsical quality that is very appealing.

Posted by: JTB at July 28, 2026 10:08 AM (yTvNw)

129 Fairy dream, 1909
Theodor Severin Kittelsen

So a fairy captured the young man in a huge, transparent placenta? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Interesting, but would pass hanging today's art selection.

Thank you?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 28, 2026 10:08 AM (LL19j)

130 Who would ever skip an ONT??

Right? The Friday ONT is frequently the best content on the blog that week.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:08 AM (2ocoG)

131 I still want someone to send Queers for Palestine to Palestine.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (2ocoG)

I would be willing to bet they wouldn't go.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe)

Based on the Gay Cruise to Visit the Muzzies, and the shock they felt when discovering that the muzzies didn't want the gays to visit, I'm betting that a lot of them would go. And be real surprised at their welcome.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 10:08 AM (ExV1e)

132 117 A painting which captured Gary Gygax's forray into Hollywood.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 28, 2026 10:05 AM (iOHVb)

It’s been 20 years since he won the death pool.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2026 10:08 AM (4g5V+)

133 We need more ONTs featuring Vic Mizzy music.

Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

134 I wasn't available during yesterday's art thread. Missing one of Kris' appearances was a bummer. And the image was lovely.

Posted by: JTB at July 28, 2026 10:09 AM (yTvNw)

135 How come there are no Black fairies?

Posted by: Case at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM (bqIVz)

136 129 Fairy dream, 1909
Theodor Severin Kittelsen

So a fairy captured the young man in a huge, transparent placenta? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Interesting, but would pass hanging today's art selection.

Thank you?
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at

Sir, that is diaphanous fabric.

Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM (hftzA)

137 I didn't say to give them a choice.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (2ocoG)

Give 'em each a Temu parachute. Stuff them into a C130, fly over Gaza, open the big door, and push 'em out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM (1z8ji)

138 Right? The Friday ONT is frequently the best content on the blog that week.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:08 AM (2ocoG)

Damn - no love for me or Dino. We haz sadz.

Posted by: Doof at July 28, 2026 10:11 AM (S0M0K)

139 Saw "The Odyssey".

I can now see why people like it and hate it.

First,the Like: Very well-made movie. Some great acting. Excellent direction for the set pieces. Clear theme throughout. If you know nothing of "The Odyssey", this is a movie you can enjoy and won't be bored in.

The Hate: The Greeks were basically a shame society. We live in a guilt society. Nolan made a movie for a guilt society.

In a "guilt movie", the hero has to feel guilt over something. In this case, Odysseus feels guilt over his triumph, the Trojan Horse and the Fall of Troy, which totally inverts the story. If this sounds like Ancient Greek Oppenheimer, it is.

I believe Nolan even sneaks in an atomic destruction reference from "The Planet of the Apes"(!) with the Trojan Horse looking more like it was abandoned than left as a gift, half-buried in sand and tilted at the same angle as the Statue of Liberty in TPoTA.

Every triumph or escape from the dangers of that Odysseus and his men encounter is just another chance to portray Odysseus and his men as venal, violent a-holes. This accounts for the flatness of the movie.
(con't)

Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 10:11 AM (iJfKG)

140 Reddit is all abuzz about someone “arrested for clapping” at a city council meeting about data centers. The MAGA fascists are arresting people!!!!ty.

In reality the DSA type named “Lux” (picture in your mind what you think he looks like and he looks like that), most certainly funded by the Chinese’s wasn’t arrested “for clapping”. He was arrested because he had been told repeatedly to stop interrupting the meeting. He ignored the request repeatedly by clapping when others were speaking. He was told if you clap one more time you will be arrested. He started clapping. And got arrested. Oh and he’s a teacher, of course.

The left wing media is treating this like opposition to data centers means you’ll get arrested. When in reality it’s being disruptive at a city council meeting will get you arrested. Like it’s always been. And weren’t we told interfering with govt business was treason? I could have sworn that was a thing in early 2021.

The effectiveness of Chinese propaganda against data centers would make Goebels blush. Two minutes ago nobody knew what the fuck a data center was. Today it’s like global warming to these people.

Posted by: Chaos at July 28, 2026 10:11 AM (Xe8e7)

141 73 Morning all! For those who skipped the ONT, I'm requesting prayers for my interview in about 90 minutes. Second-stage for a job I really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave

Of course. 🙏🏼

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 28, 2026 10:11 AM (LL19j)

142 (con't)

Circe pretty much lays it all out in her sequence. And when after Odysseus begging her to return his men. She brings them back form pigs by saying"Return to your disguise. Return to your disguise."

See? they aren't men or brave soldiers in reality, Odysseus and his men are merely pigs in disguise.
This is the inheritance of Nolan using the feminist translation. At some point, we always get the angry feminist view of things from some woman. Again this undercuts the movie and story.

Penelope even complains about the "glass-ceiling" in Greek society that won't allow her to rule as Queen. In a really nice bit of dialogue, she says "I have sat on an empty throne for 20 years." That says it all and much more, buuuuut then she goes on to junk up the clean declaration with a bunch of feminist gobbledygook. Sad.

This even explains the odd casting of "Elliot Page". it's weird trannie looks tend inevitable toward the feminine, and when in hell Odysseus gets a berating from Ol' Elli about his lies that sounds remarkably like a girl's complaint delivered by an oddly feminine looking "boy".

Nolan made the Odyssey guilt trip. He skinned it of meaning a wears it inside out.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 10:12 AM (iJfKG)

143
I didn't say to give them a choice.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2026 10:07 AM (2ocoG)

I can appreciate your style.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2026 10:12 AM (2YhKe)

144 135 How come there are no Black fairies?
Posted by: Case at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM (bqIVz)

Yeah!

Posted by: Don Lemon, Journalist at July 28, 2026 10:12 AM (skR0U)

145 (con't)

Nolan's "The Odyssey" begins with the quote:
"In an Age of Apparent Magic..."

Apparent's meaning in this case is something that appears real or true but isn't.

There are no gods in this Odyssey. Athena who appears only to Odysseus is basically Banquo's Ghost. In his climactic memory of the Fall of Troy, we see a priestess of Athena(Zendaya) roughed up and beheaded along with the beheading of a statue of Athena. She is his guilty memory. That's why she's always staring at him like your mom giving you the silent treatment for something you did.

No one but Odysseus is alive to tell these tales of his voyages, and we are given to understand that he is merely a sad, and haunted old man driven mad by his guilt over the Trojan Horse and Troy's downfall.

All we truly know of him is that he washed up on Calypso's Island where she gave him Grecian Valium for almost a decade to heal him.

This renders his return to Ithaca almost well, stupid and meaningless.

So...is the Odyssey a tale of a determined, brave, crafty, intelligent man fighting monsters and the very gods themselves to get home to the family he loves, or-

The lies a pig who dreamt he was a human tells himself.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 10:12 AM (iJfKG)

146 You rarely see "diaphanous fabric" in a limerick.

Posted by: Limerick lover at July 28, 2026 10:12 AM (2Ez/1)

147 How come there are no Black fairies?
Posted by: Case at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM (bqIVz)

https://youtu.be/xGEi6IbQ-jI

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 10:13 AM (ExV1e)

148 i know where i can get felt for free.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:03 AM

Japanese commuter rail?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 10:14 AM (kgE5c)

149 How come there are no Black fairies?
Posted by: Case

Ru Paul has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:14 AM (Vqi7w)

150 Sir, that is diaphanous fabric.
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM

Piper, bringing the fashion knowledge!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 10:14 AM (kgE5c)

151 I made an entire documentary on The Old Negro Fairies League.

Posted by: Ken Burns at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (2Ez/1)

152 i know where i can get felt for free.
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:03 AM

Japanese commuter rail?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2026 10:14 AM (kgE5c)

Felt comes from beavers. Just sayin'

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (1z8ji)

153 136. Sir, that is diaphanous fabric.
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM (hftzA)

🤔. Ha!

Lola

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (LL19j)

154 Data centers are ugly as hell and effing everywhere here in NoVa. That’s not Chinese propaganda, that’s empirical observation. I hate the damn things with the heat of a thousand suns.

Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

155 148 i know where i can get felt for free
Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:03 AM

Airport Security?

Posted by: The TSA at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (skR0U)

156 129 the only meat nothing has to die for.

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (Bep7s)

157 You rarely see "diaphanous fabric" in a limerick.
Posted by: Limerick lover

Once every 63.5 years.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (Vqi7w)

158 I was kinda meh on Oppenheimer. I haven’t seen Odysseus but I suspect I’ll be meh on it too when I see it on Netflix in a couple of years.

The build up can never live up to the reality.

Posted by: Chaos at July 28, 2026 10:16 AM (Xe8e7)

159 131 funny how the airplane let's them off onto a roof...

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:16 AM (Bep7s)

160 Any man wearing diaphanous fabric spends a night in the box.

Posted by: Carr, the Floorwalker at July 28, 2026 10:16 AM (skR0U)

161 Morning all! For those who skipped the ONT, I'm requesting prayers for my interview in about 90 minutes. Second-stage for a job I really need and want.
Posted by: RandomDave

Goes without asking.

God, one of your good ones needs some help.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:17 AM (Vqi7w)

162 Very well written and thorough review of "The Odyssey" Thanks, naturalfake. I will show it to my "peeps" who saw the film.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 10:17 AM (DzHyO)

163 135 don lemon will not allow it.

Posted by: cmeat at July 28, 2026 10:18 AM (Bep7s)

164 Go get 'em, Dave.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 10:18 AM (viF8m)

165 Data centers are ugly as hell and effing everywhere here in NoVa. That’s not Chinese propaganda, that’s empirical observation. I hate the damn things with the heat of a thousand suns.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

The other reason to question them, if not outright oppose them, is "for what reason are they being built?" Is it to improve our quality of life, or is it to help the Deep State control us all?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:18 AM (1z8ji)

166 A man wearing diaphanous fabric walks into a bar...

Posted by: You finish it at July 28, 2026 10:18 AM (2Ez/1)

167 Tracy Lochner wore a sheer "diaphanous fabric" shirt to school in 9th grade in 1970. She was quickly sent home, but I was in her homeroom and got to see the show.

Posted by: You Can Observe A Lot Just By Watching at July 28, 2026 10:19 AM (JM9I6)

168 165 Yep, AOP, my thought exactly. So many of those monstrosities here in the DC area…

Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

169 Not going to watch Odysseus. I mean I don't go to movies anyway, hardly at all, but this is one I would actively avoid.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:20 AM (1z8ji)

170 Remember, Kids, fairies are ALWAYS up to no good. Only associate with them if you feel comfortable with the fact you will never get to see your family and friends again.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 28, 2026 10:21 AM (vSKbP)

171 And screw AI, too. I don’t need a machine to think for me.

Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2026 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

172 other reason to question them, if not outright oppose them, is "for what reason are they being built?" Is it to improve our quality of life, or is it to help the Deep State control us all?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:18 AM (1z8ji)

My enemy’s enemy is my friend. Leftists hate them? They can’t be all bad.

Posted by: Chaos at July 28, 2026 10:22 AM (Xe8e7)

173 4 Why did my comment disappear?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2026 09:31 AM (ExV1e)

The fairies disapproved.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 28, 2026 10:23 AM (vSKbP)

174 Why did my comment disappear?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

The fairies disapproved.
Posted by: tankdemon

F'n fairies.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:25 AM (Vqi7w)

175 A diaphanous fabric? What is it?

Posted by: Victor Vector at July 28, 2026 10:26 AM (2Ez/1)

176 For military aviation buffs, the Navy's last C-2A Greyhound departed NAS Norfolk about 30 minutes ago enroute to NAS Pensacola for eventual display at the National Naval Aviation Museum. It is being escorted by the Blue Angels.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 28, 2026 10:26 AM (J4Dwc)

177 My enemy’s enemy is my friend. Leftists hate them? They can’t be all bad.
Posted by: Chaos at July 28, 2026 10:22 AM (Xe8e7)

If the data center is being built to better distribute cat videos on the internet, fine. If it is being used to house and correlate data from Flock cameras, no thanks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:27 AM (1z8ji)

178 Sir, that is diaphanous fabric.

It will cause quite a scene when he shows up for work dressed only in that stuff.

Posted by: t-bird at July 28, 2026 10:27 AM (TmQh+)

179 And, naturalfake,

I think - if you aren't doing it already - you should consider a side gig as a film reviewer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 10:27 AM (6ZG1g)

180 BREAKING: Germany considers changing its laws to keep terrorists in jail 🤯

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Couldn't they just hire more social workers?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:28 AM (ndZc7)

181 A diaphanous fabric? What is it?
Posted by: Victor Vector at July 28, 2026 10:26 AM (2Ez/1
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It's a cloth so sheer as to be seen through, but that's not important right niw...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2026 10:28 AM (amcLV)

182 There are legit concerns about datacenters. But there's also a push by China to oppose them here. China lags behind the US in their AI tech. Slowing down our datacenter build-outs for AI and storing the massive amount of surveillance data being collected on the public is about the only way they'll stay in the game.

They actively try to steal every known LLM and the client software. Or hack it. Their datacenter manufacturing is about as good as their residential and commercial sectors; it sucks. Same for their IC manufacturing.

But there are concerns that some locations are being leveraged here that are unsuited for a datacenter. And, as people rightly point out, they'll be obsolete in years, but take up valuable real estate and cost millions or billions to disassemble. Lastly, many are uncomfortable with all the surveillance data being fed into them. And for what reason?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2026 10:29 AM (jehhT)

183 Why did my comment disappear?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Ofds are, your isp changed and you picked up a previously banned one. Happened to me last Thursday.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2026 10:30 AM (Vqi7w)

184 181 A diaphanous fabric? What is it?
Posted by: Victor Vector at July 28, 2026 10:26 AM (2Ez/1
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It's a cloth so sheer as to be seen through, but that's not important right now...
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Good luck, we're all counting on you.

Posted by: Peter Graves at July 28, 2026 10:30 AM (2Ez/1)

185 My enemy’s enemy is my friend.

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NBC News: As Republicans invite him to defect, Fetterman wonders if Democrats still want him in the party

“If the Democratic caucus doesn’t want me, they could just let me know,” a frustrated Fetterman told NBC News, lamenting “the very anti-Israel party that we’re becoming.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)

186 A maid dressed in fabric diaphanous
Caused a scene that became quite cacaphonous
She said, "what's the issue"
It's not toilet tissue
Just wanted to show off the cans for us.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:32 AM (1z8ji)

187 NBC News: As Republicans invite him to defect, Fetterman wonders if Democrats still want him in the party
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Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2026 10:33 AM (amcLV)

188 A sleeper entry from AOP!
Bravo!

Posted by: Limerick lover at July 28, 2026 10:36 AM (2Ez/1)

189 >>NBC News: As Republicans invite him to defect, Fetterman wonders if Democrats still want him in the party

The nothing will happen guy is not going to like this.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 10:36 AM (viF8m)

190 BREAKING: Germany considers changing its laws to keep terrorists in jail 🤯

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Couldn't they just hire more social workers?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:28 AM (ndZc7)

Germany's problem is that they have spent 100 years analyzing how to prevent a successful putsch, and now everyone knows everything there is to know about running one.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2026 10:36 AM (rbvCR)

191 The nothing will happen guy is not going to like this.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2026 10:36 AM (viF8m)
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And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at July 28, 2026 10:37 AM (amcLV)

192 And, naturalfake,

I think - if you aren't doing it already - you should consider a side gig as a film reviewer.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2026 10:27 AM (6ZG1g)

Thanks, Fen. What a nice thing to say!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2026 10:37 AM (iJfKG)

193 Just how stupid are the Polacks?

https://youtu.be/-A7DD4-l_I4?is=DzrGXKe_zaTwLH6N

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 28, 2026 10:38 AM (ndZc7)

194 137 Give 'em each a Temu parachute. Stuff them into a C130, fly over Gaza, open the big door, and push 'em out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2026 10:10 AM (1z8ji)

You might advise them to keep the parachute handy when the locals offer to take them to the top of a building to get "the best view of the city."

Posted by: tankdemon at July 28, 2026 10:38 AM (vSKbP)

195 I just got an alligator warning. lol.

Toby, stay away from North Beach Park! A gator is out there helping people fish.

Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2026 10:39 AM (hftzA)

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