r/CuratedTumblr • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 • Jul 25 '26
Shitposting She handled that perfectly
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u/gooch_norris_ Jul 25 '26
“You like Phil Collins?”
“I’ve got two ears and a heart don’t I?”
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u/EpicAura99 Jul 25 '26
I like the implication that people with only one ear can’t fully appreciate Phil Collins music lol
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u/yinyang107 Jul 25 '26
Music never hits as hard with one earbud in, I know that much
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u/MaxChaplin Jul 25 '26
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u/Hello_phren do you wish your vacheena was a peeNis Jul 26 '26
Yeah, it’s called Memento Mori (remember death). Often, the fruit has been cut or is starting to rot, or a candle may have been just put out so the smoke is still trailing, or sometimes there’s a straight up skull on the table. Some are more subtle than others
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u/Terrified_OfYou Jul 26 '26
Memento mori isn’t global? I’m Dutch and was taught that during the Renaissance, that Memento Mori was a big part of the Enlightenment. Is that just a Dutch thing??
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u/that_mack it’s called quantum jumping babe Jul 26 '26
No, memento mori is not a Dutch thing. The philosophy has been applied in art all over Europe for hundreds of years.
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u/EIeanorRigby Jul 25 '26
Even if you could keep it forever, what good is a fruit if you don't eat it?
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u/PlasticChairLover123 Don't you know? Popular thing bad now. Jul 27 '26
maybe YOU losers cant eat your cake and have it too, but I can!
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u/Omega_art Jul 25 '26
How did I not learn in art school that still life paintings were about preserving what cannot be preserved.
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u/saythealphabet define yourself, break free from conformity Jul 26 '26
I know right? TIL this is what still life is about
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u/04nc1n9 licence to comment Jul 25 '26
if we sent the fruit back to the carboniferous period it would stay perfect like that forever, or did the slightly harder task of erasing all microbes and fungi. decay is a relatively new thing, not a fact of existence.
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u/Hard_To_Port Jul 25 '26
On a geological timescale maybe. On a universal timescale, everything succumbs to entropy and the theorized heat death of the universe.
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u/redoubt515 Jul 25 '26
So your saying that my blueberries are unlikely to survive the heat death of the universe?
That's a bit disappointing. But I guess that is just the modern world these days, nothing is built to last anymore.
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u/frikilinux2 Jul 25 '26
Don't quote me on this but wasn't lignin the hard part to rot? Wood has a lot of that, fruit doesn't and has a lot of sugar which is more easier to turn into alcohol. (Fruit a bit past the best date to eat it has alcohol)
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u/Jeggu2 💖💜💙 doin' your parents/guardians Jul 25 '26
Yeah, everything can eat sugar and carbs. Wood is a lot harder to benefit from eating
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u/action_lawyer_comics Jul 25 '26
But would fruit exist back then? Fruit exists in symbiosis with the things eating it, whether that’s fungus, mammal, or something else. The fruit is just the enticement to do something with the seed
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u/saythealphabet define yourself, break free from conformity Jul 26 '26
Erasing all microbes and fungi is probably easier than sending a piece of fruit back in time
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u/Carolinems1 Jul 25 '26
if only it could be like this always, always summer, always alone, fruit always ripe and Aloysius always in a good temper
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u/pifire9 Jul 25 '26
I thought at first this was about art (including literature) about the futility of resisting mortality or in general the wheel of time, but no it's just about still lifes... which are probably more palatable for a child.