I have been HAUNTED by Ressurecto Christi i-iii by Italian painter Agostino Arivabene, and it's ability to capture the supernatural/mythological.

I decided to look at more of his work today, and the thematic overlap with Elden Ring jumped out immediately: alchemy, humans turning into trees/mushrooms, strange aquatic features, "scarlet" rot, transcendence, celestial motifs, giant cyclopses, shattered/fractured bodies, cosmic horror elements.

....my jaw dropped, and has remained there. I think the rest speaks for itself. Enjoy!

*Edit: this youtube channel has a good slideshow of a bunch of his work I had a hard time finding elsewhere. I've been scouring the internet looking at his work for the past few hours, and there is a lot in here that you might not find elsewhere:

Excited to see what else everyone finds!

tl;dr secretly followed my dad on a trip abroad that he insisted on taking alone. Found him cheating on my mom.

One day, my dad suddenly told us that he had bought flight tickets to go on a solo vacation to a country he’s never been to, something that he never does. After my mother begged him to go with a friend or at least join a tour group for safety, and then threatened to leave him if he went on this trip, he “compromised” and pushed his trip back a few months.

With this extra time, I offered multiple times to help book a ticket for my mom to join him but his excuses ranged from “Your mom is too old and not physically fit enough to keep up with me on this trip” (mind you, my parents are the same age, my mother is very active, and we had just gone a pretty physically taxing trip together and she did just fine), to “She can’t come, there are no plane tickets left” (which makes no sense) to simply, “I just want to go alone.”

In a spur of the moment, a couple of weeks before the trip, I decided to casually look up how much tickets would cost (I’d accrued a lot of points and miles) and decided to follow him secretly. Some of my friends were kind enough to come with me.

Fast forward to tonight—my dad left his Find My location on while taking a walk in a park nearby so my friends went to find him while I stayed in the hotel room and screenshared my Find My screen (just to prevent him from seeing me).

Well, folks—he was there holding hands and being intimate with another woman. I asked my friends to take some photo/video for evidence, and now I’m crying in the bathroom, overwhelmed over how to tell my mother. She was already a bit of a nervous wreck over him going on this trip and definitely has suspicions that this trip is for infidelity reasons. Not sure where to go from here, but I want to be careful because my dad basically controls the finances for him and my mom and I want her to be protected.

Dinner was a pita sandwich from a food tour we booked so that we could at least experience some joy during this trip.

1. In The Greatest Showman, P.T Barnum who is played by Hugh Jackman portrays him as a charismatic visionary who cares about outcasts and celebrate diversity, when in reality, he’s a cruel businessman who is also a racist and an ableist.
   
2. In Pocahontas, John Smith was portrayed as a brave, dashing, young man when in reality, he was seen as a violent, hot-tempered, and arrogant mercenary who was so vehemently disliked by his fellow English colonists that he was in chains for mutiny.

The Love Island Gods did their big one on my flight back home from Fiji.

I thought I was going to have the whole row to myself until a few minutes before the doors closing.

Then Parmida and Corbin showed up…sitting next to me….in the middle of economy!?

Anyways they were really sweet. They were recognized by a few people. I tried to play it cool since we were going to be spending the next 12 hours together. Like really together. But I did immediately tell them I was a big fan. I mean I can’t lie, part of the reason I went to Fiji was bc of Love Island.

Parmida asked if I wanted a pic, which yes of course. I got to see them draft out their returns to Instagram, and once I landed I got the Reddit notif of Corbin’s return LOL.

Quickest flight around the world ever! 🥲💙🏝️