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Maxwell Malone
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Community Designer & Weird Fiction Author Published via: // //
Santa Barbara, CAmaxwellmalone.comJoined October 2018

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Laird Barron needs our help. He's one of the most beloved people in the field, and he's earned that. A freelancer's life is precarious on the best of days, and falling ill without health insurance can be ruinous. Let's lift him back up.
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Laird Barron GoFundMe: bit.ly/laird-gofundme Most of you know that Laird has been very sick these past few months. Now he's in the hospital, and he needs our help. Make no mistake: This is very serious, and potentially life-threatening. Details: bit.ly/laird-gofundme
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This weekend also gave me the chance to finish reading 's ANNIHILATION. I'd enjoyed the movie when I saw it a while back & now I can confidently say the same for the book! Have the rest of the trilogy on deck for reading at a later date😁
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Sad that I used all my credits so quickly! 😭 At least I'll always have "richard nixon on the moon, engulfed in flames, eating a deep dish pizza, HD, hyperrealism" to remind me of this incredibly creative moment in my life
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I always end my course "Romanesque & Gothic Art" w a lecture on the Black Death & Art of the Macabre. It was long believed that the macabre emerged in response to the plague, but art historians have argued against this myth. A🧵on why the macabre was NOT a response to plague. /1
This is the terminal of a rosary from Germany c.1500 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is made of ivory and shows the head of a deceased man, half of which is his deceased bearded face, with a drooping eye cast downward. The other half is his skull. The description of the full object from the Met website is as follows: "Each bead of the rosary represents the bust of a well-fed burgher or maiden on one side, and a skeleton on the other. The terminals, even more graphically, show the head of a deceased man, with half the image eaten away from decay. Such images served as reminders that life is fleeting and that leading a virtuous life as a faithful Christian is key to salvation."
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