Altar of Sweet Distraction

Curiosities and Wonder

My little corner of the internet

If you showed a medieval pilgrim the amount of information we absorb in a day... they would explode!

A Substack article that I love about the slutty history of the pork pie hat.

Some things I enjoy

• the history of christianity absorbing imagery and icons from pagan/ old religions to try and convert the locals(also the use of deliberate mistranslations in the bible to oppress people!)
• holistic death care and changing the funeral industry for the better
• gothic art in many forms (churches, films, clothing/costumes, artworks etc) Like this!
• collecting weird + wonderful facts
• the pursuit of whimsy +wonder