what's the thought you think all your life long?

hec. 20s.

[girlfleeshouse]

The girl cannot leave the house because she cannot afford to.

[botgirlchassis]

Ohhhh that is too much for you little spider…

[botgirlchassis]

Ohhh nooo…

[mummer]

i’m sorry but it is absolutely a conservative impulse to believe that an ancient work has some kind of “purity” that can be “desecrated” by adaptation. think about what you are saying. why do you think adaptational change or reinterpretation is an “offense” to “culture” that must be answered for? what could motivate a person or movement to designate a certain story as “sacred”? when you do this, are you conjuring an idealized past? in the same breath, does this position modernity as a threat?

[louisegluckpdf]

"i get a little bit genghis khan" was such a strange and delightful thing to say in a pop song

[spaceistheplaceart]

and i would've gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling... monsters???

[no-ones-stupid-gallery]

Walrus With Ivory Tusks, c. 1950. Inuit Culture. Stone, Ivory and Pigment. 8,3 cm x 17,8 cm x 13,3 cm.

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

nip over to troy, bit of rough and tumble, big horse, bish bash bosh, back home to ithaca. simple as

[sigmaleph]

i like to imagine how people in the post-material-scarcity future would romanticise the current time period.

having a job gave people a sense of community and purpose lacking in our modern age where nobody is forcing you to get out of bed on threat of starvation. actually the average office worker in the early 21st century was so much wealthier than a UBI-having-modern if you forget to count paying rent and also make some very bad purchasing power conversions. if you look at contemporary records (sitcom where the main characters are only at work when it's plot relevant) it is obvious that employment was never really a major obstacle to having an active social life or pursuing your own passions.

[henk-heijmans]

Donkey getting some shade on a hot sunny day in Greece - photographer unknown

[andromacheflint]

anyway do you know how a vampire is someone who never quite fit with the rest of "us", and then they finally croak and become a bloated corpse that we still have to deal with? yeah

[andromacheflint]

im in such a bad state rn im onoy thinking, like, maybe it wouldn't be so bad if they butchered my corpse. it would still be a ministration.

[andromacheflint]

anyway do you know how a vampire is someone who never quite fit with the rest of "us", and then they finally croak and become a bloated corpse that we still have to deal with? yeah

[robinsfinds]

reading email || 2006

[pigeoncrumbsz]

A whole wheelbarrow full!!

[theartofmadeline]

two pictish ladies

[elbiotipo]

"warm, shallow seas" is one of the most beautiful phrases in paleontology and it's everywhere... these mollusks lived in warm, shallow seas... scientists think that photosynthetic life evolved in warm, shallow seas... in that era the Earth was covered by warm, shallow seas...

I wish I was resting by an antediluvian warm, shallow sea

[shiftythrifting]

a pair of piggy banks having (possibly lesbian?) sex. unfortunately sold seperately.

they should not be separated

[nathanielthecurious]

can’t believe I only just learned about the attested Gaulish word “marcosior” (< PCeltic *marko- ‘horse’ but as a passive verb in the desiderative or future) which means “I want to be ridden like a horse” and occurs in exactly the context you’re imagining

[nathanielthecurious]

that was fast. easy website

im seeing people fact-check this in the notes so i'll add that the full inscription is "marcosior maternia" and if you search that in google scholar you'll find lots of sources. it might not be true but it's definitely real, by which i mean that scholars don't know for sure what "marcosior maternia" means but this is a common interpretation. it's written on a spindle whorl (little weights that are used in spinning) and there's actually a lot of spindle whorls from roman gaul that have sort of amatory inscriptions on them, so they might have been gifts for lovers but it's not clear, but anyway a sexual meaning is perfectly expected for this type of object, and maternia looks like a woman's name in either the nominative or instrumental case, and marcosior looks like a passive verb related to the word for 'horse' in a desiderative or future form. so "i want to be ridden by maternia", "i will be ridden by maternia", and "maternia will be ridden" are some of the plausible interpretations.

also i didnt emphasize in the post just how fragmentary this language is. there's only a few hundred inscriptions in gaulish and theyre short. we dont know if there was an optative mood. but we do know how to say something about getting ridden by maternia

[nathanielthecurious]

someone in the notes writes asterix fanfiction but isn’t putting sexy spindle whorls in it. coward