the knife which will slaughter god.

…in Shakespeare’s view, one of the tyrant’s most characteristic qualities - is the ability to force his way into the minds of those around him, whether they wish him there or not. It is as if, in compensation for the pain he has suffered, he has found a way to be present - by force or fraud, violence or insinuation - everywhere and in everyone. No one can keep him out. aesthetic/musing sideblog for @aurivore.

[graceebooks]

i’m just having fun. hatred is involved but i’m just having fun

[quiltofstars]

The Prawn Nebula, IC 4628 // Rodrigo Maeda

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: "School Entrance of the Art Institute," by Jean Goodwin, from Research - Design in Nature. Field Museum of Natural History, School of the Art Institute. Chicago 1924-25. Chicago: John Gilbert Wilkins, 1926. Printed by Field Museum Press.

[quiltofstars]

NGC 2626 // Jeff McFadden

[xalatath]

Everybody in the club Yield to my will

[lastencoregraphics]

Even so, the sort of friend one may truly bare their heart to... is something I posess only one of. That friend of mine is notoriously difficult to please. Should you prove weak, he will not spare you.

[professorgotoustype-moonclass]

Today’s subject: AUO Cast-off [Other]

Source: Fate/EXTRA material P163

Fate/Extra Glossary

This is the thing of supreme beauty that Gilgamesh exposes in the fifth chapter.

While writing the script I got excited about the prospect of including a cast-off (nude) scene in the game. One of the staff suggested, “For this scene let’s have Gil in his swimsuit, and then keep the camera directed up high so we only show bare skin in order to trick the players.”

But then another staffer piped up, “Huh? You need a nude shot of Gil right? We already have one done you know.” It made me feel like I was late to the party.

After that we discovered that some staff had randomly made some extra costumes for the female protagonist outside of work hours including a swimsuit version, gym uniform and even tights. Of course we happily put them all into the game. I want to give a big thanks to Kunimitsu-san from the 3D modeling team. Thanks to you, from the second week onwards in game the protagonist is undoubtedly qualified as a pervert.

Translation source.

[ofallingstar]

Babette’s Feast (1987)

[clawmarks]

Au jardin des gemmes - Léonard Rosenthal - 1924 - via Internet Archive 

[bagdemagus]

Cuneiform tablet with incised drawing of constellations: the Lion (Leo) and the Dragon (Draco)

Uruk (Warka), Seleucid period, 2nd century BCE

Mesopotamian astral science and astrological divination saw major developments in the 6th century BCE with the canonization of the zodiacal signs. Instructions for how to draw constellations exist from as early the Neo-Assyrian period (8th-7th century BCE). From the era of Hellenistic Greek occupation of Babylonia comes this fragment of a tablet (another fragment depicting the tail of the dragon and the constellation Virgo is in the Louvre), an early piece of scientific illustration, with the constellation names labeled in cuneiform Akkadian.

Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin (VAT 07847)

[along-the-silkroad]

A rare piece of Neo-Assyrian frontal sculpture of over 5 meters high, depicting a heroic figure holding a lion in chokehold, often identified with the legendary king Gilgamesh of Uruk, from the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad (Dur Sharrukin), late 8th century BCE. Louvre

[rated-a-for-awesome]

every time i see someone call kirk and spock the oldest ship, i'm filled with the urge to go "hmm actually the holmes and watson girlies have been here for a hundred years now", and i refrain because i know the natural conclusion of this game is gilgamesh and enkidu

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: ξηραμπέλινος (xērampelinos), of the colour of withered vine-leaves, bright red, scarlet

[arsantiquis]

Clouds by Frederic Edwin Church part II.

[rosieandthemoon]

Hans Memling, 1483

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

A gathering of 100 stars or so, all around 100 million years young, M6 lies some 1,600 light-years away toward the central Milky Way in the constellation Scorpius.  Image Credit: Xinran Li

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Venus, Mars, Spica and a Meteor Caught; The Pleiades, Hyades and Orion.

by: Joseph Brimacombe