Apollonian Paradox

I've been on this website for a long time.

[avpol]

Ishtar and the Bull of Heaven

[avas-poltergeist]

Show has been pretty tame this season, so I'm rolling up my sleeves and just writing the fanfiction where she beats him with birch branches and tenderly feeds him bread slathered in meats and jam before telling him that every day she goes to the top of the tower and teaches the boy king however many hundred years in the future how to fly.

[kummatty]

The gelatin in film stock was made from the hide, bones, cartilage, ligaments, and connective tissue of calves (considered the very best), sheep (less desirable), and other animals who passed through the slaughterhouse. Six kilograms of bone went into a single kilogram of gelatin. Eventually, the demands of photographic industries generated so much need for animal byproducts that slaughterhouses became integrated into the photographic production chain. Controlling the supply chain became key to Kodak's success. In 1882, as Kodak began to grow as a company, widespread complaints of fogged and darkened plates stopped production. The crisis almost ruined Kodak financially and resulted in the company tightly monitoring the animal by-products used in gelatin. Decades later, a Kodak emulsion scientist discovered that cattle who consumed mustard seed metabolized a sulfuric substance, enhancing the light sensitivity of silver halides and enabling better film speeds. The poor-quality gelatin in 1882 was due to the lack of mustard seeds in the cows' diet. The head of research at Kodak, Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, concluded, "If cows didn't like mustard there wouldn't be any movies at all." By controlling the diet of cows who were used to make gelatin, Kodak ensured the quality of its film stock. As literary scholar Nicole Shukin reflects, there is a "transfer of life from animal body to technological media." The image comes alive through animal death, carried along by the work of ranchers, meatpackers, and Kodak production workers.

—Siobhan Angus, Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography

[auxcored-deactivated20230124]

“Moscou la Bleue” (c. 1920′s), by Leonid Brailowsky (1867-1937)

[thestolencaryatid-deactivated20]

Iranian brass amulet that renders its bearer more attractive and helps her capture and subdue a lover. The lover is symbolized as beast of burden.

[suigintou]

i bet it feels good as fuck to erupt from the soil as a skeleton warrior

[scavengedluxury]

Ouffff

[sermna]

Alecto was angry, and raised her up, and kissed her. The child did not cry out, though blood fell from her lips and tongue, and she was wounded sore. For Alecto knew not how to kiss, except such as it involved the mouth and teeth. And Alecto said to her, Why are you not appeased? That is how meat loves meat.

I love u Alecto 💛

[lbprubin]

Them

[ryonagiographie]

Coping with my lost apple pencil back to basic (painting some fuckass elf)

[artmocion]

Detail of "Saturn Devouring His Son", Francisco Goya (1819–1823)

[wolfythewitch]

I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before

I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son.

(1/2)

[0811]

underrated twin peaks line is the best and worst people are drawn to a dead dog and the rest just turn away

[meirimerens]

dam line

[thclie]

Frederick S. Church's Circe (1910)

[jimbles-archive]

[googlygazer]

tanakia calling heinrix sentimental about his eyes is a very obviously pointed jab but sentimental about hair and colleagues is not quite so. so u have to wonder.

[googlygazer]

imagine there's an emaciated sad little man-thing at your place of work and he's got several holes in his skull and he also knows everyone's birthdays.

[margelmargaret]