As-yet-unwritten fiction

A collection of ideas on tumblr I'd like to write or see written in some form eventually.

[birdbigbutch]

Peeling the lid off of a yogurt and it's a big spiral staircase going down forever

[rosieandthemoon]

By Konstantin Vasilyev, 1967

[memories-of-ancients]

Lapis lazuli cylinder seal uncovered from the Royal Cemetery of Ur, Sumer, 2500 BC

from The British Museum

[eflatminorseven]

thinking about edvard munch's "The Sun" (1911)

like yeah thats how it feels. thats what it feels like to exist sometimes. he gets it

[teddy2145]

Also very big! Takes up two stories!

[offwegointothewildblueyonder]

"Though I sit alone in a pillar -- I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 'The Brothers Karamazov'

[memories-of-ancients]

Stirrup spout bottle in the form of a duck, Moche culture, Peru, 2nd-4th century AD

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[memories-of-ancients]

Marble bust of a ruler, Roman Greece, late 2nd century AD

from The Acropolis Museum, Athens

[memories-of-ancients]

Agate scepter head, Cyprus, circa 950 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold fitting, Greece, 325-300 BC

from The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

[bronzeageecho]

tripod vessel with acrobats balanced on rim | c. 200 CE | china, possibly henan province

in the baltimore museum of art collection

[memories-of-ancients]

Bronze bird with wheels, China, Eastern Han Dynasty, 9 -220 AD

from The New Luoyong City Museum

[ein-bleistift-und-radiergummi]

Dragon Door Handle - Simontorya Castle Hungary

[ospreyonthemoon]

THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT BABEY!!!!!

[thecollectibles]

Twilight Stories by Yana Dhyana

[portalibis]

Pottery askos with painted and three-dimensional decoration. Painted on a pink ground are two winged marine horses flying over a brown sea. Three terracotta Nikai are attached to the false spouts and the handle, and the foreparts of two horses to the wall. Reliefs showing the head of Medusa and a dancing maenad have also been applied. 270BC-200BC (circa), Italy: Puglia

[teaboot]

My first time operating CCTV cameras I was handed control over what was essentially 50 independently moving eyes that collectively covered an area about the size of a football field and from that experience I now know that

Suddenly having 50 moving eyes can make you disoriented and barfy and the adjustment period sucks ass

It takes both more and less time than you’d think to figure out what the structure as a whole looks like and where those eyes ARE

After you get used to it the entirety of the structure itself and all of the eyes you can see from feels like an extension of your nervous system in a very bizarre way. Like I have dreams now from the perspective of A Building and I’m not sure how to describe that.

Once you are aware of an unreachable blind spot it nags at you constantly and you can feel it like a hard little lump under your skin you need to poke and scratch at and it’s ardghgguychgghhbhhhbhhh

[teaboot]

And on top of that, having operated CCTV at multiple locations now- my favourite and most comfortable one having excess of 60 cameras- it can be REALLY hard to suddenly jump to a different operating interface and display configuration, because all the muscle memory is wrong

On my COMFORTABLE system, the one I spent the longest time on, I never had to think about what code I needed to punch in. If I needed to watch a specific person, I could follow them all over the site without thinking about it.

Now at a different location, all the manual equipment and codes and lag and resolution are different, and it feels like going from playing the piano to driving stick shift on the left side of the road with my feet

The closest I imagine I can equate it to is like. Getting really really good at painting with a pair of prosthetic hands, and then suddenly having them swapped out with someone else’s

[teaboot]

Not the best depiction, but. Feels like this

[hyydraworks]

Something about little guys, packed up for travellin' 🤌

[centuriespast]

Red-Figure Bell Krater (Mixing Vessel): Aphrodite and Eros c. 370–360 BCE attributed to Graz Painter

Cleveland Museum of Art

[sacred-portal]