sculpte, lime, cisèle

El, of the House of the Dzur ※ 30s ※  she/her ※ practically and aesthetically vain ※ BURGUNDIANS DNI ※

[elucubrare]

The Current Collected Works :)

“Satia Te Sanguine”, in which a tourist visiting Rome meets a vampire and gets a good story about History and absolutely no answers.

”Versions of the Sun”, in which a woman who might be the prophesied savior founds a city.

“When I See the Skylark Rise”, in which a spaceship captain makes a choice that will, apparently, doom her crew to death. 

“Learning Tiluhan in the Fourteenth Century”, a story about whether pure academia is enough; about a dying woman and a dying language, and, maybe, an attempt at human connection. 

 In “Lead But to the Grave,”a deified empress wrestles with her new divinity, and with what comes after divinity fades.

[asparklethatisblue]

children of any species are very good at being annoying and very cute while doing that

a sphinx child based on this post

[parkchanwoohoo]

your comment about dirty talk in your mother tongue is so funny bc there was a guy in the neighbouring dorm building at college who would ask his girlfriend “叫我皇帝” during sex. insane to me. im not ur daddy im the motherfucking emperor

Hold on. I am willing to hear him out

[avidcollectorofdust]

Really glad predictive text exists. Should i bring my own parking lot

[thatshowthingstarted]

Bowl with Face, Mississippian, Missouri, United States,

11th–14th century,

Ceramic, H. 4 in. x diam. 6 3/8 in. (10.2 x 16.2 cm)

Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum

[sinni-ok-sessi]

I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things

my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say

[beroebluejeans]

There is a quality of books (or movies or shows) that I can best describe as “stickiness,” which is separate from being good or even enjoyable: a sticky book is one I just keep thinking about. Sometimes it’s because a book is very good (e.g. The Locked Tomb), and sometimes it’s because a book is very bad (e.g. ACOTAR), but there are also very good and very bad books that are slippery, such that when I’m done reading them they slip from my thoughts like water from a hydrophobic surface.

[elucubrare]

the character as first conceived: a stolid businessman who went missing

the character as he first shows up in the text: a flintlock pistol in each hand, holding two pirates at gunpoint

[happyheidi]

"One morning on the banks of the Vézère" by Yvan Lemeur

[shithowdy]

today i took the worst photo of a loon one can possibly take while remaining identifiably a loon

[shithowdy]

loon :)

[shithowdy]

i painted my loon :)

[sirlonius]

I just tend my garden (this tumblr) and mind my business.

[elucubrare]

[elucubrare]

just had the thought “oh, i don’t think I’ve parked in this part of the grocery store lot! what an adventure”

#aginguserbase

[easel-eisel]

are you mad that the villain identified me as the most impactful party member to mind control

[mikeybooch]

Prints Available

From Book V of Homer's Iliad. Upon being grievously wounded by the Achaean warrior Diomedes, the hero Aeneas is saved through divine intervention from his mother, the goddess Aphrodite. 

The characters are depicted here in historically inspired looks from the late Bronze Age, the period when the Trojan War was believed to have been set. Aphrodite's look in particulate is based off of Mycenaean frescos as well as Cypriot idols. 

[elucubrare]

remembering today why it's best practice for me to switch between knitting with fingering and knitting with bulky - i've been on a sock kick for a while & it's so much harder on my hands

[leah-cultice]

Bola Edun by Teneshia Carr for Blanc Magazine 2020

[catilinas]

AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption

Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour

Researchers uncovered 20 columns of previously hidden text covering more than a metre of charred papyrus without physically unrolling the scroll. The work discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour and dates to the second or late-third century BC. The age of the scroll, named PHerc 1667, makes it one of the oldest in a collection of hundreds recovered from the library of a luxury Roman villa in Herculaneum that was blasted by heat and buried under ash in the volcanic eruption that destroyed nearby Pompeii in AD79. Much of the Herculaneum library was dominated by Philodemus of Gadara, a Epicurean philosopher and poet in the first century BC. But while the title and author of PHerc 1667 remain unknown, its older age and contents point to another author. Analysis by Nicolardi and her colleagues suggests the text is a stoic treatise, perhaps authored by the Greek philosopher Chrysippus.