Just another random guy

Hello people! I am Jamie from that most beautiful of places, Scotland. A history lover making his way through life.

[irisharchaeology]

A woman and girl walk through a honeycomb of stone walls to get water from a pump, Inishmaan, the Aran Islands, 1971   

 Photo by Winfield Parks for National Geographic  

[live-in-salt]

A celebration of MARK ROTHKO (1903 – 1970) who created a new, passionate form of abstract painting— meticulous in its attention to colour, balance and depth, expressing ‘basic human emotions – tragedy, ecstasy, doom…’

[herpsandbirds]

Caatinga Horned Frog (Ceratophrys joazeirensis) metamorph, family Ceratophryidae, endemic to Brazil

photograph by Thiago Silveira

[scavengedluxury]

Parliament House, Valletta. Malta, October 2015.

[alienestrangement]

blood and organs burst from truck in Netherlands

[homunculus-argument]

Goths aren't "true to seed" in the sense that the biological offspring of two goths do not necessarily grow up to be goth, though inheriting the inclination for it from both parents increases the odds significantly. That is not how goths naturally reproduce.

The process is actually quite sophisticated, and requires the presence of a full-grown goth to trigger it. A pupal-stage proto-goth, at this point completely indistinguishable from any other small human child, only needs to encounter a mature specimen once - and while the initial imprinting that ensues will only take seconds, the incubation period often takes more than a decade, even several.

The first visible step of the transformation is triggered when the dormant goth suddenly gains awareness that they have free will and can do whatever they want with their appearance. While the progress may be gradual, or seem like the transformation happened all at once overnight, the initial seed was planted years ago. And now, in full bloom, a fully-fledged mature adult goth may finally be happy.

And that's why it's important to sometimes look goth as fuck in the grocery store. You might be seen by small child who had previously hoped to die before adulthood because everything they've heard about becoming a grownup is just pure misery, who will then consequently think to themselves "actually nevermind, that's what I want to be when I grow up."

[marlynnofmany]

One of the many benefits of being weird in public is possibly saving -- and definitely improving -- a stranger's life without ever knowing.

[hellagross]

[bulljumpingfresco]

Ancient Roman Culture Peplophore 1st century BC-1st century AD marble Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

[theft-is-therapeutic]

may I offer you an egg in these trying times?

[kurhanchyk]

i miss odesa

[beastwhimsy]

it's my dad's birthday tomorrow. he loves bikes. so I drew a bugcycle

[weepingwidar]

Alberto Regueira (Cuban, 1994) - Reborn (2022)

[fionamccall]

Hey its a hunky punk! No, in Lincolnshire it's called a babewyn, and it's a gothic nightmare

Today I visited Heckington church in Lincolnshire, which is adorned inside and out with amazing sculptures. The outside is strewn with protective grotesques, which if in Somerset would be called hunky punks, but in the East Midlands, they are known as babewyns.

Here's a few of them I managed to get close enough to to photograph.

The church is said to be largely untouched since the middle ages, but that didn't prevent the puritans from smashing things about a bit, as seen by yet another collection of glass fragments:

[fionamccall]

Hey its a hunky punk! No, in Lincolnshire it's called a babewyn, and it's a gothic nightmare

Today I visited Heckington church in Lincolnshire, which is adorned inside and out with amazing sculptures. The outside is strewn with protective grotesques, which if in Somerset would be called hunky punks, but in the East Midlands, they are known as babewyns.

Here's a few of them I managed to get close enough to to photograph.

The church is said to be largely untouched since the middle ages, but that didn't prevent the puritans from smashing things about a bit, as seen by yet another collection of glass fragments:

[boxesofoldphotos]

UntitledAlaskanMountain7 View at Nullbrook More from Nullbrook

[kurhanchyk]

11.11.2022. liberated bilozerka, kherson region. locals tear down russian billboard saying "russia is here forever".

[kevytmaitohorsma]

"No winter maintenance. The bridge can be slippery."