A l'entrada del temps clar

my main blog; music, art, illustration,pictures of plants and general randomness.Will bore you with my landscape photos.fundraiser asks from strangers in my inbox shall be ignored sorry.

[c3rvida3]

Nobody wanted to eat grandma candy out of my doily spider yesterday. Likely because they hold some sort of bigotry in their hearts.

[vamplire]

Kate Bush as a Bat for “Breathing” her 1980 single.

Photographer: John Carder Bush

[tridentandtales]

Roman cameo with a goat

1st - 2nd century CE

British Museum 1824,0301.49

[girlfriendsinjeans]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[ekjohnston]

OKAY OKAY OKAY so when I realized I was going to have to write a lot of space battles, I did two things. The first was put a sticky note on my laptop that said THE ENEMY'S GATE IS DOWN (which, ugh, fuck OSC into the SUN), to remind myself that direction is both 1. important, and 2. relative, and then I watched approximately a billion hours of bait ball footage in David Attenborough documentaries, which helped me write battles in which all directions are possible.

(A bait ball, btw, is when teams of predators work together to eat small fish like anchovies, sardines, or lantern fish. Tuna, seals, sharks, dolphins, etc corral the fish into a ball at the surface, and then pick them off. Sometimes rays get involved. It's like a toothy, toothy dance. Gannets and boobies dive down from above. They can go 20m down! And then sometimes a whale comes up from the deep and swallows the whole thing. It is my favourite part of any nature documentary.)

[datasoong47]

This is one thing that really annoyed me reading Asimov's Foundation universe novels. His descriptions of military tactics make zero sense given the existence of hyperspace. For example, he describes a battle where the admiral has his ships surrounding the enemy on all sides - something like the bait ball being described here - except that since they use hyperspace to travel, they could just jump right out of the trap and appear outside of the surrounding vessels. In fact, interstellar battles in general wouldn't really make much sense. Naval battles make sense on Earth because you have to cross the actual physical sea to get from one point to another, and so you can logically intercept enemy ships, but if you're jumping from one point to another, that doesn't work. Interstellar space becomes pretty much irrelevant

He also describes an overall strategy that is similar to island-hopping and the use of blockades. Which again makes sense in actual naval warfare on Earth - you need to have support bases for supply lines - but with hyperspace doesn't make sense. You could just jump directly to the enemy capital bypassing outer worlds. In fact, political entities wouldn't really even need to be contiguous (though presumably it would be preferable to keep the parts near each other since it is implied that travel costs are greater for larger distances, so a polity consisting of a bunch of worlds scattered all over the galaxy might not work as well as one consisting of a group of nearby worlds economically)

It's like he forgot all about how his own system works and just treated space like a giant ocean, except 3D. Naval-inspired tactics only work if ships are actually traversing space itself. If you're using wormholes or hyperspace or something similar, you gotta use different tactics

[beanfreak]

has tumblr seen this photo that james ortiz posted of himself holding rocky because oh my god

that’s his real son that he gave birth to. grace better watch out bc james is about to steal the title of rocky’s number one fan

[greencheekconure27]

Giuseppe Verdi: Otello

Otello - Mario Del Monaco

Desdemona - Rosanna Carteri

Iago - Renato Capecchi

Cassio - Gino Mattera

Rodrigo - Athos Cesarini

Lodovico - Plinio Clabassi

Montano - Nestore Catalani

Emilia - Luisella Ciaffi Ricagno

Un Araldo - Bruno Cioni

RAI Milano Orchestra & Chorus

Conductor: Tullio Serafin

rec. 1958

[greencheekconure27]

Mario del Monaco - Nuin mi tema (Otello)

[greencheekconure27]

[nyaa]

[yurimartyr]

Collection

[eddwardtheseventhstardrawnwizard]

Gotta have a griller in your collection

[unyieldingsilence]

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[tigirl-and-co]

[animentality]

[imawitchywitch]

The only people who think the point of art is realism and skill are uncreative, boring, and uneducated people. They completely ignore the historical context, geographical, and cultural context of the art and artists. They completely disregard that being creative is an essential part of being human. All they focus on is the product and whether or not it looks “good” to them.

[johnnyrico]

[perestroika-hilton]

Hot girl summer

[fravery]

Michele Cascella (Italy, 1892 – 1989)

Aranceto Ortona 1957

[ravioliet]

huge fan of when characters love each other and are closely bonded in an explicitly nonromantic way. however ☝️ i am very much not a huge fan of what happens when characters like this are introduced to fandom

[cleaningouttherooms]

*widely praised poetic quote in a foreword by a usamerican translator voice* see this language.... it's not like other languages. sometimes it has metaphors. or abstract thinking. sometimes a word has several meanings. sometimes a lot of meaning can be condensed into two words. sometimes those words even have etymologies. sometimes if you translate idioms or break down the components of words you can get something pretty cool in english. and naturally this gives us essential insight into the timeless national character of its people

[isaddeos]

In my mind armida is about the only bass in the land of a thousand tenors teaming up with a cool as fuck sorceress to cause problems on purpose. and i do not want to find out what it actually is

[isaddeos]

20 tenors

[joeinct]

Photo by Bernard Plossu, 1980