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.

[kedreeva]

I love him

[ich-bin-jude]

"It's not a 'Western' Empire, so it doesn't count."

[greencheekconure27]

One of the many reasons to love summer:

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 24, 16 juin 1889, Paris. Robe en faille et toile de laine. Robe en soie et bengaline. Modèle de chez Mme Coussinet, rue Richelieu, 43. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

frustrating when you are talking about folklore as the narratives a particular culture tells itself about itself and then someone else is talking about folklore as a dnd monster manual

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

you stumble into this a lot with dragons especially. it is impossible to talk about dragons as like, a broad term for mythological and folkloric creatures whose attributes and symbolism vary across cultures without someone rolling up to announce that actually what you’re describing is a wyvern, not a dragon.

[hoot-alex]

[greencheekconure27]

Don't you hate it when a big budget sci-fi movie ruins a perfectly good alien planet setting with action heroes. I don't care about humans with running around with guns! Show me the scientists meticulously studying alien bugs! Tell me some local folklore! History! Art! Have scifi David Attenborough tell me about the fascinating behaviour of a local bird species! Stop interrupting your scientists dammit.

[grecoromanyaoi]

see one of my problems w movies n tv shows is that they often show a character of like a scientist or a historian and try and make them extremely boring but that shit just doesnt work on me. theyll b like 'well in 13th century turkey...' n everyone will b like ughhh shut up professor dinglebarry no one cares and like. well excuse me. stop the movie. id like to hear more about 13th century turkey.

[thedreamthieves]

i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[kerink]

i like when eridians describe grace in other-worldly, incorporeal, eldritch ways. that he's beautiful and terrifying at the same time. a horror you can't look away from because you don't want to miss a thing.

you can never get a clear listen to him. his primary sense node is covered in "hair" and the part that isn't is hidden by two crystals that refract sound waves in a pleasing but disorienting way. he covers his body in billowy cloth at all times. not snug and sensible and unobstructive like eridian coverings, but loose and layered, draped and flowing.

the most clear part of him are his internal organs. because yes, the alien's carapace isn't sound-proof. his single heart beats insistingly in his core, his lungs exchanging gas constantly, his long digestive tract always bubbling and contracting. his thorax is packed impossibly tight and it's all moving and singing.

and it shouldn't be possible, with how fragile he is, for that internal pressure to maintain. how does the thin membrane of his external organ (another horror that sends eridians reeling) keep it all contained? his "skin" is so easily pierced, cut, bruised, burnt, how does he not split open under his own mass?

when savior rocky first arrived home and described the environmental needs of his alien, the scientists thought he'd made a mistake in his frantic panic to get everything out. it isn't possible this being lives at such low atmospheric pressure, at half the gravity, and in a gas that's nearly double the weight of ammonia. in a gas so dangerous, so caustic. and if it does then how is it obligately terrestrial like rocky claims? shouldn't it fly or float instead? (and then to see it in the water, learning that it can float or sink at will.)

and this alien has come bearing gifts that will not only save your species but launch it into impossible heights of technological and intellectual advancement. he has discovered the solution to astrophage and bred it to thrive on threeworld and translated his instructions into eridian. he has given your people the complete sum of his people's knowledge, advanced in ways the eridians can't believe and behind in ways that seem ludicrous. and he has given his life for your people to have these things.

he knows how your solar system was formed. he knows how the universe started.

his name means beautiful and generous and relieving.

the eridians experiencing cosmic bliss.

be not afraid.

[bobemajses]

Wall decoration in the Old Synagogue in Pińczów, Poland, late 17th century

[smithsonian]

Look who we found at the beach this weekend.

When Tim Jerman was a child, he couldn’t decide whether to become a marine biologist or an artist. So he became an artist who created intricate glass sculptures of aquatic life.

This piece, “Hermit Crab” (2000), is in our @americanartmuseum. 

[mariacallous]

[mariacallous]

[snovyda]

Also, nothing, NOTHING that russia does can be called "retaliation", BECAUSE RUSSIA IS THE AGGRESSOR THAT STARTED THE WAR.

It's Ukraine's actions that, by definition, can be called a retaliation. Not the other way round.

Words have meanings. Stop bothsidesing one if the clearest wars ever.

[wordswithoutaworld]

Oh, "good Russians" trying once again to pull the whole "both sides are bad" or "this genocidal war is sooo complicated" thing.

Same old story with those people.

[freedom-in-sight]

The struggle for justice in Ukraine

An assessment of Russia’s crimes and options for accountability.

As Ukraine seeks to prosecute over 140,000 war crimes cases, the international legal landscape and its accountability mechanisms directly impact efforts to deliver justice to victims/survivors of conflict. A recent report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine found that sexual violence has been used systematically by Russian authorities as a method of torture in detention settings. The report underscores that conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) affects civilians and prisoners of war alike and constitutes a significant proportion of war crimes being prosecuted in Ukraine. However, international mechanisms critical to upholding accountability have come under attack. US President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order in February 2025 authorizing sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC), including its Chief Prosecutor. Concurrent freezes on foreign aid are also disrupting accountability and justice initiatives in Ukraine and beyond. What does this mean for victims of sexual violence and broader efforts to pursue accountability? This event examines: • The gendered impact of conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine. • Practical options and creative pathways for sustaining transitional justice efforts in a constrained and shifting geopolitical environment. • The growing threats to international justice, and the implications for peace and accountability in Ukraine. This event is organised in partnership with All Survivors Project, with project funding from Global Affairs Canada and the Peace and Human Rights Division, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Speakers Event chaired by Vitaly Shevchenko. Russia Editor, BBC Monitoring Kateryna Busol Former Academy Associate, Russia and Eurasia Programme Khrystyna Kit Founder and Chairwoman, Ukrainian Women Lawyers Association (JurFem) Oleksiy Sivak Coordinator, Network of Ukrainian Men Who Survived Captivity and Torture (Alumni)

The recording for the event is available.

[wordswithoutaworld]

Ukrainian history is incredibly complex, and it is even harder for foreigners to study because many foreign-language sources about Ukraine were not written by Ukrainians themselves, but often by people who viewed Ukraine through a colonial or imperial lens, or who were commissioned or funded by those same forces to produce such works, while at the same time supporting policies of disinformation against any open expression of Ukrainian identity.

But despite understanding all of this, I still find it emotionally difficult not to react when someone from abroad — someone who barely knew anything about Ukraine before 2022 — starts repeating claims they read "in some tumblr post", "on reddit" and so on, while never checking who exactly wrote it in the first place.

What also makes it worse is when these people do not understand the historical context of Ukraine's relationships with neighboring states, and, most importantly, the formation of people's identities across all of these countries, yet still project their own historical perspective onto someone else's history without any understanding of the differences.

For some reason, this can be incredibly fucking difficult for me emotionally. Because on top of the stress of Russia's genocidal war, you also feel that the world is constantly examining both you and your country piece by piece, freely criticizing and reshaping it according to its own views, pressuring you to see yourself the way they want you to see yourself, constantly weighing whether you are "a good nation or not" — all while knowing that they have this privilege over you, where their opinion of you can genuinely affect matters related to your protection and even your ability to stay alive.

And so you find yourself in a constant situation where you have to become your own advocate and historian for others, or else be consumed by the feeling that everything has already been decided for us.