writings

Current project: Stars in the Dark

[theglintofyourblade]

Dagger with Sheath | Turkish | 19th century | Met Museum

[ghostreveries]

Beautiful weapons from VTdaggers. 

[lotusinjadewell]

Quảng Bình, Vietnam. Credit to caplocchanvu (Instagram).

[peashooter85]

Ornate dagger with gold engravings and blued blade, Europe, late 18th century

from Czerny's International Auction House

[inspiredlivingspaces]

Hand painted tile

[discountalien-pancake]

Inej and Discount Alien

aka Dunyasha, the White Blade. aka the most wonderfully Mary Sue minor villain. Damn do I have a lot to say about her, and specifically her rivalry with Inej.

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[sharp-blade-girl]

dunyasha is a female Shu girl with dark hair and is a person or colour who probably faced racism like Alina did, and I’d know as I’m Chinese. dunyasha is an acrobat raised in caravans and unlike Inej has a fucking character. she’s also short? as she’s Shu she probably faced a lot of sexual violence when she was younger too. how dare you. she’s allowed to wear what she wants, you shouldn’t judge another girl because she wore white. that’s not what she always wears.

[discountalien-pancake]

Literally not a single word of what you have written is canon lmao

Có thể bạn nên đọc lại cuốn chuyện này trước khi bạn ráng giảng tôi, một người Việt Nam nữ tính, về sự kỳ thị chủng tộc mà những người phụ nữ Á Châu phải chịu đựng.

[inkwingart]

Feels so nice when your skills finally catch up to your ambition aka I finally redid my Hemfox Festival of Lanterns piece (now featuring zero (0) lanterns, lol) and I love it so much more!

Do not remove my caption, crop, edit, or repost.

[nijinoink]

はす Ⅱ　Lotus Ⅱ

143×70mm, Eraser prints,　yasuko aoyama  2021.1.

[rauschvoi]

Floor tiles in Siena, Italy // insta @rauschvoi

[thisismyideaofhumor]

I always wondered why the Western Zodiac and the Chinese Zodiac were both called zodiacs if one was associated w astronomy and the other w time in general. Like what defines a zodiac that the word is only used to describe these two things? Looking up the word “zodiac” in the dictionary didnt help bc it only talked about the western one.

Well, I decided to look up the etymology for zodiac and it turns out it comes from the Greek for “circle of little animals.” I love humans

[okayneat]

was unwilling to accept this outright so i checked etymonline and, truly:

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[kf1n3]

Wanted to compile all my 1 hour teacup painting studies together ☕

[coisasdetere]

Sky Globe by Edward Hald (Swedish, 1883-1980), Engraved Glass, 1920. Swedish painter, graphic and first and foremost glass-artist.

[electronicgallery]

Bowl with Fish, Iran, probably Kashan (late 13th–mid-14th century).

[filmnoirsbian]

Very interesting to me that T. S. Eliot is often quoted as saying "Good poets borrow. Great poets steal." When in fact what he actually said was "One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest." Which of course has a completely different meaning, less "All the greats plagiarize," and more "Completely original ideas are a fantasy; the originality lies in how you weave an idea that has been previously woven differently."

[thecornercoffeeshop]

Doors of Jaipur

[haridraws]

Drawing some lanterns~ Happy new year, hope you can find some light in the dark

[arsenicinshell]

Celestial Ceilings