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thepioden

Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

thepioden

tags by @eridan-ampora

thepioden

Update: this is the best post I've ever made because everyone is sharing their Warm Beverage recipes in the notes. Go check the notes for more Warm Beverages That Will Fix You.

goldenjuniper

i like to imagine that zagreus just sits and pouts in the styx whenever he gets frustrated after a close run (this is me projecting)

under-a-shady-ash-tree

teresitaleal

Viejos sentimientos I -102 x 61cm -2021

iamthepulta

What's the first question that really pops into peoples' minds about Ea-Nasir? I'm trying to write this history down, but I'm struggling.

iamthepulta

After looking through the evidence, both, but moreso the second.

Ea-Nasir's tablet is dated to 1750 BC, which is coincidentally aligns to the death of Hammurabi. For context, he lived at the end of the Isin-Larsa Period, a time in Babylonia's history where it was a collection of warring city-states. Ur and Larsa were the most powerful of these, since they were farthest south and controlled most of the trade coming up the Persian Gulf. (Isin, near where Hammurabi was from, was in the North and had lost power about 200 years before.)

Right after Hammurabi's death, all the city-states he'd conquered, including Larsa and Ur, decided that they didn't give two squats what the people in the North thought, and started a rebellion.

The tablets in Ea-Nasir's house have been translated. It's very difficult to find them, but the book is called Foreign Trade in the Old Babylonian Period, Leemans 1960, and he makes a series of interpretations that still align with our understanding of the culture today:

Ea-Nasir was hot-headed. 3 tablets note him talking rudely to messengers and traders.

Ea-Nasir sold copper to private merchants AND the temple, which was the government of Ur. The receipt we found is in such a large quantity we can assume the government was likely his primary buyer. The complaint tablets are from notably from private merchants.

Ea-Nasir was an alik-Tilmun; or 'one who travels to Dilmun'.

Where is Dilmun? Good question! Archaeologists spent the next 40 years figuring it out! At this point, they're fairly certain it's in present-day Qatar. The city was used as a midpoint port to bring in copper from Magan and Meluhha (current-day UAE/Oman and India respectively.)

The reason we know this, is because Oman is an old, old copper-producing region. It's an ophiolite (rock from the seafloor that's been uplifted to the surface) that contained a spreading center (think Mid-Atlantic ridge) which forms deposits of copper and other metals as sulfides from the black smoker vents (copper-iron sulfur, lead sulfur, zinc sulfur, etc.)

To produce copper, you have to remove the iron and the sulfur. To remove the iron, you add "flux", which essentially bonds iron to silica, because it likes silica more than copper does. And to remove the sulfur, you add oxygen, which burns off the sulfur as gaseous SO2.

The copper is heavier than the iron and silica, and sinks to the bottom of the furnace. The iron and silica, slag, flow out the side. The resulting ingot looks like the bowl below. And a lot of times, holes remained from gas getting trapped at the bottom.

They measured copper by weight though, so this wasn't too much of a problem. However, if there weren't enough flux, or the fire wasn't hot enough, iron would also get trapped in the copper ingot, making "black copper"; if a merchant wanted the 97% pure copper that could be made using this process, a lot of iron would definitely be considered 'bad copper'.

Switching back to the culture!

Around 1800 BC, the same time as this was going on, the culture of Oman underwent a noticeable decline. Many of their coastal mines stopped producing copper and people moved inland. They also stopped making bronze with tin. This is notable, because tin was scarce in the Bronze Age and insinuates they might've been left out of the trade route. At the very least, they had stopped being Mesopotamia's primary supplier and started doing their best to keep up with the times.

(At this point, I'll point a finger to Cyprus, which was firing up its smelters at the same time. Cyprus is very interesting, but it pertains less to Ea-Nasir, so I'll just wave enthusiastically at their oxhide ingot copper and tin trade domination.)

So we can't know if Ea-Nasir wasn't a chronic scammer, but I think all the evidence outlines a different story.

Ur, a powerful city-state rebelling against a conqueror within Ea-Nasir's lifetime. Ea-Nasir, selling large amounts of copper to the government, and smaller sales to private merchants who complained about being given scraps; a man who was still traveling to trade copper in a state that had lost their monopoly on the copper trade and was possibly producing some less-than-ideal quality.

He mostly sounds like a person with strong ties to his city and culture. Maybe not the best copper merchant, but certainly a passionate one.

References below the cut:

ospreyonthemoon

aretarers

mantra when you fuck up is "i'm in my early 20s it's literally not a big deal"

spritespi

[ID: Uncolored digital drawing of a person gritting their teeth and clenching their fists, thinking "i fucked up a bit but it's FINE i'm only 22 it's FINE i'm literally at the beginning of my life". End ID]

cosmereplay

mantra when you fuck up in your 40s

[ID: Uncoloured digital drawing, emulating OP's style, except this character wears glasses, is fatter, and has short hair. They're frowning and blowing out a long breath, and there's a page labeled "apology" in their clenched fist. They're thinking "I fucked up a bit but it's FINE I'm 42 and I'm literally FINE I've fucked up so many times I'm basically an expert". End ID]

tvguts

every single time time i try to check facebook marketplace for furniture i get jumpscared by this (admittedly sick) custom baljeet coffee table

sanacibo

oxidized copper is such a beautiful color palette. The rich reds with the cool teals. Such a vibrant combo. No one is doing it like her.

sanacibo

[ID: Photos of an oxidized copper plate, an oxidized copper pipe, and oxidized pennies. End ID]

hello gorgeous do you come here often

thingsisaidweredumb

can someone PLEASE tell me WHAT the FUCK happened to thesaurus.com and dictionary.com

WHAT CORPORATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR RUINING THE BEST THESAURUS ON THE FUCKING INTERNET

i will STEAL HEADs and watch them ROLL i stG

i want to stab.

koipalm

i want a new zagreus design so bad

starrforge

Long haired Zagreus plEASE

o-dang

im going thru golden kamuy hyperfixation era now so here's some gk fanarts ive done

i have other account for gk only posts on twitter @odang_gkv

i dunno how long it'll last, but if you're interested, guess you can check it out

dryya-doesnt

Doodling them bc they hit me like a truck during my finals (overtook my mind)

fleshgardens

dillyfirestarter

The armour of Laios Touden from Delicious in Dungeon. I always love finding a Japanese author who's done their research on armour from another continent and assembled something believable for their medieval-based European characters.

The parts are:

Gorget, protecting the neck

Pauldrons, protecting the shoulder

Cuirass, the plate armour protecting the back and front of the torso above the waist (a breastplate is only the front part of a cuirass)

Vambraces, protecting the lower arm

Faulds, protecting the front between the waist and groin. The equivalent protecting the back side is the culet. I'm assuming these are faulds and culet as they have the horizontal lines that on real armour were segments of plate

Update: This has been confirmed to be a hauberk, as it’s a robe of chainmail! Thank you to @lucky-fy A hauberk or mail skirt (depending on how high on the body it starts from) provides flexible extra protection for the groin and tops of the thighs

Poleyn, protecting the knee

Greaves, protecting the lower leg.