mercy, pity, peace, and Love

guided by torchlight and calm black dogs • “isn’t it all art?” • 30s, they/them • goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/172034341

[knightofarsons]

arsondaughter ➡️ knightofarsons

relevant prologue 📯📜

(I am notoriously bad at introducing and describing myself so bear with me and understand this is likely to have many edits.)

you can call me V and I’m [exact age redacted] in my 30s and that’s enough information, my pronouns are they/them, I’m nonbinary*, a feminist, I’m autistic, multiply disabled, and I’m in recovery (🔹).

*agender is a more apt micro-label, as is ‘into women’/nblw.

my posts/content can have to do with my lived/living experience including but not limited to the aforementioned ‘about me’ basics.

I write, I music (intentionally phrased), I believe that the more I breathe art in and out the better my existence feels and becomes.

(my favourite band is joy division.)

☉ pisces ☾ sagittarius ↑ libra.

bigots as a whole can fuck right off. you’re not welcome and I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t enjoy your stay either. (that is not a challenge.)

if you are under 18, please use your discernment to the best of your ability in choosing to follow or not to follow. rarely is anything I reblog or post genuinely inappropriate, and I do my best to appropriately tag potential sensitive content and trigger warning as needed. if you are under 18, I will not follow you back. it’s always nice to see some faith in humanity restoring thing online that makes me think ‘(some of) the kids are all right’, but kids is the key word. stay safe.

my posts/rbs might pertain to my craft, worship, et al, as a Hellenic polytheist pagan; my faith and spirituality also includes witchcraft as well as nichiren buddhism. devotee of Hekate, learning more about + feeling called to Aphrodite and Hades. (also generally constant learning of the Gods and things relevant as a helpol.) also leaning into (re)connecting with my geographic/cultural/ancestral pantheon of Slavic and Balkan deities and lore - still learning, so I don’t feel equipped to explain that deeper.

my spins include trees, forests (old growth!!), plants, music, guitar playing/technique/theory/etc., black holes and some quantum physics space stuff (a newer one!), goth (music, culture, presentation in that order), silversmithing and jewelry making, wild birds, alternative fashion (runway/haute couture and street style), (particular aspects of) history, visual art, architecture, philosophy (existentialism, absurdism, nihilism in that order), literature, tarot, poisons, death/surrounding practices etc., languages (especially Latin, dead languages as a whole; living ones are good too though), gargoyles, swords, medieval weaponry, antiques, lord of the rings, the whole Victorian and also medieval eras, lunar cycles/moon phases and surrounding practices, vampires, stones (favourites: malachite + ocean jasper!) so those are often themes here.

this blog is meant to be something of a maximalist zen garden, or sometimes a quiet rooftop, a safe and enjoyable space for my brain; I do also quite like that connections are to be found and made and the good displayed in humans. I’ve been on tumblr dot com off and on since about 2010 (an estimate) and this is my only blog, though not my first.

that’s all I have for now, seat yourself however you like if you like, and peruse and use the (virtual) tea cupboard - the kettle whistles, fair warning. 🫖

good tidings, potential friends. 🖤

[cuties-in-codices]

more medieval manuscript repairs

all from a miscellany containg thomas de chabham's "summa poenitentialis", southern germany (?), first half of the 13th c.

source: Basel, Universitätsbibl., B X 1, fol. 56r, 67r, and 71r

[septembercfawkes]

PSA: Just a friendly reminder that whenever you start a creative project, you will invariably hit a phase where the Thing™️ appears horrendous and you start asking existential questions. But if you keep working, it invariably passes and starts to resemble something less like the devil’s vomit. Doesn’t matter if it’s art, writing, or what–this happens repeatedly. Carry on.

[peteneems]

[futuremoji]

Your least most recent emoji predicts how your summer will end

[classicalcanvas]

Creation of the World (1864) by Ivan Aivazovsky

[evergreen-femme]

most controversial statement of all time apparently: trans women and cis women are the same gender

[nollimet]

Vindictae Trahit Exitium

Those who seek revenge shall destroy themselves

[antflights]

Tried to make an actual design for Hera

[ivyandbranch]

Get a Library Card even if you never use it

[gothredy]

[milksockets]

'thorn necklace' by ted muehling, 1987 in one of a kind: american art jewelry today - susan grant lewin (1994)

[owlowlowlowlowlowlowl]

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[partywithponies]

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

[partywithponies]

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

[partywithponies]

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

[partywithponies]

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

[dizzyghoast]

i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.

I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case

[metamorphesque]

René Magritte, Le pays des miracles (The Country of Marvels)

[gothredy]