🎀товарищ, верь: взойдёт она💫

☭ liza. adult. tme (cis). she/her.

[komsomolka]

spiritually, this is me. the whole look... the instant noodles stand... perfection.

[songs-of-the-east]

Kazakh Woman donning a bridal Säukele

[bloodfilledegg]

I’m so sorry Heated Rivalry fans but this is how all your posts look to me

[miamaimania]

Vogue Italia July 2019 by Harley Weir

[expressions-of-nature]

Baransky Volcano Hot Springs by Natalia Zakharova

[gawdland]

"divorced the wife today. Probably wont get the kids. Drank beer that was 300 caIs. Gonna go yell at minorities on facebook."

#oldmanblogging #this is an old man blog #this is what makes us old men #the big lebowski #hell is a middle aged man #male testeria #man interrupted #humbert #nickleback #im just a man

[boyslovevisualnovel]

No hate to this person but you have to laugh a little

[tamamita]

I'm so glad this man is living in fear now

[tamamita]

[skyrigel]

downloading my pdfs and epubs so i can always never read them

[pleuvoire]

you can’t possibly truly believe this is how the world works

[vintagepromotions]

Soviet poster promoting archery as a sport, featuring two archers; one in contemporary clothing and another in traditional historical costume (c. 1970).

[classicslesbianopinions]

it is like. i am deliberately not posting that much about the nolan odyssey because i don't have much genuine interest and i find the whole like outrage theater people do at adaptations to be exhausting and unproductive and often misguided + i don't really care what celebrities are doing. but zendaya's 3000-year-old iranian earrings are like. such an on-the-nose fuck you. like 1. you can practically feel the stylist going "oh, it's old, it must be on-theme!" without really considering that ancient cultures are not interchangeable. but also 2. there's a very clear and important difference between ancient greece and ancient iran, in that there's a reason zendaya isn't wearing ancient greek artifacts on her ears--ancient greece has a cultural cachet that ancient iran does not, by virtue of its position as the perceived origin point of "western" (white) civilization. they are just interchangeable enough that zendaya can wear the artifacts of one civilization to a premiere of a work based on the mythos of another, but just different enough that she can get away with one but not the other.

and of course there's 3. which is that modifying and wearing a cultural artifact of dubious provenance taken from a country the us is actively bombing (and in doing so presumably destroying plenty of historic buildings/artifacts) asserts a certain lack of respect for and/or sense of ownership over that country's people and culture. and obviously this is what makes it seem like such a specifically heinous move.

[perrenlore]

Really important to note when it comes to (3) that the elite (and frankly Orientalising) appropriation of ancient Near Eastern artefacts as jewellery has a long colonial history. Cylinder seals are these little cork-shaped cylinders with pictoral or written designs engraved on them, and work the same way as a signet ring in that you could roll them over wet clay to leave an impression of the engraved relief on the clay to dry. They look like this:

(Cylinder seal of First Dynasty of Ur Queen Puabi, found in her tomb, dated circa 2600 BC, with modern impression. Inscription: 𒅤𒀜 𒎏 - Pu3-abi(AD) Nin - Queen Pu-abi. Nicked straight off Wikipedia as it's a fab comparison of seal / relief.)

In the British Museum you can find "Lady Layard's jewellery". Austin Henry Layard is a guy whose academic efforts I'm admittedly very indebted to. He was passionate about Venetian and Roman glass and did a great job re-popularising both styles in the UK, but more importantly he was the assyriologist who excavated Nineveh and the Library of Ashurbanipal—where we've found the majority of the Gilgamesh tablets. Pioneer figure in terms of Near Eastern archaeology... but check this out:

This is a necklace Layard had made for his wife. It uses real cylinder seals.

To quote the British Museum's entry on the item: One cylinder seal is Akkadian (about 2200 BC) and four belong to the second millennium BC, but eight are late Assyrian (about 1000-612 BC). Late Babylonian and Achaemenid stamp seals (about 600-350 BC) are used for the pendants and clasp.

Enid later wrote in her diary that, when they dined with Queen Victoria in 1873, it was 'much admired'.

Ancient Near Eastern artefacts, repurposed as jewellery in a set that doesn't give a single fuck about accurately dating them, let alone treating them with the sort of respect you might perhaps expect of items over four thousand years old. Instead they've become a mark of elite colonial status, an Oriental curiosity utterly separated from their historical context. They're 'old'. They're non-descriptly 'other'. Time and place dissolve into an attractive and vague exoticism.

All while the place these seals have been appropriated from is busy being exploited by the very empire this "jewellery" is being shown off to!

So to bring it back to your third point: you're absolutely right!!! And this has precedence dating right back to the start of Western study (and plundering) of the Ancient Near East. It's a carelessness, it's an ignorance of historical context, and it's explicitly colonial.

[classicslesbianopinions]

thank you for the added context!

[officialpenisenvy]

think you the shiv bitch you not even the tom

[ladyofthebookcase]

aw mannnn

[guileheroine]

woc characters get put on a pedestal in their fandoms in a way that is so boring and itself kinda dehumanising. i dont just wanna hear about how they’re flawless queens, i want them to feel specific and real. and i understand why it happens, especially with younger fans, but fandom of these characters that’s oriented more around defending them from haters rather than engaging with them (beyond empty, repetitive adulation) is so… limiting and profoundly boring. you could explore these characters on their own merit instead you neglect any potential interiority, humanity, complexity in favour of letting rando haters be a hair trigger and building your faves up as impenetrable fortresses against them. and then its just girlboss with a coat of brown paint

[death-of-cats]

honestly HOTD in all its mediocrity makes me appreciate GRRM's writing all that much more. this season I'm especially grateful for his version Cersei, a female character so unsympathetic and yet so human. the show puts all of their characters through this glossy filter, it feels like they are never allowed to act out in ways that would alienate them completely from the audience. and that is a line GRRM is never afraid to cross, he never holds his characters back from doing the Thing, no matter how the reader will feel about it. he'll let Tyrion and Cersei think their ugly thoughts and do their horrible deeds, and let you decide whether or not you'll come along for the ride.

[riverlarking]

the "biblically accurate angel" trend is such a perfect encapsulation of a pet peeve i have which is everybody wants to criticize the bible but nobody wants to read the bible. like when people were drawing crazy amalgamations of eyes and wheels talking to mary and saying "be not afraid" and everybody was like omfggg OF COURSE she was scared. like no actually the angel looked like a guy can you read 3 lines of text... they were saying be not afraid because it's scary when a random man suddenly shows up in your house and starts talking to you