Will you spill the wine?

♰ Orphée // 24 // they/them ♰ pfp @nonalimmen

[fanghusband-remade]

fuck this *closes the lid of my coffin*

[loumargi]

Arthur Loureiro / Australia 1853–1932

[liivn]

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[ducissatenebrarum]

Memento Mori silver ring, English, 1700s

[erikkwakkel]

Medieval book transport

You are looking at two ‘wraps’ (top), the outside and inside of a box (middle), and a leather satchel (bottom). What they share is not just their old age (they are all medieval), but also the purpose for which they were made: to transport a book from A to B. The actual reason for transporting books in these objects varied considerably. The wraps are late-medieval girdle books, which were hanged from the owner’s belt by the knot. The text inside - which was often of legal or religious nature - could be consulted quickly and easily: just unwrap it and read. The box (and the ninth-century book inside) had a more exotic use: the package functioned as a charm for good luck on the battlefield, where it was carried in front of the troops by a monk. The satchel, which also dates from the ninth century, was just a bag to transport a book while on the go - it was popular among monks. Read more about these fascinating devices in my blog post “Medieval Books on the Go” (here).  

Pics -  Wrap at top: Stockholm, Royal Library (16th century, source); Wrap below it: Yale, Beinecke Library, MS 84 (15th century, source); Box: Dublin, Royal, Irish Academy, D ii 3 (8th/9th century, source); Satchel: Dublin, Trinity, College, MS 52 (Book of Armagh, 9th century, source).

[freakoutgirl]

how to do things that everyone else seems to do no problem

[lisaaolivia]

february journals

[dozydawn]

book of ornamental alphabets, 1863.

[battle-for-dyke-island]

doctors love saying “it’s just your anxiety” to mean “I don’t have to treat you” as if anxiety doesn’t need to be treated

idk if your anxiety is so bad you have tics or repeated vomiting or horrible migraines or trouble breathing or seizures or fainting spells or temporary paralysis or or or IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU SHOULD TREAT THAT FUCKING ANXIETY!!! (and if you start treating anxiety and the symptoms don’t go away it might be that the anxiety is caused by the symptoms and not the other way around. and you should treat the underlying cause)

even IF it is “just anxiety” it still needs to be treated

[worldsandemanations]

The earth in space.  The beauty of the heavens. 1842.

[nodevolucion]

[lioncourtz]

JACOB ANDERSON as Louis de Pointe du Lac

An Inside Look at 'The Vampire Lestat' x

[aqua-regia009]

The Rise of Songs, 1904 - gouache, charcoal on cardboard — Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski (Polish, 1875-1944)

[the1920sinpictures]

1914 Colorized photo of the Austrian Imperial Train, salon car, of Emperor Franz Joseph. From Steampunk Tendencies, FB.

[saintmaudes]

omergilony 🕍

[thischarmingand]

My neighbors left this outside last week but frankly I don’t have time to become the protagonist of a horror audio drama right now.