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[ancientcharm]

 Roman Rock-Crystal Die. 1st–2nd century A.D

British Museum

[victoriantomodern]

Two winged beasts, Northern Qi (550–577 CE) or Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE), earthenware with appliqué and glazed decoration, Princeton University Art Museum (1, 2)

[herpsandbirds]

Cloven-feathered Dove (Drepanoptila holosericea), family Columbidae, endemic to New Caledonia

photograph by Lev Frid

[hbystuff]

Luminance

[memories-of-ancients]

Sardonyx cameo with a double Capricorn on portrait of emperor Augustus, Roman, 27 BC - 14 AD

from The MET

[konoko]

[hannahorca]

Creature ✨

[centuriespast]

Acropolis Museum

photo by Hilary Harley

[lichenaday]

I found this the other day. It kinda liked like a castle or a coral

Do you know it? It was in Oregon if that helps. There’s probably more than one lichen in this picture though

It's a Cladonia, I can tell you that much for sure! Most likely Cladonia carneola, but Cladonias can be really morphologically variable and so without chemical testing I can't be 100%. A perfect little fairy castle! I love it.

[gremlininho]

A butternut woollyworm ♡

[herpsandbirds]

[imaginarylands4000]

"When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God"  (NIV)

[afieldinengland]

there you have seen your true dark enemies of england. sick father and mother, who would have us children forever. stephen, our land must live. this land we love must live. her deep, dark flame must never die. night is falling. your land and mine goes down into a darkness now, and all the other guardians of her flame are driven from our home, up out into the wolf's jaw. but the flame still flickers in the fen. you are marked down to cherish that. cherish the flame ‘til we can safely wake again. the flame is in your hands, we trust it you, our sacred demon of ungovernableness. cherish the flame, we shall rest easy. stephen, be secret. child, be strange. dark, true, impure and dissonant. cherish our flame. our dawn shall come.

[thesorceresstemple]

Penda’s Fen, 1974

[tridentandtales]

Egyptian statue of the pharaoh Taharqa offering wine to the god Hemen

Third Intermediate Period, 690 - 664 BCE

Louvre E 25276

[herpsandbirds]

Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus), male, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, northern India

Photograph by Sriram Reddy 

[thesophistiicate]

if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time — when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.

beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.

let yourself be affected. let yourself find things beautiful and let that be enough. life is not asking you to be cool, sitting on the sidelines and nitpicking everything. it’s asking you to see life and experience it fully.