Sid

he/him/any(?), late 20s everything is a game to me. and i take games very seriously :-) profile pic by @mg.houston on Instagram … currently reading: Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge recently watched: Bouchra (2025), The Invite (2026) listening to: Nia Archives, Lifafa, Farya Faraji, Lowertown playing: Magic the Gathering

[elbiotipo]

the funniest thing the Chinese Crusader Kings 3 community did is, after years of western players saying they don't want China and India added because of "performance", the first thing the Chinese modders did when the devs added China was a mod to deactivate Europe

[elbiotipo]

do we really need these weird kingdoms like "France" and "Byzantium" in my scholar-officer simulation game? It's not like you're gonna interact with them in your average Song Dynasty playthrough... I guess a lot of people want them but idk... to me they just worsen performance :/

[sivavakkiyar]

Idries Shah, The Exploits Of The Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin

[sivavakkiyar]

Idries Shah, The Exploits Of The Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin

[blueiscoool]

Sicán Gold Mask Circa AD 900 - 1100

The Sican (also Sicán) culture is the name that archaeologist Izumi Shimada gave to the culture that inhabited what is now the north coast of Perubetween about 750 and 1375 CE. 

[memories-of-ancients]

Bronze sword and axes uncovered near Hajdúsámson-Hegedűs-hegy, Hungary, circa 1700-1600 BC

from The Deri Museum, Hungary

[cuties-in-codices]

cute sun

in an alchemical-medical manuscript ("Hausbuch des Pfarrers Valentinus aus Ottrau"), germany, 1529

source: Kassel, Universitätsbibliothek, 4° Ms. chem. 82, fol. 21r

[sivavakkiyar]

William Carlos Williams

[cosmicanger]

“Feline heads“ Peru, Mochica culture 1st to 8th centuries AD

[mysterycat-official]

this is my favourite tweet of all time

[lycheeboy]

real life used to look like that actually

[worldhistoryfacts]

My favorite artifact from this week’s post on the history of chocolate — a Mayan mug with the glyphs on a diagonal so that they’d be horizontal when the drinker tilted the cup.

Some pre-Columbian chocolate vessels were elaborate:

And others simpler:

How chocolate became a stimulant that made the modern world:

Chocolate: a Stimulant That Made the Modern World

"There is nothing comparable in the world"

[seanofbeankeep]

Imagine getting expelled from school for being an atheist and years later that school builds a monument to you but of your dead drowned corpse with your dick out.

They do it all classy though but still

[iliketurtles55]

(Sequel to ‘This memory is being forgotten’)

[pudulogy]

[loveridden1999]

for those unaware today india experienced one of its biggest protests in half a decade. there were protests all over the nation for various causes but the major one was in delhi. all we asked for was the resignation of the education minister because he's failed the students of this nation time & time again. but we were met with brutality, the police had barricaded the main site of protest (jantar mantar). metro stations were shutdown, the public was restrained from reaching the protest site and all the adjoining areas had signal jammers to make sure the crowd had no access to constant updates. they had us blocked from all the sides. they were lathi (baton) charging students from one side & releasing tear gas from the other. you couldn't walk 100 m on streets without having a tear gas shell thrown at you. there were many students, women & kids bleeding — some from their head. some couldn't walk anymore. the police had removed their nameplates & acted with full impunity to resort to unprecedented levels of violence. they were pelting stones at us, beating up people for no reason, forcefully detaining them and attacking us constantly with tear gas & rubber bullets. they wouldn't let you exit either. the crowd was peaceful & looking out for each other yet they were met with violence. i made a friend who was all alone & she asked to join me & my friend because a policeman wouldn't leave her alone. he constantly prodded her for personal info, invited her back to the jeep saying they have food there, wouldn't stop following her around. you couldn't call or ask anyone for help, we were left to fend for ourselves & be on a constant lookout if you did not want to be beaten up to death by police. all for what? asking a resignation? shame on this country.

[mybeingthere]

Mantle, Peruvian, Paracas-Nasca, South CoastEarly, Intermediate Period, Phase 1AD 1-100, Peru, South Coast.

Design: rows of shaman figures with heads thrown back, worked solidly with wool.

Camelid fiber plain weave embroidered with camelid fiber in stem-stitch, 142 x 241 cm (55 7/8 x 94 7/8 in.)

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/36603

[distantvoices]

By Félix Dol-Maillot for Heatline Magazine June 2026

Emmanuelle Ramos (Fashion Editor/Stylist), Ellen Walge (Makeup Artist)

[folkfashion]

Barabaig bride's dress, Tanzania, by African Ceremonies

[sivavakkiyar]

Jeet Thayil, “Malayalam’s Ghazal”