a little world made cunningly

i like to draw, i like to record podfic, big fan of chekov's horny gun, aka face-cupping. madecunningly @ ao3 @[email protected] madecunningly @ deviantart

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Pirate queen Isabela please cure me from this art block!! roars!!!

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i've been sneaking my cat's meds into his food (and he's been suitably dramatic about it)

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[samirasystole]

random but here is a recipe for cold peanut noodles that you can make during hot weather because i just ate this and had a fantastic time

2tbsp of peanut butter. a splash of rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, maple syrup. some chili flakes, some sesame seeds. a splash of water to thin it out. now you put in your noodles (cooled!!!! boiled and rinsed so they’re cold!!) and then some chopped up cucumber or carrot or avocado or cabbage or any crunchy vegetable. i just used cucumber

you can also put in lime juice or herbs or sriracha or grated garlic/ginger or anything like that; tofu/tempe/meat for more protein etc. noodle wise this can be ramen soba udon whatever, i used soba. enjoy homies

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Carousel Dogs by Tim Racer

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Natural Bridges - Brookings - Oregon - USA

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[everythingfox]

The paw on the window

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Cnetizens: Why the thousand-year-old stone statues at the Northern Song Mausoleums aren’t covered with glass enclosures.

The director of the Cultural Relics Bureau replies: "They’ve stood here largely intact for over a millennium. Why add extra barriers?"

Visitors worry wind, rain and sunlight in the farmland will wear them down. The director explains:

Glass covers speed up decay—it’s like locking the statues in a sauna. Trapped heat and moisture create sharp temperature shifts. Salt crystals inside the stone expand and crack the carvings far faster than open-air exposure.

These statues blend naturally with the farmland landscape. Glass barriers would destroy the sense of scale and historical atmosphere.

When first built, the mausoleum complex was a restricted royal compound ringed by walls, palaces and pine trees—no farmland at all. After the Song fell, protection systems collapsed. Wars and weather destroyed buildings. Local residents gradually dismantled the abandoned structures, reusing timber and bricks in nearby villages.

By the Ming and Qing dynasties, villagers turned the empty grounds into farmland, leaving stone figures scattered amid crops.

Few people damaged the statues for three reasons: each weighs several tons and is impossible to move; folk belief held that anyone who damaged the guardian statues would be cursed with misfortune; every later dynasty passed laws punishing those who vandalized former imperial mausoleums.

Once an exclusive imperial burial ground, now ordinary farmland—this shift tells the story of history. Glass covers would only be unnecessary. As an old Chinese poem puts it: 旧时王谢堂前燕，飞入寻常百姓家

The swallows that were wont to grace the halls of Wang and Xie, Now seek the humble roofs of common men.

(cr 大鹅呀eyaeyaeya，陈帆fotochen，摄色📸，腾腾兔兔🐰)

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looking for animal references on image searches has always kind of sucked but it's much worse after AI image generation technology has begun to actually past muster, which is why i always just go straight to inaturalist. can't recommend this highly enough. you get to both find out about niche species you've never even heard of and also see some really good photographs like this one

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[roberttingle]

annoying when shows set in the medieval period have the women with thier hair just long and unstyled and out . girl go put on your wimple girl 🤦‍♀️

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like there are so many fun medieval hair and headgear options, it's so boring just seeing loose beachy waves meant to appeal to 21st century beauty standards

put that hot prince in a gay little hood with an ostrich feather or so help me god

[hellallamerican]

bronze age mediterranean dashboard simulator

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i'm opening commissions for hand-carved cylinder seals!!! i only accept payment measured with lydian weights (sorry i've been scammed by sumerian weights before 😔) send me a tablet if ur interested!

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was it really necessary to bring up to bring up the scamming 🙄 sumerians already get such a bad rap

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maybe ea-nasir shouldn't have scammed her then. did you think of that?

#sumerians think just because they invented writing that they're enki's favorites #but theyre not anyone else's favorite

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call me crescent the way i'm so fertile

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top 5 ideas for a megaron that will impress your rivals:

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have a better megaron than them

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who do you think is attacking the coastal towers?

dorians

trojans

etruscans

mycenaeans

philistines

Voting ended onSep 11, 2024

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the etruscans wouldnt do this 😤🤬 this poll is so fucked up

#and also the trojans just lost everything to the greeks they dont have the resources to attack right now #my gold is on the dorians

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your url is literally "tuscan-raider"......

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that doesnt mean anything

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has anyone heard from wilusa lately?

#you guys used to love wilusa

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girl there's a war

#???? achilles is there and everything

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i'm tired of the king always butting into my affairs. we need a free and open marketplace with less regulation

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aren't you the copper scammer??

#i dont think you can be trusted with a free and open market

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hot sun god summer 💅😎

#all my followers better reblog this or ur not gonna be allowed on the sun barge

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a frothy beer in a ceramic cup and some dates and tying a net with the boys. can't get any better than this.

#might even go to faiyum later

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ok but no one actually believes that paris and helen are in love, right? menelaus is a much better husband than paris could ever be

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menelaus we need you on the battlefield.. get off the slab

#we are under fucking attack

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sea peoples? yea i see people every day. on my shoreline.

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i hate my fucking parents

#theyre ruining this kingdom #can't wait until i'm pharaoh #we're gonna go back to the way things used to be

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got a big shipment of luxury goods setting sail today i hope the seas are in my favor!!!

#especially because so many ships have sunk on the route we're taking

🕛Posted 1325 BCE

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can we get an update on this shipment??

#i dont think the seas were in his favor

🕛 Posted 1319 BCE

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come here little eunuch boy i can be so normal

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uhhh the temple snake bit me. what do we think this means?

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i have just been informed that akrotiri has been destroyed

#i knew it wasn't a good sign....

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[darlingofdots]

i want to paint i want to spin yarn i want to do pottery and bookbinding and soapmaking and needlefelting and embroidery and breadmaking and biscuit decorating and and and

[darlingofdots]

oh and quilting and wood carving and gardening and making jewellery and play an instrument and dance and sing in a choir and flower arranging and! so many ways to make art and so little time!!

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

Mcdonald's ad in the Skyway News (1983) via Hennepin County Library