Mouth of the Ocean

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[velvetmasonry]

Tigers by Antoine-Louis Barye, c. 1850-69

[1000-life-hacks]

[unscriptd-deactivated20260317]

Gustave Doré

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Jon Klassen -  The Skull

[metamorphesque]

Boromir, The Horn of Gondor by Donato Giancola

[mouthoftheocean]

@brooklynislandgirl

[weltenwellen]

Franny Choi, from “Catastrophe is Next to Godliness”

[uraeuseraph]

This Too Shall Pass این نیز بگذرد - Epic Iranian Music

"The Iranian singers in this composition will remain anonymous.

For Iranians living in Iran, the consequence of expressing the message of this song is imprisonment, torture, execution.

This poem was written by Saif Farghani in the 14th Century, under the oppression of Mongol rule.

This composition is dedicated to the thousands killed in January of 2026, those imprisoned and being tortured as this is being written, to their loved ones and families."

Music by Farya Faraji, ney by Ali Farbodnia, lyrics from a 14th century poem by Saif Farghani.

Lyrics in Persian:

هم مرگ بر جهان شما نیز بگذرد

رونق زمان شما نیز بگذرد

ای تیغتان چو نیزه برای ستم دراز

این تیزی سنان شما نیز بگذرد

در مملکت چو غرش شیران گذشت و رفت

این عوعوی سگان شما نیز بگذرد

آن کس که اسب داشت غبارش فرو نشست

گرد سم خران شما نیز بگذرد

بر تیر جورتان ز تحمل سپر کنیم

تا سختی کمان شما نیز بگذرد

باد خزانِ نکبت ایام ناگهان

بر باغ و بوستان شما نیز بگذرد

زین کاروانسرای، بسی کاروان گذشت

ناچار کاروان شما نیز بگذرد

بادی که در زمانه بسی شمع ها بکشت

هم بر چراغدان شما نیز بگذرد

این نوبت از کسان به شما ناکسان رسید

نوبت ز ناکسان شما نیز بگذر

English translation:

Death upon your world too shall pass,

The glory of your age too shall pass.

O you whose blade, like a spear, is stretched for oppression—

Even the sharpness of your spearhead shall pass.

In this realm, the roar of lions came and went;

So too shall the barking of your dogs pass.

He who rode a true horse—his dust has settled;

The dust from the hooves of your donkeys too shall pass.

Against the arrows of your tyranny we raise the shield of endurance,

Until even the strain of your bow shall pass.

The autumn wind of ruin and misfortune will suddenly

Sweep over your garden and your orchard as well.

From this caravanserai, many caravans have passed;

Inevitably, your caravan too shall pass.

The wind that in its time extinguished many candles

Will pass over your lampstand as well.

This turn of power has fallen to you—unworthy men;

The turn of you unworthy men, too, shall pass.

[themakeupbrush]

Zuhair Murad Couture 2025

[seasons-in-hell]

Betty Jiang

Hathor

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

The Three Norns Winding the Rope of Fate (1910) - Arthur Rackham

[oldshrewsburyian]

There had been things between them, but he laid them low, as a retreating army cuts the wires, destroys the bridges.

"The Fallen Idol," Graham Greene

[theransonearchives]

[expressions-of-nature]

by Sergey Bragin

[metamorphesque]

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

[portalibis]

Image of the goddess Isis on the foot of King Tutankhamun's gold outer coffin New Kingdom 18th Dynasty Egypt 1332-1323 BCE

[stuckinapril]

Noticed that your soul rots inside of your body and you lose the ability to properly express yourself when you don’t read. Does anyone else know about this

[sharpenededges]

Valère Bernard