sick & tired

avi - she/her - 26 - lesbian

[twosillycorgis]

I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING!!!

[oziads]

i am SICK of looking at ART!!!!!

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

"bosch" doesn't sound like the name of a guy who'd make paintings like that. but when you add "hieronymus" to the mix it starts to make sense

[txttletale]

[l;iving in Atrocity World,, the world where Atrocities are happening every single day] the sun has nefariously chosen today to rise, to distract trom the atrocities

[basedtaka]

let me hear you sing once more like you did before, sing a new song, Chiquitita

[formlab]

Hans Panschar

[the-mountain-life]

An old video I found that is just so peaceful and perfect

[twosillycorgis]

I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING!!!

[custard3unny]

I've know Kira for less than 2 seasons but she is soo so dear to me, I love you my baby soldier I cry often thinking about you.

I worked on this for like 3 days straight I love drawing again! Maybe!

[liniini]

Nina Simone photographed by Micheal Ochs, 1967

[girlsattack]

The Talking Bird, 1959.

[cavatas]

Edvard Munch - Winter in the Woods, Nordstrand (1899)

[boundwithpurple]

Two more unusual examples of sacrifices of humans come from Crete. The first is the well-known site of Anemospilia, located on the north side of Mount Jouktas and variously described as a temple or a shrine by the excavators. Here, a small building consisting of three parallel, elongated rooms fronted by a corridor was destroyed by an earthquake in MM II–MM IIIA (first half of the seventeenth century B.C.). Traces of a temenos wall were also identified. It appears that a ritual involving human sacrifice was interrupted by the earthquake. The corridor, with its many ceramic vessels, bench or shelf-like structure, and trays associated with goat and bovine bones in the western end, may have been used in preparation for rituals. The eastern room is interpreted as having been used for bloodless offerings and also contained a large amount of ceramic vessels and a stepped altar with ‘ritual’ vessels on top of it against the southern wall. The central room may have been the centre of the cult—it had a slightly higher threshold than the others, and against the southern wall was a bench made from the natural rock. On it was found a rhyton and a ‘bucket’, with many more vessels in the rest of the room. Near the bench were found two life-size clay feet with ash from burnt wooden material, interpreted by the excavators as belonging to a xoanon, a cult idol. In the doorway of this room was the skeleton of an adult killed by blocks falling during the earthquake. Associated with this person was a large Kamares ware vessel decorated with a bull in relief. The western room is where the human sacrifice had taken place. It did not contain a large amount of ceramic vessels, as the other rooms did. Instead, there were three human skeletons. Two of them, a woman and a man, were also killed by the earthquake, as suggested by their placement in the room and their bodily positions (the woman having fallen on her stomach, the man on his back and seemingly holding up his hand in a defensive position). The third person, however, was lying on his side on a small platform, with his legs bent in a manner that suggests he was bound. Near his stomach was a bronze weapon, probably a lance or spearhead.

compelled by how incredibly haunting spare factual descriptions of archeological finds can be [from “symbolic order: liminality and simulation in human sacrifice in the bronze age aegean and near east,” laerke recht]

[marcheriest]

macavity the mystery cat, for a patron

[memories-of-ancients]

Earthenware dog figurines, China, Han Dynasty, 2nd century AD

[anton--rayne]

I suppose I should ask on behalf of my fellow ignoramuses why that persepolis quote is bad. I thought it was prescient, particularly to highlight the common humanity between the people of two countries that are hostile to each other. I don't think the part about our governments being the same are correct as America's worse for the world, but I didn't expect people to hate the quote that much.

In the era we live in, a government cannot exist independently of its people, "the usamerican government & the usamerican people" are not completely unrelated entities that happen to be on the same land with the people having no influence whatsoever on the government, nor is that true for any country on earth, let alone the Iranian people. The quote tries to ignore this reality by pretending as though the people of all countries are unrelated victims of their governments

While the "east" and "west" aren't perfect descriptions the world is very much divided! Again, the political scene does not exist independently of the population! Denying this reality denies the very context all governments currently exist in and make their decisions based on, it is denying the very active global hegemony's oppression, it therefore denies how the governments of SWANA exist in relation to it: sucking up to the west in expense of the populace and / or trying to protect the populace, it denies the victimhood of all Iranian people within this order actively hostile and deadly to their very life because it pretends such a hostile order does not exist in the place.

As you said it yourself too, "(our) governments being as bad as USA is incorrect". It is actually the worst offender here, the above so far is a deeply flawed understanding of how states & the world order operates. This deeply flawed understanding piles up to logically result in the final misconception: That the US; the deadly force that has been causing suffering and mayhem in SWANA for over a century, couping and scheming to install puppet regimes that results in the death of millions, dehumanizing everyone within the made up category of "the middle east", (something it carries from the west before it!) and the very aggressor here, is the same as its victims

The Iranian nation is a victim of the US, the Iranian Government does not exist independently of the people, the "just the government, not the people!" play pretend of trying to position the government as seperate from the general populace just furthers the said justification to attack every nation the US victimizes. Therefore it is a very detestable quote, born from mistakes in analysis the citizens of periphery who gather fame in the core unfortunately tend to fall in by passively internalizing the core's logic used to manufacture consent and combining them with the sometimes valid complaints they had of their state, admittedly it can also be from trying to assimilate by appearing as the Good Token Anonymized Person Of The Global South who would never think the opposition to the west is justified

[anton--rayne]

Hence why it is especially disgusting with the turn of events that people think this quote is """relevant"" in any way, though of course if the US and its proxy entity were to attack not any civilians but military targets, they would still be very much making their intentions clear

[smallrituals]

MY OWN THOUGHTS by Helena Minginowicz (Polish, b. 1984)

acrylic on paper towel, 23x48 cm, 2026