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Verona, Italy

i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.

#christianity has been thinking of being oppressed as a virtue since long before the internet came along #text post rb

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

#art #ornaments #feline #peru #moche civilization

manticoreimaginary

It doesn’t look that exciting, but this linen is from the New Kingdom (ca. 1492–1473 B.C.)

Thinking about it for too long makes me feel absolutely insane.

manticoreimaginary

The description on The Met includes the line ‘The cloth was repaired and laundered in ancient times’ and that also makes me feel light-headed.

It’s so beautiful and so simple and so so old

#ancient egypt #new kingdom

sixpenceee

Here’s a picture of a bumblebee butt and it’s little legs hanging out of a flower just in case you needed it today.

#wildlife #nature photography #bees

riding-with-the-wild-hunt

revealing of many things perhaps that the ‘you don’t know what you married’ fairytale trope contains such marked thematic differences between male and female protagonists… the selkie, animal wife/swan maiden, and lamia motifs being associated with the heteropatriarchal terror of perceived-feminine interiority; that if you don’t materially force your wife to stay, she might one day be gone, that there are things about her you don’t know and may not be able to understand. while female-focused versions of the structure—bluebeard, the robber bridegroom, fitcher’s bird, mr. fox, and so on—encapsulate the very real danger of abuse without recourse to anything but one’s own cleverness: the common fear that the person you marry and know might turn out to be a stranger after all, or that you may be forced to marry without even superficial knowledge or choice.

#fiction tropes #on male and female characters #text post rb

maureen2musings

takemoreadventures

#nature photography #woods

perioddrama

CRIMSON PEAK (2015) dir.: Guillermo del Toro

#crimson peak #film

theladyeowyn

COLOR MEME → @please-dont-pet-the-okapi requested:

The X-Files + winter colors

#the x files

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"View of the Sea by a steep Cliff during Sunset" by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1883

#art #Ivan Aivazovsky #seascape #sunset #sea cliff #romanticism #marine art

scuba-divers

'fairies dont exist' WRONG❗❗cyerce elegans

#nature #wildlife #cyerce elegans #sea slugs

color-palettes

Sail the Frozen Seas - Submitted by SeesawSiya

#02263c #04627e #4b8fa4 #859bb2 #fedfc0 #e5bca0

#colour palette

phaeton-flier

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

phaeton-flier

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

theaudientvoid

centrally-unplanned

Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.

And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.

theabigailthorn

love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears

#bears #text post rb