oops I accidentally separated myself emotionally from everyone to avoid feeling any bad feelings & it worked but at the expense of my sense of connectedness and belonging
Fayum Mummy Portraits, dating from around 30 BC to the mid 3rd century AD.
The portrait heads were attached to Egyptian mummies of the Roman period, covering the faces of the deceased In the top pictures, you can see now they were bound to the mummy. Dating from the time of the Roman occupation of Egypt, they are closest to Graeco-Roman artistic traditions. Around 900 are known to survive and they are some of the only surviving evidence of Classical panel painting traditions. Due to their burial in hot, dry conditions with the bodies, many have survived in excellent condition.
The term Fayum comes from an area of graveyards (necropoli) where they were found in large numbers, buried in communal catacombs.
Painted on wooden board (and sometimes on cloth), either in encaustic (wax) or egg tempera.
“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”
The great critic Barbara McClay has written about the "politics creep" in every corner of human life, though really of bourgeois Anglophone human life, where every act from reading a novel to lighting a scented candle can be justified - and in fact, self-consciously needs to be justified in advance - as a bold act of resistance. Pretending that self-care is a brave political act detracts from actual political acts, and it sucks the life out of life itself: turning every moment into a performance for an audience, for an imagined crowd of other people on social media. This is other people not as fellow complicated human beings, but as fearful object, whose inner lives are imaginable only insofar as they might be watching and comparing and judging us for whether we've done enough, whether we're wasting our time. And books and movies and TV shows and every other form of fiction will always be, to some extent, a waste of time, as having friends will be a waste of time, as being in love is a waste of time, as every possible action or thought you may have could be considered a waste of time if every second of your life has to prove its value, and has to get a job.
from Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality by Lyta Gold
Next time you’re watching any news show or political coverage see how many of these you can spot:
Quick rundown of each propaganda technique:
• Glittering Generalities: Using vague, emotionally appealing words (like “freedom” or “justice”) that sound good but lack specific meaning.
• Transfer: Associating a person, idea, or product with something already respected or disliked (like using a flag, religion, or celebrity image) to carry over those feelings.
• Name-Calling: Attaching negative labels to an opponent or idea to create fear or distrust without real evidence.
• Card-Stacking: Presenting only positive information for one side and leaving out or distorting the negatives.
• Testimonial: Having a famous or respected person endorse an idea, product, or cause.
• Plain Folks: Presenting the speaker as an “ordinary” person to seem relatable and trustworthy.
• Band Wagon: Urging people to follow the crowd with the idea that “everyone else is doing it.”
A whale seemed to "come from nowhere" and appear on the beach while Father Albertus was taking a Sunday afternoon stroll after his sermon had ended.
Some are calling it a “strange act of nature” as a couple of fishermen just off the shoreline saw the whale appear to breach the shore and open its mouth to “swallow the poor fellow wholly up”.
The whale then abruptly returned to the sea leaving the witnesses in disbelief. They returned to shore to tell of the sight to every townspeople that would listen to them. “If it hadn’t been so early in the day, I would have said drink had blurred their vision."
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An unknown man was found a fortnight ago laying by his still-saddled horse, without any life still within his body. He showed no signs of trauma, and his horse faithfully stood by his side on the ground. Local authorities are…
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Gerrie: (The Witch Trial) Great source of pride. We caught 'em, we burnt 'em.
Close-up of the painting behind the dress:
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And of course the Cannibalism incident:
CANNIBALISM IN GOD'S HOUSE
Storm From Hell. The Deadly Storm from 1786
Forced inside the church, they immediately turned to cannibalism.
(In the middle of the page there's another headline: Recent Strange Occurrences Reported)
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Up, right: some dead animals? on the beach?
Below, left: a giant squid attacking a ship?
I'm out of ideas on these two, but the first one certainly looks like a haunted house and in the second there is maybe a body there??
Also for some reason there is another bloodied dress there, but it doesn't look like part of the Witch Trial because it's not in the same place and there is a spinning wheel beside it. I have SO many questions 👀
@theressomehorrorsinthishouse I tried to add a bit of brightness to the painting below the "haunted house" pic to see if you might be right. Still not sure what this is about, because that looks like maybe a cross so that could be a priest and a possession, but if that's not a cross... then the story could be so much different.
Also, this week (ep 1x07) Wick mentioned the creature with tentacles attacking them when he was young so I guess this one is confirmed:
I am using Discworld to figure out how to use Procreate. Also...it was nice challenge to draw just dialogue scene in slapstick way.
Ughhh...I would love to spend year or two drawing Feet of Clay graphic novel, I love that book so much x_x
...and I have no job just now...I should ask around...about how licences works or something....
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does that suck, mark? is it not fun to have your privacy violated? do you feel uncomfortable with people knowing things about you that you'd rather they not know? tell me more about how much you value your security and privacy, mark.
this is going to be difficult -> i am capable of doing difficult things -> i have done everything prior to this moment -> this difficulty will soon be proof of capability
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