#broken noses

[moratoirenoir]

[quietlyimplode]

ooooh "im not gonna hurt you" w nat whump?

Hi Anon! I've been sitting on this for a while, cause I didn't really know what direction to take it in.. Soo I went the easy route and just did it as an insert (it’s not my fav, and feels so rushed but it’s done!). 

Broken Noses and Apologies

Clint presses hard to the cut on his nose as he looks in the mirror. Rolling his eyes, he sniffs, and feel blood slide down his throat.

“Tasha?” He calls, hoping she answers, as he hears the door swing open and the unmistakable sound of plastic shopping bags being pushed through the door.

“What?” Comes the loud reply, annoyance bleeding through.

“Can you com’ere?”

He hears the bags drop, and the sound of her footsteps down the hall.

He wipes at his nose once more before turning to face her as she appears at the door.

“Shit. What did you do?” She asks, handing him more toilet tissue to stuff up his nose.

“What did I do?!” Clint huffs, “Why do you think it was me?”

Natasha serves him a look, that he knows to mean, ‘you know why’ and he ducks his head sheepishly.

“I was putting your books up on the bookshelf and I slipped.”

Looking at the shelving and then back towards Clint, Natasha gives him a strange look, and backs up; it’s gone before he registers what he sees. Sure there's some blood on the mahogany shelf, and sure, he expected more ribbing like asking him how he fell on his face; instead, there’s… nothing.

She just goes back and unloads the shopping.

He sniffs again, making his presence known, as he walks into help her. She passes him the eggs and they pack away in silence.

“You ok?” He ventures.

“Fine.” Comes the predictable response. "I'm sorry you hurt your nose."

.

They’re sparring in the gym as Natasha throws a punch. The left; right, combination is easily avoided but he completely misses her foot come up and smack him audibly in the head. It takes a second to orient himself as she grins at him.

Shaking his head, he repositions himself guard up. He throws two punches and then grabs her wrists, locking them behind her back and then whispers in her ear.

“Got you.” He grins.

The look on Natasha’s face is one of feral emotions. She yells and finesse is gone as she whips her head back to head butt him, cracking his nose and breaking free from his grasp.

She looks at him like she’s not seeing anything at all.

“Hey,” he says, hands up in surrender, “I’m not going to hurt you.”

They stay in a holding pattern for a minute before Natasha gets a hold of her breathing. He doesn’t move a muscle but feels the slow drip of blood from his nose.

“I’m not going to hurt you,” he says again.

It’s enough to break Natasha out of whatever emotions are masked. He keeps his hands raised as he takes two steps back, grabs the drink bottle behind him and passes it to her.

“I’m not going to hurt you.”

Natasha blinks and replies slowly, taking the bottle from him.

“I know you’re not going to hurt me, you idiot. I’m going to hurt you.”

He cocks his head.

“What do you mean?”

“I always hurt the ones, I..” She bites her lip, looking at him as he swipes at the blood on his nose. “I hurt those around me, it’s what I do.”

He shakes his head vehemently. She can’t think that. This was more his fault than hers.

“I’m sorry.” She adds, passing the drink back to him.

“Don’t worry about it,” he tells her, wondering what the hell just happened.

.

He hears the yelling from the couch and is immediately on alert.

Natasha is wrapped in blankets and is fighting to push them off of herself.

“Get off me, no.” she moans, and he tries to help, pulling the purple blanket away whilst saying her name in an even tone.

“Natasha.” He says for the third time.

Limbs fly as she catches him as he’s untangling her. Why is it always his nose? His eyes water and he takes two steps back, forearm to nose to stop it dropping blood onto her.

She’s awake and watching him, haunted eyes reaching watering ones.

“I told you.” She says forlornly.  “I told you.”

Clint knows she’s referencing the sparring session of two days ago; and can’t help but think she’s made this into a self fulfilling prophecy. “This is nothing.” He assures.

He lifts up his top and shows the scars of a bullet, “This is something. This really hurt.” He smiles. Turns and shows his back, where a whipping mark lays, “This also hurt, but you got us out.” He takes another breath, “Oh and this one,” he shows the scar on his ankle where he fell into a briar bush; “this was the most painful of all!”

She shakes her head.

“I did that to you.” She gestures to his nose and the yellowing of his eyes.

“I should know better.” He wants to call her out. How can someone know better in the thralls of a nightmare. It is perhaps a conversation for another day and not 3am.

“I’m sorry.” She mutters.

Clint offers a hand.

“Nothing to apologise for,” he assures. “ Now, come back to bed.”

She glances at him and shakes her head. “I think I’m going to watch TV.”

Anger rises.  “No.”

“What?”

Clint shakes his head back at her. “No.”

She frowns at his insistence, and he pulls the blanket away from her.

“Follow me.” He says and stalks back to the bedroom. It takes a moment, but she does as he requests.

All my fic.

[nappynewz]

Why do so many Egyptian statues have broken noses?

Why do so many Egyptian statues have broken noses?

Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The most common question that curator Edward Bleiberg fields from visitors to the Brooklyn Museum’s Egyptian art galleries is a straightforward but salient one: Why are the statues’ noses broken? (more…)

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[thehereticpharaoh]

Why Are the Noses Missing From Egyptian Statues?

The curator of the Egyptian Collection at Chicago's Field Museum says it's not unusual that the bust is missing her nose.

[moratoirenoir]

[thehereticpharaoh]

Do you feel that the skin complexion and appearance of ancient Egyptians are accurate and is it true that archeologist at the time blew the noses off of majority of ancient Egyptian artifacts because they resembled black noses, please give me feedback?

Historically I would say that Kemites (Ancient Egyptians) skin complexions ran the gamut of light honey to jet black. Kemet (within the scope of what makes up modern Egypt) was at least 386,700 sq miles. So it’s not out the realm of possibility that someone from Memphis in Lower Egypt (near modern-day Cairo) would have a different complexion than someone that was from Aswan in Upper Egypt. There is evidence that the Ancient Kemetic/Egyptian people were ethnically African (tests showing heavy amounts of melanin, meaning darker skin complexions like those of Sub-Saharan Africans) Kemetic languages have a much stronger connection with more African dialects than West Asian or Mediterranean ones.

Historically I would say that Kemites (Ancient Egyptians) skin complexions ran the gamut of light honey to jet black. Kemet (within the scope of what makes up modern Egypt) was at least 386,700 sq miles. So it’s not out the realm of possibility that someone from Memphis in Lower Egypt (near modern-day Cairo) would have a different complexion than someone that was from Aswan in Upper Egypt. But that’s not to say everyone in one area had an olive skin complexion a la Yul Brynnr in “The Ten Commandments”. 

I’ve never read any letters or journal entries about archaeologists that ever suggest they purposely broke noses off of statues; The appendages are the weakest points on statues. I can think of countless statues from Ancient Greek, Roman, and West Asians that are missing body parts. I’ve seen dozens of Ancient Greek statues of men missing their noses and penises which is probably after a while they always sculpted them smaller than normal). Could it be that some archaeologists wanted to eradicate any notion of Ancient Egypt’s association with Africa? It’s entirely possible, there just needs to be more concrete evidence. These works of art are thousands or of years old. They have witnessed wars, insurrections, revolutions and natural disasters and unfortunately not all of them came out unscathed. 

Look at the Sphinx at Giza; legends have passed over hundreds of years what happened to the Sphinx’s nose? There’s the tale that a cannonball fired by Napoleon’s soldiers hit the nose and caused it to break off. Sketches of the Sphinx by the Dane Frederic Louis Norden were created in 1737 and published in 1755, well before the era of Napoleon. However, these drawings illustrate the Sphinx without a nose and clearly contradicts the legend. The Egyptian Arab historian al-Maqrīzī wrote in the 15th century that the nose was actually destroyed by a Sufi Muslim named Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr. In 1378 CE, Egyptian peasants made offerings to the Great Sphinx in the hope of controlling the flood cycle, which would result in a successful harvest. Outraged by this blatant show of paganism, Sa'im al-Dahr destroyed the nose and was later executed for vandalism.

[unbfacts]

What Is the Reason Behind So Many Ancient Statues with Broken Noses?

Statues with broken noses have become so common even experts didn’t question their existence, but what is the reason behind the disfiguremen

[sunny-blue]

shoutout to my people with odd noses. I’m talking broken nose babes that never got it reset just right, bumpy babes, crooked, a little fucked up. I love you and you’re so hot and please kiss me on the lips.