#colum

[paintingsandhistory]

Witiza , Visigothic King

Artist: Manuel Iglesias y Domínguez (Spanish, ¿? - 1853)

Date: c. 1853

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

Associated with his father Egica on the throne, in the year 700 Witiza was appointed king of the Suebi in Galicia , establishing his royal seat in the city of Tuy . Upon his father's death two years later, he succeeded him as sole king of the Visigoths. Although little is known of his reign, some anonymous chronicles mention that he brought peace and prosperity to his kingdom. He was a less belligerent ruler than his father, and he lifted the punishment imposed on those he had exiled, returning to them their property, slaves, and even positions in the palace.

[allegorypaintings]

The Sense of Sight

Artist: Philippe Mercier (French, 1689–1760)

Date: 1744-1747

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

Echoing most closely the composition of The Sense of Hearing, this scene of three young women and a boy sitting with their tutor beside a parapet in the open air employs optical accessories to stand for the sense of sight. The gentleman examines with his magnifying glass a map of part of the east coast of Spain and the islands of Mallorca and Menorca, perhaps explaining to the girl seated beside him their geographical and political significance to Britain. Over his shoulder, the other two girls peer through a telescope (left) and tilt a small mirror (right), while the boy in the foreground bows his head and refrains from looking at anything.

[readingsquotes]

I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘Campus Antisemitism’

Smears from the press and pro-Israel influencers are a dangerous distraction from real threats to our safety.

"Here’s what you’re not being told: The most pressing threats to our safety as Jewish students do not come from tents on campus. Instead, they come from the Columbia administration inviting police onto campus, certain faculty members, and third-party organizations that dox undergraduates. Frankly, I regret the fact that writing to confirm the safety of Jewish Ivy League students feels justified in the first place. I have not seen many pundits hand-wringing over the safety of my Palestinian colleagues mourning the deaths of family members, or the destruction of Gaza’s cherished universities. 

I am wary of a hysterical campus discourse – gleefully amplified by many of the same charlatans who have turned “DEI” into a slur – that draws attention away from the ongoing slaughter in the Gaza Strip and settler violence in the occupiedWest Bank. We should be focusing on the material reality of war: the munitions our government is sending to Israel, which kill Palestinians by the thousands, and the Americans participating in the violence. Forget the fringe folks and outside agitators: the CUAD organizers behind the campus protests have rightfully insisted on divestment as their most important demand of the Columbia administration, and on sustained attention to the situation in Palestine.

And we are not alone. College campuses across the United States have followed Columbia’s lead. 

And so, it is my hope that we can all learn from their examples to remain clear-eyed about the stakes of this crisis and focus on the actual violence being perpetrated in all of our names. "

[thanergetic-hyperlinks]

surely I'm not the only one who's noticed Silas Oktakiseron and Colum Asht basically look like these two:

Tamsyn was this on purpose

[g1deonthefirst]

12, 16, 19 for violence! <3

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

gestures at my URL. stan gideon the first!!! pyrrha compares him to wake (the woman who impregnated herself for a shot at killing john. also underrated btw) in his willingness to burn for what he believes in, which indicates a really fiery personality hidden under 10,000 years of dissociation and i wish people were more interested in exploring that. i also think he's so clearly set up as a parallel to harrow - a genius of a failed lyctor who's spent most his life (ten THOUSAND years) struggling with a memory that lies to him, so it's deeply unfortunate that he mostly gets reduced to "muscular boring guy." ALSO as aster's pointed out by failing to fully ascend to lyctorhood he is literally The queer-coded lyctor straddling the line between (and often performing a dual role of) necromancer and cavalier. i could go on about this forever but i need everybody to start caring 150% more abt g1deon right tf now.

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

i don't understand the flattening out of griddlehark as a ship in general but i specifically don't understand the desire to paint gideon as a dumb jock golden retriever girlfriend. she's a complex character who is very frequently snarky and bad-tempered (as she should be!) and is smarter than the fandom gives her credit for, and i feel like people really don't like to engage with all those complexities and i don't get it.

19. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like…

colum asht??!?!? literally never paid any attention to him before but all of a sudden during this gtn reread his character clicked for me like i'm just suddenly very interested in everything he's got going on with his dynamic with his weird little uncle and his bred-for role on the eighth house. idk maybe im a colum stan now. weird!

[jamiemacdubh]

every outlander episode   》  one - two   》  castle leoch

you need not be scared of me. nor anyone else here, so long as I'm with ye. when you're not with me? just never forget that you're english, in a place where that's not a pretty thing to be.

[revui]

shoutout to this guy, who is at his most enjoyable when he has recently been severely injured

[gideonpyrrha]

speaking of silas he and colum r interesting for the fact that they are THEE prime example of what is wrong with the cavalier/necromancer dynamic. and then all other cav and necro pairs are like wasnt that fucked up? couldnt be me tho. when theyre literally doing the same thing in different ways