sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat

Selin, 29, English MA student. Canada. ************************************************* "And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars." - Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[tarttism]

it's me birthday 🎂

[kurhanchyk]

"historians will call them friends" buddy you're looking at this because of historians

[kurhanchyk]

"do your own research" good luck with paleographic analysis of the sources then

[textbooksandtendus]

Katelyn Yang of BalletMet at Helsinki IBC

Photo by @littlecorgi_studio

[pmamtraveller]

Detail of Falling Cherry Blossoms, by Tatsumi Shimura, 1953, Japan.

[rocktheholygrail]

[rocktheholygrail]

today!

[rainwashedsoul]

[dreamyvixen]

denari chainmail coin purse by luna de sangre

[witchsteria]

i do think what gets ignored about carrie as a character is that she’s an incredibly easy target to bully; she’s a chubby, sheltered acne ridden teenage girl who wears frumpy grandma clothes and regurgitates the jesus freak shit her violently abusive mother tells her. she has violent thoughts about her classmates and is uncomfortable to be around. she’s far more interesting being a victim that’s somewhat uncomfortable to be in the head of than a tragic waif. she’s not a martyr, she’s a child and a child who’s been victimised her whole life shouldn’t have to be kind and angelic to be recognised as a victim. suffering teenage girls shouldn’t just be presented on screen as toned down glamorous thin ophelias, suffering teenage girls can be fat and poor and think violently. i do think we need to examine why culturally we need teenage girls to be beautiful and kind to valorise their suffering and treat it as bad

[rosierlily]

yuhan wang spring ‘26

[cryptotheism]

What sets the mysteries apart from other elements of Greek religion is their focus on ceremony and personal transformation. The Greco-Roman world was full of public ceremonies in which government officials might sacrifice a bull and recite some prayers for a crowd, but these ceremonies often only marked an occasion. The beginning of a harvest, the return of an army, the swearing-in of a new government official, etc. The value of a mystery rite was personal and transformative. The ritual was built around how it changed the participants. They marked a change not in the seasons or politics, but within the self. There are also the more practical aspects of Greek mystery rites that should not simply be left implied. A weeklong holiday of feasting and carousing, culminating in taking drugs and performing in a secret play enacting one’s own death, sounds like a blast. It is no wonder they attracted peasants and emperors alike.

Mystery Rites, today on Patreon

[bauhaus-movement]

Good evening from the world of Bauhaus. Great lighting is never just about illumination. It is about clarity, proportion and atmosphere. Values that have defined Bauhaus design for more than 100 years and continue to inspire contemporary interiors.

Browse iconic Bauhaus lamps:

https://www.bauhaus-movement.com/lamps

[saintsebastiensbf]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

[greggaraki]

There is a silence where hath been no sound. There is a silence where no sound may be. In the cold grave, under the deep deep sea.

The Piano | 1993 | dir. Jane Campion

[mossyshadows]

five short stories to appreciate from my archives!

l'espirit de l'escalier by catherynne m. valente - modern orpheus and eurydice retelling if orpheus succesfully bought eurydice back, but in a reaminated corpse state.

let's play dead by senaa ahmad - ahistorical anne boleyn getting murdered by henry viii only she seems to keep coming back to life.

fish (in 13 sections) by eric ozawa - a man post break-up contemplates the word fish. sometimes it's fun to read an absurd tale

the man who ended history: a documentary by ken liu - observational time travel used to reckon with japan's unit 731 and the atrocities committed there; a heartbreaking exploration of historiography through multimedia

story of your life by ted chiang - a linguist encounters aliens.

[marypickfords]

Jennifer (Joel Newton, 1953)

[tacaleo]

AMADEUS 1984, dir. Miloš Forman

[arielseaworth]

“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.”

- A Most Wanted Man, John le Carré