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Paola · she/her · classics lover, dedicated enjolras supporter, proud antifascist, cries over art a lot. no KKK · no borders · no war · gaius valerius catullus stan, octavian augustus apologist and s*xy sulla supporter · alcibiades was right · vergil lovebot · dm me if you want to spend quality time playing the lyre in some arcadian paradise

[un-paso-lejos]

Professor of Assyriology, Matthew Stolper standing in front of the Colossal Bull Capital, from the Audience Hall of the Darius I (518-460 BC), Persepolis, Iran.

[weaponwifer]

My favorite jokes are about mispronouncing philosophers' names but I'm afraid it's a nietzsche subgenre

[ransomnote]

my personal argument for open borders is really simple it just boils down to "i believe restricting human movement and barring certain people from certain places on this earth is a human rights violation"

[ransomnote]

i mean this. everyone should be able to walk freely between mexico and the united states, fuck an ID, fuck a passport, fuck a visa. it's land, continuous, uninterrupted land. the soil on one side of the fense has the same geologic makeup of the soil on the other. we drew this invisible line in the sand, we can wipe it away with our feet together. it is well past time the world organizes en masse for our freedom of movement.

[tobermoriansass]

Man I wish people would stop talking abt art in terms of it having a soul versus not having a soul. The language is poor and it also elides description of what you find actually interesting about the art, which is not just the surface level plot or emotion or character or simulation of reality, but the interplay of a creator's technique and the creator's eye bringing all these elements together to grasp at some slippery, interesting truth or exploration of the world. Soul is such a thin and banal way of describing that very deliberate process of making.

[luciuscorneliussulla]

please remember me and my massive lickable sword and my hot abs today

[charl0ttan]

honestly we used to have hard rock but now all we have is metal. what happened

[charl0ttan]

why do i even bother

[magescythe]

list of mundane things that feel like ancient human rituals

cleaning or wipe your bare feet

breaking off a piece of bread and handing it to someone

putting the weight of a basket on your hip or head

eating nuts or berries while hunched over close to the ground

seeing something startling just out of your line of sight and very quickly stepping or leaping on to a larger object to get a better view

cupping your hands into running water to wash your face

the unanimous protection of a baby or child in a public space where women are present

when an elderly woman laughs and grips your forearm tightly

[icarus-suraki]

May I add?

Touching someone’s face with the back of your hand to see if they have a fever

Stopping to watch animals moving in groups (geese, fish, horses, butterflies, bees)

Helping an elderly person to walk or sit

[xactodreams]

telling stories around a fire

huddling together for warmth when it’s cold

marveling at sunlight through leaves

wonderment at the brightness of a full moon

bringing food to sick or grieving families

[mirthandir]

[ladygolem]

>be trader in great city of Ur >see cutie at cattle market >”you look as lovely as the goddess Ishtar!“ >”thanks but i’d rather look like the goddess Bopha” >”who is this Bopha, that surpasses the morning star in her splendour?”

>unleavened bread spills out of tunic

[metamorphesque]

The opening page of "The Metamorphosis" (by Franz Kafka) from Nabokov's teaching copy

[armthearmour]

A pair of fabulously etched, blued, and gilt Gauntlets made for Karl von Austria, attributed to Jakob Topf and Elias Stark, Innsbruck, Austria, 1582, housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

[eternalgirlscout]

decriminalize:

sex work

addiction

criminalize: 

golf

[eternalgirlscout]

oh my god

[gaytrojanshit]

feeling sad so i made this 

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[pandariousgooch]

i never realized cuneiform was made with the corner of a cuboid tool, i thought the wedge shapes were carved such that you would press straight down with the tool at a 90° angle to the clay

[kitchenwitchupinthisbitch]

Wow! My mind is super into this new information

[ferret-on-pancakes]

[blackmagiclily]

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

周庄zhouzhuang, kunshan, suzhou, jiangsu province

[thoodleoo]

*puts a gorgoneion on your blog as an apotropaic symbol to ward off evil*

[vesta-knows-besta]

picture this: you are a sheep herder or something 2000 years ago. you think its a boring day like any other. you hear the loudest sound you have ever heard in your entire life. you see 40 elephants stomp through your little village in the alps. you try to explain what you have seen to your wife. you say they were big and grey and had horns on their face. she does not believe you. you never see anything that big again.

[mynocturnality]

Tiny shelter for ducks and swans in Sintra, Portugal