[wistfulwizard]

Turgon, creating the hidden city of Gondolin, 126 FA, recolourised

[valtsv]

the worst thing about writing or any kind of craft is having an idea you're really excited to make a reality but then you sit down and realize how much work it's going to take to get to that point and suddenly you feel like those two little gay guys in the mountain in the lord of the rings

[valtsv]

do you remember how good it was in our head mr frodo

[fujikosouvenir]

Promotional poster for David Lynch's Dune (1984) illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami

[homunculus-argument]

Reading a translation of Sarashina Nikki, a Heian era travel diary, and while I'm still on the chapters where she is still a teenager, I can't deny that I find the era's style, language and culture unintentionally hilarious. Everything's all

When the wind blows from the east, blooming flowers tilt to the west. When the wind blows from the north, blooming flowers tilt to the south. I wept at witnessing such beauty. We saw a mountain, it was boring. My aunt saw a lotus flower cast a shadow on silk in the light of the moon, and the sight was so beautiful that she exploded. I'm writing poetry about the plum flowers. One of the servants gave birth and died. I am receiving prophetic visions in my dreams in which I am clearly told what to do, and I've told nobody and done nothing about it. We ate soup.

[victusinveritas]

A Bronze Age deer stone in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. Birder for scale (image from Facebook).

More deer stones (images from Wikipedia)

[tochira]

Found a thing! It's behind a paywall but it's JSTOR so... hopefully library patrons can at least get access:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24049037

And a bit more:

Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites

Located on the slopes of the Khangai Ridge in central Mongolia, these deer stones were used for ceremonial and funerary practices. Dating fr

[victusinveritas]

Ooh, thanks for this!

[images-that-are-only-cursed]

[ymutate]

Sanami Shimada (Japanese, b. 1990- )

Black Poppy, 2020

Mineral pigments and gold leaf on Japanese paper, mounted on wood panel, 91 × 91 cm

[elmayordelosdiez]

Nikolai Dubovsky, Silence Has Settled (1890)

[talyris]

[japaneseaesthetics]

ARTIST: Takahashi, Hiroaki (Shotei) (1871-1945) TITLE: Mice, Radish, and Carrot MEDIUM: Woodblock DATE: 1926

[yama-bato]

Poster with Hanger Ferdinand Hodler - Lake Geneva with Alps

[twobeesornottwobees]

Martial, 2.87 (trans. Craig Williams, 2004)

[ariaste]

#you ever read a poem written 2000 years ago and think to yourself#'it's a shame martial never knew about twitter'

saying this all the time tbh. those bitches would have loved social media

[that-one-idiot-11]

whenever I tell a story I feel like Uncle Colm from Derry Girls

[valtsv]

kind of love it when someone is given a position of power they don't want and instead of being all reluctantly noble and stepping up to bravely bear the burden they're an immature cunt about it

[valtsv]

i don't mean competently evil. i don't mean they get tragically and sexily corrupted into becoming a suave, sensual dominator. i mean they recognise the illusion of choice and privelege that they've been collared with and regress to crying and throwing fits and sulking and indulging in petty cruelty like an overgrown child in the hope that someone "better" will decide they're unfit to rule and take it all away from them.

[parkchanwoohoo]

[purble-wav-fandom]

prev this is too good to just leave as a tag, you should've added it

[teaboot]

Names that are normal for old people but weird when you're a baby:

Bartholomew

Dolores

Norman

Harold

Magnolia

Names that are normal for babies but weird when you're old:

Maddison

Tanner

Skylar

Mckenzie

Logan

Names that are normal for old people and normal for babies:

Elizabeth

Mary

Michael

Finnegan

Peter

Names that are weird when you're a baby and weird when you're old:

Radish

Kerosene

Australopithecus

Anthill

Hegemony

Names that are weird when you're normal:

Balthazar

Romulus

Clandestia

Persephone

Kremulon

Names that are normal when you're weird:

Al

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks