[wistfulwizard]

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

[medievaljournalist]

can i borrow the mandate of heaven for like 5 minutes

[orcboxer]

got a crick in my neck and a frog in my throat and a chip on my shoulder and a stick up my ass and now you're gonna stand there puttin words in my mouth? haven't I been through enough?

[blackberryred]

there's a really mean wikipedia editor on the page for peaches

[ltwilliammowett]

Portrait of the 'Mordaunt', Fourth Rate, built 1681, 46 guns, by Willem van de Velde, the Elder, circa 1683

[deanky]

Feeling old yet? Breaking Bad ended in the year 1890.

[aflo]

waldrip and jessimer synthesizing laudanum:

[memories-of-ancients]

This book will be essential reading for anyone studying Byzantine history in this period. It ranges in time from the death of the emperor Basil II in 1025 to the sacking of the city of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusaders in 1204, spanning the rise and fall of the successful Komnenos dynasty. Eleventh-century Byzantine history is unusual in that imperial women were able to wield immense power and in this ground-breaking book Dr Hill explores why this was possible and, equally, why they lost their position of influence a century later.

Why does this book have this cover? Why? Why why why why?

[theodysseyofhomer]

odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[strinak]

oh, you meant they literally did, ok

[theodysseyofhomer]

would i, tumblr user thee odysseyofhomer, lie to you?

[polyphemusthecylcops]

...

[theodysseyofhomer]

this is the only funny addition to this post

[armengoldira]

[should-be-sleeping]

Somewhat restrained summer fun.

[sunbride]

"Elementa Chemiae" (1718) di Johann Conrad Barchusen. Something inside me recognised that moment… even before I understood it

There are memories that don’t come from the past, but from somewhere even further back.

[sugiichi]

Ixobrychus sinensis [ヨシゴイ,Yellow bittern]

2か月ぶりに訪れた池はハスの花が満開😍

[uuiuu-deactivated20150720]

Ainu Robe, about 1900, northern Japan

[sexygaywizard]

[thejawsdevour]

Ivan Milev (Bulgarian) - All Souls' Day (gouache and bronze on paper, 1923)

[memories-of-ancients]

Triptych of Saint Mary Magdalene, Moszczenica Nizna, Poland, circa 1480

from The National Museum in Krakow

[o-craven-canto]

Come to the Human Cuisine Restaurant, we have:

Boiled grain

Flatbread with various toppings

Flatbread wrapped around filling

Fried lean meat

Stew of fatty meat and starch

Fermented vegetable

Oily sauce

Aromatic herbs

Stimulant alkaloids

Alcoholic beverage

[publicdomainreview]

The 19 maps in Edward Quin’s Historical Atlas (1830) show the limits of the “known world” at certain points in history (and from the very specific perspective of the Judeo-Christian West) via swathes of globe glimpsed through a mass of black cloud: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edward-quin-historical-atlas