[innerchildabortionclinic]

your cat was an honor to see in the window

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

stop using chatgpt!!!! take a bronze pin and carve your questions onto an ox scapula, then toss it into the fire!!!! use the cracks to divine the gods answer!!!!

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

citations still have to be APA 7th edition though. if you plagiarise, the gods will flood the yellow river again. and you'll lose your academic standing.

[dkpsyhog]

(The Gods, personal communication, July 18, 2024)

[paleolithic-art]

Frieze of the Small Horses, Axial Gallery, Lascaux cave

Magdalenian, 15,500 ybp

[rthwrms]

lascaux arcade carpet *_*

[snowboundnight]

scythes and detail

[rthwrms]

thinking about coptic mummy paintings and weeping

like. i know these people

[orphanedinstoryville]

These were produced from around the time of the Roman annexation of Egypt in the late 1st century BC to around the Christianization of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century CE.

They were a continuation of the Egyptian tradition of funerary masks but rather than sculpting them and making them of precious metals, they began painting these lifelike portraits.

It’s hotly debated whether this is an example of Greco-Roman realist style imposed on their subjects, or a home grown Egyptian development of their own ancient tradition. Those who say it’s more Egyptian than Roman point out that there’s no surviving paintings in the rest of the Roman Empire that were this realistic. Those who say it’s more Roman than Egyptian point out the arid climate left these portraits intact, and beleive the others in the rest of the empire were lost.

Personally I think you can call them Egyptian because these people, whether of Roman or ancient Egyptian descent, are still the ancestors of the modern Egyptians today.

Despite the realism you can see a slight exaggeration of the eyes, smoothing of the skin and inclusion of certain important objects around the subject’s head. It’s a pattern that would get more and more pronounced until it became the style of Byzantine iconography in the Orthodox Christian Church

[ymutate]

Stefan Johansson (Swedish, 1876–1955)

Street Lights along Klarälven River, 1941.

Watercolor and tempera on canvas, 47.5 x 37.1 cm.

[oracle-fae]

standing in the glade I heard a quiet psithurism, just straddling the line between music and noise.

[porcyworld]

furiously searching online "what do animals do out in a rainstorm" while it's raining

[porcyworld]

nobody worry too much because they all produce various oils and have different densities of fur to keep them dry and warm as well as seek out shelter under thick vegetation

[nolanfa-clayworks]

ptarmigans! Once fired their little pink eyebrow should be red.

I'm unsure how I'll treat the white though. Could leave it as is, could smoke it, could glaze it transparent.

100 series: 15-18: ptarmigans

whole series here

[irenes-tender-world]

cave waters

[sacred-portal]

[crippled-peeper]

whenever I feel lonely I think of the sum total of all individual human beings who contributed to cultivating food crops and I pick up a vegetable and ponder how thousands of years of intention from my species has brought it to my hand

[victusinveritas]

Textile art featuring a school of koi fish, by artist Lin Xia.

[depsidase]

[hoidn]

[image is an old advertisement for Howard Johnson's that reads "Joan Crawford says... Let's Eat Out Ladies!" joan crawford as well as two stock image women appear very pleased about this.]

[susanssarandon]

a bisexual icon

[alaskanay]

American Kestrel | Raptors of North America

[fluffysheeps]

Bumble sharks 🐝🦈