“the bride will now recite her vows.”
space. the final frontier. these are the voyages of the starship enterprise. it’s ongoing mission, to explore strange new worlds. to seek out new life and new civilizations. to boldly go where no one has gone before.
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Snippets in Stone
Here are two unusual stone fragments. The object at the top is an “ostrakon”, a piece of stone or pottery filled with text, in this case from Byzantine Egypt, dating from c. 600. While the fragment seems to be part of something that was initially much bigger (a sizable pot filled with a long biblical text, perhaps), it was actually always meant to be like this: a snippet with only a few words. The object was filled with text after it had become a fragment, as can be seen from the words written on its side. It is the equivalent of a page from a notebook. The second image, from 1280 BCE, has an even stronger draft connotation. This piece of stone was likely a teaching tool used by a master who showed his apprentice how to draw a face. The pupil subsequently tried out a pair of arms, which look clumsy - lots to learn here. Both items deceive us: they seem broken and insignificant, yet are complete and full of history.
Pic: (top) Metropolian Museum of Art, Accession nr. 14.1.103, dated c. 600 (more here); (bottom) Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Accession nr. 32.1 (more here).
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random reSWAN snip
I just happened across it while editing things and even though it’s several chapters away, I liked it, so here it is
I did the same thing but said “that makes ME SO MAD I’LL PUNCH A BABY” and I didn’t hear the end of it for the next three days about how inappropriate it was. Learned not to say that again. Thanks, tumblr.
oh my god, yessssssss
I am so glad other people have done this shit.
It’s weird what sounds okay on tumblr because we have this kind of collective level of profanity that’s turned up to 11 that we’ve started having to elevate words like ‘useless paperclip’ to low level insults to compensate for how casually we all talk of fuckstains and pissing on things and punching babies and 'fuck me sideways’ and whatever else. It’s like it’s weird to go to real life where the meter is calibrated differently.
Though I find this applies to more important things all the time. I get some kind of culture shock in real life about feminist issues all the time.
i love you guys who doesn’t even watch the thing just reblogging my shit anyway, you’re so great
and then you’re all tagging it with ‘omg this is amaze’-type stuff and it’s like 'awww, they don’t even go here~~ that’s so sweet~~’
You guys are so nice.
Artist, Jeff de Boer, Creates Cat And Mice Armor Based On Different Historical Eras
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