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thegoodcultist · 7 months ago

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Thinking about Onfim

#tgc #onfim #ONFIM I LOVE YOUR DRAWINGS #i knowww you lived in the 13th century but #i think about you a lot

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uncanny-tranny · 1 year ago

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The thing that gets me about history and humanity is that you never know what is immortalized, and the things that will be immortalized are things you would never think.

I saw a person sharing a new tattoo, and it was one of Onfim's drawings. A boy who lived so long ago he is barely a blip now, but his drawings meant so much to people that somebody is now permanently marked in their skin with one of those drawings. Do you ever look at the things you make and just sit there and wonder if this is the thing that future people look at? Do you ever look at your art, your writing, your schoolwork, or anything that is yours and just wonder who will find it, who will fall in love with a piece of your humanity and become overwhelmed with emotion over? It's not unlikely. It's not totally unlikely that somebody will find a piece of you in the distant future and devoid of any other context of who you were will still love you because you were here. You were here, and you are still here, even hundreds or thousands of years later. Treat yourself with the same love that so many have for dear Onfim.

#positivity #gentle reminders #if anybody has ancient children's drawings beside onfim let me know they melt my heart #i have always wanted a tattoo of that kind of thing too and i want ideas #see if archeologists dig me up or whomever else they won't find significant tattoos or other things. they will see i have loss.jpeg on me #and i think that's just as important. these people must know that people are silly and weird and don't make sense and that's IMPORTANT #i'm just. so obsessed with this because it's instantly humanizing #what little child hasn't drawn humans with twelve fingers per hand #or those kids drawings where it's only a torso/head conglomerate with stick legs and hands #i just really lived seeing how their tattoo turned out because i wasn't sure if it would look good in ink and skin #i feel the same way about archiving the internet. i was looking for the written crochet pattern for something #and the person who wrote and created it passed away and their blog has been scrubbed #their blog only exists on the archives. their pattern is only accessible on youtube because somebody made a video tutorial with the pattern #it's an eerie feeling. they've been gone for two years but their blog has been tethered by the wayback machine

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mywingsareonwheels · 9 months ago

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I love you Onfim I love you Ea-Nasir I love you Pangur Ban (and your human!) I love you Claudia Severa I love you humans (and cats! and dogs! etc.!) from history whose names and joys and schoolkid drawings and dreadful copper and keen word/mouse-hunting and party invitations etc. we know.

<3

#history

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eukariote · 3 years ago

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Hey I saw your tags on my Onfim drawings and it made me super happy to know that someone made a presentation on his art ! I love Onfim's drawings so much ! I'm a beekeeper now but I used to be a teacher and my pupils were about his age, and the drawings always remind me of them.

Hope you have a neat day !

that's all so wonderful!! yes, it's crazy (and very cool) that his drawings & grammar exercises still survive!! the birch bark letters are a very interesting topic, in particular because some of them are totally ordinary—there's shopping lists, law records, and even homework (like onfim's)! it just makes you think "oh wow humanity has been the same for so long!!"

anyways, don't get me started on how cool all that is :) hope you have a neat day too!!

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