#a relic of beauty

[frogoru]

i don't have a wig head so this dinosaur was the best option for me to use

[burningvelvet]

A Roman doll with moveable joints and accessories was found in the sarcophagus of Crepereia Tryphaena, an unmarried 20-year-old woman. The sarcophagus is dated to the late 100s (2nd c. AD) making the ivory “Crepereia Doll” nearly two thousand years old.

[bogkeep]

when i was a very small child someone gifted me a Pretty Box. it was fully decorated with plastic gems (i was REALLY into big colorful gems or anything that looked like it could be a fantasy artefact), but i still managed to find enough space along the lid to write "TOP SECRET!! DO NOT OPEN" or something of that manner with wonky writing and a regular amount of typos for a child. i was very excited about my pretty box of secrets.

the thing about having a Secret Box was this:

- i needed something Secret to put inside it

- i needed to share the Secret with someone. obviously

so after looking everwhere for something worthy of THE SECRET BOX, i pestered my mom into taking a look. i actually think she declined at first, telling me the point of secrets is to not tell anyone, but eventually she caved -

and found it full of bones i had found on the ground outside. i was immediately ordered to throw them out and wash my hands. such is the tale of the most short lived of Secrets

[kurithedweeb]

I just learned why Shad hates Irene in canon and knowing what I do now about everyone’s favorite the Matron, I can say with my whole heart,

What the hell, Irene

[spottedgardeneelstan]

just fyi

you can go and take this semeuke quiz from 2008 legally.

highly recommended I almost perished in battle

[acecroft]

Sydney Fox in RELIC HUNTER 2.07

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Copper Alloy Hand Mirror, Corinium Museum, Cirencester

[another-goblin]

I tried using a support Argenti

[sheltiechicago]

One of the most famous mummies found in the Tarim Basin is the Princess of Xiaohe, also known as the Beauty of Xiaohe. Named for the cemetery where her body was found, she is remarkably well-preserved even down to her eyelashes.

PHOTOGRAPH BY WENYING LI, XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF CULTURAL RELICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY

[this-should-do]

god i am obsessed eith the tonal shift between ahlf life 1 and 2 in regard to the sense of success at ur accomplisments

in 1, nothing you do ever gives u a sense of success or accomplishment, u killed people, u killed aleins but u have so much more to do. its an empty feeling, oh u killed the tentacles? cool go down the hole, dog urself deeper into this mess. oh you killed the gargantua and turned on the railway? go down deeper into the water and blood deeper into the bowels of the beast you created of the facility. you kill the nihilanth and u look up at the fireworks knoeing you are going to die, you cannot escape the explosion and the mess youve created. ur pulled from the mess and you are told you have guranteed urself a future of killing and endless battles or a battle u can never win. mothing you do matter none of it is worth anything. you are cold and alone and soaked in blood and people are only getting more scared

but in 2 the mood shifts, the smallest battles give people hope for a future. you can kill even a few soldiers and even if you do have to go deeper, the people around you cheer, if only for a moment, theyre alive and breathing and so are you. so many things yo do youre asked to do them again and again and each time these people are excited, thwyre grasping for a semblance of hope til thwir nails bleed and they cheer becuz they are alive and in the sun and watching their breath freeze as they cheer in the cold air of the mountains. the grass is green and growing and its more life than uve seen since before you moved to the middle of a desert to work in a concrete prison far from the warmth of the sun where it bakes all that it touches.

do you think gordon feels the happiness of the rebels? feels a sense of accomolishment in even the smallest thing he does? is he satisfied or fullfilled for helpjng these people? can he feel the sun warm the skin of his face and the bite of eastern european chill on his nose the way the rebels do? does he relish in that he is alive still? is he coming back? or do you think he still feels dull as he sinks deeper and deeper into the recesses of his mind and the concrete cage of balck mesa where his old life died?

[templeofthev01d]

©️ ᐯ丨丂丨ㄥㄩ乂 - 2024

[thepoisonroom]

Icarian Series: Reliquaries

In the late 1980s the well known San Francisco gym The Muscle System began disposing of many of its leather exercise bench covers. For decades the gym had been a social nexus for the gay male population that would later be decimated by HIV/AIDS. Daniel Goldstein saved almost all of the leather skins of the gym’s workout machines which over the years had been worn smooth and imprinted with the human shapes of the thousands of men who had worked out on them. Icarian II and Angel are two of 28 pieces in this series, named for the Icarian exercise machines from which the leather coverings were taken.

The friction and sweat on each of the leather skins over the years had left markings both indelible and mysterious. Seeing these ghostly images one is reminded of the numinous Shroud of Turin or the Sudarium (literally “sweat-cloth” in Latin), the legendary Veil of St. Veronica that bore the face of Christ. Goldstein lovingly mounted each of these pieces of leather as reliquaries. Icarian II and Angel are both document and memorial to the unique social situation at The Muscle System gym. Here gay men had come together to create communities of erotic love and brotherhood. As HIV/AIDS began to take its toll on many men’s bodies, the regimes of weightlifting and exercise allowed them to maintain a sense of control over their physical well-being.

[transfiiiguration]

That time I enjoyed visitation with the Relics in a shuttered restaurant-

*These are my photos. I would be honored if you share them to remember to credit me. Enjoy.*

[fatuismooches]

Dr Ratio is making me feel things

[deejayphoto]

Rusty Relic Rural

[thesilicontribesman]

Prehistoric Gold Hair Ornament, Orbliston, 2300 to 2000BCE, The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh