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Athens - Acropolis
#traveling#greece#athens#dionysos theater#acropolis#temple of athena nike#parthenon#architecture#culture#cradle of culture
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you open yourself up to the devil by celebrating Halloween in the same way you open yourself up to the devil by celebrating St. Paddy's or Mardi Gras.
if you play ouija or try voodoo, you open yourself up to the devil. if you dress in a slutty costume or take psychedelics in a cemetery, you open yourself up to the devil.
likewise, if you get wasted on Guinness in downtown Savannah, you open yourself up to the devil.
if you twerk half-naked for plastic beads on Bourbon Street, you open yourself up to the devil.
these kinds of bacchanalia are by no means inherent to the holidays in question, and in fact, are extremely recent perversions of traditions which go back centuries. Centuries of Christian history.
#the notion that Halloween has pagan origins is a MYTH#spread by whiny witch losers who want to carve out some piece of Western culture for their degeneracy#the ex-witches and the ex-atheists who feel personal conviction about Halloween#feel it because they participated in that degeneracy#and for that reason they as individuals probably *should* stay away from Halloween BUT#most Halloween celebrators--particularly if they're cradle Christians--have NEVER experienced that version of Halloween#I certainly never ever have. and we had massive Halloween parties with all our friends. we even party-hopped once#and it was all entirely innocent#same goes for Mardi Gras#their decadence and salacity are the stuff of TV to me.#Halloween#x#Christianity
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Memes from Cradle be like "gosh darn it, discovered another mass grave while laying the foundation for my new gardening shed."
Ironic memes from Ras Shamra are like "mass transit was 3 minutes late so I was late to sportsball practice 😔 thus I am humbly asking Union's Depatment of Justice and Human Rights to liberate my planet"
Memes from Carina are like "bro can handle 5 gees while burning through atmospheric entry but spends 5 minutes in rough waters and he's tossing his breakfest overboard 😂"
A meme from Sparr would go something like "hey at least it's not snowing!"
#lancer rpg#memes#scifi#IPS-N#harrison armory#carina#cradle#ras shamra#sparri#sparr#ttrpg#lancer ttrpg#shitposting#cultures#omninet#meme#in universe memes
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This carbonized cradle is the only example of its kind from Roman antiquity that has come down to us. It was preserved by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius and it was discovered in Herculaneum with a tiny infant skeleton still inside.
#:(#herculaneum#cradle#ancient world#ancient rome#roman empire#ancient culture#ancient history#mt vesuvius
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The new dunmeshi episode really reminded me that Laios was canonically fairly stoic and withdrawn before going on this little adventure. You can tell that he doesn't normally share his interests with others... I can't wait to watch him open up more to his party members during the show!
#honestly he's a bolder man than I#if my friends responded to my special interests like marcille does I would simply never share them again#not to diss marcille here her reactions are reasonable given the situation and the in-universe cultural associations with monsters#but Laios is my boy I'm losing it over him knowing the scientific names of various monsters and also his reaction to the cradling vine#Freak (affectionate)#dungeon meshi
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George Lawrence Bulleid (British 1858 - 1933) The young artist, 1893
#George Lawrence Bulleid#fine arts#fine art#classical art#classical arts#english#british#europe#western civilization#greece#cradle of civilization#watercolour#watercolor#classical#ancient civilization#Western Europe#mediterranean#rome#western culture
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The Visit to the Nursery
Artist: Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806)
Date: c. 1775
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States
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Fragonard is usually associated in the popular imagination with amusing and mildly erotic works, yet he was also an observant and sometimes sincere painter of family life. The Visit to the Nursery is one of his more ambitious and successful domestic scenes, a touching and evocative image of parental affection. In a rustic interior, a fashionable young couple gaze lovingly at their sleeping child, who is looked after by an elderly woman seated beside the cradle. Three other children have wandered into the room and look on attentively. A soft light spills through the parted drapes at left, illuminating the scene with an ethereal glow.
#painting#oil on canvas#family#nursery#jean honore fragonard#fine art#family life#children#baby#women#man#chest#textiles#parental affection#cradle#18th century painting#french painter#french culture#french art
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Indigenous Hawaiians really had a good system going: wake up reaaally early and do most of the days work while it's cool and by the time the sun was up and it got hot the work was done and you're free to surf and socialize. I wish the white people realized they themselves could work smarter and not harder and get time to relax. Instead of calling Hawaiians lazy (and being genocidal about it)
#Ik this happened in most if not all tropical regions that got colonized#they were so pissed that these 'lazy' people got all sorts of fruit and natural bounty 'handed to them'#when those indigenous people were just working before the colonizers woke up and felt no need to kill themselves in midday heat#Which is what's natural for an apex predator: lazing around#Like u see lions in big cuddle puddles during the hottest part of the day. And they have the privilege of laziness by being the top predato#Idk if lions have a specific time they hunt but ik they will hunt at night when people can't observe them#Also Europeans failed to recognize indigenous agriculture and the /purposeful / cultivation of helpful plants (done w/out clearing the land#And even if they were only foraging. Like. If you love the earth and care for it (and not clear it) the earth will love you back idk#Gah! It's just like we coulda eradicated capitalism in its cradle if Euroamericans werent so arrogant and sure their way of life was correc#Like what if they were explorers and not conquistadors and colonizers. And there was a true cultural exchange#Would it have been better if the Europeans never crossed the ocean (even if they weren't there to colonize)? yeah probably#Like while the disease thing wasn't on purpose (initially) Europeans did inadvertently kill a lot of people bc they had no immunity#But I also acknowledge the human desire to explore and see what's out there#But I wish it was like#Europeans: here's some horses and metal tools#Indigenous people: thanks. Here's a way of life more in harmony with nature and an understanding that we're part of the ecosystem#Europeans: oh cool let me bring these ideas back to Europe. Maybe we won't deforest all of England#(I say Europeans but eventually when Canada and America became independent entities they also were responsible for these things)#Capitalism#capitalism is hell#anti capitalism#Colonization#colonialism#colonial violence#Imperialism#conquistador#age of exploration#anti colonialism#anti colonization#hawaiʻi
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Mandalorian Lesson of the Day:
The Mando'a words for 'baby carrier' and 'cradle' are 'birikad' (from 'birgaan' [backpack] and 'kad' [sword]) and 'buycika' ('buy'ce' [helmet] 'ika' [diminutive])
Where do babies go? In your sword bag or helmet apparently
#they are such a mess#i love their disaster culture#mandalorians#mandalore#mando'a#languages#babies#baby carrier#cradle#star wars
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honestly I feel like I should apologise to the writer of the phantom piper. sorry king your audio rewired my brain & now I'm trying to rewrite it ✌️
#personal#mr martin day sir please never open tumblr. or ao3.#your probably-unintentional implications about jamie's family dynamics are woven into my bones.#what do you mean you think a blackhouse has a bedroom door.#if you had set this explicitly in season 6b the character depth could be so much more.#why did you give jamie a vague heterosexuality moment and then describe him cradling the body of his dying best friend in his arms.#why do you think highland people in the 1700s housed their animals in barns separate from their houses.#please define a wise woman in the context of 18th century gaelic culture and beliefs.#given jamie's mistrust of authority isn't it horrifying that he's now so unconcerned about having his mind altered. can we explore that.#jamie's relationship with his grandmother sits inside my heart always. i am transfixed by the utter absence of his father in this audio.#etc etc etc etc
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Mesopotamia, the Cradle of Civilization. Grown around the fertile lands of Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the historical region Mesopotamia housed some of the world's most ancient highly developed civilizations, such as Sumerians and Akkadians
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Amazing how healing a big ancient slightly crushed hunk of plastic can be
A little acetone and a good scrubbing took care of the vast majority of the grunge. He’s CERTAINLY in better shape than the atrociously stained Leonardo, anyway. There is this:
Where I can only assume he was laying flat with something heavy on top of him for a few….decades…or wedged between things, maybe. Totally deformed one bit of his shell. I tried to sort of squish him back into place after a bit of blow dryer heating, but I think if I want to actually be able to shape him back into place I might need to level up to an actual heat gun. Not sure if that’s worth it, honestly, as I’m uncertain what else I might ever need a heat gun for.
I do however definitely have some faux black leather left from making Misty’s Shinsuke doll, so recreating his belt won’t be difficult at all.
My fingers fit into his hands. Maybe I can make a model magic bo staff? Wire core? I have to take it out to make the mushroom jewelry (unrelated) anyway.
On wednesday I saw him in the shop window (waiting for me), but the shop has odd hours, thursday-saturday. Made another attempt on thursday after physio, but they had closed early, maybe because the weather was atrocious. So it remained, on friday, so I did not try. Phoned first, today. The quoted price, with ‘wiggle room’ (I only suggested $5 off which doesn’t make me much of a haggler but did only put him a few cents over the price that in my head was past the limits of what I should allow for the sake of the inner child Looking at me and saying pllleeeeeeaaassseeeeee?)
Wash water is still running out of all his joints and I love him very much.
#No YOU’RE cradling a scuffed up piece of ancient pop culture like a swaddled baby and cooing at it#now if you'll excuse me I'm going to do heat gun repair research and possibly pattern a little trenchcoat#idk how to explain to my mother that I kind of PREFER that his shell is a bit crushed#because then I can attempt to correct it#and probably nobody else would so he would just sit there labelled Flawed#and more importantly if I cannot correct it then THAT IS OK and he is still beloved
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I sometimes feel bad for skinny people bcs they'll gain a bit of weight (often via natural weight fluctuation) and immediately have a system failure and thirty two identity crises and then start weeping instead of considering their relationship to fatness and the implications of being terrified to no longer be skinny like. this your first rodeo bud?
#weight mention#dan talks#this is half genuine bcs it sucks to be so insecure and scared of a natural and morally neutral thing#and half patronizing bcs like. they never reach any kind of self awareness???#its just cycles upon cycles of hating fatness and contributing further to how our society views fat ppl#had this girl who was like skinny skinny start complaining abt how she was getting fat after eating#and i was just sitting there like hello??? u gonna. u gonna think abt that???#eds aside skinny ppl will just cradle the status thinness gives them and never consider it aside from how to keep it#and then absolutely implode when it's threatened#like being fat sucks bcs of fatphobia but once u unlearn shit u get rid of such a huge burden of constantly trying to grasp that status#and then u just see ppl who have always been skinny and like. they never had to have that journey???#theyll just keep perpetrating diet culture and all that bs and forever be trapped#even if theyre the privileged ones#idk where im going w this exactly its just a thought thats been circling in my mind today while going to the grocery store lmao#and where better to write down half-connected thoughts but on tumblr.com w/ replies turned off
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there's something magnificently terrible in stories that are so afraid of death that they'll invent a horror a thousand times worse and call it mercy
#this is why i watch so much stuff from china and thailand >:TTT#well. this was a read but its...so western#thailand and china have their own issues but they do not carry that stark black and white morality predominantly christian cultures do#this is a story thats supposed to be predominantly about hope and mercy and instead its just horrifying#in condemning violence and death completely they instead made a story where any level of violence or death is held to the same degree#and its 'heroes' need to avoid them at all costs#to the point where the lengths they take are more horrifying than the 'terrible' choices theyre avoiding#this isnt new im just reeling extensively#years of primarily asian media and then i try coming back to some western stories and. PHEW.#no thank you#im going to go cradle farscape instead now#a story of fuckups yet it understands compassion and faith in the face of bleakness so much more#q*
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I am a very serious storyteller. I definitely did not call one of the largest and oldest cities in my story setting "tall sheep hill". My brain definitely doesn't go "hehe...tall sheep :]" every time I have to figure out something relating to it
#almost called another city 'hill forest hill' but the etymology didn't quite work out so it's actualy called 'stone forest hill'#anyways. uh. wish me luck in my endeavours of making a playable dnd campaign for my friend within this setting because i sure as hell am#not making it easy for myself to learn how to dm#i *do* want to see what kind of character said friend wants to make because while i'm not going to send them off to recover some ancient#relic sealed off in a vault at the edge of existence there's so much fun stuff to show them around#oh man i hope our campaign goes to raven's cradle. i need more people to know about the festival of lights#would probably help if i decided what all it entails given that it has localized traditions and raven's cradle is quite a cultural melting#pot simply by virtue of being a port town. ver thramness definitely is the originator of the fireworks but caran segra seems more the#letters-in-cliff-face type y'know? and it'd make sense if it was an iteration of a raven's cradle tradition since they established that#particular mining outpost. i think irva tershin stakes their candles into the ground and irva vernist passes the flame from person to perso#and in a way it's so unafair the king's castle is where it is y'know? because the flowers and luminescent powder do not reach the shore.#because the sun sets by the time those brought up in the north or in the marshes and highlands reach the shore.#and in a sense it is all environmental storytelling but also. noo the festival </33#boo rambles#unrelated#(irva tershin is tall sheep hill btw)
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My little collection of weirdness
#asian culture#buddha#geisha#bonsai tree#asura#asian dragon#japanese fans#dharma wheel#yin yang#vajra#ichigo kurosaki#haohmaru#devil may cry dante#wolves#wolverine#castlevania#dragon#attack titan#eren yaegar#cradle of filth#tekken#azazel#true ogre#ogre#devil jin#jin kazama#devil kazuya#kazuya mishima#painkiller#skulls
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