#fake money that looks real

[icewindandboringhorror]

Obligatory fancier outfit that must be present anytime I post outfits 

[knowlesian]

i keep telling myself i literally cannot go into debt in the world of bg3 and that i am in act 3 with 100k in gold in my pockets maybe i should spend it on literally anything at all

but then the life under late stage capitalism training sets in and i find myself genuinely reluctant to not sit on my giant pile of Just In Case gold because what if the baldur’s gate housing market crashes! or what if i sustain an injury magic simply cannot fix! these pretend concerns still need to be taken seriously!

[comradecowplant]

Had an old post get reblogged which I used as an excuse to take a leisurely stroll through my 2021 (feels like a decade ago ☠) blog and noticed this post that is literally just a full-dressed anime girl with the words "trans women" is fucking flagged for adult content???????? Absolutely mental!!!!

[dashiellqvverty]

the problem with fixating on oceans eleven is it makes me want to gamble 😐

[glimpsesofeuterpe]

babygirl, if you are real (doubts) - i am sorry if you are a bot - fuck off i live in russia, cant send you shit via your websites

[littlemizzlinguistics]

Me @ YouTube “polyglots”

[butchlifeguard]

my brother being pathetic again haha we love to see it. i feel like we had one week where the threat of our parents wasnt right behind us and we talked normally but now theyre back and hes like 'and ummm... how much money did you make over the summer 😂😂'

[queen-mabs-revenge]

do i spend €15 for this coat so I can steal its collar for my bomber jacket?

[sick-sad-little-world]

*Sees New Notification*

*Notices A New Follower*

*Opens Up Their Blog*

...

...

Yup... caught another one!🤦‍♀️

[alexjcrowley]

Okay so you know when you say "some things are great in a story but they would suck/be scary af in real life"?

If you came across enough posts of my blog, you know I am moving to Germany, but I am still (desperately) looking for an apartment. I am writing email left and right responding to every offer on the market that fits my bare necessities.

I came across this room rented by this guy, he says to write in behalf of his mother looking for a roommate. It's overall a bit fishy, but I can't afford to be picky. I write an email, hoping he won't answer like the majority of other landlords did.

He answers me just the day after sending the email and at first I'm like "OH MY GOD SOMEONE ANSWERED ME" but then I red the email.

So, I have my reasons to not trust this guy (as I said even the offer sounded a little fishy), but who knows, maybe he is telling the truth, maybe one should grant him the benefit of the doubt. Someone else, though, not me.

Point is this would probably make a banger beginning for a fake/pretend relationship fic, but in real life? I am very creeped out and I want to fucking run.

I am not sure there's a moral to this story except I can't believe this really happened to me. It's wild. And it this is a scam has it ever worked with anyone, my dear Guy Whose Name I Will Not Mention? I hope, for the sake of a lot people, not.

Always beware of scams and creeeps, anyway.

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

I bought new jeans today and I got a whole bag of free yarn, plus I got a new vintage-y (but new) cardigan last week, so finally, FINALLY, my wardrobe is properly growing and I'm so happy about that

[malewifehenrycooldown]

OMG OMG there’s little gacha machines and you can get little statues of the assassins (from the previous games) and THEY ARE REALLY CUTE. I GOT ONE OF CLOE WALSH ON FIRST TRY THIS MUST MEAN SOMETHING.

[septimus-heap]

For some reason wanting my room to look like it belongs to a pinterest girl is what's actually worked in getting me to tidy. Like in all my years of living nothing has motivated me this much and it's CONSISTENT. I'm rlly slow at tidying bc executive dysfunction and such so I tidy small bits at a time but like. They r (for the most part) staying tidy. It's insane I'm getting rid of old stuff I'm cleaning I'm dusting im putting in effort to make sure everything has a designated Place To Be and it is STAYING THAT WAY. It used to be when I tidied my room it would just be messy again within a week but not this time!!! Apparently idolising the pinterest girl aesthetic is what's working for me

[stuffedeggplants]

I have serious doubts about whether this is actually Scythian; it's stylistically inconsistent with anything recovered from Scytho-Siberian cultural sites--let alone the western range of Scythian cultures--or artifacts from northern China and southern Siberia from the same time period which the Scythians as nomads with broad trading networks would have had access to, but we'll get to that later.

This piece seems to have been first posted online by a now defunct art auction website. But where was it first recovered from? The most the site can definitively say about it was that it was purchased in Hong Kong in 1999.

As far as the analytical tests go, the fact that somebody ran this through XRF analysis to determine its elemental composition doesn't mean much to me without seeing a comparison between the analysis of this torque and the analysis of other gold artifacts ostensibly from the same place the gold ore itself came from. Being able to say "yeah this is gold" is less helpful than being able to say "the results are consistent with gold artifacts found in Pazyryk kurgan burials thought to be from a workshop in [distant location here.]"

Construction, patina, and tool-markings can all be faked very convincingly by professionals, and unfortunately uranium thorium-helium dating alone is not reliable enough to determine the age of an artifact made within the last couple thousand years.

I'm also confused about how this company knows that the torque originates in Western Asia considering that the "provenance" as we're told it is merely "purchased in Hong Kong." Did someone behind this website believe that this was made in a goldsmithing workshop in 1st century Yemen or Egypt or Turkey? It wouldn't be unusual if it was and made its way to a Scythian leader who was buried in Siberia, but again, it doesn't make sense stylistically. I've only taken a couple Near Eastern art history classes and obviously I'm not an expert, but it really doesn't look like anything I'd expect coming out of those areas in the 2nd century BC.

Now just because it's pretty, and also Scythian (and made by Greek workshop!), here's a golden pectoral discovered in Ukraine.

Anyway, circling back to the very first paragraph, if we're talking about "Scythians" as an archaeological cultural network of Eurasian steppe nomads, then yes, they did have access to the dragon motif, particularly in the east. We actually have a golden belt buckle from a 3rd century BC site near Omsk of two tigers battling a dragon, which I believe is the earliest Scythian artifact with a depiction of dragons that we currently have.

It's hard to make out, but luckily we have a bronze belt buckle from Buryatia a century later, over a thousand miles east of Omsk, showing the exact same scene. The dragon head is near the center, biting the tiger's waist. We also have a third, identical buckle from Mongolia carved out of nephrite.

I know I'm belaboring the point by showing you three identical belt buckles, but you can see why I am skeptical about the original photo being a Scythian piece.

Here are some other dragon motifs we have from northern China from roughly the same time period that our Scythian torque is said to be from. A lot of these are from the Xiongnu. They employed some Han artisans who lived south of them, and were thus influenced by their style. (The last image is said to be an unusual depiction of a 'feline' rather than a 'lupine' dragon, possibly intended for the domestic Chinese market while still adding a bit of northern steppe flair.) The source book for these images is Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes, easily accessed here.

If the golden torque isn't fake, I believe it's likely misidentified as Scythian. I will say though that I don't know anything about Chinese art, so maybe it truly is quite old and just from some later time period but found in an area with a lot of Scytho-Siberian cultural sites. Again, if it's real, its origin may also have been obscured on purpose to shield whoever dug it up and sold it from the law coming down on the illegal antiquities market.

Edit: I won't post a deluge of Scythian art pics here because this post is long enough, but another reason I'm skeptical is because I have never seen scales depicted in that way--overlaid one on top of the other--in Scythian art from either the eastern or western end of their cultural continuum.

Scythian gold torque in the form of dragons, dated to the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD. Private Collection (?) via Gemma-Antiqua.

[abracadav-r]

faygo's started cutting sucralose into their drinks its joever

[dwemer-osha]

I’m Amira from Gaza🍉, and my campaign is on the verge of stopping. I have lost everything: my father, my home, my university, and my job. I urgently need your help by donating or sharing my story so it can reach the world💔🙏.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/amiras-story-between-hope-and-resilience-a-call-for-soli

Thank you so much for your continued support💙.

This one looks real, from what I can find! Let's keep the momentum going for Amira, and see if we can build up a little more!