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"Relics are treated as stand-ins for saints, though once they were the saint themselves. We each own a skull that identifies us, an attribute we carry. We are all our own icon, our own avatar; an idol made in our shape, haunted by a spirit longing to intervene in the calamities we witness."

Nicked by M. T. Andersen

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Have you read The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez??

absolutely insane of the author to write an entire book about familial love and the importance of lineage and culture then have a main character not know about his own and lie about it the entire time. absolutely bonkers how that character is known and even sometimes defined by that false culture and its epithets. absolutely heart rending that when he comes clean to the other main character, he says that his culture is the least interesting (important) thing about him.

absolutely insane also for the only sex scene to be the last scene of the entire book. 

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Kind of obsessed when Aziraphale hits the silly little orant

Like ok queen. God bless I guess!

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The Seated Scribe

I just learned about this gentleman in AP Art History and I've not stopped thinking about him since.

This is a statue of an Ancient Egyptian scribe -- a member of elite society -- found in a necropolis. The information about where exactly he was found was lost. That plus the fact that he was separated from his base, which most likely would've said his name and title, means that we will never know who he really was.

Compare the above image to the one below.

This is a statue of a Pharaoh. It's an idealized version of the man, whoever he is (that info has been lost, too). When you compare the two statues, the Pharaoh has a flat stomach and muscular arms and legs, whereas our scribe has clear fat rolls and arms that are quite skinny in comparison to the rest of his body.

This is an honest depiction of a human being, not a fantasy version of a king revealed as a god. This is what this man actually looked like.

This is what a man from 2400 BCE actually looked like.

I mean. Holy shit.

What really fascinated archaeologists when it was discovered in the 1850s, though, is his eyes.

I mean, they're just brilliant.

They're made with crystals, and are backed with some sort of organic material to give the irises that gray-ish color. The dark makeup around his eyes -- made from copper -- is a detail that proves he was of elevated status.

I just-

I love this guy so much. I feel like I know him. Looking at this statue feels so much more intimate than looking at any other art from this time period, because everything was either idealized or unrealistic. I mean, just take a look at this detail from the Standard of Ur, a piece from about the same time period (but a little bit farther east in Sumer).

It's gorgeously ornate sure, but none of these folks come even close to effecting me as much as the Seated Scribe does.

So yeah. Kinda all I have to say on the subject.

Hope you learned something :)

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Why must we celebrate the end of something so grand with the start of something so bland.

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Jon Stallworthy, A Book Of Love Poetry

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I went on a walk and didn’t want to come back.

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Edith Hamilton, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

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“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

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Went hiking today.

Here’s a question: do I seem like a dog person or a cat person?

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A thought i guess

Does anyone else feel like they should be out in Spring, back against a tree, reading a well-thumbed copy of Little Women or Pride and Prejudice, but instead they’re stuck inside aimlessly scrolling through Tumblr or Instagram or YouTube? Cause man.

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-Sappho

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A personal path of petals.