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The Derveni Krater (4th Century BCE)

My favourite article within the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki: a finely metal–worked bronze urn for the mixing of wine and water (and the best preserved of its calibre for the time). 

The display gives the following explanation: 

“On the vase’s obverse is depicted the sacred wedding of the god and Ariadne. The couple is seated on a rock, and the naked Dionysus has placed his leg familiarly on his wife’s thigh. Ariadne, holding her veil aloft, gazes at her husband in a characteristically bridal gesture. A panther, the animal sacred to the god, stands behind Dionysus. Surrounding the couple are the god’s followers, maenads, some carried away by their orgiastic dance, while others sit atop the shoulder of the crater. Mythical figures, tame and wild animals, vine and ivy branches, all adorn the vessel’s surfaces.”

I don’t know much about archaeology, being principally a geologist, but what I lack in culture, I make up for in appreciation (so I’d like to think, anyways). Pots of the greco–roman variety are a particular love of mine, and I’ve amassed quite the touristic collection from my mapping project in Santorini—so this particular krater hit upon a pre–existing weakness for the things, let’s say. Even so, of the hundred odd pots in the museum, this was the one I liked best: there is something about the cast figures and the detailed vines and the positioning of the thigh, all wonderfully rendered in the dull gold of metal. Hence—a favourite, and one to be stored away in the small mental repository I have for suchsame archaeological artefacts (to be brought out on a rainy day, ere so often when I am mistaken for an archaeologist—a surprisingly common occurrence for geologists, I have found). 

December, 2021

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QIFREY and OLRUGGIO by Shirahama Kamome [x] [x]

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Moschino Pre-Fall 2022

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Mahdieh Farhadkiaei on Instagram

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define hole / is a hole a real thing? / Marco Poloni, Black Hole, from The Majorana Experiment, 2010 / Flatfields Fotografien / What We Talk About When We Talk About Holes / Dark (2017-2020) / post / Disco Elysium / Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) / Donnie Darko (2001) / Outer Range (2022) / Kaveh Akbar, from “The Miracle,” Pilgrim Bell / post / Weizmann Institute of Science / Mathworld / post / post / post / post / Anne Boyer, from “Woman Sitting at the Machine,” in A Handbook of Disappointed Fate / Dennis Patrick Slattery, The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh / The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio, 1601–1602 (detail) / The Incredulity of St. Thomas, Bernardo Strozzi, 1582-1644 (detail) / Don McKay, from “Twinflower,” Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay, intro. Méira Cook (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006) / thierryetherve / Pathologic / post / Gregory Orr, from How Beautiful the Beloved / Tomas Tranströmer, tr. by Robert Bly, from a poem titled “Track” / Disco Elysium / Anne Carson, Economy of the Unlost / Pathologic 2 / Jonas Burgert, Sand brennt Blatt (2010) / Disco Elysium / Carl Phillips, from “Givingly”, Wild is the Wind / post / Pathologic / The Juniper Tree (Nietzchka Keene | 1990) / John Banville, Eclipse / Twin Peaks / Disco Elysium / VectorStock / True Detective / Night in the Woods

I also want to give credit to @arairah for being the lead holologist on this site and the intermediate source for a lot of this, thank you!

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Wedding portrait of Lollaretta Pemberton and Grover Allen, 1939, USA.

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milk-thistle is an example of a word where the tongue barely moves… basilica is an example of a word where the movement involved is like a seesaw. opium as a word is circular to say. to say a word like violence involves a bit of a forced pause in the mouth where the o connecting the syllables is. etymologists trace the word’s history, poets feel the word’s impact, singers listen to the word’s musicality, linguists tell the word to go this way and that way, and the word is gracious to all in return

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wizard tip of the day: wizards are bisexual

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Train 🌟

Twitter | Instagram | Print shop

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The gringos yearn for São Paulo, Brazil

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⛓️‍💥

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some of y’all bout to be real mad at me. but it must be said. some of the shit u call corny/cringy is actually just genuine/cute/sweet and y’all r just afraid of expressing any type of positive emotion

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shoutout to nonbinary people who default to presenting as their assigned gender bc it’s easier

shoutout to nonbinary people who default to presenting as their assigned gender bc it’s safer

shoutout to nonbinary people who default to presenting as their assigned gender bc they don’t feel like they can pull off anything else

shoutout to nonbinary people who default to presenting as their assigned gender bc presenting as their real gender is impossible

shoutout to nonbinary people who present as their assigned gender bc they want to

shoutout to nonbinary people whose presentation is mistaken for their assigned gender but is in fact how they express their real gender

just because we might “look cis” doesn’t make us any less nonbinary and tbh fuck anyone who says otherwise

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really glad my post about Laura Palmer listening to Death Grips resonated with so many people

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*These are not THE most hated characters of all time. I'm not saying that. They are simply favorite characters of mine who were unpopular with the fandom at the time their shows were airing. Some of these characters became more popular over the years. Some had/continue to have devoted fanbases, but that didn't stop the characters (and the real human beings who played them) from facing hate from the fandom at large. Hope that makes sense :)

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I love nautical and seaside town horror stories. Tell me more about the fog and water that eats people