#a monument to their world

[andromeda3116]

it makes me feel something raw and aching when i see the monuments left behind by ancient cultures, the pillars and the carvings and the steps rising to the sky and the temples and the pictograms, like for thousands and thousands of years humans have stood in awe of the universe and poured their energy into building places to worship the gods they imagined made all of this, the way their wonder and their belief have lasted well beyond even their culture's lifetimes

for us to still see these places and feel the memory of their hands and their heartbeats carved into the stone, for us to know, thousands of years later, that they were there and they were amazed at what they saw

idk, in this sanitized world saturated with advertisements and cold steel and corporations squeezing the life out of the planet for another quick buck, it's gut-wrenching to look at the stones of gobekli tepi and feel shadows of the awe we once beheld the world with

[53v3nfrn5]

The Lion of Lucerne Location: Lucerne, Switzerland

This memorial is dedicated to the Swiss Guards fallen during the French Revolution and is also famously known as the world's saddest stone. Carved in 1820, this ten-meter-long and six-meter-high monument portrays a dying lion bearing a shield of the French monarchy. The inscription above reads "HELVETIORUM FIDEI AC VIRTUTI," translating to "To the loyalty and bravery of the Swiss," with the names of some deceased officers listed below the lion.

[scooby-doo-exploration]

FROM : wgm-beautiful-world - Saint Michael’s Mount, Cornwall, England

https://scooby-doo-exploration.tumblr.com/archive

[giddlygoat]

three gay caballeros <3

[humanoidhistory]

Monument dedicated to Serb and Albanian partisans, Mitrovica, Kosovo, 1973, designed by Bogdan Bogdanović. Photo by Ricardo Conte.

(Design Milk)

[mimilllion]

love is all u need

[williammarksommer]

Monument Sunset

Utah

All The Time In The World

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

[blueskittlesart]

if you’ve ever wondered why i am the way that i am just know that i was raised by a man who built a 1:1 scale model of mont saint-michel in survival mode minecraft over the course of several years with nothing but google maps screenshots of the place. and he refuses to put the fucking thing on youtube

[violentdevotion]

when people say rose and donna were relatable and felt like an audience member and exclude martha 🤨🤨🤨 why isn't martha approachable to you ?

[jajatoc]

Evening Comes (Advesperascit)

(Acrylics on cheap canvas!)

[dougielombax]

I’ve always found combining the machine with the divine to be oddly interesting.

I mean like everything from the Mata Nui robot to TempleOS. (Yeah Bionicle does this a LOT!)

Idk why it just fascinates me for some odd reason.

Anyway here’s my attempt at a mood board:

Here it is

[reluctantfandomsideblog]

Rough morning, Kim?

[vethbrenatto]

obsessed with the way arlo was created to be this creepy, offkilter "like normal but just a little off and weird" character that you can really feel in laura's speech patterns and when she says off the wall shit, but then howard's just there like "hold my beer"

[shouts-into-the-void]

The Suez Canal Crab killing hundreds of people:

The Church of the EverGiven: "You could make a religion out of this"

[trans-cuchulainn]

strongly dislike the hyperbolic violence of a punitive justice system that seems to be how the internet responds to any bad thing because. the implications of being like "the person who cut down this tree should be tortured to death/put through a wood chipper/hanged/locked up forever"... do you really think that would help? do you think a tree, however special, is worth more than a human life? do you think an act like this negates the possibility of that person ever doing anything good and contributing to the world? do you think it is your right to declare somebody irredeemable?

you're being hyperbolic, i hope, but the underlying mindset of "bad thing = physically hurt this person and take away their future" could use some interrogating, actually! that's not an effective way of dealing with things! it's not going to put the tree back up, it's not going to help the environment, it's only going to cause additional harm. and that is the thing that gets me, how everything always seems to be about PUNISHMENT and hurting wrongdoers and not about minimising harm, not about reducing future damage, not about actual, real justice that might put some goddamn good into this world

this is ESPECIALLY true for crimes that, while shocking and cruel, don't actually physically harm any human beings. like cutting down a special tree. our response to a bad thing should not be to add more, worse things to the world, to be honest. and i am concerned that the tone of these jokes/hyperbolic remarks normalises a mindset and an approach to justice that should not, in fact, be normalised

[illustratus]

The Pharos of Alexandria by Roy Krenkel