#a windy day

[metamorphesque]

A Windy Day, Édouard Bisson

[postcard-from-the-past]

Jetty of Le Grau-du-Roi on a windy day, Camargue region of southern France

French vintage postcard

[artschoolglasses]

A Windy Day - Scene Outside the Shop of Bowles, the Printseller, in St. Paul's Churchyard

Watercolour ca. 1785, by Robert Dighton

[m-eltdown]

[antisocrates]

[more-than-ideas]

Inox Lord

[theprofpenguin]

John, do the windy thing for the @413countdown

John has been and always will be my favorite character 💙💙💙

[jewreallythinkthat]

I spent a large portion of today researching tekhelet for work as part of a piece on ancient dyes and I got so stupid emotional. Like it's just a dye, but it was such an important thing in ancient Judaism as the dye which would make tzitzit blue and the method of making it was lost around the time of the Arab conquest of Israel in the 7th century. (Also I note that lots of sources date the loss of the secret of the original manufacture but many just gloss over it mapping directly onto the colonisation of Judea/Israel by the Rashidun Caliphate - I know that the two events may not be connected but I have spent too long looking at history to be able to say that these were completely unrelated y'know... Lost knowledge is very, very rarely a coincidence)

They literally, to this day, still don't know how it was made.

There are multiple theories, most of which revolve around the murex snail (where we get Tyrian purple from) and the fact that if you expose the pigment it produces - di-bromo indigo - to light at the right point in the production process, it is reduced to regular indigo from which you can get your blue dye. But this has all been worked out using modern methods. The ancient production method of tekhelet is gone and I honestly find myself mourning yet another piece of lost knowledge form our history.

[doodles-with-noodles]

This is a snowstorm. Pretty fucking windy indeed.

[hedgehog-moss]

I love being higher than the clouds hovering over the valley and seeing them slowly make their way towards me without changing altitude, and suddenly bump their noses into trees. A disconcerting moment in a cloud’s life. What is the ground doing here I thought I was in the sky

[shikisei]

king of the world!

[konigsblog]

nothing is more depressing than washing your hair and spending ages trying to make sure it'll look good, only for it to look frizzy and shitty

[charlunday]

when blue meets silver

This is all based on the idea that Maude Ivory is Katniss' grandmother, and if that's true, then this would've happened in every generation!

[didsomeonesayventus]

FIRST YEAR... ENGAGE!

Happy birthday to The Fire Emblem Ever. I don't think I can quite put into words just how much joy this game has brought me and the friends it helped me make, just that I'm really happy I looked into it despite my lack of initial interest.

[kenvamp]

DO you know dimensional links? (DL)

YES I love that au and that one fic where the dl boys meet the lu boys

[odetopictorialism]

Heinrich Kühn • Sirócco, 1899