#abandoned field

[sacrificial1-lamb]

𝖍𝖔𝖜 𝖉𝖔 𝖎 𝖒𝖆𝖐𝖊 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖋𝖊𝖊𝖑 ?

self portrait on medium format film

[maydayistactile]

bruising school

[lionfloss]

by Alex Burke

[honeyrosepetals]

[snurtle]

I've been thinking about the templars lately. they were promised honor, virtue, told that they would be charged with protection of the innocent... And then those same people are systemically exploited and abused, abuse others because they're taught to regard everyone else as either sheep who need to be lead or potential threats. Never equals, except in their brothers/sisters-in-arms. They act as the guard-dogs and military arm of an entirely different organization that they're only a functionary member of but have no governing say in. Even the chantry aren't their equals- they function as the templar order's supervisors! And all this isolation and closing of ranks ends in disability, addiction, death, and abandonment by the system they spent their bodies in service of.

To top that off, retaliations against them just confirm the paranoia they were taught to embrace. It's probably a long hard road to get out of that hole.

Like, listen. the dichotomy of mage vs templars is a satisfying and easy one, but the system is tearing them apart too. have you ever heard of a retired templar?

at the end of it, mages and templars need to unite against the real threat. the chantry.

[zombilenium]

Gray Concrete House in Brown Field,

Sebastian Palomino Photography

[hard-eyes]

[soracities]

"Beauty is often spoke of as though it only stirs lust and admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story. Desire for them is in part a desire for a noble destiny, and beauty can seem like a door to meaning as well as to pleasure. And yet such people are often nothing extraordinary except in their effect on others. Exceptional beauty and charm are among those gifts given by the sinister fairy at the christening. They give the bearer considerable sway over others, which can keep them so busy being a sort of siren on the rocks where others shipwreck that they forget that they themselves need to figure out where they are going."

Rebecca Solnit, from "Abandon", A Field Guide to 'Getting Lost

[dxstinesia]

[ochipi]

So as an archaeologist you never really get to keep the things you find. Until today…

This 3 week old little ball of fluff is coming home with me.

Don’t abandon animals because they visually displease you. Just don’t dump animals in general. Black cats rule

1 week update:

[sacrificial1-lamb]

a study on american fields

Large format 4x5 color film

[maydayistactile]

gauze station

[pangeen]

“ Classics “ // Daniel Greenwood

[webdiggerxxx]

꧁★꧂

[stanford-photography]

Mother and Child By Jeff Stanford, 2024 Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/