#abandoned object

[sanseterrer]

Dudakovichi village; part one. Photos of the Church of the Intercession, which has long abandoned, due to which the settlement is famous to this day. Almost two hundred years ago, she was surrounded by rather turbulent events associated with the struggle for religious freedom.

Dudakovichi is an old place, first mentioned in 1506, when it was owned by Prince Ivan Duda, who probably founded this estate and from whose surname the name actually comes. The church, still standing on the hill, was built only in 1869. Even earlier, there was a Dominican monastery in its place, the exact date of its foundation is unknown. There is an assumption about the year 1643. The original monastery was made of wood, and it is very possible that it also had a parish school. In the early thirties of the XIX century the facility was among several dozen closed for contributing to the Polish uprising. It was supported by the Dominicans, because the authorities contributed to the expulsion of the monks from the village, and not so long ago they gave the church built to Orthodox believers.

Now the government and the clergy sought to force the local population, predominantly Catholic, to convert to Orthodoxy. Most of the peasants continued to remain Catholics years later, even though they were nominally Orthodox. The literate of them themselves conducted services in the houses of worship according to Polish books. They believed that if they persevered, they would eventually be given permission to practice Catholicism. The authorities took a wide variety of ways out of their pressing problem: they evicted persistent families to other provinces of Russia (and the reason for the eviction was not resistance to the Orthodox faith, but drunkenness, disobedience in farming and self-will), secretly and quickly expelled everyone who could read Polish

[orofeaiel]

Ancient Technology

[duckwnoeyes]

People who claim Willow and Xander are bad friends are half right, but they also ignore the crucial part of their characters, which is that they. do. not. leave. And it’s because they do not budge that there are no two better friends for Buffy ‘abandonment issues’ Summers.

I definitely want to talk about this more, but I just think it is so important that Buffy, who is terrified of everyone leaving her, is surrounded by two idiots who refuse to leave the horror movie even when they really really should.

Like yeah, Cordy, Oz and Giles objectively have Buffy’s back more often - but they all leave!!! Even if it is for a perfectly valid reason (Cordy and Oz), Willow and Xander would never dream of jumping ship. At their core they’re still the first people who see Buffy and decide, actually, she doesn’t have to be alone, and she won’t be alone. And that is so important!!!

They cling to Buffy like a limpet because they centre their identities around her. And like okay, unhealthy much, but Buffy was ridiculously lucky to find these two immediately, bc no sane person is staying for 7 years in constant life or death situations. Not even Giles. Who, btw, is getting paid.

It makes it kind of hilarious that Buffy is so scared of her friends leaving her that she didn’t consider that they wouldn’t let her leave. Codependency so strong not even dying gets her out of it.

[aliusfrater]

similar cinematographic choices to portray the same imagery with insanely different circumstantial contexts

[woundedwonder]

3 years ago

[the-randomest-gifs-and-stims]

Abandoned waterpark Maui Sands.

(source) ⚠️content warning: this video contains filthy/unkempt spaces, dead animals and mention of bug infestation⚠️

[strawberrie-jaem]

what I really want is for Anya to be a child and for whatever reason, have a full on tantrum

[gingermintpepper]

I think a lot about the depictions of Troilus' death that feature Achilles trying to prise him with a gift of doves instead of the immediate promise of death.

I've alluded to it before, but I tend to look at Achilles and Apollo as comparison cases - maybe not explicitly foils because I'm petty and that would imply that Achilles is narratively equal to Apollo and I don't want to give him that kind of honour even in a bit of casual analysis - but certainly as characters who gain a great deal of complexity when their actions are contextualised in context of each other's. The ambush of Troilus is just one of those funny little things that gets my mind a-whirring.

Because to me, Apollo's 'Troilus' so to speak is Kassandra. Kassandra, who Apollo coveted and wished to court. Kassandra, who was offered a great gift that would have undoubtedly forever marked her as one of Apollo's if she had accepted. Kassandra, who takes the gift but rejects the god and is cursed for her deception. Kassandra, whose curse makes her experience a thousand deaths over and over with no way of communicating such disaster to those around her.

The Achilles who falls in love with Troilus upon seeing his beauty and wishes to make a conquest of him is much the same to me. The biggest difference between Troilus and Kassandra though is that Troilus' rejection is much more physical. Those doves are nothing more than a symbol of the type of sacrifice Troilus would be; if he accepted them, he would die a docile death, sweet and quiet, a necessary casualty to turn the winds like Iphigenia. Except Achilles' love is nothing like Agamemnon's and it is nothing like Apollo's.

In the face of rejection, Achilles' instinct is to maim, it is to destroy. He was always going to kill Troilus - for the sake of the campaign, the boy had to die - but there was no dove's death, no quick and easy knife through the heart, no spit into an open mouth. Troilus' death is a brutal, drawn-out thing, a chase through the sand, a dragging that bruises his skin, a ripping of his hair, a violation of his flesh, a maiming of his corpse. As far as sacrifices go, it's an apalling one. None would dare to treat an animal set to be sacrificed before a god with that kind of brutality, sacrifices were meant to be blemishless and beautiful, something the gods would find appealing. Iphigenia was given away in her wedding finery, Kassandra was dressed as though to seduce a god. Troilus was a dove with his wings broken and his feathers pulled, whose death cries must've been like the terrible hollering of all birds when they try to alert their kind to a predator.

And as fucked as that is, I love it. It sets Achilles' love as this stormy, squallish thing that bleeds into his rage, it establishes that for him, love and wrath are but two sides of the same blade. Troilus was a necessary sacrifice, but he is in no way given even a modicum of the same dignity his contemporaries are and a part of me is just continually intrigued by this.

[sanseterrer]

More photos of the abandoned Intercession Church in the dying Belarusian village of Dudakovichi

[camojacketfag]

a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort

[rust-muncher]

i'll never finish this because i felt like i mis-characterized some stuff and thought it was weird and cringe. hh

mace and radio by @/maxphilippa

[tapestryundone]

i have a crossover that appeals to me and me ALONE. have art of it that lacks any context because i just made art of it and left it at that and didnt feel like adding dialogue to almost any of it

elaboration under the cut

first img is an approximation at the long quiets mind :] its empty but i think there WOULD be more layers if you dug around. maybe if you walked further into it. but thats the main area! shards of glass bc of that one spectre line hehe. the center area is wood panelled but the resolution in the img makes it a tad hard to see at the size the img is.

in the main area the voices come up to the center area as needed! or just to talk. i think in the event that anyone ever entered tlqs mind they would become EXTREMELY talkative bc itll be their first time really being Perceived without unpleasant circumstances which is VERY exciting for them

most things in tlqs mind would be verrrry very similar to the spaces in between, mostly because thats the truest location hes ever truly known. i have been thinking about different layers that could contain the cabin, though. because the woods and the cabin were both very important locations for him, even if they sucked Majorly

second img is the inner version of tlq :D which like. technically theyre all parts of tlq. but also they can function as separate entities from tlq so i dont think itd be that out there that tlq exists somewhat separately from them all in his own mind. gotta think on some of the logistics more though

4, 5, and 6 are just interactions cus i think its fun. i think its ill advised for visitors to leave that little center area. going past it is putting oneself at risk to become lost in the unending walls of the (mental) long quiet. i dont imagine the voices knew that before so much as it is instinct. the "real" location wasnt something mortals were ever meant to really Be In, so it carries over and makes leaving the center instinctively feel like a very bad idea to just Let Someone Do That

the voice in 4 is hero and the voice in 5 is contrarian

last two are the most stand alone and self explanatory. second to last is the opportunist and paranoid, and last is quiet and opportunist :]

[gideonisms]

I love arranging it's like YES YES THE OBJECTS ARE IN LOCATIONS

[lost-fool-wandering]

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-L.F.

[gracecarstairss]

thinking about how Mayesh is the mirror for the Ashkar people - being human in the eyes of House Aurelian means that they think all Ashkar are human. He protects them all in this way, ensuring that the Sault will be safe and that what happened in Malgasi (murdering all Ashkar) will not happen in Castellane.

this also applies to Kel, in a way. Kel is the person Conor loves/cares for above all others, yet he is a common citizen of Castellane - technically, the lowest possible class, since Kel is an orphan without a significant name, and family names are the most important source of power in Castellane. therefore, Kel is the mirror for the common people of Castellane - although he is considered an object/property in the eyes of nearly all of House Aurelian, being human in the eyes of Conor, the person who will one day be King, shows the future ruler that the people he rules are actual PEOPLE, not just subjects to use and manipulate to the ruler's liking. in this way, Kel protects the commoners of Castellane, which is so interesting. we see him do this multiple times in Sword Catcher when he is trying to instill empathy in Conor for others, including Lin (when Kel talks sense into Conor and and says "do you want her to be afraid of you?" which really hits Conor hard because he doesn't realize the full scope of his power and the fact that he uses it carelessly).

and what makes this more insane is the way that Mayesh doesn't even see Kel as a human, just an object, even though they serve similar important purposes for their respective classes. on my third read of Sword Catcher, I really honed in on the way that Mayesh treats Kel, and he really does not treat him as a damn human being!!! it's so awful. the hypocrisy of Mayesh is so wild, he is such an interesting character because of all his contradictions. anyways i'm so unwell about this!!!

[sanseterrer]

Dudakovichi village; part two. The rector of the Dudakovichi Church noted that many peasants not only do not go to divine services, but also do not baptize newborn children and bury the dead in the cemetery without a priest. (In fact, the babies, apparently, were baptized secretly by the believers themselves; in the case of burials, prayers were read at the cemetery by them, and masses were celebrated for the deceased in the nearest parish church afterward.)

The story dragged on. The drastic measures taken against the residents did not bring almost any expected results. Someone even confidently concluded that «there is a hidden spirit of perseverance among the people». In the second half of the nineteenth century, the authorities decided to give the church the appearance of an Orthodox church in the Byzantine style in order to deprive the peasants of any hope that «this church can continue to convert to Latinism». In 1869, the new Dudakovichi Church was consecrated (that can still be seen today). Comically, however, it still did not work out to persuade the local peasants and gentry to a new faith. After 1905, here, as throughout the region, there is a transition to «Latinism». And even more than sixty years after the church was rededicated, it was written that «served in the old way».

In general, religious coercion in Dudakovichi caused only a cooling towards religion. It manifested itself, as you can see, in the fact that the Orthodox parish was never revived. Services in the church were discontinued at the beginning of the last century, then the building was used as a granary; the bell tower adjacent to the main entrance to the church was dismantled for farm material.

In the 90s, architectural and archaeological research was carried out on the territory where the church is located. Fragments of glove bricks dating back to the 17th century were found; single burials, apparently of monks, were found under the foundations of the object