#antient

[alchemisland]

Civil Divil

Ruins of the age of faith ode to crumbled fate of ages

Creation-stoking sounds from sages mere whispers, our doings traceless

Circling gracelessly our gilded cage, reviewing old pages.

Muniments of title lost amidst wave-tossed letter ocean

King in cups, of cups, sips his bitter potion

His meagre portion unmansome sets motion 

To devices he devises with devil’s advisements.

[psycho-chair]

do you think (fear the forest) cross’s time around humans and watching humans is what made him unconsciously develop the sense of “modesty” that leads him to wear the animal pelts around his pelvis. like he saw they wore clothes and kind of understood why they did and just, without thinking about it, felt drawn to kind of do the same in his own way. is that anything

NO YOU'RE SO REAL, i actually do think some of their behavoirs are learned from observing things around them, that's how they learned to do almost everything because they definitely didn't have like a parent raising them and teaching them how to be the creatures that they are

cross one hundred percent learned about the concept of clothing from humans; he learned about how to craft and maintain them from watching elder women sitting on their back porches and sewing, or watching people sew up their clothes and some of the methods for things

and it lead to him experimenting with the things he had access to, which was patches of moss and algae that he dried and sew together with a vine (or maybe he used a large tarp that had been blown into the woods by the wind, considering that he felt that the wind was his friend)

and he was already wearing this and had on the beginnings of his moss and fungi cloak already growing down his back when he reached killer's forest

and i think he tried to get killer to also wear something, because he'd also learned the notion of shame over displaying ones naked body, and tried to convince killer it was something embarrassing, or weird but killer hadn't really fucking cared what the humans were doing unless it was entertaining

that, and, when he tried to wear something, it felt weird and wrong on his bark and he tore it off in a week and proclaimed he didn't care if cross thought it was weird, this is what is natural to him

and cross kinda came to the conclusion that perhaps modesty is just a human thing, and it's only humans who should be ashamed or embarrassed of their bodies

but even so, after learning that, he still wears his thing because it's hard to shake what he'd learned and the embarrassment is kinda forever there, though having killer's careless attitude certainly helps him not worry so much about being seen as too exposed

[quixoticrobotic]

Ok I know epic is about ruthlessness vs mercy and it looks at at the characters internal emotional reactions to plot beats from the odyssey but unless we are EXPLICITLY SHOWN OTHERWISE i think the most upsetting part of the suitors getting murdered for penelope is how long it’s gonna take to get the bloodstains out of the grout

[c0rinarii]

I constantly think about how Ei/Ryoko/Gouto and Chihiro/Izumi/Okino were living in a post skibidi toilet world

[maned-wolf-in-a-collar]

What am I doing with my life

idk is it very bad quality? 'Cause it is good at first but after a few seconds it just gets blury.

[epic-sorcerer]

YouTuber voice in classical Latin and antient Greek

[flyingwhitesheet]

This is the insightful look on Call me by your name and Alexander and Hephaestion that I didn’t know I needed it.

I had never realised it, but this makes so much sense, there really are many similarities. And I loved the Jane Eyre reference, it's one of my favourite books.

I like studying antient greece and more specifically, queer people in antient greece and antient time generally (I mean I use tumblr so that can be easily correctly assumed), and I have found that these relationships are very similar, specially on these two points: it's very intense, I mean, a "connection of a lifetime" intense type of thing, and they never end up together. Achilles and Patroclus (probs ficcional but counts), Adrian and Antinoo, Alexander and Hephaestion, and there's more.

For better or worse, these check out with Call me by your name too. I think there really is a big chance of them being inspired, at least partially, in Alexander and Hephaestion, but also just queer antient people in general. Aciman seems like a history nerd, which i think is awesome.

"Mystery of Love" by Sufjan Stevens, Elio and Oliver, and Alexander the Great and Hephaestion

I was listening to "Mystery of Love" by Sufjan Stevens from the Call Me by Your Name soundtrack today, and a particular lyric stood out to me: “Like Hephaestion, who died / Alexander’s lover / Now my riverbed has dried / Shall I find no other?” I knew little about Alexander the Great’s alleged relationship with Hephestion. Still, as I researched more, I realized how similar these real people are to Elio and Oliver, especially in the book. For example, when Hephaestion fell ill and later died, Alexander refused to eat or drink anything and cut his hair (Nat Geo), a sort of physical liberation from the memories of his past best friend and supposed lover. Alexander died a year later. When compared to the end of Call Me by Your Name, when Oliver and Elio meet one last time, and Elio says, “‘You are the only person I’d like to say goodbye to when I die, because only then will this thing I call my life make any sense. And if I should hear that you died, my life as I know it, the me who is speaking with you now, will cease to exist’” (Aciman 240). Since these instances are eerily similar, I wonder if Aciman based his characters around Alexander, who only shared his most personal version of himself with Hephaestion and Hephaestion, who listened until their time together was destined to end. This parallels with a quote from Call Me by Your Name, “I was thinking, instead, of Emily Brontë’s words: because ‘because he’s more myself than I am.’”. Another similarity I found was how people around both pairs viewed their relationship status. Historians have no concrete evidence pointing to Alexander and Hephaestion being lovers, but some think it is too unlikely to believe they weren’t. When Oliver returns to the States after his ephemeral summer as a houseguest in Italy, Elio’s father sits down to talk with him. He speaks of how special their friendship was, stating, “‘You had a beautiful friendship. Maybe more than a friendship. And I envy you' … ‘Have I spoken out of turn?’” (Aciman 224). Elio’s father studies ancient Greek statues and is a professor of archaeology. This furthers my point of the connection between these real people and Aciman’s characters, which Sufjan Stevens illustrates with the original song he wrote for the movie adaptation. There seems to be too many parallels for this to be sheer coincidence, but it is fascinating nonetheless. 

Sources:

Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman.

[jeannepompadour]

Tatar, Turkish, Persiam and North African costumes from Thomas Jefferys' "A collection of the dresses of different nations, antient and modern", made in 1757

Habit of Tartarian princess in 1700

Habit of the Turkish lady of the grand seigniors seraglio, in 1568; Habit of the sultaness, or empress of the Turks in 1700

Morning habit of a Grecian lady in 1700; Bridal habit of a Grecian lady in 1700

Habit of a Persian lady in 1568; Habit of a lady of Persia from a modern painting

Habit of a Persian lady in 1700; Morning habit of a lady of quality in Barbary in 1700

[spac-e-b0y]

the new comic / drawings raised more questions for mE! :0 is pvc super touchy with smc? Also I have another one but it’s from the last time you answered my question! Are all the beasts staying with their antients? As well do the beasts reginze smc and have they tryed talking to him? What are all the antients and beasts thoughts on smc/ bjc?

also can I make fanart? :3

-🌷

Putting this at the top so it doesn't get lost; ABSOLUTELY!!!! Anyone can make fanart, I would cry so much (/pos) if people made fanart!!!! Feel free to tag me if you do!!

Honestly I think, since Pure Vanilla's vision isn't the best, he's very touchy with those he's extremely close to, since it's one of the senses he knows better than most. He was always touchy with Shadow Milk, so that's slightly transferred over to Blueberry Jester, albeit a little restrained at first.

And all the beasts are less willingly staying with their ancients and more being supervised. I answered this on twitter too so I'll copy the explanation here too about their knowledge on Blueberry Jester.

And I pretty much have a chart on level of suspicion, which includes the Gingergang!

Knows but has no proof so can't act: White Lily, Golden Cheese, Wizard Suspects but wants to give the benefit of the doubt: Dark Cacao, Strawberry Fell for it hook line and sinker: Gingerbrave Tries not to care: Hollyberry, Mystic Flour, Burning Spice, Silent Salt Fails to not care: Eternal Sugar

[siboom777]

"Even bravest heroes need responsible adult around, who can guide them through dark times."

I liked Professor Weasly from first dialog. I think it's really adorable that despite her not knowing about antient magic shit, she always has an eye on us. And the reason she not stopping us from doing crazy things, is to let us make our own mistakes, to learn from them, and only when situations would get too dangerous she will come to help. Of course it's more like headcanon, but I like it a lot hehe.

I hope in future Hogwarts Legacy games she will be Headmaster of Hogwarts because she really deserves it.

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

Femme Samoyède. Habit of a Samoyede woman and child subject to Russia in 1768.

from Voyage en Sibérie by Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche as well as from A Collection Of The Dresses Of Different Nations, Antient and Modern. Particularly Old English Dresses. After The Designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar, and others. With An Account of the Authorities, from which the Figures are taken; and some short Historical Remarks on the Subject. To which are added The Habits of the Principal Characters on the English Stage.

very cute kid coat with earsies ^_^

[ladyhelsgallery]

MY BTD1 HEADCANONS😜😜😜😜😜😜 IF U DON'T LIKE IT YOU ARE PROFESSIONAL RACIST/joke

What should I explain? This shit was chaotic. But Strade is Страда (antient Rus's harvest time) because of same pronouncing

[blazeysgc]

☆ Can we first discuss how the Wraith are much more interesting villians then the Goa'uld? The wraith are not just some pure evil beyings, which works fine in my opinion is sg1 but it gets tiring after like the 5th season. And don't get me started about the Ori eh...

Just a little note, i find the Goa'uld aesthetic more pretty but it is not an "alien" nor interesting as the Wraith

☆ The wraith are such complex race. They were created by the antients (this wasn't in the show but in the books) as some kind of an messed up experiment. No wonder the wraith were fighting for their downfall. I WOULD be too. And then are forced to feed on humans because they have no other way of surviving. Making humans see them as monsters.

☆ More about the Atlantis Legacy books...the wraith are a huge part of the world building. They explain much in depth how wraith society works.

For example: the wraith worship their queens. Not just as their leader but almost in this primal way. That the Queens are their protectors, their source of life, the female wraith talk down to the male wraith such as "a pity you are not as cleaver as you are beautiful". It also seems that many "gender roles" are flipped here. Such as the male wraith perpousfuly making sure they look "presentable" to their queen. Even other males calling eachother pretty. Also it might have been implied that male x male relationships are common.

☆ Random notes: it is stated in the books that Todd (his real wraith name is Guide) was the prisoner of the Genii for 17 years. He has an daughter and an grandson which he had been separated from because of his time with the Genii.

In the book Todd literally said: "I would not kill Sheppard just to save my own life"

Which seems...you know. Not a thing one would say about just anyone. And the are other moments in the show and the books that make me think that the writters actually wanted to make them a thing. Or show that at least Todd DID have feelings for Sheppard. Altho there is one part SPECIFICALY that makes it seem that Sheppard have feelings for Todd as well. But maybe doesn't realise it might be romantic. But I'll make a post just about that for sure.

Blazey out (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

[complete-clownery]

Okay I wont get to work on this any longer tonight so imma just post this

So this morning I have realised some stuff about my Macaque home hc

So first of all you can see the human disguised Macaque with Bai He,

and so Bai He wasnt there or "planed into the house" three days ago, but I decided that, that just wont do, I want her with Macaque, so im going to have to go back and alter my original ideas so it would fit the concept of Bai He also living there with Macaque (I have quit a lot of ideas for that, but ill get to them when I have the time)

But its not the main reason I wanted to talk about this even with half finished ideas under constructuion in my head

The big thing you already saw the random old lady and the antic Store/shop, so its no suprise im going to talk about that a for a bit,,, not a lot tho cuz I dont really got the energy for this

Soo--- She does not have a name, but Ill work on that, shes not fully thougt out, but nothing really when it comes to my ideas and headcanons (its kinda like eating halfbaked dough)

so shes 73 years old divorced lady running a little antic shop in the outer cirkles of Megapolis. I was thinking maybe it was her who originally selled the whole building to Macaque and rented the free space under the dojo.

She has a daughter and a grandkid (didn't decide on gender yet)

Shes kinda inspired by @/ladygreenfrisbee's oc in the fanfiction sunbreak, a snarky but sweet old lady whos not taking any shit from the brooding, shadow the hedgehog wannabe.

When she was younger she worked in a Museum in Megapolis, working with antient historical artifacts and megical weapons, but she pretty much knew everything about anything in there, with history and old stories being one of her passions,

Thus after she retired she decided to open and antic store. Even tho its an antic store, she can be one of those people that you bring an old piece of furniture or object in and they can tell you if its legit or not. She is also willing to trade and buy stuff from you if its to her likings. She's fair and not a con artist, she has just enough money for herself and thats completely fine by her, shes a simple woman when it comes to living.

She has a ton of degrees, Dr. And Phd tytels and what nots, extreamly smart and knows a lot about history and mytology and different eras of the past, making it easier for her and Macaque to connect over old stuff.

Also I was thinking, even tho she couldnt tell that Macaque was the Six Eared Macaque himself, she knew that they were wearing glamours, She studied artifects and worked with demons who were experts on the field of magics and glamours, she knows her shit

And even tho She had a decent relationshipp with Macaque I dont think Macaque would willingly let her see his true form, maybe after he was very exhausted, and injured after a fight they couldnt hold it up and were like-- fuck it who cares (maybe it was after the final fight with LBD) and she obviously knew who they were imidietly seeing his Six ears (that even tho he let her see one time hé continued to glamour like he would usually, only letting go of their human disguise)

So after that she would start asking him a whole lot of questions about the past and what was it like, carefully avoiding the questions involving the great sage equal to heaven, cuz she knew what happend from jttw

But yeah Macaque found it funny how a child and an old lady are looking at him with similar shimmer to their eyes as they interrogate him on the past

She loves a good tea and has her own little blends that calm the nerves and ease muscle pain and stuff like that. After She and Macaque became more friendly with eachother she gifted them some tea that helps him fall asleep better and relax. Macaque checked them for poison twice and couldnt find anything, but still wasnt willing to drink from them until he had a very fucked up breakdown yippeee ✌️

After Macaque lived there for some years they somewhat warmed up to eachother, they would hold little tea paties and talk about stuff (annoying husbands and divorce) after Bai He started living with Macaque these tea parties increased in numbers, sometimes the ladys grandchild joining in when Grandma was watching over them, maybe they get along well with Bai He, maybe they had a rocky begining to their friendshipp, but they warmed up to eachother and now are pretty good friends (maybe, ill think about it more)

BUT!!! this was it for now its already 2:40 am and im waking up at 6:40 so even tho I have more to say ill be going now

Bye thank you for reading ✌️☺️

[kirumarythechair]

am i the omly one whk hates the "aww look at this funny comic relife!!!!! Thyre sooo silly !!!!!!!!! But oh noo they actualy have the superpowers of an antient eldrrich lovechraftian horror and destryoung the entire universe is only 2% of their power!!!1!1!1!1!" Trope or what

[foolnamedjoey]

Character drawings and concepts

My ocs, Onyx(Blue Guy), Ester (Pink thing), Ome (Fariy), and Obsidian (Red Dude) are apart of a story heavily inspired by late 1990s early 2000s platforming games like Jak and Daxter, Rayman, and Sonic Adventure. Onyx is the player character. Onyx, Ome, and Obsidian are all apart of a dead antient civilization scattered across the continent that mysteriously all turned to stone on a random night, and for some reason Onyx was turned back into a person after 200 years of being petrified. Each shrine held many people within it, being powered by the number of souls that took residence inside its walls. when all of the people apart of this civilization were turned to stone, the shrines lost all power. Each shrine had its own power, and now when Onyx enters each shrine a small spark of power is rejuvenated by his soul, and as a last effort to stay alive the shrine offers it's power to Onyx. There's also creatures called fairies, they lack a soul but are the actual power of the shrine. Once a shrine runs out of power, the fairies associated with it slowly turn to crystal, and at present often sold in shops and hidden in shrines- either as currency or just trading something of equal value. Onyx is something of a switch, and using the fairies lets him use the power of the fae's respective shrine- but he can only use the fairies of aforementioned shrine if Onyx has it's blessing. Each shrine has a little place the player can run around as optional practice with the power given to him by the shrine.

Now Obsidian, he acts as an antagonist to Onyx- but not a villain. The elfish man has spent the past 200 years alone in a changing world while in the walls of a petrified ancient ruins filled with people he once called family. Obsidian is the man that turned the civilization and all it's people into stone after fighting back against injustice within his own shrine.