#from new to ancient

[ineedmorepronouns]

hear me out,

antique stores and pawn shops...

[teaboot]

YOOOOO CHECK THIS SHIT OUT I FOUND BATTERY-OPERATED AM/FM RADIO HEADPHONES

I’M NEVER USING WIFI DATA SPOTIFY ITUNES YOUTUBE MUSIC APP SHIT OUTSIDE MY HOUSE EVER AGAIN

[zaahvi]

GLORY TO THE RISEN GODS

[blueiscoool]

Stone carved Medusa from the Temple of Apollo at Didyma in Turkey.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 261

“So is no one going to talk about the eldritch space child or…” 

“I mean, do you want to get between a child and Batman? I think the only one who could even get close right now is Superman…” 

“No you’re right, I think- oh my god the eldritch space child is playing with batman’s bat-ears and he’s not doing anything about it what the fuck I thought only Robins could get away with that-” 

[artwheat]

Adventure start vs now

[antirepurp]

revisited the old "they descended from ancients + shadow was made by them" concept and put more thought into the markings this time, that and i took cues from their concept arts as a treat for myself. no chaos forms this time bc if this has to sit on my hard drive any longer im going to start running up the walls hee hoo

(old art + original concept for the curious i suppose)

[ddeck]

pains me that there's simply not enough info on star wars in-universe entertainment and pop culture for my liking. i want to know what star wars version of the godfather looks like. i wanna know what kind of space fanfiction a pantoran teenager would read, the kind of space tiktok edits they would make. i want to know the star wars equivalent for whatever the hell that is happening with ben affleck and matt damon. i want to see a coruscant news outlet publish an article with a headline "M'ett Sp'Amon not wearing a wedding ring again during another visit to Beng Spifflek's house. which could mean nothing"

[buttercupshands]

crk sketchbook sketches wave

I don't want to post allll of them one by one so you get a full post of them alllll in one place with latest one being first

some Truthless Recluse bc he won the test sketch poll out of some of the Pure Vanilla's outfits

some of Mystic Flour cookie studies, I don't make the rules she's beautiful

some Awakened Pure Vanilla bc I was listening to the lecture about morals, history... religion all that stuff and was getting bored after 2 hours of sitting in one place

one of many Sage of Truth sketches I did, this one ALSO from the same class, but one I enjoyed so much I drew this guy while discussing good and evil in society and its norms

aaand Shadow Milk in the Fount of Knowledge outfit

I wish we had SOMETHING with this period Shadow Milk bc in the end all we have are the part in the gacha animation and a couple of statues, which are great,,, but not exactly telling anything

and since this post is long enough so not many will actually look for too long here's a wip for you I did today for fun

[shummthechumm]

my po3 (rewrite) designs now with their past lives. (dove's wing, jay's wing, and lion's roar)

[blizardstar]

Me when Ashton Greymoore is denied honorable and meaningful self-sacrifice, and now must face the reality that they MUST keep living after it’s All Over

[mrstellmeafuckingsecret]

i think something that isn't discussed enough is the canonical horrors of the black family, walburga in particular. i'm not talking about walburga and orion being cousins or something, i'm talking about how it's very unlike the family a lot of people interpret it to be. the blacks weren't poised people, they were batshit crazy. they didn't follow the Perfect Family with the strong man, submissive wife and two kids, they didn't follow the Perfect Family with a present man, sane wife and ... kids.

walburga's portrait is so forgotten but that's likely how she was when she was alive, too, because portrait's don't go insane after they've been painted. her canon description isn't the woman make her out to be at all.

"The old woman was drooling, her eyes were rolling, the yellowing skin of her face stretched taut as she screamed..."

that is walburga black!! that's lady black!! that is someone way more interesting that "evil woman who pretends to be proper"!!

orion is nothing. nothing to sirius (who's our informant of the Blacks) and nothing to grimmauld place. there's no portrait of him, walburga doesn't mention him, sirius mentions him once, and, maybe most interesting of all, the room sirius retreats to is his mother's, not his parents'.

all of this to show one of two things: wizarding family ideals were vastly different from muggle ones or the Blacks didn't care about how they were perceived. which is, again, so much more interesting than "we're really messed up it's actually all a secret and everyone thinks we're fine".

the kids part is interesting because both sirius and regulus chose their own destinies independent of their parents, with sirius leaving them and the blood purity they stood for to go fight against it and regulus going in the opposite extreme and signing up to be a death eater. (it's important to note that walburga and orion were not death eaters, and there's reason to believe that regulus fought to become one !!)

it breaks so many of the tropes you see in media... only to be reduced to something exactly like it in fanon. please guys i swear they're so much more interesting when you look past the Alcoholic Dad, Abusive Mom, Helpless Kids dynamic

[weirdnico]

regulus and his baby (yes, she's james' too) (sirius spoils her rotten)

[blueiscoool]

900 Artifacts From Ming Dynasty Shipwrecks Found in South China Sea

The trove of objects—including pottery, porcelain, shells and coins—was found roughly a mile below the surface.

Underwater archaeologists in China have recovered more than 900 artifacts from two merchant vessels that sank to the bottom of the South China Sea during the Ming dynasty.

The ships are located roughly a mile below the surface some 93 miles southeast of the island of Hainan, reports the South China Morning Post’s Kamun Lai. They are situated about 14 miles apart from one another.

During three phases over the past year, researchers hauled up 890 objects from the first vessel, including copper coins, pottery and porcelain, according to a statement from China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA). That’s just a small fraction of the more than 10,000 items found at the site. Archaeologists suspect the vessel was transporting porcelain from Jingdezhen, China, when it sank.

The team recovered 38 items from the second ship, including shells, deer antlers, porcelain, pottery and ebony logs that likely originated from somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

Archaeologists think the ships operated during different parts of the Ming dynasty, which lasted from 1368 to 1644.

Many of the artifacts came from the Zhengde period of the Ming dynasty, which spanned 1505 to 1521. But others may be older, dating back to the time of Emperor Hongzhi, who reigned from 1487 to 1505, as Chris Oberholtz reported last year.

Archaeologists used manned and unmanned submersibles to collect the artifacts and gather sediment samples from the sea floor. They also documented the wreck sites with high-definition underwater cameras and a 3D laser scanner.

The project was a collaboration between the National Center for Archaeology, the Chinese Academy of Science and a museum in Hainan.

“The discovery provides evidence that Chinese ancestors developed, utilized and traveled to and from the South China Sea, with the two shipwrecks serving as important witnesses to trade and cultural exchanges along the ancient Maritime Silk Road,” says Guan Qiang, deputy head of the NCHA, in the agency’s statement.

During the Ming dynasty, China’s population doubled, and the country formed vital cultural ties with the West. Ming porcelain, with its classic blue and white color scheme, became an especially popular export. China also exported silk and imported new foods, including peanuts and sweet potatoes.

The period had its own distinctive artistic aesthetic. As the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art writes, “Palace painters excelled in religious themes, moralizing narrative subjects, auspicious bird-and-flower motifs and large-scale landscape compositions.”

The shipwreck treasures aren’t the only recent discoveries in the South China Sea, according to CBS News’ Stephen Smith. Just last month, officials announced the discovery of a World War II-era American Navy submarine off the Philippine island of Luzon.

By Sarah Kuta.

[yourgalgremlin]

Not the Black family trauma 🫠

[ohmaosama]

Imagine if Rahab had to answer Elias's curiosity 24/7...