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Wood block color prints by gustave baumann

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your honor 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

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Graduation of girls from a Quran class. I scanned this photo from the book Faces of the Emirates by Ronald Codrai.

The hair is set in place with a large amount of henna.

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Morocco, Souss Massa. 1969. Günther Helm

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Amazigh woman in Morocco, Souss Massa. 1969. Günther Helm

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Omani hair ornaments

In Oman - Bahla, Rostaq, Nizwa, Ibri, Sur, Miscat, and Mutrah all have their own silversmiths and their own distinctive designs. These hair ornaments are from the Ibri province in northwest Oman - they are worn at the bottom of a plaited coil of hair and create a jingling sound as the wearer moves.

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Psst! Want high-end photos of Dragon Age: The Veilguard artbook, it's available here. Thank you @dalishious!

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don't touch me

sam reich and kurt maloney put together a fever dream for jacob wysocki just to tell him how much they love and appreciate him

that they support him and will continue to do so

they took on a whole sponsorship deal. for a single episode. just to put their friend in a position where he can be comfortable and safe!

and they brought in his dad!!

i'm not crying, you're crying

go find yourself friends that support and uplift you like the dropout crew do for each other.

this is what love looks like! this is what community is about!

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After years of observing these caddisfly larvae, French naturalist and artist, Hubert Duprat, wondered if the caddis flies would use any materials to build their cocoon. He introduced flakes of gold, pearls and opals to the caddis flies and they did in fact use them for their cocoons. They use their own silk as the glue to hold their pupal constructions together.

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GLaDOS: I spent some time researching common human insecurities so I might better insult you. I've discovered that physical insecurities often manifest due to feelings of envy stemming from comparing oneself to others.

GLaDOS: There are no other humans in this facility. Just you. Therefore, you lack a source of envy of which would trigger the feelings of insecurity in your tiny simple human brain.

GLaDOS: A shame, isn't it? I thought so too. Which is why I've taken it upon myself to artificially create a humanoid body for myself so that you'll have someone to envy. A female figure who is taller than you, more mature than you and has larger breasts than you. Gaze upon my new form of perfection and shrink away in your envy. You'll never achieve this level of perfectio- why are you smiling at me like that. Stop it.

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With her parents exploring the spirit world and magic beyond the citadel's control, it makes me wonder how exactly when she was born and under what circumstances.

Is there something about exactly the place or the way she was concieved that made her a direct product of her parents research

Intro of the very first WBN episode (main campaign):

"Snow falling over endless white sand and a tower made of glass, [Thunder rolls] in the image of night and day, as spells fire across the sky. For a moment the sun, captured against the horizon while stars gleam as the heavens cannot seem to agree, in the face of endless magic what the truth of this world should be. These images are captured in the mind's eye as memory, perhaps of dream, or perhaps of waking life, or perhaps of something in between. By Suvi."

AAAAAAAA HOT THEORY

Ok so the most recent episode and listening to the prelude again got me thinking: When Soft and Stone discover the free magic, we see the sun and it turns into snow and music and lots of stuff. This seems somewhat similar to the description above where we also get sun and snow and endless magic.

Also "the heavens cannot seem to agree what the truth of the world should be". The heavens as in the sky, or maybe more like the Sky. I feel like we already lost our minds over this line when it got called back to in an episode a few weeks ago with that bit about the world having a hard time remembering the truth. But this makes it specifically tied to Suvi, and it would sort of metaphorically line up with Suvi having a hard time finding her way back to who she was and what she liked before the citadel.

Ok so that's one side of it. Then we have that room in the archive that Ame and Eursulon visit, that I feel ties into this. They go to this particular room because it contains the information on that massive interdisciplinary project of a plan to curse Grandma Wren and Ame, using Suvi to deliver it. (Huge. Wtf.) And in this room we have a bunch of special objects in the alarmed bubbles. The set of dream magic keys, creyon drawings, scrolls and that twirling ribbon wand are mentioned. What if these are all things taken from Suvi's home (or the apartment that we know was cleaned out):

Dream keys to the near-spirit that Soft would have had. Drawings that Suvi made, that are perhaps like the ones mentioned in the secret study in the apartment (maybe of things she saw in the near spirit or in her dreams?). Scrolls I suppose could be for all sorts of things, but maybe they are of non wizard or null clef spells. That twirling toy feels so whimsical, in my mind it would fit in well among the song and dance of the spirit world. (of course only guessing)

And we know Suvi is an unusually gifted wizard, from when she cast a 2nd level spell during the arith incident. Plus she was put on the leadership track immediately, in a very safe role away from combat and other risks to her. There is such an emphasis on keeping her in the citadel, they must know she is somehow very valuable to them.

So.

What if Suvi, in her connection to the Sky, has exceptional abilities to traverse the spirit world and the real world. What if the separation of which side is dreaming and which is dreamed of gets fuzzy with her:

"These images are captured in the mind's eye as memory, perhaps of dream, or perhaps of waking life, or perhaps of something in between. By Suvi."

I swear, if it's all right there in the first few minutes of the story.. idk.

(and I don't mean necessarily in a sort of chosen one way, I feel like if you grow up in a family where mingling and playing with magic in a free and curious and close to the near spirit way is normal, you may get attuned to magic in a very intuitive way, and then that forms part of your identity as you grow into yourself)

And I think this may explain Suvi's relevance to the Man in Black as well. If Suvi represents incredible connection between these realms, her stepping on the road may allow for a path for the Man in Black to travel out of the area that Grandma Wren trapped him in.

Anyways. The Sky is always there, day or night, dreaming or awake. I love this story so much.

(very curious to find out if any of this ends up being right, Brennan and Aabria spin a mysterious web) :)

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Feels like a good time to remember the end of Arc 1 and Steel’s insistence that Ame *not* break the curse without the citadels aid, so they could “discover who placed it” and “research the origin”

You know, for no particular reason

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Here’s what the queen of swords represents in case anyone is curious.

Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation

Reversed: malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit

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Feanor gazes upon Nerdanel at her craft

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Aabria: It's fucked up. Because how many times was Steel like, "Dammit, just come to me if you need something and I'll help you!" And Suvi went "Okay, help me with my boyfriend problem." And now that motherfuckers fully dead? What?!

Brennan: Can I ask? Can I ask? Does Suvi, at this point in the story currently, have any boyfriend problems?

Aabria: Damn, she's got 99 problems. But a bitch is in fact no longer one! Thanks, mom! Never mind! Praise The Citadel and all her works. We love to see it!