Arseny

Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.

It's as described. Cool visuals with zero vibe, all vibe gone, no vibe at all, empty shell of an image. If you don't know the original art, you may like it, as it's stupid and pretty. If you know the original art, you cry the whole time, tears of helpllessness.

Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate Some Japanese texts use a rebus-style script for teaching the illiterate to recite the *Heart Sūtra*, and other sacred texts, in Chinese.

What to do if you need to memorize a prayer in a language you don't speak, as the magic of the prayer only works in original language?

That's right, you pick some words that sound similar in your own language and encode it phonetically.

But what if you also can't read?

You write it as a sharade!

Thank you! And you repost lots ot tasteful art there as well, thank you, that's so great! :)

Wow, this is so good, and together with the time-lapse, even goodder!! Love it! (And it makes me more guilty for not painting mysef haha, this is also so inspirational, in its platonic perfection, reaching out through geometry! Love it!)

Thank you for posting the screenshot, it is an important context!

How to get more of this sketchbook account of yours?? Am I a subscriber?.. This is so cool!!

This is really cool!!

Cropped close-ups?

pencil drawings, various Krampus doodles

Buncha Krampuses

Ich mag das Schloss, aber eine andere Modell zu haben würde doch noch besser!! :)

Illustration of a dog turning wheel and meet on fire.

Description of an extinct dog breed which was dedicated for turning wheels

Isn't that crazy -- there was a dog breed which was solely dedicated for powering wheels which turned meat on fire!?
Just how many kinds of such 'techno-animals' existed and went extinct? This is cultural and biological evolution all at once.
🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio

Huh here I zz both. I lived a lie for 20 years gosh.

Yeah these two I feel. Unlike mousing. But the verb to house I don't feel for some reason, weird! Maybe I read it a lot without hearing it much 😅

omg the longer you live... The verb has a diff sound?!?

My top artist of 2025 according to Spotify is quite funny, given that my eventual conclusion after running this experiment was that I'm really not a fan 😅

This thread is long, informative and absolutely mind blowing 🔢🎵🎶🕉️📖

A scan of a page listing causes of death. The top ones are Chrisomes and Infants (2268), Consumption (1797), Fever (1108), and Aged (628). Some rare one involve Bit with a mad dog (1), Vomiting (1) or Murdered (7). Teeth are in the middle (470)

Causes of death in London in 1632:

Planet (13)
Suddenly (62)
Worms (27)
Cancer and Wolf (10) - like, did they work together?..

Also, "Rising of the lights" (98) is not a psychedelic glam-rock band, but a type of a viral respiratory infection

Jashan, aka Jashne

A schematic of a Zoroastrian ritual of jashan: a kind of a thanksgiving / blessing / worship / dedication ceremony . (I don't know much about it, just liked the schematic :)

Source, with a long detailed description and some (low-res) photos: www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastriani...

Wow if you copy Kwarezmian from Wikipedia it makes the entire bsky post right-align and fake-right-to-left directed. That's wild :)

𐾸𐾲𐾰𐾻 𐾰𐾺 𐾹𐾶𐾰𐿂𐾺𐾸𐾽
yeah, they had their own language and everything en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khwarez...

I don't know too much about them, but it feels like a rabbit hole, a whole civilization to study! Maybe one day, one day :)

Aerial view of the uncovered site at its peak (most of the periphery was covered with dirt once again, since)

A model from a museum

A sketch of a possible reconstruction

Koi Krylgan Kala is an archeological site from Karakalpakstan Republic. Built by Iranian people from the kingdom of Khwarezm (a sister civilization of a perhaps more famous Sogdia) in 4 cent BCE. Koi Krylgan Kala was both a fortress, a settlement, and a Zoroastrian temple.

YouTube video by Tamu Berozti РАГОН (Ragon Bal) - Simdtæ

Beautiful #Ossetian album:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Su...

I'm especially in love with equidistant scale this region uses (also common in Georgian, Svan, Mengrelian music) that has 7 near-equal steps per octave instead of 8 unequal ones as in the West. Listen carefully to the 1st track for example!

Bird tongues are dry and worms know that

He said into, not out of

A metal token engraved with an image of top half of a man leaping from a pile of rocks

Heavy metal rock nativity: a Roman period silver token found at St Albans depicting the god Mithras being born, leaping fully formed from a rock. 🏺 #AncientBluesky

Ah Adolf Born, then it makes sense how it is so shamelessly perfect

a bright and blazing sun over a landscape

Edvard Munch’s The Sun, 1909

As usual, I’ve waited until the very last day of the month to post my linocut ‘November Rain’. Still, better late than never…
#YeOldeCheshireCheese

photo from the 1930s

modern photo

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