Sol 💫
@leopard
Interested in ideas, learning, aesthetics, the classics, cell bio, endocrinology, senescence, trichology. Armchair medievalist. Techno-optimist. Still learning German. Eng/Spa/Lat. Also a MD.
I was suspended at evil app for pointing out that Google will give you a list of plants that can kill you but not one that can provoke an abortion:
So, my favourite pens have tended to be this cheap classic (in black or blue): the pasta BPS 0.7 mm (Fine) Pilot. In general, as a rule I tend to prefer a 0.5 or 0.38 mm point (which is the fastest for writing in paper such Oxford notebooks: I have tested).
G.R.R. Martin really did say this and then: 1. Create a world with almost no economically active city, just castles (not even villages beside). From where do the Starks get money? No one knows. 2. Make a Targaryen matrimonial policy that -besides incest- makes no sense whatsoever.
I was sent this and I have never loved something so much, I love it. This represents my soul. This is the most Pisces art ever.
Are there good books (articles, podcasts or lectures) on the "history" of the prehistory, Bronze Age, Iron Age, ancient cultures with no written records -or close- (such as the Scythians, Massagetae, Punic, Yamatai, Tartassos, etc.) and/or the foundational period of states?
how i rise each morning knowing that the world is my country and all men are my brothers vs how nationalists rise from bed hating all the world but their country and having no brothers
There is a certain pattern in the cultures of the Americas that sort of doesn't exist* in other continents: an existing culture preserving in its oral tradition how they drove away an older culture. The classical example of this type of legend is the moon-eyed people expelled by the Cherokee.
There is a novel inspired in this particular garden: Bomarzo by Argentinian writer Manuel Mujica Lainez, written in 1962. Bomarzo is a real garden commissioned by Francesco Orsini Duke of Bomarzo and crowded with statues of fantastic creatures and monsters.
Victorian poet that looks like this writing about "ardent chastity" (and painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as you do):
Also where this is considered normal and funny by the supposedly woke writers of SNL:
Reviewing a bit the history of publishing, I discovered that magazines came to be partially in response to laws against free speech:
I have this theory that physical books' sales were more or less fated to decline indefinitely but Instagram (which appeared in late 2010) came to save it because it opened a new female and aesthetic based market (same with manual crafts, embroidery, drawing and painting).
if this makes sense to you then you get the method and the madness of the american mind
I'm going to become a Respectable and Serious Account. No more dilly-dally for me.