a soft looking and somewhat worn felt swan with a big beak and trailing feathers

thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired I don't mean I want to sleep. I mean I want to disappear for a while. To be rain on a stranger's roof. To be smoke rising from someone else's fire. I don't want to die. But I do want to rest in a way the world has never allowed me. I don't want comfort. I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved.

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté

"I want quiet.
I want the mercy of being unseen
without being unloved."

Silver Skeleton Series, Valerie Hegarty, 2019

She fell back to the earth not as a failure but as a return. Above her, the sky circled with her watchers dark-winged keepers of endings, misnamed as ugly scorned for scavenging what appears as worthless, by mouths that do not fear decay. Vultures ride the invisible, they read the language of death as opportunity, how they descend in service. They do not kill. They do not rush. They wait until the world has finished breaking something and then they come to make sure nothing is wasted. 1/2

This is their beauty not the kind that begs to be touched, but the kind that refuses to turn away. Feathers like ink against a sky too bright to be honest. They came for her as witnesses as metaphors. Life took her softness first then her beauty, the parts she offered the world that were never returned. And what remained was not pretty. This is the secret no one teaches some forms of beauty are designed to be given away. Not to be consumed but to be transformed so that even in falling, even in endings, something sacred stays refusing to be lost. The vultures rose, heavy with what she no longer needed, turning ruin into rebirth. And she she did not disappear. She became in the quiet, with the breath of things that dare to begin again. She fell back to the earth Transformed. 2/2

Lady of the Vultures

She fell back to the earth
not as a failure
but as a return.
Above her,
the sky circled with her watchers
dark-winged keepers of endings,
misnamed as ugly
scorned for scavenging what appears as worthless,
by mouths that do not fear decay.
Vultures…
#poetry #myths

The National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City houses a remarkable mosaic skull adorned with turquoise, carnelian, and seashells. This artifact exemplifies the intricate craftsmanship of Aztec artisans and underscores the cultural significance of turquoise in Mesoamerican societies. In Aztec culture, turquoise was highly esteemed, often valued above gold. Its vibrant blue-green hue was considered sacred, symbolizing the divine. Artisans skillfully incorporated turquoise into various ceremonial objects, including masks, shields, and jewelry, reflecting its esteemed status. The mosaic skull serves as a testament to the Aztecs' artistic sophistication and their reverence for turquoise, offering insight into the spiritual and cultural practices of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations.

Skull mask
human skull covered in turquoise, carnelian, shell mosaic
c.1500 CE
Aztec Mexica
Mexico

#handmade #votiveskull #mosaicinlay #turquoise #carnelian #shell #tezcatlipoca #thesmokingmirror #ritual #religion #magic #aztec #sacred #mask #sacrifice #fertility #offering #protection #victory #art

That just means he'll be caught totally offguard when it happens

If one is possible the other is too and ex-homie should think about it

Its always "I think I could turn a lesbian" and never "I think a gay guy could turn me".

Parker S. Jackson

Today's Headline And then one day, while I read aloud to my husband the news and felt the widening hole in my heart, he raised his hand to quiet me. I followed his gaze out the window to see in the yard a small fluffy thing with black and white eyespots on its head. A northern pygmy owl beside our door, stout body slightly smaller than my fist. It turned its neck a full half circle to look at me with bright yellow eyes. In an instant, I shifted from disgust with the world to awe. Awe for this fierce bespeckled miracle, this wonder of feather and beak and claw, this small being in the grass looking back at me as if to say, Here is also the news. How surprising the world can be. How quickly, when I let it, amazement overwrites my fear and makes of the hole in my heart a home. -Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

#poetry #writingcommunity
#nationalpoetrymonth #poem

Which thing?

Nice. E.M. Carroll is one of my favorite comic artists. I remember finding her online years ago and the comics had these little animations when you hovered over them on some pages.

Moon shot CREDIT:NASA.

The only time someone has ever described something to me as being like sticking my head in an antique clock full of rats. And also probably the only time I will ever hear that and think "that sounds like a good time."

You are so much more than what happened to you

The figure depicted on the Paracas pottery bowl is typically interpreted as a supernatural or anthropomorphic "flying figure". These figures are common motifs in Paracas art and are believed to represent beings from an otherworldly or supernatural realm. The figure combines human-like traits with other features, such as claws and a three-point mouth. The way the figures are oriented on the bowl suggests they are flying or moving through a different realm, possibly related to the mountains which were considered a supernatural area. Similar figures in Paracas and the related Nasca culture often appear alongside other mythical beings and sometimes incorporate elements like "trophy heads," suggesting a connection to ritual and agricultural abundance beliefs. Paracas art, in general, reflects the culture's deep investment in the afterlife and their dependence on the natural world and agricultural cycles, with these figures likely playing a role in their cosmology and rituals.

Jar with Anthropomorphic Figure
ceramic with resinous postfire paint
650–150 BCE
Paracas
Ocucaje area, Ica Valley, south coast, Peru

#handmade #art #culture #religion #paracas #peru #flyingfigure #afterlife #spiritual #fertility #agriculture #ancientart #ancientpottery #precolumubian #prehispanic

Idk which political cartoonist started the trend of drawing him with an abnormally long tie, but I love how its everywhere now.

I coughed too hard and pulled something in my neck a few days ago. I've been in and out of migraine territory since.

Dog hears a harmonica for the first time: 🔊 #AGoodPlace

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Its a solid concept, but If i go somewhere and smell garlic bread but there is none I will be quite cross.

The color changing is amazing but what always gets me is they make their body’s texture look like rocks and coral. Fascinating.

IG: ibrahim.elhariry

Witness the elegance of the swimming Feather Star, a crinoid that dates back to the Ordovician era, over 480 million years ago. A true marvel of evolution in our oceans.

QRT ghost art
(I paint a lot of ghosts/spirits so this one was perfect for me)
#ghost #art

Octopus hauling ass on the sea floor: #AGoodPlace

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a drawing of a person playing drums with the words `` ba dum tsss '' . ALT: a drawing of a person playing drums with the words `` ba dum tsss '' .

Oh hey theres a topical pun in there

I sincerely hope you don't get the puberty acne as bad as I did/still do 🙏🤞

Its probably gonna come and go for a while lol. Been since October for me.

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses.

It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them.
Yes. This exists. 😹

Yo look at this cool bug I found on my feed