What has happened in the past 10-15 years that people will accept the most outrageous insane things as legitimate and real?
Yo. I post this and minutes later this guy starts following me: https://www.tumblr.com/uno-ufofreepolicecollectorfan
"you looking for a friend?" she leans in, "or perhaps... more?"
your eyes widen; two friends?!
The sack of Rome, August 24th 410 CE, colourised.
Art by Psicochurroz
I have no idea what’s going on, but I dig it
What has happened in the past 10-15 years that people will accept the most outrageous insane things as legitimate and real?
All the crazy opinions got aired out in public via social media, and if we aren’t polite and accept their lunacies as valid, we’re bad people.
Eeeeeeh, that'll do. Free-hand emblem at some point, maybe, we'll see.
Not sure if I am happy how it turned out, tried the flames multiple times on test pieces but couldn't quite get the style I wanted.
Ordo Mediare Sisters 1st year Anniversary!
actually it should be on May, but I had other tasks so I can't focus on create this emotional piece.😭
That feel when you take out a WiGE with LB10 cluster shot and it crashes into a building. @swedebeast
When the Varangians honoured the woman who killed her near-rapist
The Varangian Guard (Greek: Τάγμα τῶν Βαράγγων, Tághma tōn Varángōn) was an elite unit of the Byzantine Army from the tenth to the fourteenth century who served as personal bodyguards to the Byzantine emperors. The Varangian Guard was known for being primarily composed of recruits from northern Europe, including mainly Norsemen from Scandinavia but also Anglo-Saxons from England. The recruitment of distant foreigners from outside Byzantium to serve as the emperor's personal guard was pursued as a deliberate policy, as they lacked local political loyalties and could be counted upon to suppress revolts by disloyal Byzantine factions.
The Byzantines had mixed feelings about them, on one hand considering them barbarians and brutes with too much love for alcohol, on the other hand admitting their fierce loyalty to the emperor and their military prowress. They never fled a battle and they would fight to their death. They were also considered fair traders in their transactions between the Byzantine Empire and their northern homelands.
One incident which took place in 1034 helped soldify a positive image of the Varangians to the Byzantines' eyes, so much that the Byzantine Greek chronicler Ioannis Skylitzis, described it in his works as "αξιαφήγητον" (axiaphíyiton, worthy of mentioning / narrating).
According to Skylitzis, a group of Varangians were transferred in the Thracesian Theme (Greek: θέμα Θρᾳκησίων, thema Thrakēsiōn), a military division that at the time encompassed west Asia Minor (not Thrace). One of them once encountered a local woman in an uncrowded place. The man approached the woman suggestively but she rejected his advances. The man attempted to rape her and she seized his sword and killed him. His death was instant as she pierced him through his heart.
Art in Skylitzis' manuscript where the woman is erroneously depicted to kill the man with a spear instead of a sword.
Once the incident became known in the area, the Varangians made a gathering in which they agreed to honour the woman for killing their companion. They offered her all the valuable belongings of the killed Varangian, whom they left unburied. According to Varangian law, the rapists of married women were punished with execution, therefore the Varangians reasoned that the woman simply implemented the law by killing their companion.
The manuscripts of Skylitzis are kept in the National Library of Madrid.
Sources:
- ΜΗΧΑΝΗ ΤΟΥ ΧΡΟΝΟΥ
- www.in.gr
Lovecraft is an interesting figure in literature.
I also got blocked by people for pointing out the fact that maybe, just maybe, Lovecraft’s racism might have been, if not caused, by exacerbated by the experiences of his young life.
Whatever you do, don’t tell people later in his life he regretted his previous stances.
Lovecraft is an interesting figure in literature.
I also got blocked by people for pointing out the fact that maybe, just maybe, Lovecraft’s racism might have been, if not caused, by exacerbated by the experiences of his young life.
Whatever you do, don’t tell people later in his life he regretted his previous stances.
Ordo Mediare sister's engraved Arming sword
On the pommel: "Libra ad unum latus inclinatur, gladium sustollimus"
On the fuller: "Deus, concede nobis feminis vim"