When they made the hanging gardens of Babylon they were like. Let me make the most awesome garden ever. Then they did it. Beastmode.
Over 100,000 ceramic wares from two Chinese shipwrecks, 1500 meters deep in the South China Sea. Discovered in May 2023. Ships dated to the Ming dynasty, 1506-1522
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Hypostyle hall of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera
Because I keep running into people who missed it: Pacific Rim is literally an allegory for the effects of man-made climate change. That's why the Serizawa scale is modeled on the Saffir-Simpson scale used to measure hurricanes. That's why our pollution is linked to the reason the Precursors started sending in kaiju. That's why Raleigh Becket literally refers to fighting kaiju as fighting the hurricane.
Oda Mayumi Ancient Sea, Nautilus, 1986 Color screenprint on paper; titled, numbered, and signed '…44/45…Mayumi' in pencil along the lower margin; matted. 34 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. (87.1 x 64.8 cm) sheet 38 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. (97.3 x 64.8 cm)
The Frewen Cup, an engraved Nautilus shell set in silver gilt mounts, by John Plummer, England, c. 1650
I say: Please. Let this spell grow legs. Let my sisters’ names grow long as their hair. Long as they need to. Let their names rattle the night air with their incessant lungs. Let the sounds of their names burn blue in the night,
Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On: Prayer for the Untranslated Testimony
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
- Amelia Earhart
what should i do?
Destroy everything you identify with, then identify with something that you cannot destroy. I chose the sky, not any one cloud but I am the container