Stibnium - Splendor Noctis

*takes a bath* ahah nice marat reference!

*takes a bath* haha nice saint-just reference

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

Living mirrors illuminate the water 🪩

thoughts on death and marriage and girls

(sophocles, antigone 891-4, c. 441 bce; ovid, metamorphoses x.1-7, 8 ce; phrasikleia kore inscription, 550-530 bce; euripides, iphigenia in aulis 1502-3, 405 bce)

inspired by @regenderate and @risissecupido and also joan breton connelly and nicole loraux

i wonder if the flute was a transverse flute or a recorder (i'm not sure that this is the right translation)? 👀

List of Saint-Just’s personal possessions part V: Miscellaneous

Absolutely everything Saint-Just had in his apartment was sold, down to his tableware. This small list of his remaining possessions will give you an insight into the objects he used, what they were made of and what light they could have shed over their owner’s character. 

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BREAKING NEWS

I just learned about a bird species called Golden Plover. Their chicks have an amazing camouflage: their baby fluff resembles MOSS!

LOOK AT THEM! JUST LOOK AT THEM!

...Oh to be a tiny golden plover lying in the moss safe and sound waiting for your mom to bring you some worms...

fr. “An Oresteia” trans. by Anne Carson

the earth and the milky way and moon, władysław teodor benda, 1918

Illustrations from Marat’s Recherches physiques sur le Feu, 1780