ancient writers and historians: cleopatra wasn’t especially beautiful, caesar and antony were attracted to her because she was so charismatic and intelligent
all subsequent artists, filmmakers, game developers, etc:
Women should be able to go their entire lives without wearing makeup or heels if they don’t want to, without getting called slobby, or unprofessional, or “doesn’t care about her image”, or being fucking denied jobs for not wanting to wear heels or makeup at work every day. If men aren’t expected to cover their faces with makeup or wear incredibly uncomfortable shoes every day of their lives neither should I.
Painted quartzite, recut for her father, Thutmose I
The word “sarcophagus,” from the Greek sarkophagos, “flesh-eater,” refers to a stone coffin that devoured its occupant. (Such a coffin was presumably made of limestone, because of the material’s corrosive action on flesh.) Although the very notion of a container that would devour the body inside it would have horrified the ancient Egyptians, we use the term “sarcophagus” today to refer to coffins of stone as opposed to wood. The Egyptians used a happier name, “lord of life,” because it was meant to protect and preserve the body forever.
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Hatshepsut, ca. 1478-1458 BC. Now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 04.278.1
due to this event, it’s more important than ever to support water protectors and pipeline activsts. here is the official website for the unis’tot’en camp so you can educate yourself on the issue. also please donate if you can.
it’s more important than ever to help support indigenous water protectors and anti-pipeline activists. please do what you can - anything helps.
Recueil de dessins ou cartons, avec devises, destinés à servir de modèles pour tapisseries ou pour peintures sur verre. 1501-1600, Alphonse V, roi d'Aragon-
some of you have never left your loom and shuttle to revel in the mountains with unbound hair and tear apart wild beasts with your bare hands and that really shows :/
