stir up our hearts (x)

Really needed this today.

우리가 얼마나 많이 왔는지도 뒤돌아봐.

你看、我们已经走了这么远了。

Mira lo lejos que hemos llegado.

LOOK HOW FAR WE’VE COME.

I Opened a Book I opened a book and in I strode Now nobody can find me. I’ve left my chair, my house, my road, My town and my world behind me. I’m wearing the cloak, I’ve slipped on the ring, I’ve swallowed the magic potion. I’ve fought with a dragon, dined with a king And dived in a bottomless ocean. I opened a book and made some friends. I shared their tears and laughter And followed their road with its bumps and bends To the happily ever after. I finished my book and out I came. The cloak can no longer hide me. My chair and my house are just the same, But I have a book inside me. by Julia Donaldson

Not me getting distracted by the book store as soon as my parents left. It's not my fault that the magnetic intensity is a little too strong around it :v

I was outside for most of the day so I didn't get much studies done. It feels nice to be home after a long day ^_^ My back is crying btw

why is it that whenever I am disillusioned with the world I go back to the epic of Gilgamesh

“It is the story of their becoming human together.”

This is it. This is the oldest written literary work that we know of, and it’s a story of becoming human together.

This is a story about love, and it’s a story about death, and we told this story thousands of years ago, THOUSANDS of years. We have always, always, always been wrestling with this profoundly beautiful existence and with knowing one another, while knowing that we all will die and be forgotten.

We become human by loving, but we also become human by knowing death.

And I’m just sitting here touching other human beings, another human experience, from across millennia, feeling a bit more human too through it, and I am trying very hard not to cry.

Just Gilgamesh and Enkidu being canonically gay

since my gilgamesh post is being enjoyed a lot today

(The source for this is the second Norton Critical Edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh, translated by Benjamin R. Foster)

Ninsun's interpretation of Gilgamesh's dream about Enkidu

Ninsun interpreting Gilgamesh's second dream

References to Enkidu as "husband" and "bride"

And of course, this passage from "Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld," a related Sumerian work

On a related note, it annoys me when people see the word "friends" in a translated work and assume it's erasing a homosexual relationship, because they're not mutually exclusive and this is an example. Gilgamesh and Enkidu are friends and they also kiss and have sex. What of it

Just bought a copy of Anna de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over! Call me influenced~

@ceyla-mac I loved it and gave it 4 stars out of 5! possible trigger warnings: body horror/gore, mentioning of losing limbs, organs and topics in the book are grief, death, loss, leaving things behind

when you read it feel free to tell me how you liked it!

the most perfect sunday

On my bookstagram @mooberryink ♡

The merlin books are a need 😂

Oudemanhuispoort Book Market l Amsterdam (x)

"From a mummy on board the Titanic to the pyramids’ alignment with the stars, from psychoactive mushrooms to the lost realm of Atlantis: alternative interpretations of ancient Egypt, often summarized as ‘alternative Egyptology’, have always focused on subjects that others shunned. Ever since the birth of scholarly Egyptology with the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script two hundred years ago, alternative interpretations and imaginative theories have flourished alongside it. They intertwined with egalitarian and spiritual tendencies in society during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when ancient Egypt inspired countless mediums, artists, and movements from freemasonry to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. More recently alternative interpretations have inspired comic-book authors and nationalist Chinese bloggers.

It would be a mistake, however, for academics to simply view these alternative theories as fantasies that are best ignored. Their lasting popular impact needs to be assessed and (publicly) addressed by Egyptology, but they may in fact also open up fresh perspectives for research. The contributors to this volume critically explore various aspects of ‘alternative Egyptology’, assessing its impact on society and scholarship, and finding ways for Egyptology to relate to it."

— Alternative Egyptology: Critical essays on the relation between academic and alternative interpretations of ancient Egypt, by Ben van den Bercken