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a roman toddler’s footprint in red clay tile 🥺 (ancient Vasio Vocontiorum)

I wanna hear these Opinions on steampunk color palettes, if you’re willing.

tbh “the Victorians did not go to the trouble of inventing aniline dyes so that we could wear neutrals” mostly covers it?

they went to a lot of effort to bring affordable screaming bright fuchsias and acid greens into the world, and we should honor their tacky, tacky choices.

Gold ring with jasper frog, Egypt, 600-30 BC

https://museum-of-artifacts.blogspot.com/?m=1 https://www.instagram.com/p/CaGJhR7ILTV/?utm_medium=tumblr

Roman glass bottle in the shape of a fish, 1st-2nd century A.D.

https://museum-of-artifacts.blogspot.com/?m=1 https://www.instagram.com/p/CaDkvCMI1Tl/?utm_medium=tumblr

The 2000-year-old clothes of the Huldremose Woman, a bog body recovered in 1879 from a peat bog near Ramten in Denmark. It consists of a checked woollen skirt, a checked woollen scarf and two skin capes. Now on display at the National Museum of Denmark

https://museum-of-artifacts.blogspot.com/?m=1 https://www.instagram.com/p/CZJGhVGoD1g/?utm_medium=tumblr

1938

Roman children shoes - Palmyra (Syria) [657x698]

The Tatler, England, October 2, 1907

In 1963, while doing renovations on his home, a man broke through an exterior bedroom wall in his home and discovered a tunnel entrance. What he found behind that wall stunned historians, archeologists and the world. The lost ancient underground city of Derinkuyu had been discovered. A multilevel series of rooms, carved from the soft volcanic rock in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, Derinkuyu extends to a depth of over 200ft. Believed to have been constructed by the Phrygians, an Indo-European people originally from the Balkan region, it dates back to the 8th Century BCE. Capable of holding up to 20,000 people, Derinkuyu had rooms for food stores, livestock, schools, kitchens, living and sleeping quarters and sanitary facilities. Small tunnels carved up to the surface allowed ventilation throughout the city. Entrance tunnels were carefully hidden in the hills surrounding Derinkuyu and connected to the city. One of these tunnels were discovered in 1963 when workers removed the bedroom wall. It is believed the city was originally carved as an escape from marauding Arab armies in 9th Century BCE and continued over the next several hundred years. The city was used often as a refuge during the Byzantine Era of the 5th through the 10 Century CE.

An Afternoon In París, 1900 , This video was shot by The Lumi

So over on Reddit this happened:

And collectively everyone was like: hey we love this tiny child, please do take him to a public candle lighting and show him the Rugrats special and here's our fave chanukah kids books and some songs and play a little dreidel and here's some kindergartner activities you can printout or color, also through the power of Jewish geography here's a potentially nearby Jewish bakery with sufganiyot stocked up for him, and also a recipe for if you want to sneak veggies into some latkes.

He's five and has permission. ADORABLE.

(and don't mind me wanting to cry because this was me at age 5 and now I'm Jewish lol)

I have a couple of Hanukkah questions:

When the Maccabees rededicated the temple they only had enough oil for one night.

1) Why didn’t they wait the seven days until they could make more pure oil first?

2) How long does the menorah or hanukkiah have to be lit to rededicate a temple? Is it indefinitely? Is it also for seven days, like being pure again for the Maccabees?

Hanukkah Sameach!

Here’s to all the Jews who grew up in a Christian family / neighborhood and don’t know how to feel about this time of year.

To everyone that doesn’t know where to start with Hanukkah because you were never exposed to it outside of it being “Jewish Christmas”

To those who see people say “Jews don’t celebrate Christmas” and doubt yourself because you did celebrate it or you still do because you grew up with it and enjoyed it and it’s expected from you now.

To those who don’t have long-standing traditions or recipes that have been passed down so you have to look things up online.

To those who have to hide their Jewishness around family or friends or coworkers.

To those who don’t know exactly where they belong yet, or still have doubts.

I hope you have a happy and safe holiday season.

[this post is about jewish converts and Jewish people who live in a majority Christian area or with Christian family/housemates. do not derail. do not add on.]

Happy Hanukkah!

And happy birthday Ozzy!

Bodice, 1700s.

every now and then i have to think of the roman family from two thousand years ago that buried their little daughter in a boy's athletic-themed sarcophagus and i weep a little because that's the softest declaration of love i can possibly imagine

hey guys just wanted to say that while it’s super awesome that y’all wanna support jews this holiday season, it’s not really appropriate to do the bugs bunny “i wish all ______ a very happy ______” meme for yom kippur. it’s great for sukkot, fantastic for simchat torah, but yom kippur is a day for repentance, remembrance, and forgiveness. it’s probably the most serious holiday we’ve got, so please don’t make light of it. instead of “happy yom kippur”, maybe say something like “have a meaningful holiday”, or “have a healthy fast” for people doing the traditional sundown to sundown fast. yom kippur starts with kol nidre (some people go to services, others just eat a big pre-fast meal, my family does both) september 15th at sundown and lasts until sundown on the 16th. please be conscious of your jewish peers! love, your local jewish nonbinary lesbain

When I was in second grade I was targeted by my teacher for isolation and harassment. If you got a ticket for misbehavior you didn't get to sit and watch a movie and eat candy with the rest of the kids on Friday, and every single week without fail I was sitting to the side alone. Half way through the year she switched it so tickets were for good behavior and you got to see the movie and eat candy and if you didn't get one, you had to sit alone. She scared me so badly that my already existing reading issues got worse and I just could not read or learn to read. She was young too, basically a new teacher, totally taking out her frustrations on kids and targeting me for her basically abuse. The administration was actually listening though, and was going to investigate her about getting her license revoked. Still, you shouldn't get a license in the first place if you're like this.

Something needs to be done about teachers who hate kids tbh

I made Gary (my gecko) a tiny Tallis and yarmulke for Rosh Hashanah and he wished u all happy new year

Pierre Balmain Haute Couture, 1953

I have … a tip.

If you’re writing something that involves an aspect of life that you have not experienced, you obviously have to do research on it. You have to find other examples of it in order to accurately incorporate it into your story realistically.

But don’t just look at professional write ups. Don’t stop at wikepedia or webMD. Look up first person accounts.

I wrote a fic once where a character has frequent seizures. Naturally, I was all over the wikipedia page for seizures, the related pages, other medical websites, etc.

But I also looked at Yahoo asks where people where asking more obscure questions, sometimes asked by people who were experiencing seizures, sometimes answered by people who have had seizures.

I looked to YouTube. Found a few individual videos of people detailing how their seizures usually played out. So found a few channels that were mostly dedicated to displaying the daily habits of someone who was epileptic.

I looked at blogs and articles written by people who have had seizures regularly for as long as they can remember. But I also read the frantic posts from people who were newly diagnosed or had only had one and were worried about another.

When I wrote that fic, I got a comment from someone saying that I had touched upon aspects of movement disorders that they had never seen portrayed in media and that they had found representation in my art that they just never had before. And I think it’s because of the details. The little things.

The wiki page for seizures tells you the technicalities of it all, the terminology. It tells you what can cause them and what the symptoms are. It tells you how to deal with them, how to prevent them.

But it doesn’t tell you how some people with seizures are wary of holding sharp objects or hot liquids. It doesn’t tell you how epileptics feel when they’ve just found out that they’re prone to fits. It doesn’t tell you how their friends and family react to the news.

This applies to any and all writing. And any and all subjects. Disabilities. Sexualities. Ethnicities. Cultures. Professions. Hobbies. Traumas. If you haven’t experienced something first hand, talk to people that have. Listen to people that have. Don’t stop at the scholarly sources. They don’t always have all that you need.

For everyone learning Hebrew

i do want to fight g!d, but in a way that’s like. play wrestling with a favorite uncle that’s gotten just slightly unhinged on your part bc he can see you’re pretty stressed and gave you license to go a little apeshit cos he knows he can handle it. im aware this is bizarrely specific but it’s How I Feel.

Rube Goldberg’s Passover Seder

by the Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Technion University

Jewish Curriculum

If you’re like me and felt overwhelmed as a convert trying to work out what to learn, I’ve made a checklist on google sheets which you can make a copy of and use to guide your learning. It includes:

Prayers and songs to learn

Historical events to research

Jewish theological topics

Important Biblical and modern figures

Jewish holidays

Book and film recommendations

Jewish values

Judaica to buy

Some resources that have helped me

I hope it helps :)

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

I FOUND THE PHOTO OF WHEN THE BURGER KING CLOWN CAUGHT MY HAIR ON FIRE AT MY FOURTH BIRTHDAY, I FINALLY HAVE THE PROOF IT HAPPENED!

Important Question. 

“they couldn’t make the Maximoffs Jewish because they can’t make any reference to Magneto”

did u kno…. magneto is not the only jewish person in the world……