"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

#ChthonicThursday: Tuonetar

Tuonetar is the Queen of the Underworld in Finnish mythology, and I promised you we’d talk about her when we saw her daughter Kalma, who’s tasked to prevent the dead from escaping their tombs. She brews one kick-ass beer, and she’s today’s profile on my Patreon.

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The Painters of the Revolution

I have a problem with the artistic current of the Macchiaioli, and my problem is that I always get them mixed up with Divisionism. And I don’t like Divisionism, so I almost skipped this exhibition, and that would have been a shame because I do

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The Apothecary Diaries

I discovered The Apothecary Diaries through the anime on Netflix: I generally don’t like them but we’re not getting good animation, I was desperate, and what caught my eye were the beautiful backgrounds in some of the promos. Then I switched to the manga. I

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books and literature

The Art of NASA

This is the second book I read by this author, and I bought it for two reasons: Alas, I was disappointed on both fronts. The preface is very good andframes the (excellent) graphics in this book as coming from two categories:1) the will of NASA

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