Illustration Robert Stobridge, Mid 60's Please Refer To The Blog Linked Above For This And So Much More

Miniatures from a Judeo-Persian manuscript, Mashdad, Iran, 1853

According to the scribal inscription, the book was calligraphed by Eliyahu ben Nissan, known as "Gurgi" (the Georgian). The text is a transcription of the tale of Yusuf (Joseph) and Zulaikha (Potiphar’s wife), as told by the 15th-century Sufi poet and philosopher Nur ad-Din ‘Abd ar-Rahman al-Jami. The story of Joseph is the story of a Jew forced to live among non-Jewish Egyptians, who despite hardships and temptations never loses his faith or forgets his true heritage; and when the time came, he revealed himself to his brothers and rejoined his family. This story must have had deep resonance, and even comfort, to the Jadidis in Mashdad (Persian Jews who were forcibly converted to Islam in the 19th century but continued to practice Judaism in secret); perhaps they commissioned this story as a reminder that like Joseph in prison, if they could keep their faith they would one day be rewarded.

Egyptian woman and her cat, 1923.

again and again and again and again

It's the Martyr's Prize Diamond gaze Eyes like pimples simple Simon I gotta make ends meet skim the water line like I'm taking a seat Saving my tears for the marginal me and the me that was made to eat me

Ayyyyy but give the pamphlet thank god, it's a dress code nothing bad happens to hamlet said I, among the nonfiction fates thank god for these men and their women the women who operates to realize her own oppression her own demise confessions to concessions til the fins congregate til they take us to heaven without the lessons This is how we destroy we this is how we forsake we we been dead for weeks tools for the fool and weak tools from the master subscription code inheritance of the meek never get old fire for thine eyes hooked without the hook you made it this far, look you've been dead for weeks happy feet disappearing in god fearing tar buy a bigger car never get old

Eleni R

Gert Heinrich Wollheim,

The Anxiety Dream; 1928

what a guy

Ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ σε όλους που με ενθάρρυναν να ολοκληρώσω αυτό το πρότζεκτ <33 Τα αγάπησα πολύ αυτά τα σκουλήκια στον καιρό που μου πήρε να το ζωγραφίσω

English version

A little wyvern on the head 😌

Every Greek kid's favourite worm, now going international

Greek version

Tô Ngọc Vân, Les Brodeuses, 1932