a young scholar resting / how yusuf al kaysani came to need reading glasses for eternity by staying up late studying by lamplight as a youth
[id: a drawing of yusuf al kaysani. he is resting his head on his right arm, asleep over a low cluttered table, bathed in warm morning light. he is wearing a lightly coloured jebba with turquoise blue stripes and silver-grey trim over a light tunic, a silver ring on his right hand, and he has a tasbih (prayer beads) of deeply coloured baltic amber beads with a red tassle around his left hand. there is a qalam (reed pen) underneath his right wrist, his right hand is resting on a small calico cat which he is petting in his sleep. the cat is curled into the crook of his outstretched left arm. his left hand rests on top of a leather bound book. the cover is embossed with a stylised date palm, it is based on 10th century kairounese book. next to yusuf’s left forearm there is a machmoum (a small bunch of fragrant fell jasmine blossoms) tied with red string and an extinguished bronze oil lamp, the lamp is based on a 10-11th century ifriqiyan design. on the table below yusuf there are sheets of paper marked with pawprints in light brown ink, you can see that one of the calico cat’s paws is stained brown. on one sheet there is a doodle of a finely kitted out horse with a rider, based on the decoration of a 10-11th century plate from sabra al-mansuriyya / kairouan. on another sheet there is an incomplete copy of surah ibrahim ayat 7 in maghribi script, it says “and (remember also) when your lord proclaimed: "if you are thankful (for my favors), i will most certainly give you more; but if you are ungrateful…”. in the upper right corner there is a draft illustration of an interlacing design, based on wood carving in the 9th century great mosque at sfax. on a smaller piece of parchment there is a doodle of man in the ifriqiyan style playing a pipe, based on a 10-11th century bas-relief marble carving from a building in mahdiya. below this is a carved stone inkwell with five wells, based on a 9th century inkwell from djerba. there are four qalams with different coloured inks dried on each tip next to a metal qalamdan (pen storage container) decorated with iranian style interlacing. there is a small tabby cat at yusuf’s right side, sitting on a kilim rug with a geometric pattern based on red and blue squares. both cats are looking up towards the source of the light. end id]
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this detail is quite lost in the picture but i thought they deserved some love. this is actually a nod to horse boy yusuf and his future bond with andy, the og horse girl. a really cool horse! but i absolutely lost it when i sketched it out and realised that the rider’s face which i hadn’t been playing attention to looked like this. local horse boy yusuf al kaysani falls asleep dreaming of magnificent steeds and men with huge eyes and huge noses. see also: the massive frying pan hands on the pipe player
Not shaving and not wearing make up are literally nonbehaviors. They’re a complete lack of action. But doing nothing is considered masculine because women are not allowed to just be. this goes double for trans women.
reblog this version because transmisogynists don’t know how to fuck off.
Oh okay up until now I’ve just thought Pacific Rim was an okay movie but after hearing Del Toro refused any Pentagon funding for it I’ve changed my mind what a great film
Why would the Pentagon fund a movie?
Literally most summer blockbusters are straight-up financed by the Pentagon. The Pentagon provides funding for movies but in exchange they demand to be allowed to make any edits they want to the script to ensure the U.S. military is depicted in a positive light and the movie can be used as tools for miltiary recruitment. It’s called the Military Entertainment Complex (and it also involves the Pentagon funding videogames and music videos)
Basically, if a movie made in the U.S. contains ANY depction of the U.S. military, you can be 99% sure that it’s at least partially a propagada piece commissioned by the Pentagon.
Basically
This website submitted an FOIA request back in 2014 to see a full list of movies that were at least partially sponsored by the U.S. military. There are well over 800 of them, and it’s likely there are even more they did not disclose.
I understand why jurors need to be sequestered from media coverage and stuff, but it’s crazy that they’re prohibited from doing ANY internet research or fact-checking related to the case. Some guy is being fined $11k because he Googled a patch that an ICE officer was wearing in their case – the jury was told in court it was a trade workers’ union patch, but the guy didn’t think it was since he was a retired pipe fitter and didn’t recognize the logo. So he went home and googled it and says he found it to be a white supremacist logo. And since he googled it, he’s being charged with contempt and fined for the costs of the mistrial he caused by doing so. But like… doesn’t that mean that our court system is set up so that juries could be lied to (by prosecutors, etc) and be unable to do any verification or fact-checking without literally committing a crime……?
Though the jokes that “since gay pride month is over, july is now gay wrath month” are funny and all, it’s important to remember that July is ACTUALLY Disability Pride Month and ya’ll should really be focused on boosting disabled voices and issues this month! For instance, the fact that marriage equality doesn’t actually truly exist in the United States for disabled people, or the fact that disabled people are forced to live in poverty or lose their disability benefits, or the fact that 1 in 5 people with chronic pain end up sufferring from alcoholism or other addictions, or how accessibility is still a daily battle for all of us, or how there are active hate groups on places like reddit who try to “call out” those they see as “faking” their disabilities.
This July, boost disabled voices. Talk about the issues that our community faces. Call out ableism.
I found a company called “Frantic Meerkat” who makes journals whose sole purpose is to call me out
This is by the Mincing Mockingbird guy (of “I’d sell you to satan for one corn chip” and “The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math” fame) and you can buy them here
Not gonna lie still thinking about the absolute bomb that was the Doctor Who episode where they reveal that the TARDIS requires like eight or something people to pilot and that’s why the Doctor looks ridiculous when he flies it… like.. that was SO simple and yet SUCH a good way to instantly convey so much loneliness… like bro.. bro it requires a family… a whole bunch of people… but they just fly alone and make do…
i learned that in the 1936 Olympics two Japanese pole vaulters (Shuhei Nashida & Sueo Oe) tied for second. Declined to compete against each other, Nashida was awarded silver and Oe bronze. On return to Japan they had the medals cut in two & joined together to make two ‘friendship medals’ out of silver & bronze (x)
