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Dove-Shaped Perfume Vessels from Ancient Rome, c.50 CE: these glass vessels were filled with scented oils or cosmetic powders and then sealed, meaning that their contents could only be accessed by breaking the dove's neck or tail
These bottles were created and used as unguentaria (otherwise known as balsamaria) which are ancient vessels that were typically filled with scented oils, cosmetic powders, balms, or ointments. Unguentaria could be crafted from ceramic, glass, or stone, and they came in various shapes and sizes, but dove-shaped vessels made of glass were especially popular during the second half of the 1st century CE, when they were produced and distributed throughout the Roman Empire.
Above: a dove-shaped unguentarium with residue from the original contents still visible inside
Each bottle was crafted from blown-glass that was carefully modeled into the shape of a bird; the inner cavity was then filled with perfume or cosmetic powder, and the tip of the tail was reheated and compressed, effectively sealing the vessel.
Above: dove-shaped vessels that were opened and emptied long ago, c.50-100 CE
As this article explains:
The vessels were produced with glass blowing pipes by so-called "free blowing," and are for this reason extremely thin-walled, with body thicknesses significantly below 0.1 cm.
After the containers had been filled, the tail feathers were sealed airtight by reheating to protect the contents from moisture. Parts of the containers, such as the head or tail feathers, had to be broken off in order to access the contents of the vessels, which means that they were disposable packaging.
Above: vessels with the tips of their tails broken off
Most of these bottles were made from clear or pale blue Roman glass, but some were crafted with a dark blue, green, purple, or yellow appearance instead:
As cheap, mass-produced goods, the packaging consisted mainly of the conventional thin-walled and transparent Roman glass with an unintentional light blue colouring. Specimens made of intentionally coloured transparent glass (e.g. dark blue, dark green, violet or yellow) are less common. This may also have to do with the fact that the pink or white contents could be visually better distinguished and marketed if the vessels were made of the conventional Roman glass, which offered more transparency to the beholder than the intentionally coloured glass.
Above: a sealed unguentarium that likely contains scented oils and cosmetic residue, from Rovesenda, Italy, c.50 CE
Research suggests that many of these bottles were filled with powder, including pink substances that have been described as "blush" or "rouge," while others were filled with liquid.
Above: more dove-shaped unguentaria from the Roman Empire
Vessels with this design (which is also known as Isings form 11) have been unearthed at Roman-era sites located throughout Europe:
Evidence shows that these glass containers were widely marketed in the Roman Empire. The main areas of distribution are the central and northern Italian regions of Campania et Latium, Venetia et Histria, and Transpadana, along with the northwestern provinces of Gallia Belgica, Gallia Lugdunensis, Germania inferior and Germania superior [in what is now Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands].
There is also evidence from the Balkan and Danube region in the provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia, and also from the eastern Mediterranean in the provinces of Achaea, Creta et Cyrenae and Macedonia. The distribution in the western Mediterranean seems to be limited to Hispania Tarraconensis.
Above: the severed heads of two bird-shaped unguentaria
Sources & More Info:
Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: 1st Century BC-6th Century AD: Bird-Shaped Inguentaria (Isings Form 11)
The Austrian Archaeological Institute: New Finds of Bird-Shaped Glass Vessels with Residues of their Former Content
The British Museum: Roman Perfume Bottle in the Shape of a Bird
Società Friulana di Archeologia: Glass Doves and Globes from Thessaloniki: North Italian Imports or Local Products?
Analytical Chemistry for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage: Compositional Analysis of Greco-Roman Unguentaria Residues
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Bird
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The popularity of the "incompetent stupid piece of shit husband and competent wife who loves him anyways" trope in media is a psyop to make women believe its normal to settle for an incompetent stupid piece of shit husband
But if a woman acted incompetent once then she will be literally crucified in the street and she's evil for manipulating her husband into settling for less and suddenly it's not a silly endearing sitcom trope 🤔

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Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.
UNPOPULAR OPINION: A lot of "mental health issues" disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. And pretending money doesn't affect mental health is privilege.
Visas being denied to players and their families
Forbidding the iranian team coaches from entering the country and forcing them to direct the game from MEXICO through a tv
Players from non european countries being stopped and searched like criminals with dogs
Deporting african referees just because of their nationality
Forbidding interviews from being spoken i'm languages other than English and forbidding journalists and players from speaking their native languages
And all this just in the first week....
for the writing prompts obikin + A partner/bystander points it out bluntly: “You know they’re in love with you, right?”
Thank you for the prompt!!! I went a little overboard on this one and in a direction I did not expect 😂 But have some Anakin not realizing Obi-Wan is thirsting over him 💕
From this prompt list
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Pick the bag up, turn to the right, pass the bag off.
Over and over again as the sun hangs high in the sky, mocking them with its bright rays and the absence of clouds.
But the forecast promises rain and the tides are expected to rise with the orbit of the planet’s twin moons and it really would be a shame for the city they just saved from Separatist takeover to be washed away by a hurricane.
And besides, there is comfort to be found in this kind of work especially after the day they have just had. Anakin can sink into it, use the Force to guide his limbs and supply him with boundless reserves of energy. They have a clear goal in front of them: build a wall of sandbags to prevent the city’s shelters and municipal buildings from flooding in the storm. One by one, bag by bag, the wall of sandbags gets higher, stronger together than any one bag set apart.
His men are elsewhere, clearing away the wreckage from the fight and readying for the next engagement, assisting in the evacuation from more precarious areas of the continent’s coastline. Obi-Wan is here somewhere in the village, Anakin can feel him in the back of his mind like heat from the sun. Probably off charming the locals, talking with one of the librarians in the city archives or down on his knees with children in the town square or being dragged into someone’s home to join them for dinner. He has a way with people that Anakin has never quite been able to learn, probably because it isn’t something learned, it’s inate, but Anakin is doing his best exactly where he is: ducking his head down and pitching in to help.
When the last sandbag passes him down the line, Anakin stands up straight and leans back to pop his spine a bit. The muscles in his arms and legs burn in a way that no amount of training could have prepared him for, executing the same repetitive movements for hours on end. But he feels good, lighter for not having to carry the burden anymore and he accepts the smiles and pats on the arm from the people he spent ages crouched side by side with in the line.
“You look like you could use a drink.”
Anakin turns to find Obi-Wan making his way through the dispersing crowd, a sweating glass in his hand. He takes it gratefully and downs it almost immediately. It’s sweet, lemon and mint tea but more importantly it’s cold. Anakin hadn’t realized just how thirsty he was until he started drinking, now he can’t seem to stop.
“Careful now. It’s not going anywhere,” Obi-Wan says amused. Just to show him, Anakin lifts the glass a little higher and drains the whole thing.
When he finishes, Obi-Wan is staring at him baldly, watching as Anakin makes a show of wiping the back of his hand across his mouth. So what if he made a mess of himself? It’s not like Obi-Wan was out here hauling hundreds of forty pound sandbags.
Obi-Wan clears his throat as Anakin hands the glass back to him. “You made quick work of that. The sandbags, I mean. I just hope it will be enough to prevent any serious flooding.”
Anakin nods. The little barriers don’t look like much. Surely with the kind of technology the city has available or stars, even the Republic army has on board their flagships, they should be able to come up with something better than a few bags of sand. But the town council had insisted that this was all they needed, along with a bit of assistance from a Jedi Knight, if he would be so kind. Anakin and Obi-Wan don’t have orders to move on for another two days so they will be able to ride out the storm along with everyone else in one of the local shelters and help out with the clean up afterward if need be.
A prompt you say? How about "a drunken kiss neither can stop thinking about" for obikin 🙏
Thank you for the prompt! 💕 I had fun with this one 😂
From this prompt list
Obi-Wan wakes up the next morning feeling hollowed out, empty.
Although, that’s not entirely true, is it? He isn’t empty, just filled to the brim with all of the wrong stuff. The blinding pain of a headache searing behind his eyes. A thick, gummy residue on his tongue even though Obi-Wan could swear he remembered to brush his teeth last night. Though admittedly, as he realizes from a bit of shuffling around that makes his stomach lurch, and oh yeah—his guts might be filled with an absolutely vile concoction that will meet his bedroom carpet if he doesn’t make it to the fresher sometime soon—but his feeble attempts to roll over allow him to realize that he never actually managed to take off his robes last night before falling face first into bed and staying there.
Last night was a happy occasion, perhaps the happiest and most impossible occasion Obi-Wan could imagine for the longest time: the end of the Clone Wars. It isn’t right that all of that happiness—the atmosphere of sheer joy and elation, a resounding feeling of freedom and justice throughout the galaxy—should leave him feeling this terrible come morning.
Obi-Wan supposes that bringing balance to the Force isn’t necessarily enough to change the immutable laws of chemistry and physics but it feels like it should allow for at least a little grace the morning after.
Carefully, he pries himself up from the bed with one arm, slowly convincing his other limbs to join in on the attempt to sit up. He left the blinds open on the windows last night and a gleaming ray of sunlight reflected off of a skyscraper blocks away threatens to strike him dead. With an effort that feels no less heroic than the events that led to the celebration last night, Obi-Wan sits up in bed. He has to swallow down a belch that attempts to escape him for his trouble.
Now upright and slowly adjusting to the myriad sensory inputs related to sight, Obi-Wan spies his boots tossed to one side of the room—he managed to take those off before collapsing into bed, how thoughtful of him. He rubs ruefully at the belt he forgot to do away with, all of those lovely pockets and cylinders perhaps permanently impressed on his midsection.
He needs to take a few fortifying breaths before he is prepared to brave standing. In his right mind, a Jedi master does not have to suffer the gauntlet of indignities posed by a hangover. A careful understanding of the Force and the way it flows through a body allows a well-trained Force-sensitive to rid their body of such toxins. But Obi-Wan is very much not in his right mind at the moment. He’ll need to use the fresher and courageously contemplate his conservator to determine whether or not he is prepared for solid foods or perhaps a cup of caf before he'll be able to meditate with any real success.
Stars, what possessed him last night?
It was truly a celebration like no other, certainly none that Obi-Wan has ever seen in his lifetime. The entire planet of Coruscant seemed alight with music and fireworks, the joy of billions palpable in the Force. That alone was a dizzying thing to experience.

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Just saw a bird get a worm at 8:06pm.
Never let the morning people say it can't be done
I was just thinking about the old Japanese censorship laws that gave birth to tentacle porn...
So for anyone not in the know, the Japanese government decided to fight perversion with censorship.
Specifically you weren't allowed to draw penises.
So they drew things that WEREN'T penises instead. Like tentacles. Fast forward to today and tentacle porn is an entire standalone genre with thousands upon thousands of examples and enjoyers.
The attempt at censorship did not quell perversion, it only caused it to mutate.
And now I'm thinking about tumblr's decision to ban porn and of all the people leaving captions under videos of heavy machinery and industrial accidents like "I need someone to do this to me" and "this wouldn't fix me but it would help" or "everything reminds me of her"
All this to say that without porn on Tumblr
The perverts are mutating again
Reminder: June 16th is Captain Picard Day.
You are an unreliable narrator because your coping mechanisms for your deep-seated trauma forbid you from acknowledging the reality of the situation. I am an unreliable narrator because I sincerely have no idea what the fuck is going on.

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(Getting swindled by a genie) it’s like talking to a fucking tumblr user with you
the genie: how dare you say I'm fucking a tumblr user