Eyeling @eyeling@mastodon.art

#introduction Hello .art! Feels so good to be here.
I'm a geeky art person from Southern Germany inspired by history, science and social justice. And also #DoctorWho

Currently reading a book on German mythology. Reprint of a work from 1898.
Truly thrilling on a etymological and sociocultural level.
But take a sip of wine for each racist and/or sexist interpretation made by the author and you're off your tits reaching chapter 2.
(Note: This is already a revised edition from 1990 with the worst stuff cut out).

Victoria is from Pennsylvania. Finding out about being #asexual was life changing for her, but is still complicated after surviving sexual trauma. She is thankful for finding a place she feels comfortable in. #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike #mastoart

Thank you so much for the collaboration, @gingerrroot! 💜

#valentine #weird #history
To honour their ancestors, Romulus + Remus and the 🐺 (=lupa), fields were annointed with the blood of a freshly weaned puppy. Young priests of the cult ran through the city, clothed only in thongs cut from from the skin of freshly sacrificed goats and threw the rest it it around. Women wishing for a child to be struck and therefore blessed with fertility.
Somehow the church disapproved and banned the festival 5th cent AD. 🤷
Pity. 2/2

#mastoart #valentine #weird #history
Not into Valentine's Day? How about an alternative?
LUPERCALIA has zombies, streakers in leader thongs and dead puppies!

Ok, the last one might be a turn-off, but hear me out:
Every year Feb 13th-15th ancient Romans performed a ritual spring cleaning rite to expell bad spirits and plead for fertility. One year they forgot and the spirit of their ancestors rose to haunt them till it was rectified. 1/2

Can we please stop fetishising artifacts left by war criminals? He was a mediochre artist at best, his relationship with his niece Geli was abusive/probably incestous and these drawings are likely forgeries. They were seized by the local prosecutor yesterday.

#blackhistorymonth
Found via https://mobile.twitter.com/modekoerper

Found this on my HD. Taken 2017 in Rome.
The Ancients sure loved their cats. Each of these tiny little stones is under 5mm.
(Mosaic from 200-150 BC. Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome) #Mastocats #CatsOfMastodon belated #caturday #history

Yesterday's #Moon over Southern Germany (Damn, it was cold! Laptop on frost strike after one hour. We earned new respect for homeless people).
No colour manipulation, individual images are composites of different exposures, but those blueish hues are caused by Earth's atmosphere being reflected. Shot with Celeron CPC800. #astrophotography #Mondfinsternis #mofi2019 #lunareclipse2019 #lunareclipse

Johannes is a computer science student from Eastern Germany. Influenced by their own experiences with marginalisation as an asexual they felt motivated to join the free software movement to engage in social issues. #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike #mastoart

Thank you so much for the collaboration, @hay 💜

Poor little Pluto. But nobody likes to hang out with gasbag bullies anyway. So your loss.
#mastoart #astronomy #stopbullying #pluto

I'm thinking about creating portraits of #ace/#aro people to increase our visibility.
Anybody interested in modeling?

#justathought

#ace #asexual #asexuality #aromanticism #greyromantic #aspec #aroace

I like this line art approach to lighting and depth. Will try more of this in 2019.
There also should be more (respectful) nude portraits of old people. Those bodies have stories to tell. #mastoart #portrait CW: some #nudity

It's Jan 1st. So have you stopped exercising and dieting yet?
#mastoart #happynewyear #astronomy

Bodies come in all sizes, all shapes, all ability levels, all genders, all sorts of ways of moving and existing and manifesting, all holy and beautiful and each and every one made in the divine image, in its own way.
--- Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/1079433338979606529

A beautiful message to take with us to the new year.