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drarrily-we-row-along · 1 year

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It was difficult, shopping for someone who had everything already.

Harry loved Draco more than he loved life itself, but he was absolutely impossible to shop for. Every year, Harry dreaded Christmas and then six months later his birthday, and then six more months and it was Christmas again, and... well.

He was wandering uselessly down Diagon when a new shop caught his attention. He'd been here just yesterday and the shop hadn't existed at all. Over the doorway there was a sign that only said 'The Bookshop' in someone's hasty handwriting but Harry felt compelled, for no reason that he could comprehend, to wander in.

The shop was packed tightly with books of all sorts, there was, by Harry's estimation at least, no discernible cataloging system and it appeared that every book was in some varying state of use.

Just as he was about to turn and leave, a woman called out, "here shopping for a lover, child?"

He turned at the sound of her voice and spotted her sitting amid piles of books. She was doing some sort of magic on them, but Harry wasn't sure what. Something about her reminded him of wide spaces, of giant trees, and crashing waves; maybe it was the way her curly brown hair cascaded over her shoulders and back like vines; or maybe it was the way her eyes seemed to shift colors, a verdigris mix of greys, and greens, and blues; or perhaps it was the deep wrinkles set into her face, lines for joy, and sorrow, and trials. Or maybe it was none of those things at all, but a deeper magic still. "Err-"

"Don't be shy," she said, beckoning him inward further with the crook of a finger. "Tell me, was I right? Is it a lover you're shopping for?"

And for a reason that Harry couldn't quite explain, he came toward her. "Yes," he said, as he stepped nearer. "My husband. But I haven't any idea what I'm looking for, so I'll just-"

"Hush," she commanded. "He's fair, this man of yours? Tall, slender, and pale?"

He frowned, "Yes, but-"

"Bright with a wild imagination?"

He nodded uncertainly.

She smiled, revealing perfectly white, sharp teeth. "The little dragon lord," she whispered, staring unseeingly at Harry for a long moment.

"Sorry, what?" he asked, taking a step back from her uncertainly.

The woman blinked, "It's a story," she replied. Then she held out her hand and a book that was lying open without any words on the pages, slid into her palm of its own volition. She hummed softly, a melody that left Harry feeling simultaneously afraid, hopeful, and just a little melancholic.

Naturally, those feelings stirred in him the desire to step closer and see what she was creating.

She glanced up at him, eyes warm and fond, before she looked back down at the book in her hands. Harry followed her gaze and saw that the pages were filling up with words, pages flipping themselves as the chapters were written.

A moment later the book snapped shut and she held it out to him.

Without really thinking about it, he took it and opened it. On the first page and written in a lovely curling script was

Le Petit Dragon-Seignior

"It's in French?" he asked, flipping through the first few pages and picking out a few of the French words he knew.

She nodded, "It's a French Story by tradition," she replied. "The first language it was ever told in," she hummed thoughtfully then added, "The only language it's ever been given in, in its entirety."

"I," he started before trailing off. "How did you-?"

"My father was a great seer, my mother one of the few dryads remaining in the forests in the Lowlands of Scotland where Merlin himself once lived," she said. "My gifts allow me to understand the heart of the intended recipient and give me power over the dead trees that have been preserved in the pages of these books," she continued, gesturing to the stacks of books all around her. "The door of my shop only appears to those seeking earnestly a gift that can only be given with great trust and love."

He blinked, glancing back at the door to the shop and watching as a group of people hurried past without seeming to notice the shop's existence at all. "So no one-"

"No," she agreed. "I'm alone here but for my books," one of her hands caressed the spine of one of those nearest to her. "But I don't mind," she added. "The wooden posts and door of this shop have given me sanctuary in a world that has often sought to destroy creatures like me."

Harry's eyebrows furrowed, he didn't like that. He didn't enjoy the thought of her here all alone, of the darkness that still pervaded this world.

"Ah," she said softly, mouth curving into a secret little smile at him, "he's found his knight, it seems."

"Sorry?"

"Go," she said, shooing him away. "You've much to do before the day's end. With Christmas tomorrow for you and your beloved," she added.

"Can I come back?" he asked, even as the door seemed to be getting closer without him having moved an inch.

She lifted a shoulder, "Perhaps. When the birth of a new star is on the horizon and you seek just as surely the gift of love in the form of kinship to the past, present, and future."

"What?" he asked, but before he could obtain any semblance of clarity, he found himself standing on the sidewalk staring at a brick wall with nothing but the book in his hand to prove that he'd just seen anything wondrous at all.

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One gift.

That was all that they allowed themselves to give to the other.

They'd learned their lesson early on in their relationship, if they gave more than one it became a competition. And they both already had too many things. And they were both difficult to shop for.

Harry couldn't say that he wasn't nervous about this year's gift exchange. In fairness, he always was, but the how of getting this gift for Draco only continued to seem more and more impossible.

Still, the melody she'd hummed had stuck somewhere in the back of Harry's brain, repeating over and over, comforting him in his indecision. And when the time came for them to exchange their gifts, still in bed with a tray of coffee and cinnamon buns half finished between them, he and Draco said at the same time, "You're a hard man to shop for."

Harry laughed and Draco rolled his eyes, leaning in to kiss the smile off his lips. "Would you like to go first?"

Draco shook his head, glancing off to the side nervously.

"Whatever you've gotten me," Harry said softly, "You know that I'll love it."

"I haven't actually bought you anything," Draco said, biting his lip.

"Well," Harry said, reaching over to the nightstand to grab the book he'd wrapped when he got home from the bookshop, "I didn't technically buy this for you either. It was given to me by someone who was either one of the most interesting people I've ever met or the most insane." He paused and tilted his head, "Either way, she is still probably among the most interesting."

"That's saying something," Draco teased, "you do so love to meet people."

He laughed, it was a long standing joke that they could never get out of a party in under two hours, no matter how they tried, because Harry always always found someone who was too interesting not to talk to. "I'll tell you the story after you open it," he promised.

Draco took the package and opened it, hands smoothing over the wooden cover binder before turning to the first page. Not a word fell from his lips, but his hand flew up to cover his mouth as he turned to the first page and skimmed through the words. "How-?" he asked, looking up at Harry with tears shining in his eyes. "Wherever did you find this?"

He set about telling the story of how he'd stumbled into the bookshop the day before and telling him all about the woman he'd met there. "She gave me this book and said it was the perfect gift for you."

For just a moment, Draco sat completely still and silent. "My grandmere used to tell me this story when I was a little boy," he said. "Whenever I visited her home in France, I'd get a new part of the adventure of the little dragon-lord," he said wistfully, eyes mostly closed in memory. After a moment he looked at Harry, "I've looked for this story," he said. "I've looked everywhere, I've even hired people who deal in rare books to find it. It doesn't exist," he said and a shiver slipped up Harry's spine. "I thought she made the whole thing up. A story to help me weather the storms of life that were headed my way," he added with a little smile, "to teach me how to love and how to know when I'd found the right man to love me in return."

Harry smiled at him and took his outstretched hand, "I wouldn't be surprised if that was true. The whole book wrote itself while I was standing there."

Draco hugged the book to his chest, eyes closed as he breathed through his nose.

"Are you alright?" Harry asked.

His husband nodded, a tear spilling down his cheek, "I don't think you'll ever be able to give me a better present."

"I gave you a ring for Christmas last year," he said, trailing a finger over the engagement ring entwined with his wedding band, "And you said that then, too."

Draco laughed, one eye opening, "I look forward to you upping your game next year, then."

Harry groaned, "Impossible."

The smile slipped a bit from his face and he said, "Now I really don't want to give you your gift."

Harry leaned over and pressed a kiss to Draco's lips, "I am sure that I will love it."

Wiping his eyes, Draco set his book carefully on the bed next to them before leaning over and opening his nightstand to pull out a small package.

Harry took it and carefully untied the bow and slid open the wrapping paper. The lid of the box was the next thing to go, followed by a few layers of tissue paper. Nestled in more tissue paper was a vial filled with an opalescent fluid. "Sorry," he said, looking up at Draco, "you're going to have to help me a little with what it is. Potions was never my best subject."

Draco took a deep breath and sat up straighter, like he was stealing himself. "It's a fertility potion," he said.

Harry tilted his head but before he could say anything or ask any follow up questions Draco continued.

"It's an old magic," he said. "Known in mostly only pure blood circles because you have to have quite a bit of generational magic flowing through your veins for it to work. And because it requires at least a little bit of creature blood in your ancestry for it to be safe," he rattled off, quicker than Harry could even process. "And we don't have to, if you don't want to," he added quickly. "It's just sometimes I see the way you look at Ron and Hermione with Rose and I want you to have everything you could ever want. And I love the idea of having kids, I've always wanted to have kids," he continued. "But if you don't then-"

"Draco," he interrupted, "Wait. This potion," he said slowly, afraid that he was going to get it wrong, "would let us-?" he trailed off uncertainly.

"Have a baby," Draco answered meekly, like he was afraid of the outcome. "I've got loads of generational magic in my blood and there's Veela blood on my father's side. Not a lot," he hastened to add, "like I'm not going to sprout claws or grow wings or anything. But enough to be a binding agent for this to work."

"I-" he started, shaking his head, "But it's dangerous?"

"No more than any pregnancy, my healer assured me before I brought it to you," he said. Then, "But if it's not something you want-"

"Draco," he breathed. "Are you serious?"

He nodded uncertainly.

"Is that," he broke off, swallowing the lump in his throat. "Is a baby something you want?" he whispered, terrified of his husband's answer.

Draco nodded again, tears spilling from his eyes again, "I do," he said. "But it's fine if you don't," he said, arms wrapped around his stomach. "I-"

Harry set the box over on his nightstand and then promptly tackled Draco to the bed. "I desperately want to have a baby with you," he breathed against Draco's lips.

"Yeah?" Draco asked, leaning as far back as he could so that he could see Harry's face.

He pulled back to make it easier, "Yes, Draco. Godric, yes. I'd love to have a baby with you."

"Okay," his husband whispered, eyes filling with tears.

"Happy tears?" he asked.

Draco nodded and dragged Harry's mouth back to his own to kiss him again.

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8 and 1/2 months later

Harry wasn't exactly sure what he was looking for to be honest. He'd just had this itch that was impossible to scratch, this urge to buy everything he could for Draco and the baby (Adhara, he reminded himself, the name making him smile; it was the brightest star in the Canis major constellation, close to Sirius. A name picked to honor the traditions in Draco's family and Harry's loved ones at the same time but without giving her anything to dictate who she'd become).

His need to provide (to nest, Draco had teased fondly, if a bit exasperated) was driving them both a little spare. But Harry couldn't help but wander through Diagon, just in case, waiting for something to jump out at him.

It was then, that the little bookshop appeared once more and her parting words came back to him. When the birth of a new star is on the horizon and you seek just as surely the gift of love in the form of kinship to the past, present, and future.

This time, Harry went in without any trace of uncertainty.

#Not quite sure where this one came from #i'm not mad at it though #drarry fanfic #magic #mentions mpreg #husbands #soft #fluff #drarry #25 days of draco and harry #25 days of drarry #traditional prompt 6 #christmas #a little world building is good for the soul #10/10 would just go vibe in this bookshop. sign me up.

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firelord-frowny · 1 year

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trigger warning for discussion about rape as a concept omggg

for fiction-writing purposes, i’m reading about the history of rape and laws about rape, and apparently one law from an ancient mesopotamian culture is...

55. In the case of a seignior's daughter, a virgin who was living in her father's house, whose [father] had not been asked (for her in marriage), whose hymen had not been opened since she was not married, and no one had a claim against her father's house, if a seignior took the virgin by force and ravished her, either in the midst of the city or in the open country or at night in the street or in a granary or at a city festival, the father of the virgin shall take the wife of the virgin's ravisher and give her to be ravished; he shall not return her to her husband (but) take her; the father may give his daughter who was ravished to her ravisher in marriage. If he has no wife, the ravisher shall give the (extra) third in silver to her father as the value of a virgin (and) her ravisher shall marry her (and) not cast her off. If the father does not (so) wish, he shall receive the (extra) third for the virgin in silver (and) give his daughter to whom he wishes. (Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (1969), p. 185.)[1]: 152

obviously the entirety of this law is grotesquely repugnant, but also

WHYYYYYYYYYYY DID THEY SPECIFY SO MANY LOCATIONS LMAOOO like damn they did not want to leave one single loop hole! Like, can you imagine what the ~norm~ must have been like in order for anyone to even think to add these weirdly specific stipulations?? men just going around raping women in the middle of the town square or out in them there pastures over yonder or at midnight smack-dab in the center of the alleyway or in the fuckin grain silo at the farm and AT THE COUNTY FAIR???

barbarians!

just raping women anywhere any time all the time! like jesus fucking christ if you’re going to violate a woman’s mind and body, could you AT LEAST do it in private???

*panic at the disco voice* haven’t you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door????

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taiwanwebmuseum · 1 year

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23 件唐代西藏千年至純老天珠與西藏外星鐵隕石雕藏傳佛教吊牌法器

23 pieces of Tang Dynasty Tibet Thousand-year-old the most purest Archaic Dzi Beads and Tibet Alien Iron Meteorite Carved Tibetan Buddhism's Pendants of Dharma Ritual Implements

https://youtu.be/KGs_YEy1m9M

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https://youtu.be/GB6HMIfehyk

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唐代西藏外星鐵隕石雕西藏贊普國王松贊干布造像吊牌法器

唐代西藏外星鐵隕石雕西藏贊普國王松贊干布造像吊牌法器 (鑲千年至純九眼老天珠、銀線、瑪瑙、紅珊瑚、綠松石、孔雀石、青金石、琉璃等藏傳佛教七寶石)

松贊干布 (569 - 649？650) 是西藏吐蕃雅魯王朝第 33 任贊普國王，也是西藏吐蕃帝國的建立者，第一個在西藏建立佛教的法王。

重量：184 公克

尺寸：吊牌高 8.4 x 寬 6.8 x 厚 1.1 x 吊牌連吊線全長 16.7 公分

千年至純九眼老天珠尺寸：

長 3.9 x 圓形中腹部直徑 1.2 公分

2017 年 6 月 29 日與這顆千年至純九眼老天珠同款者在香港榮盛國際拍賣有限公司之拍賣成交價為 6,789,370 人民幣 (約新台幣 3,400 萬元。)。

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這件吊牌法器係在極為堅硬的外星鐵隕石邊雕出遠古象鼻穿，即並排二孔，內部相通，證明這件吊牌法器絕非是現代仿製品。

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Tang Dynasty Tibet Alien Iron Meteorite Carved Tibetan Zanpu King Songtsan Gampo Statue Pendant Dharma Ritual Implement

Tang Dynasty Tibet Alien Iron Meteorite Carved Tibetan Zanpu King Songtsan Gampo Statue Pendant Dharma Ritual Implement (inlaid with a thousand-year-old the most purest nine-eyed archaic dzi bead, silver threads, agate, red coral, turquoise, malachite, lapis lazuli, colored glaze, and so on Tibetan Buddhism's seven gemstones)

Songtsen Gampo (569 – 649? 650) was the 33rd Tibetan Zanpu king of the Tubo Yalu Dynasty in Tibet and the founder of the Tibetan Tubo Empire, the first Dharma King who established Buddhism in Tibet.

Weight: 184 grams

Size: Pendant height 8.4 x width 6.8 x thickness 1.1 x the total length of the pendant and hanging thread 16.7 cm

The size of the thousand-year-old the most purest nine-eyed archaic dzi bead:

Length 3.9 x Round Mid-abdominal Diameter 1.2 cm

On June 29, 2017, the auction realized price of this same thousand-year-old the most purest nine-eyed archaic dzi bead in HK RONGSHENG INT'L AUCTION LIMITED was RMB 6,789,370 (approximately NT$ 34 million.).

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This Pendant Dharma Ritual Implement was carved on an extremely hard alien iron meteorite with an ancient elephant-trunk-shaped-carving-holes, that is, two holes are arranged side by side and connected inside, which proves that this Pendant Dharma Ritual Implement is by no means a modern imitation.

The handed down masterpiece of the Chen Xiufu family who was the founding hero, official name Guangludafu, also the military marshal of the Ming Dynasty.

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唐代西藏外星鐵隕石雕西藏贊普國王松贊干布用西藏藩王四爪龍紋吊牌法器

唐代西藏外星鐵隕石雕西藏贊普國王松贊干布用西藏藩王四爪龍紋 (前身兩龍腳、後身兩龍腳、每一龍腳有前三爪後一爪共四爪) 吊牌法器 (鑲千年至純九眼老天珠、銀線、瑪瑙、紅珊瑚、綠松石、孔雀石、青金石、琉璃等藏傳佛教七寶石與兩個藏傳佛教高僧舍利子)

松贊干布 (569 - 649？650) 是西藏吐蕃雅魯王朝第 33 任贊普國王，也是西藏吐蕃帝國的建立者，第一個在西藏建立佛教的法王。

重量：132 公克

尺寸：吊牌高 7.9 x 寬 5.3 x 厚 1.0 x 吊牌連吊線全長 18.5 公分

千年至純九眼老天珠尺寸：

長 4.1 x 圓形中腹部直徑 1.4 公分

這件吊牌法器係在極為堅硬的外星鐵隕石邊雕出遠古象鼻穿，即並排二孔，內部相通，證明這件吊牌法器絕非是現代仿製品。

明朝開國功臣光祿大夫軍事大元帥

陳秀甫家族祖傳的傳世精品

Tang Dynasty Tibet Alien Iron Meteorite Carved Tibetan seignior Four-clawed Dragon Pattern Pendant Dharma Ritual Implement of the Tibetan Zanpu King Songtsan Gampo

Tang Dynasty Tibet Alien Iron Meteorite Carved Tibetan seignior Four-clawed Dragon Pattern (Two dragon feet on the front body, two dragon feet on the back body, each dragon foot has three claws in the front and one claw in the back, a total of four claws) Pendant Dharma Ritual Implement of the Tibetan Zanpu King Songtsan Gampo (inlaid with a thousand-year-old the most purest nine-eyed archaic dzi bead, silver threads, agate, red coral, turquoise, malachite, lapis lazuli, colored glaze, and so on Tibetan Buddhism's seven gemstones and two Tibetan Buddhist relics)

Weight: 132 grams

Size: Pendant height 7.9 x width 5.3 x thickness 1.0 x the total length of the pendant and hanging thread 18.5 cm

The size of the thousand-year-old the most purest nine-eyed archaic dzi bead:

Length 4.1 x Round Mid-abdominal Diameter 1.4 cm

The handed down masterpiece of the Chen Xiufu family who was the founding hero, official name Guangludafu, also the military marshal of the Ming Dynasty.

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唐代皇室火供金光罩頂千年九眼老天珠

象徵佛祖金身與藏傳佛教高僧不朽金身

不可能中之最不可能、奇蹟中的聖蹟

堪稱西方聖母瑪利亞雕像淚滴的神蹟

現代完全無法仿製全球古今中外唯一

不朽金線、金光閃閃、千年至尊。

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重量：30 公克 grams

尺寸：L 長 5.4 x Round Mid-abdominal Diameter 圓形中腹部直徑 1.8 公分 cm

這顆唐代皇室火供金光罩頂千年九眼老天珠具有歷史悠久的 “風化紋” 和古老的打孔技術，稱為 “雙面對打孔”。

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A Thousand-year-old Fire Offering Nine-eyed Archaic Dzi Bead engraved in Golden Lines for the Royal Family of the Tang Dynasty

It symbolizes the golden body of Buddha and the immortal golden body of Tibetan Buddhist eminent monks

The most unlikely of the impossible, the holy miracle of the miracles.

The Holy Miracle that can be called the teardrop of the statue of the Virgin Mary in the West

Modern people are completely unable to imitate it, it's the only one in the world, ancient and modern, China and foreign.

The Bling Immortal Golden Lines represent the thousand-year supreme.

Weight: 30 grams

Size: L Length 5.4 x Round Mid-abdominal Diameter 1.8 cm

This Thousand-year-old Fire Offering Nine-eyed Archaic Dzi Bead engraved in Golden Lines for the Royal Family of the Tang Dynasty has a Time-honored 'Weathering Pattern' and an ancient hole-punching technique called the "Pair hole-punchings from each opposite side".

The handed down masterpiece of the Chen Xiufu family who was the founding hero, official name Guangludafu, also the military marshal of the Ming Dynasty.

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唐代千年至純三槓至尊寶瓶牙黃老天珠

重量：11 公克 grams

尺寸：L 長 4.7 x Round Mid-abdominal Diameter 圓形中腹部直徑 1.2 公分 cm

這顆唐代千年至純三槓至尊寶瓶牙黃老天珠具有歷史悠久的 “風化紋” 和古老的打孔技術，稱為 “雙面對打孔”。

寶瓶天珠與九眼天珠價值齊名，哲蚌寺裡面供奉的釋迦牟尼佛像就是佩戴寶瓶天珠，珍貴且價格昂貴。

只有一條旁線紋的天珠為單槓天珠，有兩條以上旁線紋的為多槓天珠。多槓天珠比單槓天珠更珍貴，槓數越多越珍貴，一般三槓就是最多的了。

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A Thousand-year-old the most purest Three Bars Supreme Treasure Vase ivory yellow Archaic Dzi Bead of the Tang Dynasty

Weight: 11 grams

Size: L Length 4.7 x Round Mid-abdominal Diameter 1.2 cm

This Thousand-year-old the most purest Three Bars Supreme Treasure Vase ivory yellow Archaic Dzi Bead of the Tang Dynasty has a Time-honored 'Weathering Pattern' and an ancient hole-punching technique called the "Pair hole-punchings from each opposite side".

Treasure Vase Dzi Beads are as valuable as Nine-Eyed Dzi Beads. The Buddha statue of Sakyamuni enshrined in Drepung Monastery wears Treasure Vase Dzi Bead, which is precious and expensive.

A dzi bead with only one side line pattern is a single-bar dzi bead, and a dzi bead with more than two side lines is a multi-bar dzi bead. Dzi beads with multiple bars are much more precious than those with single bar. The more bars there are, the more precious they are. Generally, three bars are the most.

The handed down masterpiece of the Chen Xiufu family who was the founding hero, official name Guangludafu, also the military marshal of the Ming Dynasty.

影片 Videos:

https://youtu.be/kRr8SUWqrJY

https://youtu.be/gOCfAe-uFk4

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唐代千年至純九眼老天珠

重量：11 公克 grams

尺寸：L 長 4.1 x Round Mid-abdominal Diameter 圓形中腹部直徑 1.2 公分 cm

這顆唐代千年至純九眼老天珠具有歷史悠久的 “風化紋” 和古老的打孔技術，稱為 “雙面對打孔”。

這個唐代千年至純九眼老天珠也具備古代人工表面圓雕技術的 '不規則、不完全圓滑、而且不完全整齊圓滿的弧線’。顯然是由古代工匠以手工圓雕而成，並非是用現代機械工具所製造的。

2014 年 7 月 14 日與這顆唐代千年至純九眼老天珠同款者在中信國際藝術品拍賣有限公司之拍賣成交價為 880 萬人民幣 (約新台幣 4,400 萬元。)。

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A Thousand-year-old the most purest Nine-Eyed Archaic Dzi Bead of the Tang Dynasty

Weight: 11 grams

Size: L Length 4.1 x Round Mid-abdominal Diameter 1.2 cm

This Thousand-year-old the most purest Nine-Eyed Archaic Dzi Bead of the Tang Dynasty has a Time-honored 'Weathering Pattern' and an ancient hole-punching technique called the "Pair hole-punchings from each opposite side".

This Thousand-year-old the most purest Nine-Eyed Archaic Dzi Bead of the Tang Dynasty also has the 'Irregular, not completely round-smooth, and not completely neat-and-round-arc lines' of the ancient artificial surface round carving technology. Obviously it was hand-carved by ancient craftsmen, not made with modern mechanical tools.

On July 14, 2014, the auction realized price of this same Thousand-year-old the most purest Nine-Eyed Archaic Dzi Bead of the Tang Dynasty in Chung Shun International Auctions Co., Ltd. was RMB 8.8 million (approximately NT$ 44 million.).

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The handed down masterpiece of the Chen Xiufu family who was the founding hero, official name Guangludafu, also the military marshal of the Ming Dynasty.

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wangjisbathtub · 3 years

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oml all these members of Li dynasty just going ahhh nope im not dealing with this political shit, and runs off to live a happy gay life with their girlfriends in the mountains to farm rice as those cottagecore lesbians you see on pinterest

#fgep #lin wanyue #li xian #xianyue #i mean #even their daughter runs off with shao piaoping #and then xiao shiyi and yu xian #and even seignior qi li zhen runs off with his crush li xuan to live in the mountains #like #this book is full to the brim with gay #lesbian literature #sapphic #female general and eldest princess

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incorrect-web-novels · 4 years

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Emperor Li Zhao: [gives Qi Wang a disappointed look]

Qi Wang: Don't look at me like that. You're not my real dad.

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anthony-van-dyck · 3 years

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Equestrian Portrait of Charles I, King of England with Seignior de St Antoine, 1633, Anthony van Dyck

Medium: oil,canvas

#vandyck #baroque #anthonyvandyck

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thinkingimages · 3 years

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Lina Matzinger reads a book without the mediation of the senses, Munich,1887. Reproduced with permission from the Institut für Grenzgebiete derPsychologie und Psychohygiene e. V., Freiburg im Breisgau (IGPP collection).

The second group of experiments sought to transfer one of the five senses to another part of the body. In a state of deep hypnosis, a blindfolded Lina demonstrated the ability to read a book pressed against her skull, leading the experimenters to speculate that her sight had been transferred to the intersection of her sagittal and crown sutures (see Image 1.1 overleaf). Similarly, witnesses noted Lina’s ability to read material pressed against her mid-section, indicating perhaps the transfer of her sight to the pit of her stomach.

The Emergence of Psychical Research in Imperial Germany

In: The Stepchildren of Science

Author: Editors The Stepchildren of Science

Type: Chapter Pages: 33–82

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789042027299_007

Leading the reader through the darkened séance rooms and laboratories of Imperial and inter-war Germany,

The Stepchildren of Science

casts light on the emergence of psychical research and parapsychology in the German context. It looks, in particular, at the role of the psychiatrist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing - a figure who fashioned himself as both propagandist and Grand Seignior of German parapsychology - in shaping these nascent disciplines. In contrast to other recent studies in which occultism is seen as a means of dealing with or creating “the modern”, this book considers the epistemological, cultural and social issues that arose from psychical researchers’ and parapsychologists’ claims to scientific legitimacy. Focusing on the boundary disputes between these researchers and the spiritualists, occultists, psychologists and scientists with whom they competed for authority over the paranormal,

The Stepchildren of Science

demonstrates that in the German context both proponents and opponents alike understood psychical research and parapsychology as border sciences.

#Lina Matzinger #Medium #reading #Munich #1887 #The Emergence of Psychical Research in Imperial Germany #The Stepchildren of Science #Transference

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ninereadytoanswer · 3 years

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(Have written about this elsewhere/on discord but want to be able to refer to it on here):

So a concept I find fun is the potential inherent in the fact that Jun Wu was the first god of this dynasty and could probably make up all sorts of things and say that's how heaven works and no one might argue.

Some subconcepts I have used this for before:

A weird sort of droit du seignior thing wherein the Martial Emperor is supposed/allowed to fuck all newly ascended gods. {I have a general squick for m->f rape so would probably have it be that he gets to fuck all male gods, and the Empress would get to fuck all female gods but there isn’t an Empress so that position and its duties are just going unfilled when they’re ones that wouldn’t be appropriate for the Emperor.}

The Heavenly Martial Emperor punishes other heavenly officials by fucking them.

And then whatever the thing is is just - a thing, in the heavens, and everyone acts like this is completely normal and reasonable.

(Another fun aspect of this is that Jun Wu can totally be extra horrible to Xie Lian specifically without anyone realizing he did that or Xie Lian realizing he was singled out and it’s not just generally how it goes.)

#rape cw #noncon cw #junlian #tgcf #jun wu #dark!jun wu #concepts #n!f #heavenly martial emperor #etat #I write #metaconcepts

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wolkenlichtblitz · 3 years

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not Shikamaru declining the seigniors offer because he feels like he has a responsibility to look after Choji, Ino and Naruto because they grew on him, I-

#shikamaru nara #ino yamanaka #choji akimichi #naruto uzumaki #Naruto Shippuden

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azspot · 3 years

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The claim that America was “born free” is sometimes traced to the fact that the new nation borrowed the ideas of John Locke. But it was Locke himself who wrote the “Fundamental Constitutions” of the Carolinas, which set up a feudal-type aristocracy, headed by eight seigniors, and eight barons, who would own 40 percent of the colony’s land. Only the head of a barony could be governor, the Fundamental Constitutions provided; and only owners of five hundred acres could be deputies in the assembly. The attempt of the proprietors to enforce these arrangements under frontier conditions led to conflict and martial law. The Fundamental Constitutions never were able to work as planned, but a small group of wealthy proprietors did run the colony as absentee landlords.

Howard Zinn

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“Martin is as much to say as holding Mars, that is the God of battle, against vices and sins. Or Martin is said as one of the martyrs, for he was a martyr by his will, and by mortifying of his flesh. Or Martin is expounded thus: As despising, provoking, or seignioring [mastering]. He despised the devil his enemy, he provoked the name of our Lord to mercy, and he seigniored over his flesh by continual abstinence in making it lean. Over which flesh reason or courage should dominate, as St. Denis saith in an epistle to Demophile: Like as a lord domineth over his servant, or a father his son, or an old man a young wanton, so should reason dominate the flesh.” - Golden Legend, Jacobus de Varagine

#martinmas #st martin of tours

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autailome · 4 years

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fgep rambling after reading mdzs right before

i think going from reading mdzs to fgep is interesting bc the books are pretty different obviously but there are some similarities at the core of them?

i do think mdzs is much more like...tightly written? which makes this more obvious! like its very smart and despite its length its almost like...concise with everything it sets out to do? and it achieves everything it sets out to do so well! because of this i think mdzs was very successful at adding nuance and moral ambiguity and like......... criticizing systems of power and power dynamics? even though i think it could have gone further there was a great meta about this somewhere but basically like....... mdzs had a lot to say about social dynamics and the perils of attempting social mobility and the way that society punishes people for crossing these boundaries, i think this was really successful mainly in the way that the narrative frames wei wuxian/jin guangyao/xue yang but also in a lot of other little ways but having the main antagonists of the book also be the people most materially like the main character (which the book very straightforwardly makes clear) definitely adds a lot of nuance

whereas with fgep (which may or may not actually be any longer im not sure...it feels longer though) i think because its a little more winding of a plot (and fully chronological) sometimes these things aren’t as evident but I think they’re definitely still lurking in the background? the villains are huns and while the narrative doesn’t really set out to compare the huns to lin wanyue like mdzs compares the villains to the main character i think the violence and cruelty on both sides is definitely clear, especially after that torture scene. i still have like 1/4 of the book left so i will see if this develops anymore i guess

in terms of like.........all this crazy political shit going down, none of it really has anything to do with lin wanyue besides the way that she is framed as being opposite of these things, but i think li xian is not actually remotely different from other people in the palace? even if it appears otherwise because she’s being “selfless” (looking after her brother/protecting him) the seigniors are all doing the same sort of machinations in the name of family as well

what im trying to say is that i think at first glance it seems like compared to something like mdzs fgep doesn’t go as far with its “grey morality” which definitely i thought when i first started reading? cause at first glance and in the first like third of the book it seems like there’s always a “good reason” behind everyone’s actions (xian-er looking after her brother, lin wanyue’s experiences/good intentions) but the further you read (and the more extreme their behavior gets) the less weight this idea holds lol

I really love that they aren’t perfect and do bad things, especially as female characters lol (that blood drinking scene...............................anyway)

i think the reason these books are so refreshing to read is bc of the difference between how these books deal w morality compared to the western tradition....people can do heartless,cruel, maybe even evil things (BLOOD DRINKING BLOOD DRINKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) but there don’t really seem to be “good” or “bad” people, just the main characters and the ones they’re going against...its honestly so refreshing and i see why when people start reading cn web novels they keep going lol

the way that mdzs stretches this to criticize systems of power and social structures in general though im not sure that fgep really goes as far as well? BUT FULL DISCLOSURE im still not done reading so I think ill prolly come back and edit/add more because who knows how the rest will turn out and change this! definitely the way that wangxian peace out of society to be gay in peace but dont actually..change anything abt the structure seems maybe similar to what will happen to yuexian? which is FINE just interesting! the gays said fix ur own society straighties i want to live in a cottage with the love of my life and be homosexual in peace...........also these two books like..........shouldnt be compared, not really? they arent really that similar at the end of the day lol so im mostly just musing bc i assume a lot of ppl who have read fgep have read mdzs as well and might be thinking similar things .....does anyone have any thoughts on this...........................

#female general eldest princess #female general and eldest princess #fgep #女将军和长公主 #e

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