The Lion in Winter by Regina Via Flickr:

Lion d'Asie - Il y a peu de différences entre le lion d'Asie et le lion d'Afrique. La crinière du mâle asiatique est moins touffue que celle de son homologue africain, et ses oreilles sont souvent visibles. Autre différence, une poche de peau sous le ventre qui s'étend jusqu'aux pattes arrières, que le lion d'Afrique développe rarement

Lieu : Zoo de Maubeuge

For the love of Nature there go I ... Asian loin

Golden Lion, Takeuchi Seihō, ca. 1901

Thinkin' about Friday and wishing every day could be Friday.

Be good to people. Make your weekend great.

- - - - - - - - "Moon Bear Portrait" by Eric Kilby is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Yamata-No-Orochi, the 218th Known One.

a lot of my free time is spent listening to a podcast run and researched by a professor of genocide studies who went into those studies specifically bc in an attempt to escape the violence of his angry, alcoholic father he signed up to go off to war in afghanistan only to realize that the whole war and war in general is a) stupid & boring and b) a series of horrific war crimes that had made the civilian population deeply suspicious of him even tho His Morals Were In The Right Place (tm). when he got home and threw himself into being anti violence, joining anarchist orgs & studying theory & trying to understand why he was sent to the other side of the world to be traumatized for no good reason while traumatizing the local population with his very presence, his shithead father died & he found out that his father was Like That bc their family was chased out of armenia because of genocide and it kicked off a cycle of violence & anger in the men of his family. he absolutely lost his shit, got his degree in genocide studies, and moved to armenia (do not ask me how he convinced his wife to do this with him. he’s really open about every other aspect of his life except his wife and kids which is imo very valid).

all that to say, he has this interesting perspective of war in that he has this cultural trauma of being the victim of a horrific crime while also himself being the perpetrator of imperialism & serving in an area that had recently been the site of several horrific war crimes (really similar to tim o’brien, who served in my lai several months after the massacre but didn’t know the massacre had happened & pieced together what happened from the horrified whispers of the civilians & brags from soldiers). it makes him both hyper critical of soldiers who do terrible things & empathetic to soldiers who are forced from home to do terrible things & angry on behalf of civilians who are victims of war crimes. i have ragged on him for being Very Midwestern about certain things but his research is interesting & sad & well done, & it’s really made me think about my own place in The Greater World & every time the internet loses its mind over some aspect of history i am violently reminded that most people just look at history and go “but MY SIDE was justified actually” when that’s such a BABY IDEA OF HOW HISTORY AND WAR WORKS.

Traditional Dances -11

Japan- Okinawa Lion Dance

沖縄獅子舞

▪︎ Pair of lion-dogs or ‘dogs of fo’.

Period: Qing dynasty; Reign of Kangxi

Date: 1662-1722

Place of origin: China: Jiangxi (province); Jingdezhen

Medium: Porcelain

For #MosaicMonday: tiger-lion fusions & mythical huma birds on the spandrels of two 17th c. madrasas in Uzbekistan:

Sher-Dor Madrasa, Registan, Samarkand, 1619-36

Nadir Divan Begui Madrasa, Liab-i-Hawz, Bukhara, 1622-3

asiatic lion blijdorp 3L0A3337 by safi kok

Hewwo everyone! Whether you're here from the dumpster fire that is Twitter or found me through my Minecraft art, I'm so excited to meet you! I hope you enjoy your stay and I look forward to sharing more of my stuff with you. I plan to keep this blog dedicated to my OC and fandom art with maybe the occasional reblog (but nothing too spammy!)

Anyways, for those who don't know this is my lion dancer inspired persona, Nangua! She's a cuddly little thing that loves to munch on bok choy! You'll see her every once in awhile.

Thinking about Asian Goldenheart, telling Nimona to let them clean her ears after her shower. And she comes back as a lion or something with big fuzzy ears just to make it more difficult for them. lol

I will never understand the mentality of ‘putting down’ and animal for acting like an animal…

Punishing animals for acting on instinct is like punishing an infant for crying

This Jian features the face and open maw of a Shishi (Lion-Dog) on its guard. Pairs of these lion-like creatures guard shrines and temples with stony vigilance. Similar in concept to the gargoyles of Western cathedrals, the Lion-Dogs prevent wicked spirits from entering sanctified places. This Jian is also heavily ornamented with the Chinese Dragon, a symbol of power and luck. The dragons on this sword are of the 5-toed variety, meaning they are the reserve symbol of the Emperor himself – A fitting ornament for a noble weapon, as the later Jian was a status weapon.

Available to order here.