#cultural exchange
The catalyst for Team Voltron adopting a dog might be an offhand demand from Lance, but let’s be real: several of them are very much on board with this plan.
Written as part of Gentron Week 2020 as a combination of the prompts “Adopting a Pet Together” and “Cultural Exchange”, in
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Keith sleeps terribly, of course. She’s warm, for one thing, so temperature regulation is next to impossible. And any time he moves she moves too – at one point ending up draped over his legs, which would maybe be fine, if it didn’t mean they were trapped. When she starts whining around fourth varga, he supposes he must have fallen asleep at some point, since that’s the only explanation for the groggy way he’s dragging himself into consciousness now.
“Yeah, alright,” he grumbles when she steps her front paws onto his back and sticks a very cold nose against his ear to whine directly into it. “I get it.” He carefully extracts himself from under her, moving her to the side of his bunk that’s against the wall, and sits up, scrubbing at sleep-heavy eyes. Folding his legs under him, he turns to look back at her. “I guess you probably need to pee, huh.” As if in answer, the hyrassie leaps over his lap and to the door to his quarters, whining again. Before she can escalate to anywhere near the shrieking sound they had to contend with last night, he makes a gesture at the control panel so the door will slide open, and she dashes out. “Oh, shit,” he mutters – right. A leash would have probably been a good idea.
Characters: Hunk, Hunk’s Family, Lance
Posted for the @gentronlegendaryfriendships event. Read on AO3.
Summary: Sometimes chance meetings can bring forth the best results.
Iakopo - Hunk’s actual name
James Garret - Hunk’s dad
Adam Garret - James’s brother, Hunk’s uncle
Mariota - Hunk’s mom
Taimane - Mariota’s sister, Hunk’s aunt
Your prompts for today are Meeting the Family and Cultural Exchange. Go forth, and don’t forget to tag your posts #gentronweek
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Four captive demons, attr. Muhammad Siyah Qalam (Black Pen).
Iran or Central Asia, 1470–1500
Watercolor and gold on silk
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Mausoleum of Shirin Beg Agha, sister of Timur, at the Shah-i Zinda necropolis in Samarqand. The exterior decoration of this tomb includes inscriptions attributed to Socrates, including: “In truth the people of this world are like birds rejoicing.”
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Bowl with fish motifs
first half of 14th cen, Iran.
“Ilkhanid‑period potters in Iran imitated the range of green glazes of imported Chinese celadon wares, though they did not always succeed in duplicating their colors. This bowl is one of the more accomplished attempts. Its color, shape, and decoration of three playful fish relates closely to similar wares produced during the Song period (960–1279) in the Chinese kilns of Longquan.”
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Fritware dish
Kashan, Iran. 1268
“The devastation wreaked by the Mongols was not able to stifle the creation of art in the Middle East for very long, and this dish, dated 1268, shows that the highly specialized potteries in Kashan quickly resumed production.
The Far Eastern influence that the Mongols brought with them is found in the shape of the dish, which copies Chinese celadon porcelain, and in some of the flowers. The complicated geometric decoration, in contrast, is purely Islamic. Using a six-petaled flower as a starting point, the dish was filled out with an intricate interlacing based on an octagon. It consists of eight white bands that change direction eight times and alternately run over and under one another.”
UH, OKAY, but like, this dish exists BECAUSE of the Mongol invasions and the value they placed on human capital and the exchange of ideas, and those flowers are prunus blossoms lifted directly from Chinese art, so maybe step off a little with your “they couldn’t stifle it!!!!” narrative, David Collection.
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Link to my post about cultural appropriation- I have just had my first ever henna tattoo and it’s amazing, the art that other cultures produce is beautiful and I feel like I have a new found appreciation for this type of culture. Here is the link to find out more about the artist who drew this amazing design https://www.facebook.com/divinemehndibylaura/
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