Bath !!

CW: image of a freshly excised sheep liver. (I know that sounds nuts but bear with me here.)
About midway through my journey touring the baths and exclusively listening to the blue numbers, I realized yet again that I have free will and could listen to the audios for children. And boy oh boy was that the right decision. The man in this version sounded much more enthused to be telling me neat little facts, and not to be dramatic or anything, but I’d probably enlist to fight in some war if he asked me to. At one point he informed me about some stone with a man’s name on it. I don’t specifically recall what role the man had in society (my brain wants to say priest??), but I remember that people came to him to request that he look for signs and predict the future. He also looked at animal entrails to tell the future, which is the most fascinating thing ever and I genuinely cannot believe I’ve never heard of that before. The proper term for this practice is Haruspicy, and it’s unfortunately a little too vague for my taste. By that, I mean I wanted to find some sort of academic source that explored what exactly was looked for in certain organs and what that meant (and I mean down to each vein size and discoloration, but a decent amount of articles that I read just vaguely covered this and lamely answer the question with “the Haruspex’s gut feeling”. That’s not nealy enough information! Anyway, it seems that most of the predicting was determined from the presence and shape of the processus pyramidalis (B) and the processus papillaris (C). If the processus pyramidalis was missing, that was interpreted as a bad omen. A duplicate of either of those protrusions, however, indicated a promise of prosperity. Isn’t that neat?

Bath, in general, was BEAUTIFUL from what I saw. The train ride there had sights that reminded me a lot of home: Blue skies, green fields specked with flowers and framed with trees, etc. The only difference being the hills and visually appealing architecture along the way. Honestly, the train ride may have been my favorite part of the day. But I also just love train rides.

As for art, I only have one sketch to show. I’ve been trying to improve on my animal portraits, because people keep asking me to paint/draw their pets for them?? Which is so foreign to me, and I don’t want to give them some monstrosity that’s the most anatomically incorrect thing you’ve ever seen. So anyway, hit me up if you want a little pet portrait I guess.