2025-10-20 21:58:28 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

hauntedcoyote:

> ## On the topic of bone-keeping

> Okay, so you all remember this?

> What if I told you that something like that happened in real life?

> I don’t know how much you guys know about German poetry, but the names Goethe and Schiller might ring a bell.

> Anyway, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller were best friends for a really long time with Goethe having been the older one. Schiller got sick with pretty much everything at some point, however, and died, leaving Goethe devastated.

> So what did Goethe do? Keep Schiller’s skull in his office. You know, like friends do… On a blue velvet cushion because why not (He even wrote a poem in 1826 called Bei Betrachtung von Schiller’s Schädel [While looking at Schiller’s skull] like any totally normal person would)

> The funny part is that until this day no one knows where the original skull is because it got lost at some point.

> But I can’t stop thinking about the implications of keeping someone’s bones near you. There’s absolutely no way you do this when you don’t love someone. Like, you’re literally keeping a very visual reminder of that person. Of their death especially. It almost seems desperate. Grief, loss, and love entwined for eternity. It’s a constant memento mori and that’s what makes it so tragic. With pictures you’re reminded of who a person was but with this there’s nothing but the need for acceptance that they’re gone for good. There’s no lying to yourself.

> You loved and you lost and you have to live with that.

2025-10-20 22:02:38 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

cyborb:

> jonah magnus (green flavored) for my good friend @osheets ‘s birthday ehehe