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Not that I subscribed to the idea that the Aztecs were chowing down every Sunday to a good ol’ long pork loin, but I couldn’t resist the meme

thoodleoo

i only dragged your body around the walls of troy a little bit. grow up

normal-horoscopes

Pharaoh I reanimated and took to a catgirl cafe: "Ah a temple to Bastet."

ayellowbirds

"Exactly the same as in my day. Uncanny."

On the way to the spoil heap like

klimtsonian-unofficial

my favorite davids, ranked

here’s a definitive and totally subjective rating of davids

donatello: 3/10 honestly pretty embarrassing, but worth a mention. just your run-of-the-mill, oh-you-haven’t-heard-we’re-copying-classical-greek-sculpture-now david. stiff, awkward, and pretty dopey looking twunk. has the same expression of someone being told dona-fucking-tello sculpted this. can’t even hold his slingshot bc it’s too gay. don’t worry there’s a redemption arc on its way.

donatello pt 2: 9/10 fucking superb you funky little gay man. total glow up. a complete deviation from the norm by a well-known deviant. takes contrapposto to sultry new heights. look at this lad’s little hat and boots he’s not a nude he’s just naked. some people say goliath’s head is modeled off of donatello himself literally he was horny enough he said “step on me” in full fucking bronze. goliath’s helmet has little gay greek reliefs on it, not even remotely subtle. look at the feather going up his thigh and tell me u didn’t cross your legs when you did. commissioned by the medici for their palace, which makes it even cooler by association.

verocchio: 8/10 ily baby a perfectly fine lad, looking at him makes me smile. his little dress is so cute with its stylized arabic psuedo-script border, and the floral pasties? adorable. something about goliath’s head feels a little disjointed, but you know what? fuck him. he’s not important. david’s the real star here in his little cheerleader get up. what really makes me biased towards this one is that the model was supposedly verocchio’s star student, the young leonardo da vinci. and look how fucking radiant he is! love it.

michelangelo: 7/10 technically this thing’s great. look at the fucking veins on the hand that’s absolutely mental. but all in all it lacks the overtly homosexual intrigue of some other davids and, frankly, i expected more from well-documented gay disaster michelangelo. obviously a classic but also makes it prone to being too over-saturated. i do love his yaoi hands though.

bernini: 11/10 the man the myth the fucking legend! bernini always delivers and this david’s no expception. look at that movement! the drama! the whole thing screams baroque in the best possible way with the dynamism, the momentary narrative, that cute lil scrunched up face. only complaint is that it isn’t as good as some of bernini’s other work but i’m willing to let it go for the detailing on the fucking rope goddamn gian lorenzo you absolute madman. we stan a sculpting legend.

unbornwhiskeyy

“frankly, i expected more from well-documented gay disaster michelangelo“

UCL Rename Buildings Named after Racists

#ucl #university college london #university #decolonialization

valtsv

oh to be a slightly ridiculous looking sea monster on a geographically inaccurate medieval map

chaotic-archaeologist

do archaeologists have enemies?

Looters

ace-of-trowels

Hobby Lobby

modoru-mono

Rich Anonymous Collectors

modoru-mono

Museum staff/academia purchasing things that are looted/fake without a second thought

Yogurt

Steven Spielberg

Paleontologists.

Academia

justanotherweirdarchaeologist

Insects

midden-maiden

The Sun

livefromtheloam

Archaeologists from other departments

jangojips

gley

lostinhistory

Devil’s club

archaeologistproblems

Ticks, mosquitos, and black flies.

cannibalchicken

kermitlesbian

thoodleoo

is he, you know…*mimes deifying my lover after his death and commissioning thousands of statues of him which would later be excavated by archaeologists all throughout the expanse of the roman empire* gay

stainlessteelwaterbottle

any cat born after 4400 BC can’t hunt all they know is roll on ground, snuggle, lick they paws, be pet, eat dry food and lie

Them ones when the Maya wanted to visit Disney World

tlatollotl

jerseyfiredragon

@tlatollotl I know I’ve heard the name, um can you elaborate the meme? I’m notbig brain enough to get it

tlatollotl

Diamond works from a lot of out of date information (even at the time he wrote his book) while also simplifying things to the point of being wrong. /r/AskHistorians has a great FAQ section on Guns, Germs, and Steel that offers a readable explanation as to why Diamond is often wrong if you’re interested. And if you want to do some searching, /r/badhistory also has some great critiques of that book and some of his other books.