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Erechtheion: Portico of the Caryatids by Vasily Polenov

#art #take me back I’m so normal about Greece :-)

allthingswhumpyandangsty

#undergrad thesis (left) vs masters thesis (right)#shut up em

random-brushstrokes

Eugene de Blaas - Contemplation (1893)

#yeah I’m contemplating all right #art

iveseenitinmovies

i brought katharine of aquitaine to pride with me

iveseenitinmovies

two older women just came up to me and said they like the picture and that she’s a great role model to have🥺

#NEED #katharine hepburn #specifically #eleanor of aquitaine #the lion in winter

necrophilologist

joining the bandwagon with one for the romanists:

it's january 49 BC and civil war is in the air.

spin the wheel: this person is trying to kill you

spin it again: this person tries to protect you

do you survive the civil war?

i die Badly

i die but not without a fight

i come out of it injured, but alive

piece of cake. we're crushing that motherfucker

INVIDIA SACRAE CAESAR NE TANGERE FAMAE NAM SIQUID LATIIS FAS EST PROMITTERE MUS

Remaining time: 2 days 14 hours

#Cicero is trying to kill me #the Emathian Fields will at least allow me to run far enough away to not get talked to death #rotten Romans

dilutedh2so4

Penthesilea and her Amazons, illustrated by Alan Lee for Rosemary Sutcliff's Black Ships Before Troy.

#Alan Lee’s illustrations for Black Ships ruined me for all other Iliad adaptations #art #archaeology #the Iliad

arinewman7

Young Woman Reading (Girl Reciting the Quran)

Osman Hamdi Bey

oil on canvas, 1880

#OSMAN HAMDI BEY #!!!#fun fact: in addition to being a wonderful painter he also was Turkey’s first archaeologist!#AND founded the Istanbul Archaeology Museum (a wonderful museum)#art

collapsedsquid

The past couple of weeks have seen the rise what is best described as AIS “trolling” with signals appearing with fictious names such as the supposedly US-flagged Jersey Devil 404, Opium Cargo, and Dead Wallet Crew. The tracks of many these vessels are erratic and clearly false. Unlike AIS spoofing the manipulation of vessel identities does not appear to be done for practical reasons such as masking a voyage or evading sanctions, and it is unclear who is behind the manipulation or why. Arsenio Longo, Founder of Huax maritime intelligence platform, who has been monitoring the trend, explained to Seatrade Maritime News, “Some cases seem to involve real, registry-resolvable vessel tracks where individual AIS fields, such as destination, display name or voyage information, have been polluted with provocative text. Other cases look closer to synthetic contacts, meaning targets that appear on the AIS map but do not clearly correspond to a verifiable physical vessel.”

This piece was written in early June but it was what came up when I searched what the hell a US-flagged tanker called "Jersey Devil 404" was doing in Hormuz

#fascinating #I’m not surprised but the question is why #maritime

sparvverius

i was reluctant to set aside the book until i'd finished the show but i can't deny that it is fun to read treasure island as a blacksailshead. someone would be like "yarrr remember the good times we had upon the walrus mateys..." and i'd be like that's not true. that's lies. nobody was having a good time on the walrus.

#annual reminder I need to actually finish Black Sails #instead of doing what I always do which is watch to season 3 and move on #black sails

honorculture

#basically all the main characters in my orig fic #writing

2percentsugar

does anyone else remember being a hapless american child looking at the prices of books on the inside flap and wondering. do we just hate canadians? this book is $8 here and $13 there, that feels..... mean somehow

#no because I remember being a hapless Canadian child and going ‘this is unfair’#and I have only been proven more right in my assessment since #books #I guess