Volo Volare

An aspiring astrophysicist with a penchant for parodies (and an affinity for alliteration, evidently). | Background picture by Karbo (Deviantart) and profile picture by breath-art (Deviantart) | 1 Corinthians 13:8

[girlonthelasttrain]

To all my followers who are citizens of the EU and of voting age, please consider signing and sharing this EU citizens' initiative requesting that the European Commission stop upholding intellectual property rights regarding COVID vaccines and treatments and make them a public good instead.

In order for the European Commission to read these proposals this initiative needs a lot more people signing that it has now, so every person counts.

[conceptadecency]

Please reblog if you support this. Likes don’t mean much on this hellsite, and they especially mean nothing for this sort of thing!

[lionofchaeronea]

Autumn, Monastery Garden, Constantin Hansen (1804-1880)

[lionofchaeronea]

Landscape with a Roman Ruin, Herman Saftleven (1609-1685)

[merasgar-deactivated20220505]

“Night”

[mikylittlem]

Akatsuki no Yona

[flaroh]

First three of my 2nd Century Roman Emperors series! Let me know who you want to see next :) 

Read more about each piece: Trajan // Commodus // Septimius Severus

[garland-on-thy-brow]

I’ve just misread “ovid” as “void”, am seeing some sort of dark symbolism.

[otahkoapisiakii]

BLACKFEET TRIBE STATE OF EMERGENCY!

We need food in Blackfeet Nation.

Blackfeet Nourish has been providing food for the Medicine Bear Shelter and Blackfeet Food Bank for more than six years. The month of February has been grueling. Blackfeet [Nation reservation] has been hit by blizzard after blizzard with hurricane-force winds. Many people around Blackfeet Nation are both trapped in their homes and trapped out of their homes, in shelters, and other people’s homes.

100% of the donations will go to food for the Blackfeet Nation and dispersed [by] the shelter and as directed by Blackfeet Tribe’s Incident Command Center.

Go to: http://nourishtheflathead.org/donate/ and please indicate “Blackfeet Nourish” in the message line

If you can’t donate, PLEASE signal boost! Niisiniyitaki!

[queensthiefofattolia]

Inspirobot posters for Queen’s Thief characters

Sophos (Conspiracy of Kings):

Eugenides, in every line of every scene of every book:

And one for Irenides rather…unusual courtship:

[oliviapaigewrites-deactivated20]

So, I heard that some of you were having issues with the download. Here’s my outlining guide just as is in photos. Same quality. Enjoy!

[roses--and--rue]

Extremely unusual Victorian perfume bottle in the shape of a sword, fitted with a ring to hang from a chatelaine.

[jayrockin]

It’s 3am in a house with no tablet and I’m too energetic to sleep, here are some snails with legs

PATREON | KO-FI

[iranianrelated]

Pasargadae at night: the capital of Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great, is located in 130 km distance from Shiraz city on its northeast. Cyrus the Great issued its construction (529–550 BC) after his victory over Astyages the last king of the Median Empire.

[terpsikeraunos]

“english doesn’t have a vocative”

that’s what the @ sign is for

[astriiformes]

the myth of untouchable, genius science and scientists is incredibly harmful, and i would argue a large reason why our society today has such a dangerous divide between researchers and people who only learn about research secondhand. the idea that a scientist works on their own, a scientist is someone who makes a major breakthrough, a scientist is always the smartest person in the room, a scientist learns answers instead of just generating more questions… it fosters inaccessibility and gatekeeping

getting thrown into studying science at the college level with more of this myth stuck in my head than i thought has absolutely been one of the reasons i keep burning out in academia, and actively trying to unlearn it so that i can be successful in a field that i love has proven harder than i ever expected. the reality of participating in and learning about science is not what i was told it would be, and while it is still something i feel strongly about and want to pursue, i find myself having to navigate even learning what it is and how i can fit into it along with my studies themselves

i know that some of the problem for me, personally, has come via the media i consume and it’s a bit painful to realize, because i know that some of the characters that introduced me to loving science have also fostered the insidious idea that i have to be a type of person that doesn’t actually exist in the real world if i want to follow in their footsteps. part of the solution for me has been trying to take a step back from them, avoiding or at least thinking critically about media and characters that i know will push this stereotype and learning to love ones that failed at it

part of it is also trying to be more personally welcoming and informative about fields that i love – for a while, due to doing well in advanced classes in high school, i fell into the trap of being something of a gatekeeper myself, and in a way looking down on people who i thought weren’t as smart as i was. it’s unfortunate that it took beginning to seriously struggle with the subjects myself for me to realize this was a poor attitude, and it’s even more unfortunate that i still haven’t been able to entirely shake it – something which i am aware continues to actively hurt myself as well as others. but taking steps to educate other people about what i do know, and trying to make everyone around me aware that they can, on some level, choose to engage with the sciences if they want to, is the start of a healing process. i have started trying to tick off the times other people tell me that i’ve inspired them to pursue these things, instead of ticking off the times i was better at them than someone else. one is obviously more meaningful, and ultimately more beneficial to the world

i want to see more people actively combat the myth of the genius scientist and the idea of science as something that it is not. i’m still trying to find my place in all this, because i was lied to. you have probably been lied to too. and if there is anything science should be avoiding, it is lies

[rem-ir]

Ablative of Oh You Know

[my-great-infinity-blog]

I found Latin memes!!!!!!