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[clovaris]

SOMETIMES I HORNYPOST STUFF BUT I POST OTHER THINGS TOO

[dulcesilly]

for some reason people really love my luna and celestia designs so i drew them again with some little changes :-) yay!

she doesnt know how to dance btw

[saul-tortellini]

[toboldlymuppet]

your existence is victory

[the-cockroach]

Erotic roleplay but you're J Jonah Jameson asking me for pics of Spiderman.

[j-jonah-jameson-official]

PICTURES OF SPIDER-MAN AREN’T THE ONLY THING I WANT ON MY DESK TONIGHT.

[daily-bugle-internships]

Mr. Jameson, I don't think you're allowed to say that, it's bad PR

[j-jonah-jameson-official]

SPIDER-MAN HACKED MY ACCOUT! HE’S TRYING TO HUMILIATE ME!

[seagles]

[eridan-ampora]

who up dinking they oiter

[tmos-time]

you fucking know it babeyyyyyyy!!!!!!! #dinkers

[eridan-ampora]

[trupowieszcz-moved-deactivated2]

"Old Town Square at Night" by Józef Pankiewicz (1892) vs the same place on November 28th 2023 (Warsaw)

[trupowieszcz-moved-deactivated2]

right???! i need to talk about this for a moment because. it's so magical to me. like usually when you see old paintings of warsaw you can't recognize anything - it's been bombed to hell in the 40s, and especially in the city centre everything had to be rebuilt basically from scratch (sorry to all the other cities that had to give their bricks away. btw. i know its a sore spot.)

and yet the old town is basically identical as it has been before the war, to the point that when i first saw that painting i was like "oh fuck, i know exactly where this is and how to get there"

idk this painting is like. so special to me. i went there on tuesday because i had a lot of spare time and i realized it was getting dark and it struck me that i could take this photo and it's not exactly aligned because i saw the biker and had to be quick so i could catch him in the same spot as the carriage in the painting but it's just so. idk. it's incredible to me that i can compare which windows were lit on that evening 131 years ago... that even the ornament remains the same... that the painting feels like a cloudy memory and not just a scene

[permanenthistorydamage]

"That the painting feels like a cloudy memory and not just a scene" yes ❤️

[amygdalae]

peoplpe are always saying very online things to me

[amygdalae]

[kittycouch]

Big thoughts lil guy

[tim-official]

making an enthusiastic, sincere jack-off motion with my hand to indicate that i agree with the present course of action and think you have thought it out well

[plaidadder]

Who Wants to Help Me Debunk Ancient Apocalypse?

So my father is into Ancient Apocalypse, a new "documentary" series on Netflix hosted by Graham Hancock with occasional assistance from Keanu Reeves.

I'm visiting my parents and my dad wanted to watch it with me so I said sure, I love a documentary about ancient civilizations.

We started in season 2, episode 3, because that's where my dad was in the series. Coming in out of context and with no idea who Graham Norton was, my thought process over the first fifteen minutes or so went roughly like this:

Why is this one British guy telling us what the REAL story is behind all of the world's civilizations

Why is he dunking on archaeologists all the time

Why does he always suggest the same solution to every mystery

Is this just "aliens built the pyramids" with better production values

Is there any form of "aliens built the pyramids" that is not racist at its core

OK this is setting off a lot of my crackpot alarms

You know, I didn't want to begrudge my dad his new favorite show but when he started hyping it to my aunt and uncle tonight I just couldn't help it. I pulled out my phone and googled "Ancient Apocalypse" and "Netflix" and within about 10 minutes learned the following:

Graham Hancock (the showrunner and narrator) has no background in archaeology, he's a former journalist

Graham Hancock has without irony written a book in which he argues that an ancient civilization left pictographs and pyramids on Mars

Graham Hancock is a regular on Joe Rogan's podcast

There's a Guardian article out there titled "Ancient Apocalypse is the Most Dangerous Show on Television"

From this article I learned that Graham Hancock's son is a big muckety muck on the documentary/reality TV side of Netflix

This information failed to really shake my father's faith that there might be something to Hancock's theory (which roughly is that a super-advanced human civilization was destroyed by comets 12,000 years ago but there were some survivors and basically all major wonders of civilization since then were the result of those survivors visiting later cultures) because "the guy certianly has some facts."

A short conversation about people lying with documentaries later, i did finally get him to see that the reason Graham Hancock's facts are persuasive to him is that he does not have any other facts about this particular area of human history to set against them. Neither do I, as this is very much not my area.

But. Someone out there on tumblr must already have knowledge of a comprehensive Ancient Apocalypse takedown to which I could direct him. Anyone who'd like to help me wean Dad Adder off this production, I will appreciate it!

[oldshrewsburyian]

#man that is one cracked pot

@plaidadder I so appreciate that your tags include a pun that is also an archaeology joke. Cracked pots!! Ahahahahaha, ahem.

To add to the recommendations in your notes, if Dad Adder is interested in ancient civs and also in reading about them, I really like OUP's Very Short Introductions. What it says on the tin. I've used the Ancient Egypt one in teaching.

Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction

Abstract. Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction explores the history and culture of pharaonic Egypt, including ideas about Egyptian kings

If you're looking for other stuff to watch, I like Curator's Corner; Irving Finkel is one of the world's experts on ancient Mesopotamia and he gives the impression of being exactly as excited about this as one needs to be to become one of the world's experts in anything.

I view his appearance as some kind of career/persona determinism. As someone whose house increasingly resembles the home of an Edwardian don (brag), I may be projecting.

Since the Guardian article you referenced mentions Mexico, as well, I'd recommend Manuel Aguilar-Moreno's Handbook to Life in the Aztec World (readable, but also textbook-y, in case that's a deterrent. Also, it may or may not still be in print?) Also on Mexico, this:

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs a book by Camilla Townsend

In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma.

I also found this list of archaeology-related shows, which sound better than conspiracy theories, at least! Disclaimer that I am not an archaeologist, but the people running that site are.

[plaidadder]

Reblogging for valuable additional resources!

[olderthannetfic]

I adore Irving Finkel. The way he hops around going on about how people care about ~that little library~ (of Alexandria) when his pet Mesopotamian one is far more interesting slays me every time. And his description of ghosts as being like having a mouse problem in the house!

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My favorite archaeologist focusing on the Americas, and especially the less-discussed parts, is Ed Barnhart. He did a great documentary series for The Great Courses but has been doing publicly-visible youtube content in recent years.

I suspect his style will appeal more to many of the people who fall for Ancient Apocalypse in that he's The Real Deal and spent a lot of time in his 20s running around the jungle with a machete discovering lost cities. He has the kind of no-nonsense straight guy with a hot temper who has cooled off in mid life vibe that will appeal to a lot of the demographic being targeted by the junk science version. (He's quite progressive and likes to talk about his female mentor and his anger at all the dumb stereotypes still lingering in our analysis of American civilizations, but it's in a way that I think will get through to some people who may do the "Blue hair and pronouns!" thing at some of the younger influencers who talk about this stuff.) I especially enjoy that he has a couple of pet theories that are not well accepted and that he's very clear about how archaeologists disagree and how real evidence gathering works.

ArchaeoEd Podcast

Get ready to embark on a time-traveling adventure with the legendary archaeologist, Dr. Ed Barnhart! Let's unearth the stories of the awe-in

The channel Ancient Americas is pretty good too. It's run by Some Guy™, not an archeologist, but he's Some Guy who likes to cite sources and actually read what experts have said, which puts him about three billion years ahead of Hancock and friends.

Ancient Americas

Welcome to the Ancient Americas YouTube channel. I’m your host, Pete and together, we will explore the rich and beautiful pre-columbian hist

Archaeology/history youtube is one of my favorite things to watch while knitting. I have watched so much. So much. Once you find some of the more legit ones, they tend to do collabs or recommend the others, and your youtube suggestions get filled with this stuff, not the Ancient Apocalypse version.

[lostinhistory]

Milo Rossi, who is an archaeologist, did a four part series taking apart Ancient Apocalypse.

It's a very fun watch.

[mousegirlheart]

PLEASE DO NOT PUT MICE IN THE OVEN IT'S VERY RUDE. I AM OVERHEATING

[feralratbitesu]

ohhh poor thing :(

*pulls u out* *brushes u with melted butter* thats better! *puts u back in*

[mousegirlheart]

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*licks myself furiously*

[feralratbitesu]

NO DONT!!! u need the butter or ull-

ahh hell... i knew this would happen....

[memewhore]

[fyeahbassethounds]

[wayneradiotv]

it’s okay man. no one hates you for sitting there. no one hates your blanket

[professional-dog-hugger]

callout posts in 2014: this user is sending mean messages to people! please be warned!

callout posts in 2015: this user is stealing bones from cemeteries for witch rituals!

callout posts in 2016: this user Actually A Nazi

callout posts in 2017: this user watches an anime I don’t like

callout posts in 2018: i went through this user’s youtube like history and found a video from JonTron that they liked in 2012, proving that they’re a bad person

callout posts in 2019: this user plays E-Rated Video Games, which are meant for children, which seems pretty sus to me idk :/

callout posts in 2020: this user stole 5 gallons of purified water from the New DC Resistance Camp and was last seen headed towards Sunken Brooklyn

[ave-aria]

what I REALLY don’t like is this post was made in 2017

[tamizhnadu]

me when i accidentally leave out an m in unrestrained summer fun