hey its igrab! you might know me from AO3, or maybe livejournal back in the day. here’s some stuff about me!
in my late 30s and still weird
nonbinary (they/them)
asexual, arospec (microlabels here)
irl married to the best person ever, ace4ace nb4nb but we still call each other wife bc 🤷
i have cats, rats, and a bunny
no marketable skills to speak of just a whole basket of disorders. adhd, autism, bipolar, and fibromyalgia are the ones i yap abt most
libra - metal dragon - 9w1 - INFJ - fuck jkr but ravenclaw
currently rotating: hoshiumi kourai (blorbo) and hiruhoshi, hq!!, ywpd, wha, gachiakuta, jjk, wind breaker, dunmeshi
non-fandom special interests: asexuality and gender, architecture (esp chinese), historical fashion, overpasses, fiber arts, rats, rabbits, the roman empire, linguistics and linguistic anthropology, astronomy, DID and other dissociative disorders, psychology of child abuse
important tags:
#organizer - lists i'll need later
#igrab yaps - filter this if you don't need my thoughts on anything and everything 24/7
#igrab writes - official fic promo posts
#seagull boys - anything even tangentially related to hoshiumi kourai, hirugami sachirou, or kamomedai
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ive been in fandom since i was a wee baby trading pokemon cards and making sailor moon ocs. i went to my first anime con when i was 13. there’s a lot of shit i like!! lets break it down.
CURRENTLY ROTATING
haikyuu: hoshiumi is my blorbo and hiruhoshi is my otp. my other favs are komori, bokuto, kita, and noya. i like multishipping but i do have my preferred pairing setup which is MOSTLY normal. (i’ll just die on the hill that osakita should be the normal ship. seriously.)
fallen london: started playing recently and ofc i need a character for each ambition. so its half gameplay reactions (especially Rats) and half figuring my characters out. lemme know if you want me to tag spoilers or put them under a cut.
yowamushi pedal: just did a rewatch so they’re spinning around in there
dungeon meshi: idk why i thought i wouldn’t get obsessed w thistle he literally has tan skin white hair i’m so easy. anyway HIM and mithrun and kabumisu and chilaios and—the only pairing im not a big fan of is laios/kabru but no hate! ship what you like!
hoyoverse: i don’t blog abt it often but i play all three of the big ones, and ive played hi3 a little. my favs are baizhu (genshin), welt (hsr), and lycaon (zzz). going any deeper would be a whole post of its own!
final fantasy xii: for the game’s 20th anniversary there’s a zine project i’m doing as well as a randomised job playthrough, so i’m back in dalmasca babey! block #ffxii20thrandomjobrun if it gets annoying
OTHER STUFF THAT COMES UP OFTEN
writing and writing related memes and posts
queer stuff esp acespec
fiber arts and other forms of art
chinese architecture/fashion
rat pics
FOREVER FANDOMS THAT ILL NEVER QUIT
Sports Anime (knb, daiya, days, + more)
Okami (currently replaying)
Final Fantasy (IV, IX, XII, XV are my favs)
Stardew Valley (excited for 1.7!)
Animal Crossing
Pokemon (starter reveals!)
Kingdom Hearts
Sky / Journey
Dragon Age (all of them. everything.)
Elder Scrolls (online, skyrim, tabletop)
Danmei (meatbun, priest, mxtx and more)
Magnus Chase
The Hobbit (and lotr in general)
Stargate (esp sga but i like sg1 too)
DEAD/HIBERNATING FANDOMS (still important)
DC (relatively speaking)
PJO (behind and not motivated to catch up)
Sherlock Holmes (i still love the books and ritchie films dgmw but sherlock burnt me out)
As Aromantic Visibility Day (June 5th) approaches this year, friendly reminder from an aroace: it's Aromantic Visibility Day, not "Aroace" Visibility Day! Not all aromantics are also asexual — there are aromantics who are allosexual (aroallos for short), aromantics who don't separately label their sexual orientation at all, and aromantics whose sexual orientation doesn't fit into an ace/allo binary, as well as likely even more aros who don't fit into "aroace" for even more reasons — and all of them are equally included in Aromantic Visibility Day, because they are equally aromantic! In fact, those aros who aren't ace are disproportionately erased and in need of visibility, even more than aroaces are (which is really saying something, because aroace visibility itself is already terrible), so including them in Aromantic Visibility Day is vital, and using the correct name for the occasion instead of calling it an "aroace day" is a start.
Overall: again, speaking as an aroace myself, we aroaces will not be offended if you just call Aromantic Visibility Day the thing it is actually called! I care about sharing this upcoming day with my fellow aros, so stop excluding them, even accidentally! We aroaces celebrate this day but it is not for us exclusively!
Average Deep Space Nine A plot: "What are you willing to sacrifice for the chance at a better world? Who are you willing to hurt? Will the pain you cause now outweigh the peace that it might bring? When both choices are bad, and you do what you think is best, can you live with yourself after? Could you live with yourself if you made the opposite choice?"
Average Deep Space Nine B plot: "What do we do with all this hot sauce!?"
45,500-Year-Old Painting of a Warty Pig from the Island of Sulawesi, in Indonesia: this is one of the world's oldest examples of figurative art, and one of the earliest known depictions of an animal
This painting was found at Leang Tedongnge, which is a limestone cave located on the island of Sulawesi, in Indonesia. It was created at least 45,500 years ago, but it's still remarkably well-preserved.
Above: a close-up of the pig's face, showing a pair of "spiky" head crests and preorbital facial warts, which are characteristic features of the Sulawesi warty pig (Sus celebensis), a species that still inhabits the forests of Sulawesi
The painting was created using dark red mineral pigments; it measures 136cm long (about 4.5 feet) from tail-to-snout, and two hand stencils mark the wall just above the pig's haunches. Partial figures from at least two other pigs are visible on the wall several meters away.
Above: two additional paintings are located toward the right side of the wall, but only fragments of the pigs' faces and shoulders remain
The caves of Sulawesi contain the world's oldest known examples of figurative art (i.e. artwork that depicts real or recognizable subjects, like animals and human beings); the oldest figurative painting in the world is a 51,200-year-old depiction of a warty pig with three human-like figures, from the cave of Leang Karampuang. Unfortunately, that painting is much more faded and more badly damaged.
Above: this 51,200-year-old painting from Leang Karampuang is faded and badly damaged, but it depicts another pig interacting with several anthropomorphic figures; this is currently recognized as the world's oldest surviving example of figurative art
Warty pigs appear in over 87% of the prehistoric animal paintings that have been documented in Sulawesi. Many of the other paintings depict a small, buffalo-like creature called an anoa (Bubalus sp.), which is a type of wild bovid that is also endemic to Indonesia. Both animals can still be found on the island of Sulawesi.
Above: anoas depicted in the cave paintings of Leang Timpuseng (top) and Leang Bulu' Sipong (bottom); the painting from Leang Bulu' Sipong dates back to at least 48,000 years ago, making it the second-oldest figurative painting in the world
Archaeologists have been aware of Sulawesi's cave art since the 1950's, but dating techniques were not used on the paintings until 2014. For decades, it was assumed that the artwork was less than 10,000 years old, but when animal paintings and hand stencils from seven different caves were finally analyzed in 2014, researchers were shocked to discover that some of the artwork was created more than 39,000 years ago. Since then, archaeologists have discovered and/or dated many other cave paintings from Sulawesi (and some from the neighboring island of Borneo) that date back to between 35,000 and 51,200 years ago.
Above: the painting from Leang Tedongnge
When this particular painting was discovered in 2017, it briefly qualified as the world's oldest example of figurative art and the oldest known depiction of an animal, but it has since been surpassed by two other cave paintings from other sites in Sulawesi. This is still the third-oldest figurative painting in the world.
These discoveries firmly contradict the traditional (and deeply eurocentric) assumptions that were once made regarding the origins of artistic expression, as this article explains:
Previously, the oldest known cave art was thought to have first appeared in Europe 40,000 years ago, showcasing abstract symbols. By 35,000 years ago, the art became more sophisticated, showing horses and other animals.
These latest finds in Indonesia have challenged a long-standing belief that artistic expression – and the cognitive leap that may have accompanied it – began in Europe.
It’s now thought that the capability to create figurative art either emerged before Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa and headed for Europe and Asia more than 60,000 years ago, or that it emerged more than once as humans spread around the globe.
And this article adds:
The geographic location of the painting is significant. Although experts have long recognized that humans originated in Africa, “Europe was once thought of as a ‘finishing school’ for humanity,” says archaeologist April Nowell of the University of Victoria in Canada, because all the oldest known examples of art and other sophisticated behaviors were found there. But in reality, the pattern of discoveries just reflected the disproportionate amount of archaeological research that was being carried out in Europe, especially in France.
“This new discovery adds to an already rich record of early and varied rock art from [Indonesia and Australia] and underscores the importance of conducting research outside Europe,” Nowell says.
Unfortunately, many of the cave paintings in Sulawesi and other parts of Indonesia are now rapidly crumbling away as a result of climate change. The limestone surfaces of the cave walls are peeling away at an alarming rate, erasing large sections of the paintings in the process; in some caves, patches of artwork measuring 2-3cm wide vanish every few months.
Sources & More Info:
Science Advances: Oldest Cave Art Found in Sulawesi
CNN: A Warty Pig Painted on a Cave Wall 45,500 Years Ago is the World's Oldest Depiction of an Animal
Smithsonian Magazine: A Journey to the Oldest Cave Paintings in the World
Nature: Narrative Cave Art in Indonesia by 51,200 Years Ago
Nature: Pleistocene Cave Art from Sulawesi, Indonesia
Art Net: Archaeologists Have Discovered a Pristine 45,000-Year-Old Cave Painting of a Pig that May be the Oldest Artwork in the World
Art Net: Some of the Oldest and Most Revered Cave Paintings in the World Are Under Extreme Threat Due to Climate Change
@userdramas event 07: identity
— a queer character who represents me
“Saying that you would become an adult when you have a family and kids I wonder what basis they have for it. Restricting your children because you can’t let them go is being a parent? Pushing your values on someone is being a family? That’s ridiculous! Forget about trying to understand individuals like us, not even recognising us. ‘Majority opinion is right’, ‘nothing like family’, ‘love for love’s sake’, ‘what I say is absolute’. Any parents who say that begone!” — takahashi satoru, koisenu futari (2022)
this is a highly controversial opinion, I have no doubt King Arthur was bisexual but I think he was one of the few people in Camelot not interested in fucking Lancelot. he wanted to retain him as an employee but it did not cross his mind that Lancelot was fucking his wife because Lancelot is such a weird little twerp that he did not perceive him as a sexual being. my interpretation.
So true. The Galehaut/Lancelot relationship was like a dynastic marriage to resolve the conflict between two imperial powers. I like to imagine Galehaut was like “I have decided to abandon my plans of capturing [what is now] all of southern England and surrender to you despite my military advantage, all for the love of my achingly beautiful and spectacular new male wife, Lancelot du Lac.” and Arthur was like “Okay. Weird. Not homophobic or anything but Lancelot? You’re in love with Lancelot?”
Co-signed. That’s some real shit you said. Also, unlike Arthur, he was willing to yield and share his lover for everyone’s benefit. And then he died for love. A real freak. One of the best freaks in 13th century French literature.
anything u think about YOUR life after 10pm is bs to be ignored. anything u think about a character’s life after 10pm should be posted about online and expanded on for paragraphs. :)
