An Abomination

[a-library-ghost]

adding to my glendower sketchbook series

[thecollectibles]

Art by Justine Thibault

[holespoles]

mula "Mirror"

mula 「鏡」

[ouijacine]

Complete aftg overlays coming soon

[notacluedo]

My piece(s) for @aftgbigbang based on @hemmicknicky ‘s summer camp fic :D

[cavetocanvas]

Léon Bonnat, The Barber of Suez, 1876

[an-onyx-void-deactivated2025111]

“One of the best examples of an Orientalist painting that appears homoerotic, at least to a modern viewer, is The Barber of Suez, painted by Leon Bonnat in 1876, a few years after his trip to Egypt…A comely young man sits cross-legged on a rug, his robe open at his neck, while another well-muscled man, wearing only a loin cloth, stands behind him, leaning over to shave his chin. The sitting man, with a look of plenitude, nestles his head into the barber’s crotch. Hugh Honour remarks on the photographic nature of the picture in which ‘these two motionless figures [are] completely absorbed into one another, sealed off in their own world, observed but unobserving’. The contact between head and genitals, the tenderness and intimacy of their barber’s gesture, as he spreads the fingers of his free hand over the side of his client’s face and the blissful look of the man being shaved, combined with the general portrayal of handsome partially unclothed black men, might well have struck responsive chords in the homosexual viewers.

- Robert Aldrich, “Colonialism and Homosexuality”

[scaphandrah-deactivated20251120]

Egon Schiele - Port of Trieste - 1907

[milk5]

mentally devastated gym bros are utterly correct in their nutritional reverence of the humble egg

[sweatermuppet]

age 16: the world isn't worth living in

age 24: been getting into greek yogurt & birdwatching lately

[popcornhee]

Fox

[wuzeio]

misc drawings // health nut kevin is my favorite kevin

[allfortheslay25]

Some crumbs 🙌

[emry-stars-art]

All I’ve got to offer rn is chibis, all my creative attention is being funneled into attempting to write and into random oc stuff lately 😅

But please accept Neil in everyone’s coat but his own

[headspace-hotel]

No offense but the internet gives you the most wrong and fucked up idea of helping people because people get mad if you don't care about disasters happening in 72 countries, meanwhile the people in real life that are doing the most good picked one VERY SPECIFIC thing to care about and care about it REALLY HARD

[headspace-hotel]

Walks up to a guy working on restoring a native tree species to his downtown "why aren't you posting about grasses in Turkmenistan!"

[headspace-hotel]

The internet has taken a whole generation of bright, motivated, passionate young people who care and have big hearts and turned them into paralyzed, shattered wrecks too crushed by the weight of the world's pain to hand a pair of socks to a person in need

[lovemanythings]

“the sun” by edvard munch (1909)

[whatisthiswitchcraft]

[Image description: a painting of the sun above the water. It is framed by rocks and a bit of green (perhaps grass) in the foreground. The center of the sun is white-yellow and its rays of are red, orange, yellow, and blue. End ID]

[executiveoutcomes-deactivated20]

No offence but you know what's really weird about America? You've got hardly any history past a couple of centuries. No medieval castles, no Roman walls, no bronze age settlement sites. Is there even anything for archeologists to dig for?

People have been here for quite some time, they’ve only been white for 500 years

[queen-of-dirt]

As an American studying archaeology this ask filled me with a seething rage

[lifeinsherds]

Chaco Canyon. 1250 A.D

Monks Mound 900 A.D

Montezuma Castle, 1100 A.D

Temple Mound, 500 A.D

Just because they aren’t traditional western style buildings doesn’t mean they aren’t there. These are only a FEW examples of the monumental architecture built by Native Americans in the US. The “prehistory” of America is as vast and varied as whatever is in Europe.

[snarkaeologist]

I never understand people who will travel so far to see Stonehenge or Roman ruins but completely discount Cahokia or Mesa Verde. There are SO MANY amazing ancient sites in America. And most of them are comparatively little-known and visited.

I think a difference in Europe is that they seem better at coexisting with their history - there are cities where you can see modern buildings next to ones from the Middle Ages. Our (surviving) ancient sites in the US aren’t in the middle of major population centers, which makes them easier to overlook. I don’t think that’s entirely a bad thing, preservation-wise, but it’s also not an excuse for forgetting they exist.

[archaeologistproblems]

Folks I live in Atlantic Canada and I’m an hour away from an archaeological site complex that’s at least 11,000 years old, suspected to be 13,000 years old. That’s nearly three times older than the Great Pyramid at Giza. The Wabanaki are called the People of the Dawn for a reason. Come on.

[nonbinary-hawke-deactivated2021]

It’s not just big, grand monuments either. Villages are just as important, if not more so, as huge structures and the like. My favorite example of American architecture is River House in Bears Ears National Monument, which was occupied by different Pueblo people at different times and dates to around 1200 AD.

You can get an even better view with National Geographic’s 360 video about River House, narrated by Brian Monongye, a Hopi farmer, artist, community leader, and advocate.

This post can’t just be about archeology though. These sites, especially River House, are all under constant threat from government administrations seeking to reduce the protections on them in order to start logging or mining in those areas.

Bears Ears National Monument is sacred to numerous tribes in that area and is home to over 100,000 archeological sites, but in December of 2017, the Trump administration reduced the size of the monument by 85%, going from being  1,351,849 acres to only 201,876. And the reason for it? Uranium. There are several hundred uranium mines in Bears Ears, along with other natural resources such as fossil fuels and plenty of trees for logging. This sacred land is going to be viciously ripped up and destroyed beyond recognition because of greed and cruelty.

We need to educate people about these monuments and about indigenous history and presence in Turtle Island/North America, not just so that people know, but so that we have more people willing and able to fight the battles to protect these lands.

Turtle Island has a long, rich history. Don’t let it be destroyed by greedy settlers, please.

[cozyautumnspices]