historic musings

Public historian & museum professional. Historic aesthetics. Follow my main @kopious to interact

[realpeoplefiction]

[saintmarkovia]

call me captain ahab how I moby on his dick til he whales

[sparkles-rainbows-severed-heads]

listen I love queer shipping in media even if it’s not canon. I love it and I have no shame about it. However, sometimes the best queer shipping is when you least expect it. Example: I started reading Moby Dick. I didn’t know before reading that Ishmael and Queequeg basically started the ‘only one bed’ trope.

[remarkablecows]

[lilyhana]

well, I don't know that I would go that far but...

[skewerbait]

[blu-et]

fucking brutal section headings from the herman melville wikipedia page

[theotherendcomics]

[karlovycross]

[tgirl-thucydides]

YouGov did a whole official poll on Americans' views of the middle ages and I’m obsessed

[ltwilliammowett]

Ships Sailing at Night, by Edward Moran (1829–1901)

[ltwilliammowett]

The Galeón Andalucía is a replica of a 17th century Warship now in London, St. Katherine’s dock just by the Tower of London. This is her heading up river passing royal Greenwich, to Tower Bridge.

Source

Music ICARUS (Orchestral Version) (feat. ARKAI)

[the-golden-vanity]

#this would've been an absolute end of days nightmare like four centuries ago (via @unchartedcloud)

[alexfeelyx]

if I was a 17th century person and I saw this float by with the speed she's going, without any obvious means of propulsion, I would be scared outta my wits

[szczekaczz]

Simon Simonsen, Gravmanden og Molly (1898)

[expressions-of-nature]

Khalaktyrsky Beach, Russia by Vladimir Goiiiguk

[fetchthymare]

I would kill someone for the Terror and Erebus cigarette card. I would do horrible things to get my grubby little hands on it.

[artschoolglasses]

Eye from a bronze statue, 5th - 2nd century BCE, Greece

Made with glass paste, marble, obsidian, and copper

[random-brushstrokes]

Lowell Nesbitt (American, 1933-1993) - Untitled (Figure on a Bed)

[antiqueanimals]

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819 – 1905). Chicks (1864). Oil on board.

Coeur d’Alene Art Auction