just as lost as you are

name's orion || 🇨🇦 || they/them || 22 || goth, punk, artist and student || I'm trying to do my best, wish me luck ||

[deathandmysticism]

Minerva Britanna, or, A garden of heroical devices, 1612

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

steal something from my friends room

my friend who's sleeping like a dying game character

mlm flag

suspicious toilet paper roll on the night stand

snail fursona drawings

cowboy dinosaur keychains

welcome to silent hill doormat

silent hill funko pop collection

luluyam plushie collection

ashnikko tour merch

non binary flag

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[redstonedust]

i understand (on paper) why companies are anti-piracy but its funny when random individuals are also strongly anti-piracy. like how does it negatively affect your life if someone you know downloads a cracked torrent of sims 4. you dont work for EA. EA isnt gonna pay you for this. you lose nothing. its fine. chill out.

[sistertaxon]

actual criticisms of academia:

cost of education acting as class barrier

exploitation of graduate workers

colonialist past and present

ties to military industrial complex

danger of power structure entrenching and justifying orthodox views on social issues

criticisms of academia that get made:

those damn ivory tower academics are wasting money learning about things

[vintage-treasures]

Double Ring (ca. 1895) Crafted at the height of the archaeological revival in fashion, this double ring takes its architectural form directly from fourth-century AD Roman jewelry.

The piece was created by the New York City firm Marcus & Company, established in 1892 by German immigrant Herman Marcus and his sons after his tenure at Tiffany & Co. Designed to fit across two fingers, the mount is elaborately chased with Renaissance-style scrollwork. It features a central, rectangular cabochon-cut green emerald flanked by two bezel-set rose-cut diamonds. Loc. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Dim. 2.9 cm x 3.8 cm (1 1/8 in x 1 1/2 in)

[anistarrose]

my futile wish is for people to understand that "sex scenes in movies/TV don't have to serve the plot and can genuinely just be for pleasure" and "sex-repulsed people are allowed to complain about how rare it is for media made for adults like them to be something they can enjoy completely" are both true statements. unfortunately society hates both sex and people who don't like sex, so everyone gets far too defensive about any sex or lack thereof in fiction to actually have this conversation

[duallpa]

baby jimothy

[eshpur]

✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣

[alexsiple]

Jeanne

[velvetnightgallery]

The Night Watchman (c.1900) by Karl Martin August Splitgerber

[metmuseum]

Claymore. 16th–17th century. Credit line: Bequest of Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 1954 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/27515

[isabelofwraithmarsh]

So I think that there's a lot of room for nuancing medieval gender but also every single time I see a "women actually, actively fought as a commonplace thing/were knights in the Middle Ages" post my eye actively twitches because (1) they're always usually based on flawed at best sources and (2) if our way of giving medieval women interiority and agency ultimately comes down to "look! Swords! Aristocratic privilege!", there's basically no hope. Pack it up, it's over, feminist scholarship since the 80s was fun while it lasted, we had a good run, but we failed.

[isabelofwraithmarsh]

#almost always those are based on fiction

You could make a drinking game for how often Eowyn's name comes up and...I like Tolkien's work! He was and remains a very respected medievalist as well as the single most influential fantasy writer of all time! But I think Tolkien himself wouldn't approve of using his fictional works uncritically for evidence of historical attitudes! (And Tolkien had his own biases + was also influenced by the historiographical trends of his own time.)

Another one that I saw a little while ago...tripped up my alarms immediately when I saw that even though it took place in a non-English speaking country, all the sources were English writers. And all of the sources used the same wording, the same accounts, because we were dealing with a circular loop of information (which is invariably the problem when using Wikipedia articles like "Women in Medieval Warfare"). When I looked at recent secondary sources that were in the actual language of origin, I found that they were much more cagey about its historical existence, noting the lack of documentation and using the term "legend". (This is also my ongoing beef with the "court jesters routinely accompanied their lords into battle" post, because...I'm not impressed with the historicity of most of the documentation so far.)

I've also seen things like (1) use women leading forces as = women fighting (Elizabeth I + Catherine of Aragon, for two well known examples that aren't even strictly medieval) or (2) saying that women participating in sieges = women fighting and...I'm not going to say that No Women, Ever fought in the Middle Ages, because *that's* reductive as well, but you're also less concerned with propriety, as a general rule, when you have people storming your city walls and you know that, if they break through, they are very likely going to murder your entire family and friends. These are places where I think we can nuance our view of medieval gender roles (women were absolutely NOT, in any case, sitting down and being passive), but...these aren't what I would consider to be normal situations. You're not doing this because you *want* to fight, you're doing this because, if you don't, you are dead.

I do think you have a little bit more evidence for female crusaders, and some examples that I think have a bit more teeth for them fighting, but I also think that...(1) they're limited, (2) there's that recurring problem of "leading an army" VS "fighting IN an army", and (3) some of them are almost certainly fictional and, in some cases, I can't find anything on them besides one or two sources, which doesn't mean it *didn't* happen, but it means it's much harder for me to substantiate without doing a lot more research. I can't go more into them, though, because....my specialty is medieval Ireland, so my knowledge of the Crusades is more or less limited to people complaining about Kingdom of Heaven and sometimes listening to papers on them at various medieval conferences.

[deargodsno]

3,400 year-old linen tunic with contrasting bands around the neckline and along the side edges. It belonged to an ancient Egyptian official named Kha. Excavated from Theban Tomb TT8 at Deir el-Medina in 1906.

The close-up pictures show that, unlike the later Coptic tunics, the ornamentation on this garment was woven in separate bands and sewn on. (Pictures by Alison Fisk, from here.)

Below is an Egyptian Coptic tunic from about 2000 years after the one above (circa 450-650 CE):

On this one, the ornamentation was woven in at the same time as the main fabric was created, then supplemented with embroidery, applique, and tassels. (Photo from V&A, here.)

So, the same idea of a garment, similar materials, but a slightly different pattern (the later one has sleeves, instead of being a rectangle with armholes), and 2000 years of technical development.

[orionspaperwork]

[mindless-polls]

Glasses-wearers, how do you usually clean your lenses?

Your shirt / other clothes

A microfiber cloth alone

A microfiber cloth and cleaner spray

Individually wrapped glasses wipes

Another way

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[occupy-gallifrey]

Neolithic Pig-Shaped Pot, c. 6.000 years old. Collection: Jiangsu Provincial Museum, Nanjing, Pottery and Porcelain Gallery

[caffedorzo]

spin the wheel to be assigned a mysterious source of income - who will grant you 10k usd every month without fail!!

will you take the money?

yes

no

bald / nuance

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[metmuseum]

Terracotta oil lamp. ca. 550–650 CE. Credit line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/241415