Ab Antiquo

Raymond • He/Him • 21 • Gay • Historian & Archaeologist

[thememedaddy]

[immortalsarcasm]

Can we stop making a cis man’s interest in something not stereotypically marked as ‘masculine’ a sign that he’s an egg and *actually* just a closet trans woman? Can we stop making a trans man’s continued interest in things he enjoyed pre-transition as a sign that he’s *actually* not really a trans man and just a confused girl who needs to be reprogrammed and detransitioned?

Can we stop trying to make men that don’t identify as women be women because some folks have decided Woman is the Only Valid and Superior gender? It’s really *not* the elevated take you dipshits are trying to spin it as.

It’s just gender essentialism.

[extinctioninthemorningrays]

Hate when I type in the first letter of my email and the text box immediately goes ❌🚫INCORRECT! FILL IN A COMPLETE EMAIL ADRESS!🚫❌ I’m still working on it!! Chill out!!

[tomb-of-madeline]

imps bother a nun in the scriptorium for imp thursday

[baebeylik]

Stag, Serpent, and Herb (recto); An Herb, Egyptian Sweet Clover (verso). By Abdullah ibn al-Fadl. Iraq, 1224.

Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.

[songfulgravedigger]

et tu?

[draconym]

Reviving a 30 year old idea with my childhood friend: the humble sporkion

[draconym]

Wait.

There. That's perfect. I'm keeping him in a terrarium and feeding him jello.

[randomencounters]

Encounter: Sporkion

[kyleesarthell]

Androgeus

[kyleesarthell]

Thank you for the support on this!! Here's a little Androgeus in my usual style as thanks

[byjove]

Patroclus’s epithet essentially being “beloved gentle-hearted horse wrangler” makes me visualize him as a well-mannered, undeniably hung, 6’3” Wild West cowboy. Texas accent and everything. In the middle of the Trojan War. Like a gay Greek Quincey Morris.

[byjove]

You’ve all heard of The Song of Achilles, now get ready for my retelling, The Iliad Reimagined: Patroclus Has a Smith & Wesson Revolver

[bandomfandombeyond]

[vintagegermany]

Mainz, Germany 1860/70

[stopmyhearts]

I'm not phone addicted. I'm friend addicted. It's not my fault that for some cruel and senseless reason my friends live in my phone

[fromtheheather]

The Three Sisters (1896) - Léon Frederic

[adastrabbit]

i think i might be a little in over my head with this chess thing

[what-even-is-thiss]

idk it’s kinda funny how easy it is for rich people to just get residency somewhere meanwhile the rest of us need to find a job

[elftwink]

i do kind of believe that getting a bachelor's degree makes you stupid about your field, specifically in the way where you believe you know a lot more than you actually do about the field of study you were in. if you are extremely lucky and have some very good instructors, they will impress upon you how much there still is to learn, but a lot of people leave a four year program with a little too much confidence in their own expertise

this is my theory for why bachelors holders are constantly on here using their degree to leverage an air of superiority while saying a bunch of demonstrably false bullshit, but you never see masters or phd holders comment on anything outside of their thesis topic and occasionally as an addition to the bachelor holder's essay going "hi, phd in same field here, there is no consensus on what this person is asserting and they are full of shit".

relatedly. saying "i have a degree in x field" is actually not a replacement for citing sources. some of you seem to be leaning way too heavily on it as a replacement for the due diligence you were supposed to learn in that very program, and i think you should be embarrassed about that. ultimately most of the time you shouldn't even need to disclose your degree except as a positionality statement, because your work should stand on its own and demonstrate your expertise. people should believe what you say is true not because you wave around a piece of paper, but because you show them why it is true using the skills and knowledge that paper is supposed to represent. by not doing that you are undermining the work of your colleagues in the field and eroding trust with the general public. cite some goddamn sources or do not say anything at all.

[memories-of-ancients]

Pharmacy jar, Italy, 16th century

from The Hunt Museum, Limerick

[kosmogrl]