Anna Burke

Queer. Author. Villain apologist. Compass Rose Series, Seal Cove Romance Series, Sapphic retellings.

[villainapologistsanonymous]

60% OFF In the Roses of Pieria

Award-winning author Anna Burke delivers the shivers in this daring queer dark fantasy romance that is teeming with sensuous vampires, dark academia, plant horrors, and terrifying fungal fae. When Clara Eden is offered a job as an archivist working for eccentric estate owner Agatha Montague, she thinks her prayers have been answered. Soon, she finds herself sucked into the world of her research, captivated by a romantic correspondence thousands of years old. But as her feelings for her employer's assistant, Fiadh, deepen, so too does her suspicion that something about Agatha Montague isn't quite right. Unfortunately for Clara, by the time her suspicions are confirmed, it is far too late to run. Contains mature themes.

[art-nouveau-art-history]

Birch Forest by Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918)

[catchymemes]

[beroebluejeans]

I get that Gideon Nav is objectively a very sexy character but also I am in my 30s and when I see sexy fan art of her I feel a powerful instinctive desire to clap her on the shoulder and tell her she’s doing a good job and I’m proud of her and encourage her to wear sunscreen

[douche-canoe-regatta]

lesbian dad voice:

you should start taking vitamin D supplements, like, right away. fish oil too. and watch your knees, with that heavy sword - squats, yeah. you gotta drink more water, I don't care what it tastes like. salad's good - that's what those leaves are, you can use a fork - no? alright. and carbs, that's the stuff. good job, champ. great work.

so, uh ....do you want to learn how to refinish a coffee table....?

[beroebluejeans]

yes exactly you get it. I don’t know how to refinish a coffee table, but thinking about Gideon Nav makes me want to learn so I could teach her.

[villainapologistsanonymous]

Lesbian dad but also lesbian momming the shit out of her, like, kid, here’s a sandwich and a hug and I’ll pretend I don’t see her tear up because no one ever hugged her in her life.

[nemfrog]

Mycelium of a gilled mushroom. Field book of common gilled mushrooms, with a key to their identification and directions for cooking those that are edible. 1928.

Internet Archive

[maleinstructor]

[kozacy]

In the heat of battle, photographer Horace Bristol captured one of the most unique and erotic photos of WWII.

Bristol photographed a young crewman of a US Navy “Dumbo” PBY rescue mission, manning his gun after having stripped naked and jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbor to rescue a badly burned Marine pilot. The Marine was shot down while bombing the Japanese-held fortress of Rabaul.

“…we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in the Bay. The Japanese were shooting at him from the island, and when they saw us they started shooting at us. The man who was shot down was temporarily blinded, so one of our crew stripped off his clothes and jumped in to bring him aboard. He couldn’t have swum very well wearing his boots and clothes. As soon as we could, we took off. We weren’t waiting around for anybody to put on formal clothes. We were being shot at and wanted to get the hell out of there. The naked man got back into his position at his gun in the blister of the plane.”

“And well, there was his butt, and I had a camera. I mean I AM a historian.”

[villainapologistsanonymous]

“I am a historian” will now be my excuse for every thing.

[penny-anna]

Something I think ppl who aren't used to it struggle with when it comes to ancient history is that frequently 'we do not and cannot know this' is the only truthful response a historian can give. People severely overestimate how much we actually know about Ancient Rome.

I remember talking to someone at a party once about the debate over Septimius Severus's ethnicity (whole other can of worms) and they asked if genetic testing of his remains was not a way to settle it and I was like oh. Oh okay you are under the impression we have the physical remains of Roman emperors from the second century AD alright then. (We. Do not.)

[asleepinawell]

[villainapologistsanonymous]

Possibly I would die for Camilla Hect

[villainapologistsanonymous]

I found perfection.

[glassesanddisasters]

Ianthe Tridentarius, just sitting there... menacingly.

[villainapologistsanonymous]

She can “menace” me any time.

[snoopylovessoup]

Dogs on mushrooms

[villainapologistsanonymous]

This is the niche content I am here for

[art-nouveau-art-history]

The rose painted by Alphonse Mucha (1860 - 1939)

[upennmanuscripts]

Today's friend is LJS 46, an herbal written it Italy around 1520. The rather fantastical plants are typical for herbals written at this time. The herbal was later bound with a group of texts in English, Latin, and Spanish about Morocco less than a century later.

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[die-rosastrasse]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

British, 1828-1882

Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance (1863) & Joan of Arc (1882)

[mushroominawaterbottle]

Cryptozoology is my favourite kind of fake science stuff. Wish there was also cryptobotany, like mothman but its just a really big fern in the middle of a field with literally nothing else around it , that spawned in the dead of night, might have killed a few people and never shows up in photos, and no one is sure its even real

[southernsolarpunk-deactivated20]

Original

[layaart]

this is how you lose the time war 💙⏳❤