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Shay | they/them | aro/ace | Roman Reconstructionist and massive nerd |BLM!|

[robert-hadley]

A Fossil Fish Plaque, Green River, Wyoming.

Source: christie’s.com

[forest-faerie-spirit]

{Snow Angels} by {Michael}

[thoodleoo]

the story of orpheus and eurydice fucks me up bc the instinct a lot of people have is to call orpheus an idiot or an asshole but the thing is he was in LOVE and love makes you do stupid shit

[thoodleoo]

when ovid says "what could she complain of, except that she had been loved?" i just.

[blue-ice-veins]

sharpied seashells by  Barbara Moloney Callen

[exitwound]

mutuals

[seabeck]

Artemis-y

[michaelnordeman]

Roe deers/rådjur. Värmland, Sweden (January 15, 2022).

[postarcadian]

While I do think the Hellenist/Romanist binary is highly problematic (Greek and Latin weren’t the only languages of the ancient Mediterranean!!), I’m laughing at the idea I just had of a Kinsey scale for classicists where 0 is ‘exclusively Hellenist,’ 3 is ‘equally Hellenist and Romanist,’ and 6 is ‘exclusively Romanist’. I’m at like a 4 (‘predominantly Romanist but more than incidentally Hellenist’), feel free to reblog and tag yourselves

[youneedone2]

Yellowstone by Sam Brockway

[chotomy]

Classics-tober Day 8: Caesar

it’s the late roman republic and life’s a fucking NIGHTMAAAARRREEE

[nathanielthecurious]

CFP: Blorban and Tumblrensian Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Dear all,

We are now accepting abstracts for the conference "Blorban and Tumblrinian Studies in the Twenty-First Century", to be hosted by the Tumblr University Faculty of Classics and held remotely on January 23, 2022.

The current decade has seen a surge of interest in Titus Blorbus Plinkonensis and his late Republican milieu. This was driven both by archaeological discoveries (the Blorgus inscription and the alleged Villa of the Blorbi at Spectaculi Mei) and by the application of queer theory to the Blorbiad and the epigrams of Aemilia Tumblrinilla. We welcome both historical and literary papers relating to Blorbus, other members of the gens Blorba, Quintus Aemilius Tumblrinus, and Aemilia Tumblrinilla, as well as the texts attributed to them.

Please send abstracts of no more than 100 words to tumblr user nathanielthecurious.

[tabellae-rex-in-sui]

We bully Voltaire for simping for a king. But honestly, making a king fall in love with you, then destroying his friends and stealing his money and fucking off to Switzerland is iconic direct action. Dismantle the monarchy like a girlboss

Maybe the french revolutionaries should have simply?? Seduced Louis XVI?? Robbed him blind and broken his heart??

[vintagenatgeographic]

Mountain lions resting in the safety of a tree

National Geographic | November 1969

[saywasp]

[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

[headspace-hotel]

Also, the people who are doing the most good are—I cannot stress this enough—working to fix things that are PHYSICALLY CLOSE TO THEM

And as a Kentuckian this is exactly why i fucking hate the portrayal of small town and rural areas in the US as backward shitholes no one would want to live in because it's not enough to recognize that good people live here.

You have to recognize that each and every small town MATTERS and if you invested your ENTIRE LIFE into this "shithole" rural place no one cares about it would MATTER.

people are trying to do the activism thing while being like "ugh i hate living here in this small town full of racists"

So....they're not getting politically involved on a local level

They're not paying attention to their local unhoused population—their NEIGHBORS, their OWN

They're not paying attention to the creek downtown with pollution in it

They're not helping the disabled lady across the street get to the store

They're not writing letters to people in their local jail

They're not finding people in THEIR OWN community who care about the same things they care about

They're not contacting their OWN homeowner's association

They're not donating to organizations that are headquartered in cities and towns close by

And I know some people can't do these things, and I know I come off as a hypocrite because I haven't even been in my hometown very much lately, but I have done volunteer work and let me tell you.

When you physically are there to see the difference you make in the life of ONE person, it changes you. There is no room for despair or paralysis. You realize that simply helping in the way you can, in the amount you can, is SO INFINITELY worthwhile. It will change you forever as a person. Seriously

[my18thcenturysource]

I’ll always post David Bowie in 18th century fashion in this blog each year for his birthday and death anniversary (two days apart).

David Bowie in “The Hunger”, 1983, Costume design by Milena Canonero.

[my18thcenturysource]

Here my obligatory Bowie reblog for each year.

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

Gold diadem uncovered in Canosa, Italy, 3rd-2nd century BC

Currently on display at the Archaeological Museum of Taranto