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Dog of Randall the jeweller, ca. 1875

Check out my new Voltron Fic!

In an attempt to get the Red Paladin to be more Galra, he and another paladin are captured. He is forced to watch them torture Blue, so that he’ll get angry and resort to instincts. No matter how much Lance pretends to be okay, Keith knows it’s not really okay, and knows there’s nothing he can do but watch helplessly.

My first fic in ages, hope you guys check it out!

They protect you

@ people who play support characters

how????? i just wanna barge in and shoot everyone how can you just stay back and heal?????

Atkurtai Lietuvai 100

100 years of Restored Lithuania - the reason behind today’s celebration. When in 1918 on the 16th of February 20 signatories signed the Act of Reinstating Independence of Lithuania.

Centuries ago our nation started building a country which became a small but strong pagan state known as Lietuva and grew into the biggest European country - Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė (The Grand Duchy of Lithuania). We went through a period of Christianization and Union with the Kingdom of Poland, then disappeared from the map by the end of 18th century as Russian Empire and Prussia shared and occupied our lands.

Our language and culture where being slowly pushed towards extinction but due to people who believed that we as Lithuanians must survive our native heritage stayed alive throughout the harsh occupations.

The original Act of Reinstated Independence was secretly taken to Berlin and printed out by free speech newspapers who helped to spread the news in Europe that Lithuanians are creating our country anew. This was followed by over 20 years of Independence, a long period of Nazi and Soviet occupations and finally the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania in 1990 the 11th of March when we restored our Independence for the second time.

Our nation bears a long and complicated history which involves a great number of other nations (as well as religions) beside. Whether those connections were positive or negative they played a part that influenced Lithuania as a country that we know today.

Therefore I would like congratulate all people of Lithuania. Whether you are Lithuanian by blood or by heart. Whether you were born in Lithuania or outside of it. Whether your native tongue is Lithuanian or another beautiful language. Whether you are atheist, pagan, Christian or professing other religions and beliefs. All of you are creating Lithuania that is today and will be in the future. Let’s make the second century that is starting today memorable and develope Lithuania into a country where all of its people would have a right to live and create a decent life.

Su gimtadieniu, Lietuva!

Thanks, I feel very cute in this outfit.

I made arrows and a quiver for the con tomorrow. The cosplay is almost done! I’ll post more pictures as I continue.

Nyo Baltics!

In an attempt to get the Red Paladin to be more Galra, he and another paladin are captured. He is forced to watch them torture Blue, so that he’ll get angry and resort to instincts. No matter how much Lance pretends to be okay, Keith knows it’s not really okay, and knows there’s nothing he can do but watch helplessly.

My first fic in ages, hope you guys check it out!

I’m sorry, WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?!?!?

So I had a great time at the con today! The baby con I first went to two years ago is really growing up! These pictures were from the competition. Sadly, I didn't place, and I feel a little cheated considering some of the winners but! I'm not the kind of person to get hung up on these things. Everyone did a good job and I'm happy I got to be apart of it! I got to talk to one of the judges! I told him how I designed the things and he asked if I wanted to go into costume design and I showed him my pirate England cosplay and he thought it was great. I am happy. Very tired. Goodnight.

a lot of you hate historians and archaeologists, and i think that’s a problem

look, i fully recognize that there are reasons to be skeptical of history and archaeology. i am very on board with criticizing academia as an oppressive institution, and the way that researchers take their bigotry and bias with them to their work. i also recognize that academia does a pretty bad job of communicating what it does to the public, and that’s a part of why people’s hostility to it is able to flourish.

but i am disturbed by the pervasive narrative in online leftist spaces that people who research the human past are ignorant and bigoted, and i think we need to do more to combat that narrative.

historians being homophobic has become a whole meme, and it feels like people are just using historians as a homophobia scapegoat, when in reality the humanities are overwhelmingly left-leaning. people also keep blaming historians for erasing the homoeroticism of fictional literary characters, which is just… not what historians do. homophobic biases and erasures in the interpretation of history over the past few hundred years are a very real thing that’s important to learn about, but scholars have radically shifted away from that approach in recent generations, and these memes are not helping people outside the field to understand history and reception. instead, a lot of people are coming away with the impression that…

(source… really? nobody?)

this thread gets bonus points for the comments claiming that modern historians argue about whether achilles was a top or a bottom using homophobic stereotypes, which i can only guess is a misunderstanding of the erastes/eromenos model (a relationship schema in classical greece; i think people have debated whether achilles and patroclus represent an early version of it). also a commenter claims that the movie troy invented the idea of achilles and patroclus being cousins when no, they were also cousins in lots of ancient sources.

there’s this post about roman dodecahedra (link includes explanation of why the original post is misleading).

there’s this thread about how some thin gold spirals from ancient denmark look exactly like materials used in gold embroidery to this day but archaeologists are stupid and don’t know that because they dont talk to embroiderers enough. in fact, the article says they were most likely used for decorating clothing, whether as a fringe, braided into hair, or embroidered. so the archaeologists in the article basically agree with the post, theyre just less certain about it, because an artifact looking similar to a modern device doesn’t necessarily mean they have identical uses.

this thread has a lot of people interpreting academic nuance as erasure. the museum label literally says that this kind of statue typically depicts a married couple, giving you the factual evidence so you can interpret it. it would be false to say “these two women are married” because there was no gay marriage in ancient egypt. (interpreting nuance as erasure or ignorance is a running theme here, and it points to a disconnect, a public ignorance of how history is studied, that we can very much remedy)

lots of other conspiracy theory-ish stuff about ancient egypt is common in social justice communities, which egyptologists on this site have done a good job of debunking

oh, and this kind of thing has been going around. the problem with it is that there are loads of marginalized academics who research things related to their own lives, and lived experience and rigorous research are different forms of expertise that are both valuable.

so why does this matter?

none of these are isolated incidents. for everything i’ve linked here, there are examples i havent linked. anti-intellectualism, especially against the humanities, is rampant lately across the political spectrum, and it’s very dangerous. it’s not the same as wanting to see and understand evidence for yourself, it’s not the same as criticizing institutions of academic research. it’s the assumption that scholars are out to get you and the perception that there is no knowledge to be gained from thorough study. that mindset is closely connected to the denial of (political, scientific, and yes historical) facts that we’ve been seeing all around us in recent years.

on a personal note, so many marginalized scholars are trying to survive the dumpster fire of academia because we care that much about making sure the stories that are too often unheard don’t get left out of history… and when that’s the entire focus of my life right now, it’s disheartening to see how many of my political allies are just going to assume the worst about the entire field