Alexandre Calame (1810-1864) : “Ruines D'un Aqueduc”, Vers 1855. 

Alexandre Calame (1810-1864) : “Ruines D'un Aqueduc”, Vers 1855. 

Alexandre Calame (1810-1864) : “Ruines d'un aqueduc”, vers 1855. 

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4 years ago
Spending Time With 舅舅
Spending Time With 舅舅
Spending Time With 舅舅

spending time with 舅舅

4 years ago
12/22 - Happy Birthday Megumi !

12/22 - happy birthday megumi !

he’s thrilled dont worry abt it 

2 years ago

eepies

Eepies
Eepies
4 years ago

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…

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(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

4 years ago
I Love Them So Much

I love them so much

4 years ago
Scared Of The Dark
Scared Of The Dark
Scared Of The Dark
Scared Of The Dark

scared of the dark

4 years ago
I Like Her.🥰
I Like Her.🥰

I like her.🥰

5 years ago
He Doesn’t Think About It. He’s Rehearsed The Words In Front Of The Mirror, White Light Cutting Through

He doesn’t think about it. He’s rehearsed the words in front of the mirror, white light cutting through the room and glowing from behind, making him look like an angel or a ghost. Sometimes—he realises—it just wants out. He puts the fork and spoon down.

“I’m gay,” he says. His voice doesn’t tremble.

Sarawat’s journey on realising he’s gay, making friends who will stick to his soul for his entire life, and falling in love with the boy who makes him feel like light personified.

i wrote a small character study on sarawat, about his friends, and about him falling in love with tine! read it on the ao3 here.

5 years ago

me whenever anyone looks at me: *peace sign*

4 years ago
Curse Nobara

Curse Nobara

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