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don’t go to grad school in classics it’ll ruin your ability to enjoy ancient history jokes on tumblr (which is really what matters) and you’ll find a part of yourself thinking things like “actually according to livy, remus wanted to name the city remora, so this joke about remus naming it reme is inaccurate” or “actually ea-nasir and the etruscans were separated by at least 900 years and even if you consider the villanovans as already being etruscan they don’t exist in the bronze age so this bronze age tumblr dashboard meme makes no sense” or “ugh nobody on this thread about the song of achilles understands the last 200 years of the homeric question or has even read the relevant passage from the homeric hymn to apollo” and then the other part of you will go “christ what an asshole”

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RT Sanguinala gift for @theevilscribbler for the 2024 holiday @rt-gift-exchange

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I was at a bookstore looking through the art section and I saw a spine that said The Camden Town Nudes which was interesting because this didn’t seem like the bookstore where I would ever find something like that and I wanted to have a casual look but like. This also wasn’t exactly the bookstore where you felt like you could look at naked pictures let alone just suggestive paintings of them, it’s a really small shop as well, so I was like right I’ll just take a quick peek, I’m an art student, I love history, maybe I’ll buy it. I looked both ways and saw the shopkeep had left momentarily and no one was about, so I opened it and found it was an entire book featuring nude Edwardian women all painted by Walter Sickert between 1905-1912 and it was actually quite a revolutionary set of paintings for its time given that it featured very raw depictions of working class nude women in dark London instead of the elegant, white bedsheet clad, Demure middle and upper class women usually depicted.

And of course RIGHT as I flip to this lady’s boobs practically taking up an entire double page spread, every customer in a 5 mile radius appeared from around the corners of the shelf including the shopkeep and immediately regressing to a wet, pathetic Edwardian man from 1908, startled, I dropped the large book which caused a giant SLAP on the floor in this already silent store thus causing all patrons to look down at me scrambling on my knees to close a giant book of Edwardian boobs and let me tell you it would not have been nearly as funny had I not immediately felt like some Edwardian local pervert who just tried to sneak a cheeky peek at the erotic book in the bookstore only to drop it dramatically causing a scene, red up to his ears trying to shove it back on the shelf. Like such a casual and normal thing in modern day but looking at Edwardian women suddenly turned it into this egregious act as I apparently became possessed by the spirit of a moustached man in a bowler hat and morning coat going Good Heavens I mustn’t gaze upon these images in public lest the constable haul me away!

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Arwen Undómiel + Outfits THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY 2001-2003 | dir. Peter Jackson Costume design by Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor

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Posting about the world's least canonical ship & having somebody tag it like "this is making me want to watch that show" is always so funny like no sorry I'm lying to you

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Pro tip from someone who has watched basically every smear campaign against a woman on the internet: When you’re a woman defending another woman, you don’t actually have to say that you don’t like the other woman but you feel forced to defend her. Like, you can just leave that part off your posts.

Try it out! See how it feels!

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witchcraft | CARNIVAL WITCHES

carnival witches live in the moment, moving through bright artificial lights and the shadows of the night. they work their magic at the request of an audience, dazzling and entrancing - and lacing their words with money charms to encourage a generous tip.

requested by @woconutty

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ABIGAIL LAZAAR in Abigail (2024) — happy birthday @abigaillazaar ❤️

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calling nonjews...nonjews... is not racist pls find an actually real problem to worry about

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i live for fallout new vegas

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this callout couldve been a block button

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*batting eyelashes coquettishly* unhand me

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For medieval project last year

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stylish older women remind me what it's really all about...