#gaddy

[haveyouseenmyhonor]

Ganondorf stole my credit information and my credit score is in shambles

[rekhtion]

Gadget Hackwrench by Rekhtion

[icecream-and-gadreel]

My fallen bb

Lately, I've wanted to transition from my old style to a more semi-realistic style. I'm starting back at the basics so most are gray scales just playing with values, but Gad is beautiful no matter what sooo yeah

[preppa-pig]

[madellaine]

Maddy didn’t know how long she’d be in Swynlake to be totally honest. She hoped it would be long enough to call this cool weather warm! But maybe she’d run out of money and have to go back home. Maybe she’d sell a book and movie rights and move to L.A. Maybe she’d marry the crown prince of some tiny European country and become their queen.

The possibilities were wide open! 

But right now — she giggled and leaned a little on the cart (not too much — she wasn’t gonna topple it! But just enough so that she was, like, ~~~ closer). 

“I was gonna make a strawberry shortcake,” she said. “I think that’s, like, a top 5 hot weather dessert. And as a Floridian, my opinion counts way more.” 

@biceps--to-spare

Random Run-Ins || Gaddy

[litsnaps]

[quotessentially]

From William Gaddis’s Carpenter's Gothic

[quotespile]

We've had the goddam Ages of Faith, we've had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity.

William Gaddis, The Recognitions

[madellaine]

“Maybe I will stay in the shallows. Just so I don’t worry you.”

She smiled, pleased with how the conversation was going, as it danced a bit on being flirty. And Maddy would keep dancing on that line. What? She was having fun. She liked it when people liked her, especially when those people were her hot older boss. 

“Actually,” she added. “The most important thing is that it gets sunny enough so I can get my tan back. This is the palest I’ve been in my life!” She held out her arm, rolling up one of her sleeves. 

@biceps--to-spare

Of Mousey Girls and Men # [Gaddy]

[jeannereames]

Hello Dr Reames! Do you have recommendations for books about historiography? I really need to understand what it is and how it works

So, the intro book I use in my own undergrad methodology class is this one:

Gaddis, J. L. (2002) The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

He's not an ancient historian, but that doesn't really matter, except that some of the issues unique to ancient history won't be addressed. Still, it's a very good introduction for a reasonable price. You can almost certainly find one used. For something specific to the ancient world, see below.

I have one caveat, and it's kinda a big one. He doesn't much like the social sciences, and repeatedly questions their validity. That bothers me, and I wonder why he's so negative about them? Perhaps he's run into one-too-many historians overusing (or flat misusing) social science tools like a shiny new toy. ;-)

But social science tools are perfectly fine, as long as properly employed. He does point out some of the (very real) issues with them when applied to history...but they're hardly the kiss of death.

For ancient history SPECIFICALLY, I recommend Stan Burstein's recent book on the topic:

Burstein, S.M. (2022) The Essential Greek Historians. Hackett (for Cambridge).

I particularly like it because he doesn't limit himself to "the usual suspects" (Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius). They're there, but he moves on and addresses Greek writers well into Roman Imperial times, and uses a variety of sources, including some epigraphic (The Parian Marble, for instance).

This keeps his book from falling into the same problems as Finley's famous The Portable Greek Historians, which did stick to the Usual Suspects (see above). And it's shorter, too!

So there ya go, one "general" book on historiography, and one aimed specifically at ancient history by a towering scholar in the field (and a very nice guy, btw, who's even shorter than me!).

[sivavakkiyar]

William Gaddis (far right) in Ganja & Hess

[omgthatdress]

Alisha Gaddis really should have learned from Miss Vanjie, hot glue and silk flowers do not a look make.

[rekhtion]

Gadget Hackwrench by Rekhtion

[weaselandfriends]

After two months, reading slowly (I was focused on editing WIW during this period), I finally finished William Gaddis' The Recognitions. My initial thoughts are that this is one of the best novels I've ever read; possibly in some nebulously-defined top 10. (I don't rate novels the way I do movies.)

I wish I read this before writing Cockatiel x Chameleon. So much of what it has to say about art and the function of art in the modern and postmodern world has bearing on similar themes in CxC. Van Der Gramme could have been one of the (innumerable) characters that dot The Recognition's pages.

If you enjoy 1,000 page dense postmodern epics, I can't recommend this enough.

[preppa-pig]

[pseudo-satisfaction]