#vix the archeologist

[poetrysherd]

About Me Tag

I was tagged by @lifeinsherds

Rules: Answer these questions then tag some blogs you’d like to know better!

Nickname: Vix is a nickname, to be fair. I've collected Vikenka, Tori, Sacha, Jody, and Starlet over the years.

Sign: Taurus/Gemini Cusp.

Height: 5′9"

Time:  12:57am

Favorite Band/Artist: Oh no.... Zeppelin, Tame Impala, Glass Animals, J Cole, Sufjan Stevens, Flamingosis, Anderson Paak, Gorillaz, Lana Del Rey, Queen, Brother Moses...

I listen to a lot of music.

Song Stuck in my Head: The Man I Love - Gershwin (Piano Solo)

Last movie I watched: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

Last thing I googled: “Male period drama actors"

Other blogs: my main blog is lucihawk

Do I get asks: sometimes. I have a lot to go through now, actually.

Why did I choose my username: I do poetry. I study archeology. It seemed like a funny pun at the time.

Following: Too many

Average amount of sleep: I get my 4 most nights

Lucky number: 13. Because I'm ~eDgY~

What I’m wearing: Black leggings and Life is Good T. I get cold at night, even though it's nearly 100 out most days.

Dream trip: Scuba diving in Thailand

Favourite food: Mac and Cheese from Panera Bread. It warms the soul, I swear.

Play any instruments: Piano, and I can fuck around pretty proficiently on anything else.

Hair colour: Brown.

Eye colour: Grey

Most iconic song: Ummm.... like soundtrack of my life? Hmmm. I'm going to go with Humble.-Kendrick Lamar. It's a banger.

Languages you speak: Proficient in Spanish. Learning Tsalagi.

Random fact: I am an award winning actress. (Google Tori Archer, I swear it's really me lol)

Describe yourself as aesthetic things: Clove cigarettes, jazz music on a stormy night, plaid school skirts, empty dance studios in the city, worn leather jackets, hot coffee with cinnamon, under eye circles, old American muscle cars, the rare books room at Powell's.

I tag: @ambitchious-study @barre--maid @hallerina @thelittleanthropologist

[invisible-goats]

As an archeologist, what's the weirdest way you've seen either your colleagues or historians in general try and make non-heteronormative behaviour in history heterosexual in nature?

Ok! So, I’m not a professional archaeologist (grad and interested but not working in the field), but I’ve seen gal palling in burial analyses (I ran a seminar on cisheteronormativity in my final year).

However I think the most interesting thing is the tomb of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum (Overseers of the Manicurists), who are depicted as a couple in their tomb but people naturally argue that since there are also women in some of the art that that’s obviously their wives and they were just good buds. Who shared a tomb with each other. Rather than their “wives”.

Also not so much heteronormative but related, the princess of vix, who was argued to be a man in elaborate women’s clothing (”transvestite priest”) for years before someone bothered to look at the skeleton and essentially went “ok so turns out the reason this person’s dressed as a woman is it’s a woman” because obviously the burial’s occupant had status so must have been a man

[poetrysherd]

I probably wont be posting much on this tumblr anymore.

I'm quitting school. I dont know if its for a short while, or forever, but Academia is toxic and I want no part of it. If that means killing Vix the celebrated academic or Vix the archeologist or even Vix the hella cool high school history teacher, then so be it. May the bridges I burn light the way.

It's my birthday today. I'm dedicating this year to cultivating happiness and basically, just doing whatever the hell I want.

I wish I could say this has been a blast, but it's been hell. Cheers anyway.

[poetrysherd]

Some photos my prof snapped from earlier this year (April 2018) at Drennen-Scott Historic Site with Arkansas Archeological Survey - UA Fort Smith Station. 

You can read more about the project here on AAS’s webpage.