given the whole [gestures vaguely] of social media lately, i have decided to pretend like it’s 2012 still, and try to go back to my roots.
if you’re in either place, please add me if you want to! i’m still trying to locate fandoms, active communities, etc etc over there because my feeds are pretty dead.
As the fog returns this evening, it presents unique and compelling photographic opportunities. This image captures the 1877 Tall Ship Elissa re-entering Galveston Harbor. This is just another stunning view from the Galveston Ferry. 12/23/25 TXDot
BLACK SAILS 1.02 “II.”
ancient roman epigraphy is very funny because in the early empire the aesthetic criteria are so strong and cemented that even a humble slave will be able to commission a neat and professional-looking headstone but the farther into late antiquity you get the more you lose that aesthetic sensibility and everything gets progressively messier and more disorderly until you end up with fourth century ce senators putting up honorary inscriptions that a first century slave would've refused to accept
first century freedwoman (EDR000310):
fifth century senatorslop (EDR106319) (this is the full inscription he just got it done on the corner of a marble slate):
was anyone else named Lestat or just him
I thought Tumblr would get a kick out of this
historical fiction gets made fun of a lot for the abundant, seemingly random cameos of famous figures but when you read historical non-fiction, you realize that everyone in the past did, in fact, know each other because there were only 12 people in the entire world
