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Steampunk Spiderman characters ~ by Denis Medri

great stuff he also has a set of Batman ones here and here

#spiderman

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#kitties

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I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away. 

#canada #bears

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Hello! I have a degree in anthropology but I never had an archaeological theory class. What’s the issue with Binford? Why do we all hate him?

Probably everyone’s reasons for hating him are slightly different, but for me it’s this: Lewis Binford is behind Processual archaeology (”The New Archaeology” or “Processualism”), which was at its heart the movement to make archaeology into a harder science by quantifying rather than qualifying everything about our research. Now, that sounds kind of okay on the surface. We’re scientists, we want the kind of scientific results that we can demonstrate and reproduce again and again. But Processualism has also been quite harmful to our progression as a discipline. We can’t quantify why people do what they do; not really. We’re more than just a formula, as individuals and as cultures. A lot of things about archaeological material is better qualified or described instead of placed into tables of numbers.

I had a classmate when I did my M.A. in England who had graduated from a university in the U.S. (can’t remember which or this would be a call-out post frankly). During his undergrad years he had been trained exclusively in the now-very-outdated Processual school of thought. Super smart guy, but talking to him about archaeological theory was surreal because it was like someone built a brick wall in his mind and said “you can interpret data this way and no other way.” This is Binford’s legacy. What should have been a framework of interpretation became a prison of numbers and tables.

Archaeological theory moved from there into “post-processualism,” which really swung too far the other way as a reaction, and everything got pretty subjective, nebulous, and emotional (Chris Tilley I’m side-eyeing you right now). We’re now in what an old professor of mine jokingly called “post-post-processualism,” where we try to strike a balance and try to make our results repeatable and demonstrable while still allowing room for human weirdness and emotion. It’s not perfect, but we’re working on it!

I hope that makes sense. Other archaeologists, feel free to add your interpretations, in true archaeological theory fashion!

#archaeology theory #RIP second year uni #Hey I like Tilley

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Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda F/W 2019

#damn #badass women #gold

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sorry what

#NASA #northern lights

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Pen and Ink drawings by Luke Eidenschink

#traditional art #Luke Eidenschink

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#come through baba

#to watch

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The idea of ‘Feral Scientist’ is just so Fucking Funny to me, like ‘i just found this dude on the side of the road muttering about quantum physics is it rabid’ like thats just any scientist 

#archaeology

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every culture has their ethnic donut and every culture has their ethnic dumpling… humans be frying dough

#world building #cultures

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Goalkeepers’ balls get photoshopped into cats.

#yesss #cats

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Into The Spider-Verse concept art

#bestmovieofyear #spiderman

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concept: casual lgbt+ representation

a man taking off his shirt to reveal a binder underneath. he settles down, has a beer, watches tv. no tragic backstory about his transition, no negativity. just a trans dude being a trans dude. 

a businesswoman talking on her cellphone while she stops by the pharmacy to pick up her estrogen.

people asking for pronouns without a second thought, using they/them even when the person isn’t in the room.

a woman getting hit on at a club, getting respectful responses when she says she’s ace. 

two men holding hands, three women in a healthy polyamorous relationship. a pan man living with his nonbinary datefriend. 

romcoms, sitcoms, slice-of-life stories.

not everyone is cishet; media should represent that. 

#lgbtq

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*slams reblog*

#music #dolphin

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The Titanoboa, is a 48ft long snake dating from around 60-58million years ago. It had a rib cage 2ft wide, allowing it to eat whole crocodiles, and surrounding the ribcage were muscles so powerful that it could crush a rhino. Titanoboa was so big it couldn’t even spend long amounts of time on land, because the force of gravity acting on it would cause it to suffocate under its own weight.

#animals

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there will never be another headline that comes close to comparing with this

#bisexual goose

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black and asian vikings 100% definitely existed (also, saami vikings)

you know how far you can get into eurasia and africa by sailing up rivers from the baltic and mediterranean seas? pretty fucking far, and that’s what vikings liked to do to trade

then, you know, people are people, so love happens, business happens, and so ppl get married and take spouses back home to the frozen hellscape that is scandinavia (upon which i’m guessing the horrorstruck new spouses went “WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCKING GIVE ME YOUR JACKET???????”)

and sometimes vikings bought thralls and brought them home as well, and i mean, when your indentured service is up after however many years and you’re a free person again, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe it’s a bit hard to get all the way home across the continent, so you make the best out of the situation and you probably get married and raise a gaggle kids

so yeah

viking kingdoms/communities were not uniformly pure white aryan fantasy paradises, so pls stop using my cultural history and ethnic background to excuse your racist discomfort with black ppl playing heimdall and valkyrie

#vikings