Ancient societies never really stopped existing they just evolved over time into us. Blows my mind every time I think about it. People have been continuously living in Thebes since 3,000 BC. How do you not have to lie down for a minute when you hear that?
I’ve been interested in ancient history since I was a little kid. You know why? That’s us! That’s the ancestors of living people today, biologically and culturally. Nothing but time separates us and time is both a bigger and a smaller barrier to cross than you think. You can listen to people recite hindu vedas in the same way they did 6,000 years ago. There are villages in India where Sanskrit still exists as a living language. Latin is still spoken as a living language today but now it’s called by many names such as Italian and Spanish. The original purpose of Great Zimbabwe has been lost but we can still appreciate the mathematics of it all the same. We can touch it, run our fingers across its walls, the same as some anonymous person did a thousand years ago.
After all this time there’s still love. There’s still war. The walls of Troy have been lost and found, the great pyramid of Tenochtitlan can still be climbed, we’re still eating pancakes and maintaining chalk drawings that we’ve long since lost the meaning of.
it actually enrages me that staff touts how progressive and queer-inclusive they are while they’re putting censors and “adult content” warnings on posts that even so much as say the word “homosexuality”, meanwhile the tag-spammed porn posted by bots has been flooding inboxes for the longest time but of course it’s those queers we need to focus our attention on. im tired. aren’t you tired
i stopped posting my san fran historical drag photography series bc i couldn’t post a single photo without it being marked as adult content (or flat-out removed) and i refused to label queens/kings just existing as sexual or adult. the way this website frames queerness as perverse and needing of censors despite claiming to be ~the queer website~ is despicable.
characters who are absolutely convinced down to their bones that they are unlovable being subjected to the mortifying ideal of being wholly and unconditionally loved. that’s the good stuff. never get tired of it.
Would you still love me if I were a C130 Hercules?
Cain. Lover, fighter, writer. Forever falling into the nichest of rabbit holes.
My name is a reference to the Jason Bourne books.
WILL spam your feed with Britney Spears and Tommy Lee Jones. I like big planes and I cannot lie. No, bigger. Bigger than that. | simplecoffee @ Ao3 | THIS BLOG IS OCCASIONALLY NSFW
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