I Love Being A 30+ Woman In Fandom. Reblog If You Also Love Being An Old Dame In Fandom

wait do you guys actually carry purses/bags everywhere you go i really need to know

NINE-FINGERS KEENE IN BALDUR’S GATE 3

My beloved: “Ooh, you’ve got a new wrinkle I hadn’t noticed before!”

Me:

Suicide of Lucretia

— by Meester met de Papegaai

So I love that we now have canon gay couples but the fact that they weren't allowed to say this was gay means they were next level over the the top with how many ways can we show gay without a sex scene

cuddle s ,kisses, soulmates ,rescued from death , Sappho s poem ,who's the daddy , domestic bickering,naked bathing .

I've probably missed some

Not a gaming post; I just love H. neanderthalensis more than anything. I’d like to think there was a functional purpose for their occipital bun such as supporting their thick shoulder and neck muscles for spear and atlatl throwing. But what do I know?

The thing is that the portrayal of Neanderthals as having been inherently grotesque and alien to H. sapiens is something we will never have proof of. But we do have proof that, in different locations and in different populations across time, we all found eachother desirable. We saw eachother and wanted to touch. And the offspring were held by their mothers and raised and had their own offspring in turn.

When you look for the first proof that H. sapiens found Neanderthals repulsive, you have to wait until the Victorian era, when the white masters of empires were busy portraying Neanderthals as stupid, brutish, and (of course) dark-skinned.

In more modern times, we’ve had people arguing that instead of seeing Neanderthals as Benighted Savages, they should instead be seen as Noble Savages, (allegedly) cruelly destroyed and driven from their lands by H. sapiens. Which one of their two you believe says more about your modern political views than it does about ancient H. sapiens.

And, whether we construct Neanderthals as Savage or Noble Savage, the fundamental assumption we project into the unfathomably distant past is still that H. sapiens saw Neanderthals as an Other, with the language we use being almost explicitly that of modern racial dynamics.

But we have no proof of any of that. We have no proof of hostilities. We know we co-existed and we had sex. That’s it.

Humans obviously have sex with some humans and kill others. We also know that, when small groups of humans occupy vast spaces with infrequent contact with others, unique cultures will always form, some more hospitable, some more neophobic/xenophobic. But many cultures of small settlements placed among huge unpeopled landscapes place supreme emphasis on hospitality to strangers. Plus, we fucking love other social animals, as evidenced by how we befriended wolves.

I’m a humourless weirdo and a wet blanket about popular constructions of Neanderthals as “monstrous”, and I freely admit it. But that’s because it’s tied up in legacies of imperialism. Not only that, but it also privileges one culture (yours, mine, modernity’s) as being most human by implicitly assuming we can project it onto people in the past. Since you don’t pretend that all global cultures share exact same values as you do, it doesn’t take more than a few moments’ reflection to realise you can’t do that to the past.

Minthara will forever be my favorite muse to paint. I’ve been Trying out some new paint brushes and techniques lately.

Enjoy and apologies for not posting for awhile again!

𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐍/𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐁𝐄𝐋 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟑: Moonmaiden's Silver Light