i want to share with you some of my favourite graffiti from Pompeii
“Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!“
“Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.“
“We two dear men, friends forever, were here. If you want to know our names, they are Gaius and Aulus.“
“Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion.“
“On April 19th, I made bread.“
“
I have buggered men.“
“If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend.“
“It took 640 paces to walk back and forth between here and there ten times.“
“Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!“
“Epaphra is not good at ball games.”
“Two friends were here. While they were, they had bad service in every way from a guy named Epaphroditus. They threw him out and spent 105 and half sestertii most agreeably on whores.“
“Secundus likes to screw boys.“
I’ve always loved these. Humanity has never fucking changed.
More glorious inscriptions from Pompeii and Herculaneum!
– You shit. Up against a wall.
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Defecator, may everything turn out okay so that you can leave this place
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Antiochus hung out here with his girlfriend Cithera.
– At Nuceria, I won 8552 denarii by gaming—fair play!
– Here slept Vibius Restitutus all by himself his heart filled with longings for his Urbana.
– Health to you, Victoria, and wherever you are may you sneeze
– O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin.
fuck tumblr and its awful ads, yesterday it showed me a big ass spider with like a hundred babies and now it’s showing me a weight loss ad featuring rebel wilson’s head photoshopped onto a thin woman’s body. i don’t want this. tumblr, honestly, have some self-respect
I just got one offering me an online concealed weapon certification. O_O
since it’s a scary time to be trans: refuge restrooms is an app which maps gender-neutral/single-stall restrooms. it’s community-mapped, so it’s possible you might be the first person to log the restroom locations, but hopefully it’ll help some people.
please reblog this post if you’ve got trans followers. stay safe.
For my non-trans followers: please consider getting the app just so you can add neutral restrooms to the map when you run across them. Simple way to help.
Humans are a communal species that have banded together and cared for their sick, disabled, and elderly since before we were ever modern man. Resources were shared even as skills specialized.
Capitalism isn’t natural. A community should not have members dying of starvation or exposure while there is an abundance of resources. That isn’t how it works. That isn’t how it’s supposed to work.
ok so my roommates are anthropology students and their favorite example for debunking the ‘survival of the fittest’ bs is shanidar 1. (x, x, x)
shanidar 1 is a neanderthal who, at a pretty young age, was hit in the head hard enough to blind him. this also led to that side of his brain shutting down and withering his right arm, and possibly crippling his entire right side. not only that but his skeleton also shows that at some point, he broke a bone in his foot and, in addition to the other factors, resulted in a noticeable limp. there are some sources which say he likely had degenerative diseases. (arthritis was really common in neanderthals)
going off of widespread ideas of “”primitive”” (no longer the word used in anthropology/academia to describe early-modern humans) societies, shanidar probably died really young, deliberately abandoned or killed. i mean, he was severely crippled, blind, etc., he couldn’t contribute anything, he would have been a “”burden to society””, right?
except he lived to be between 40 and 50 years old. (about ~80 in human years)
this means that his social group had to have taken care of him for a minimum of two or three decades without his ‘contributing’ anything significant to the group. this discovery (and Shanidar III’s) was huge because it basically proves that early humans had a concept of hospice. early modern humans cared for the sick and the elderly, greatly extending their lifespan, simply because they cared.
tl;dr: the concept of someone needing to be ‘’useful’’ or ‘’’productive’’’ in society in order to be valued and cared for is a very modern concept and our quasi-predecessors would be ashamed
Also, Shanidar I was buried with flowers. They cared about him after he was dead, too.
TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU -your neighborhood anthro
Carrot: A theif
Vimes: A thief
Carrot: a theif
Vimes: I before e except after c
Carrot: a thceif
Vimes: no
Really quick summary : The story takes place in Paris,
1889, the year the Eiffel Tower was built. Louise (Marie
Denarnaud) is accused of killing three men, and she’s helped by
Henriette (Aïssa Maïga)
Bad news : it’s in French, there are no subtitles, and I don’t know how
long the link’s going to work
Good news : here is every scene Louise and Henriette
share together (interracial lesbian couple, who cares about what they’re saying
am i right)
9:03-14:45 (when they meet for the first time)
27:09-31:32 (some gay bonding time)
47:24-51:36 (that’s some gay shit right
there)
52:47-55:25 (some plot related scenes, girlfriends investigating murders)
57:41-1:00:16 (more plot related scenes, i’m in love with Henriette eye roll at
58:44)
1:01:01-1:04:50 (their first kiss and some sexy time)
1:06:06-1:08:37 (Henriette isn’t really trying to kill Louise, she has been hypnotized
(it makes sense in the story asdcbkjd))
1:23:13-1:25:00 (happy ending, alive lesbians in love with each other)
thank you! reblogging for everyone who speaks french and/or does not mind the lack of subtitles
Kimchi and Justice 