Achronal Art

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#FashionHistory

The Naskapi often borrowed European clothing designs like the cut of this caribou-skin coat and in their hats, and made them very much into their own cultural and artistic expressions.

The top half of a coat worn by a mannequin with faded elaborate designs

Incredible patterns on this 18th-century Innu or Naskapi painted hunting coat; it was worn on caribou hunts and the patterns honour Papakassik, master of the caribou.

On this episode of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast: what was the point of Avengers Endgame making three billion dollars if we can't even have Captain America's podcast. Priorities, guys, c'mon.

(The OSPodcast is available on all podcast platforms!)
-B

My photo shows a small brown figurine of a mouse sitting on its haunches, on top of a smooth rectangular base. Cast from bronze, the mouse leans slightly forward. Between its front paws is a piece of bread which it is lifting up to its long pointed snout as if nibbling at the food.

Roman bronze figurine of a little mouse nibbling on bread!

Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️

Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me

#Archaeology

It's the same every time. Denying access to care does not remove the need for it.

Hormones are the most widely available medication in the western world. Most women over 50 are on HRT. Many older men take supplemental testosterone. These are widely accessible medications. You can't stop trans people from accessing them.

It's like they thought that trans youth would disappear and accept not being able to access care. That's never how this worked. This is why I have such a problem with the Dutch protocol framing by the media. Trans youth were getting street hormones for decades before it was made available in clinics

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Supportive Moms are the best. ❤️ Good for her, good for you!

You do not have to be smart to understand it, you just have to not be determined not to.

Am a cis Mom, and based on my observations of the trans ppl in my family & friends, this is 100% true.

Stupidity is more common than malice. The stupid are shock troops for the malicious, but there are far, far more stupids.

That’s giving them way, way too much credit.

I’m not going to bother digging up the video, but I recently watched a sitting republican senator babbling on about how 80% of trans girls switch back when they get bored and if they make it inconvenient we’ll just stop. Most of them truly do think that.

They know that all of their claims about themselves are lies, and all their actions are performative. They do not understand that just because their lives are lies that does not mean that everyone else's lives are lies.

They cannot conceive of anyone really caring or being honest.

I saw someone note on here a while back that even allies don’t seem to understand that we *need* trans healthcare, it’s not just something we kind of want.

What they thought would happen was that trans kids would go “oh well” and then not be trans anymore.

That’s what they think about trans people generally. That we’re just sort of doing this as a lark, and if they make it inconvenient enough we’ll shrug and move on to something else.

I've found the most reliable literature to get insights into culture is comedy. Aristophanes reveals more about Athenian society than Plato or Thucydides because in order to make jokes parodying something you have to rely on and reveal that thing.

OMfG, when antitheists think that other ancient literature is somehow very reliable 😵‍💫
Like, no y'all, you cannot just read Herodotus by himself and expect to have an accurate picture of what he's writing about

A closer detail of one figure, a woman in a buff long-sleeved pointed bodice and a bright-blue skirt only just below her knees with three gold stripes decorating it. Her stockings are bright red and she wears delicate brown shoes that look like modern Mary Janes, with a thin strap holding them on. Her face is mostly hidden by a wide-brimmed yellow hat that has three or four white ostrich feathers on it. Her collar is wide, white and trimmed with lace and sticks out as is the current fashion (not drooping on her shoulders). She's wearing a white apron, I think, but it is being blown to the side so her skirt and legs are fully visible. SHe wears a pack bundle and carries a walking stick, and is yanking a very reluctant dog (not visible in detail) by a rope tied to its collar.

Shout out especially to this lady. She would fit right in at a modern Renaissance Faire and you would never guess she was a Pilgrim.

Why am I laughing? Bcuz my MC LOVES insects & arachnids, & plenty insects creep me out, but I'll have to study WHAT I DON'T LIKE in order to show my MC enjoys them, some he just has a healthy respect towards, but I'm STILL going to need to describe. #writing #scifi

1878 engraving of the Pilgrims leaving Delft on their way to America. On the shore a group of men, women and children on their knees looking humbly down or rolling their eyes up to the skies pray and beseech as a couple of anonymous sailors, their backs to us, push off a group of huddled people looking soberly back to them. It's black and white, so we can't tell if everyone is dressed in black, but they are certainly swathed in cloaks and things.

In poking around 17th century paintings I discovered that the pop culture image of Pilgrims is inaccurate.

Shocking, I know.

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So now that these are published (whee!) I can show you the covers I made for them.

Lawmakers and bible thumpers don't want you to understand the people they're demonizing are doing more good for society than they ever would

funny how companies are like AI is going to make 15 quadrillion dollars, but then every time it gets used for anything everyone hates it and they have to be like sorry im sorry im trying to delete it

It's just two parallel realities: one for an executive class so enraptured by the promise of labor savings that creative departments are pushed into creating AI slop, and one for everyone else, who view the slop with their own eyes and are repulsed by the rank aesthetics of automation

But when stories nestle within stories, time turns on itself, and every story is a part of every other story, which is the tale and which the teller is more complicated than any of them imagine. 2/2

The Polyrhythmic Constellations Trilogy, by Richard Garfinkle

Immortal reincarnating werewolves dance through history.

Beyond-telepathic humans make first contact and discover a ravaged world.

Each tells tales of the other to solve the problems of their own time.... 1/2

Turning the World, Book Three of the Polyrhythmic Constellations Triptych, by Richard Garfinkle, paperback print-on-demand book cover. On the front, centered, is a painting framed in white, showing the head and shoulders of a woman in close up, against a wall of ivy. Her hair billows up to become two winding rainbow-colored paths framing an oval with a great bear's head rising out of a mountainous landscape, and above that a churning stormy sea under grey skies. Tiny figures can be seen on the paths, which meet again at a gate under a banyan tree, a single owl flying away into the clear blue sky above it. The background image on the cover wraps around. Most of it is an extreme close-up of an illuminated manuscript in the style of the illuminations from Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne (drawn by the cover artist), showing a fennel stalk with a female Common Blue butterfly perched on it, large and prominent on the back cover. Just at the left edge the back cover fades into a star field. On the front cover a grey image of Galileo's sun-centered solar system shows concentric circles emphasizing the art. We also see twice a smaller gold rectangle showing the entire fennel stalk and butterfly, once upright on the right edge of the front cover, and once sideways between blocks of text on the back cover. Back cover text: Turning the World To adapt the world to its own changes, it was necessary to reach into the possibilities of the future. To change a world by its own adaptations, it was necessary to reach into an impossible but useful past. Did I invent you to make it easier to understand what I might make happen? Did you invent me to give more room to solve what there is not enough time to solve? When I spin one way and you spin another... What happens when we meet and remember being each other?

Turning the World, Book Three of the Polyrhythmic Constellations Triptych, by Richard Garfinkle, Kindle book cover. Centered is a painting framed in white, showing the head and shoulders of a woman in close up, against a wall of ivy. Her hair billows up to become two winding rainbow-colored paths framing an oval with a great bear's head rising out of a mountainous landscape, and above that a churning stormy sea under grey skies. Tiny figures can be seen on the paths, which meet again at a gate under a banyan tree, a single owl flying away into the clear blue sky above it. The cover's background is a close-up of an illuminated manuscript-style image of a fennel stalk overlaid with a Galilean diagrams of the solar system, a small image of the fennel stalk and a blue butterfly to the right. Cover text: Achronal Press Turning the World (in two overlapping fonts, one Renaissance style and one futuristic -- it works, trust me (the designer)) Richard Garfinkle Book Three of the Polyrhythmic Constellations Trilogy The painting is "Landmarks", by Alessandra Kelley, oil on board.

The Teeth of Evolution, Book Two of the Polyrhythmic Constellations Triptych, by Richard Garfinkle, paperback print-on-demand book cover. On the front, centered, is a painting framed in white of a landscape. Under a blue sky a vast chalk-white pinnacle looms over a beach of pebbles in the foreground, indeterminate thready green bands wrapping around it like moss. In the distant blue haze more pinnacles are visible. The background image on the cover wraps around, fading from a star field overlaid with diagrams of the solar system from Galileo's works to an illuminated manuscript on the back. On the back there is a small full image of the manuscript, a gold rectangle in the style of the illuminations from Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne (drawn by the cover artist) showing a fennel stalk with blooms and seeds with a female Common Blue butterfly perched on it. The butterfly is visible in close up in the bottom left corner, fading into stars. The Teeth of Evolution Humanity has learned enough about itself to be able to live and help each other live. It has terraformed much of the solar system and sent seeder ships that can grow humans from stored data to nearby stars, seeking places to grow and peoples to meet. But humanity's first contact protocols did not consider the possibility of encountering formerly sapient aliens. Ten million years ago this species terraformed its own system where it now dwells and grows but no longer thinks. What can humanity use from past knowledge and evolving ways to give new sapience to these ones, whose biology and thought are wholly unlike the human neurochemistry long thought solved? The Terraformers Enclave looks to construct futures. The Historians Enclave looks to reconstruct pasts. Together they need more than they can make of space, time, and possibility. (there's more but I can't fit it in the ALT text so I'll add it at the end of the thread)