more book stuff, dead Greeks' religion
Finally finished The Cult Places of the Aegean. My big criticisms are it's basically The Cult Places of Crete and Maybe a Little Greece as a Treat and there's a time scale referenced but not given anywhere, which doesn't quite match the "Helladic chronology" I can find. (It's very much assumed you research Mycenaeans for a living.) That said it's basically everything you might possibly wondered about this topic, the wildest speculation is pretty plausible (Mycenaeans remained basically an agrarian civilization with shrines out there in farmland long after they became urbanized and therefore obvious temples in towns are slow to crop up). The last interesting part in the book was a (believable but I wish better substantiated) contention that the eruption at Santorini really screwed with these dudes' take on the world because suddenly there's lots of activity at cave sites and less activity at official shrines.
Really hate hypervigilance. My day was full of sunlight, walking, friends, and reading, but all it takes is running into some stuff online that presses buttons and it all gets forgotten for a few minutes to hours. If stuff hits bad enough, I wind up being back at the point I was before I did all of the therapy and reading etc for hours, *days*.
long, book about dead Welsh people
finished The Life and Death of a Druid Prince today. They start from the pretty feasible (last meal was a burned fairly good quality cake, so this probably wasn't a sacrifice due to a crummy harvest; a guy in good shape with a full beard, carefully manicured fingers and no obvious signs of having ever been in a battle was probably a druid of some sort; maybe the only item of clothing was a suggestion for his name, because there *are* fairly well off Celts recorded as having had fox-inspired names) move through bit of a stretch innit (he willingly ate the burned cake, 60 CE was a shitty enough year for Britain that it may have occasioned the sacrifice) to just throwing out conjecture (he was from Ireland originally, and the reason he doesn't have a torc is it's probably at Llyn Cerrig Bach not far away).
"I am the god of Hellfire! And I bring you..."
* gods of everything that isn't Hellfire, very possibly Monty Python members in housewife drag *
"There's Arthur bringing you Hellfire again."
"Oh he says he'll take me to learn. Really rather nice."
"He does this every sodding day, you know. Without fail."
stoned, looking at furaffinity
this is COMPLETELY not any sort of porn I find hot, for but honestly the expressions and color use are masterful at a level I'd do well to study so yeah, stereotypical het furry porn for the win at least *sometimes*.
seriously it's all about taking color less literally and moving what are theoretically different hues/saturation levels more towards a coherent whole.
I also notice that a different furry artist whose character design I like less has the same sort of color sense (so the cartoonier figures and features really fit here) and yet a third furry artist who does porn I'm a little turned off by tbh? is a complete MASTER of value contrasts,
I dare say do you have a SHOWER ROTTWEILER FEMBOY in this furry gym? all the best stereotypical muscle Gay gyms in furry porn have a shower rottweiler femboy to conveniently show up whenever any stereotypically muscled and hung dude happens to get a boner while in the shower or while using the lat pulldown machine
it's ALWAYS the lat pulldown machine, btw. Is that thing ever free?
stoned thoughts
I'm JUST a stupid animal that thinks about the potential of nearly everything to hurt it, and I'm expected to have a human neurotypical long term thinking
I really am trying to human better, though I guess that's like rethink and revise current negative coping mechanisms; it would be easier to think with an acceptance of the longer term, or swap so I was less online and insomniac, if there were more positive stuff ahead in general, however everything looks kinda bleak currently
captain's log. Several weeks later it is 28.10.23. The Coyote Space Agency is stretched to the limits of operational capacity at all times due to the Coyote Space Agency being *one person*
* frantically zips from Helm to Navigation to Captain's Chair to Communication officer to Science officer *
captain's log stardate 27.10.23 what was to be a routine low orbit launch for scheduled self maintenance became a trip to deep space, planning to land on the Mons Graupius. As is appropriate for captain's logs, I took my shirt off while writing it.
ANYWAY did I mention "The Beautiful Blue Danube" is a really GOOD thing?
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