The Rose

The world is changing. Who now has the strength to stand against armies of Isengard and Mordor? To stand against the might of Sauron and Saruman and the union of the two towers. Together, my lord Sauron, we shall rule this middle-earth. The old world will burn in the fires of industry. The forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc.

Geez, really? Wow.

Anything protruding on a statue is going to be the weakest point simply because it’s weight without support. Arms, noses, even heads sometimes. Anything outside the central mass, no matter the material. Therefore, it’s more succeptible to getting eroded or broken off over time. Plenty of Greco-Roman statues are also missing noses, and those are statues of Europeans.

A quick Google search of “greek statue broken” turned up these results and many, many others. Go to any art museum and you’ll see plenty of noseless Greek and Roman statues.

Plus, I’ve seen no conclusive evidence (and by that I mean “not from a blog that also endorses the Dravidian Albino Theory”) that the intentional, racially-motivated nose-breaking happened. Now, they always said in my archaeology classes that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence, so it could have happened at some point, in some isolated cases. But there’s like a 99% chance there was never any widespread conspiracy to make Egyptian statues look less African.

Did Europeans do a lot to perpetuate a popular image of the Egyptians as white? Yes, and that’s really awful. However, it was mostly in contemporary art, not in the defacement of artifacts.

This is the election that counts. Start educating yourself now on who will be campaigning to be your congresspeople/governor/etc. 

Register to vote NOW. Don’t wait. You can do it any time.

This is the fight we need to win.  VOTE  VOTE  VOTE

Get your birth certificates. There may be a fee or long wait times. Make sure you get a certified copy.

Make sure you have ID. Dig into your state’s laws and the whole Real ID thing, because (and sorry I can’t research this now, but pneumonia) I believe there are certain states whose driver’s licenses don’t qualify for Real ID.

Make sure you’re registered to vote. Google it. Follow the instructions for your state.

Know where your local polling place is or find out if you can vote by mail.

Vote in ALL your upcoming elections. Yes, that means the little ones for city council or dog catcher or whatever. Vote those racist, homophobic, bigots out at every level.

They’re like weeds. You can pull up every visible bit, but if you leave one tiny segment of root, they’ll just come back.

im so bat at studying for exams

i’ll probably just wing it when the time comes

i usually fly by the seat of my pants anyway

but i had a pretty fruitful study session today so who knows

 i’ll just have some drinks at the cavern and forget about it

It’s like,

have

you

seen

what

Disney

has

done

before?

For gods sake, Ariel had a nude scene.

Since I see my last Endless Legend artpost get a few notes every now and again, I’m posting another set.

Illustration for “Endless Legend”