hollis (they/them) currently studying classics and archaeology.

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yesterday at work I witnessed an 8 year old boy tell his dad “weird flex but okay” 

when i was in elementary school i was dumb as shit and thought “bisexual” meant it was an organism that didn’t have a sex.

which led to an adult asking 3rd grade me if my toy dog was a boy or girl and me looking at its crotch before confidently declaring “It’s bisexual. Like an amoeba.”

prehistoric burials make me really emotional because people go “it’s natural to only think of yourself to get ahead! people who don’t do anything shouldn’t be a part of society! back in caveman days they would have died!”

but there is archaeological proof that this is wrong. That even at our most “primitive” we cared about the well being of others.

like Shanindar 1. Shanindar 1 is a neanderthal from 35,000 to 45,000 years ago who was buried with many others in Shanindar Cave, Israel. At this point in time we had not yet developed settlements. Shanindar 1 was part of a nomadic hunter-gatherer group.

Shanindar 1 was severely disabled. From his skeleton we can gather the following 

1. At a young age he had suffered a blow to the face which left him blind in one eye
   
2. He had significant hearing loss from birth deformities. One ear canal was completely blocked, while the other was only mostly blocked. 
3. His right, and probably dominant, arm was withered, fractured, and the bottom half amputated.
4. He had a limp, possibly from a degenerative disease.

If you believe that it’s only natural to abandon the weak he should have been left to die instead of drain the group’s resources. Someone like that would have needed assistance for his entire life. He would have slowed the group down with his limp. His sensory impairments meant he would require help to spot and defend himself from predators. His arm meant he couldn’t hunt or build. 

He lived well into his 40s. For a neanderthal of that era he would be considered old. His group decided that they would help him survive not because he brought anything to the group, but because he was still a person who mattered to them. Even at the end of his life he wasn’t abandoned; he was buried with dozens of others.

there’s something about learning about paleolithic/neolithic eras that just…really kind of gets me emotional. the idea that people who existed so many thousands and thousands of years ago still left traces of themselves for modern people to find is…idk. even if it’s just a handprint or stone tool. the fact that one person could still be a part of history, even if they didn’t do anything particularly exceptional. 

oh how the turns have tabled

judging from the posters I am 99% sure the Sonic the Hedgehog artists working on the movie were recruited from furry fetish sites. 

tumblr pornbots adapting to the upcoming nsfw ban by tagging things “sfw” is so fucking funny. 

i hate when i take my concerta to help me focus on writing an essay and i end up focusing on the wrong thing all day long 

❌ Baby It’s Cold Outside sounds kind of rapey

❌ Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is capitalist propaganda that encourages ostracization over “non-useful” differences and birth defects

❌ I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause normalizes cheating

❌ Santa Baby encourages the idea of exchanging sexual favors for material goods

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✅ Snoopy vs The Red Baron is the ONLY good Christmas song on this bitch of an earth

Lyndon B. Johnson once answered reporters badgering him about why the United States was in Vietnam with a simple, unmistakable off-the-record gesture: he unzipped, pulled out his penis and said, “This is why!”

man press conferences back in the day were fucking wild