thecuriouslady

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick

[thecuriouslady @thecurious_me]

@AlanIsNotADJ @atptour As you failed to bring anything, I educate you: John Addington Symonds 1879, this guy wrote an essay that romanticized the story of Hadrian heavily, then it was gayified completely without even looking at the source 👏👏👏

[thecuriouslady @thecurious_me]

@AlanIsNotADJ @atptour Just give me one single fact that supports this and is not written decades after the death of these men. Call someone. Ask for help. I am very open. (Or we could agree that all you have are late rewrites and enhanced queer elements. You might then think the Earth is flat.)

[Tom Meier @mythical_meier]

@ZeducationYT Moral superiority is more important than fact.

[thecuriouslady @thecurious_me]

@AlanIsNotADJ @atptour Btw, how the hell can one gender me wrong, seeing my name wich is clearly female, and using a male pronoun? :D "Mr curiouslady.."
You are wrong on many levels, not only historically. #CaroleRaddato has an undereducated follower base.

[thecuriouslady @thecurious_me]

@AlanIsNotADJ @SeverinFilms You can not prove that there was any sexual relationship between Hadrian and Antinous, because it is impossible. :D You see it as sexual because it is your emotional level. There is a 50% chance that he was his illegitimate son (it can not be ruled out).

[thecuriouslady @thecurious_me]

@AlanIsNotADJ @atptour Speaking of obscurity, the real profession and level of education of #CaroleRaddato are shrouded in mystery. She's a wannabe influencer at this point with a camera. Neither she nor you have provided any facts to support your #gaywashing.

[thecuriouslady @thecurious_me]

@AlanIsNotADJ @atptour Says the one who trolls, swears, and tries to emotionally hurt the other person (me), without showing any proof to support a #gaywashing claim.

[YetAnotherCommenter @YetAnotherCmntr]

@Aussie_GC_Man Most transguys are autoandrophilic. They wouldn't even LIKE an actual male-male relationship because their erotic ideal of maleness is pictured from the perspective of an heterosexual female. Compare actual gay porn to yaoi and you'll see the difference.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Algiers corsairs and other Barbary pirates raided Iceland in July 1627—an event known in Icelandic as the Tyrkjaránið (Turkish Abductions)—killing 51 people and capturing approximately 400 men, women, and children to sell in North African slave markets. Women and girls, alongside men and children, were loaded onto ships and transported across the Atlantic and Mediterranean to Algiers. Upon arrival, captives were displayed and sold into slavery in public markets. Many female captives faced forced labor, harsh living conditions, or forced conversions to Islam. Over the following years, European monarchies (such as Denmark) and families negotiated and paid ransoms for a fraction of the survivors—including notable figures like Guðríður Símonardóttir—allowing around 40 to 50 individuals to eventually return home over a span of 9 to 18 years...

At dawn on July 16, 1627, three ships appeared off Heimaey, an island south of Iceland. The people on shore had little time to understand what they were seeing. The ships carried corsairs from Algiers. Armed men came ashore, swept through the settlement, killed anyone who resisted, and seized whoever could not escape.

The island’s pastor, Ólafur Egilsson, was taken with his wife and children. So were hundreds of his neighbors. By the time the ships left, 242 people from Heimaey had been carried away to the thriving Islamic slave markets of North Africa.

Ólafur’s wife was pregnant. She would give birth during the voyage.

In Algiers, the captives were marched through the streets and sold. Families were separated in the marketplace. Ólafur watched as his eleven-year-old son was taken from him. He urged the boy not to abandon his Christian faith. His son answered, “They can treat my body as they will, but my soul I shall keep for my good God.”

Then they led the boy away.

Ólafur, his wife, and their two youngest children were held together for a time. But then his captors thought of a lucrative plan. They would send him across Europe to ask Denmark’s king—whose kingdom then included Iceland—for ransom money.

Ólafur traveled from Algiers through Italy, France, and the Netherlands to Denmark. The record is unclear about any ransom payment, but he did return to Iceland in 1628, without his family. His wife did not return until 1637. Their sons, however, never came home.

The Iceland raid was only one small episode in a much wider campaign by Muslim corsairs, whose raids carried millions of Christians into the slave markets of the Islamic world. Boys could be taken to serve in Muslim armies, girls sold into harems, and adults condemned to back-breaking labor. Ólafur’s surviving journal gives one family a human voice amid countless others whose names and stories were lost.

Ólafur was one of the lucky ones. He came home. But his children did not. His memoir preserved the moment a father watched his son disappear into slavery—and the words the boy left behind.

“They can treat my body as they will, but my soul I shall keep for my good God.”

#archaeohistories

[thecuriouslady @thecurious_me]

@Ashleywire57 @MrAndyNgo Just think of this trans= no
So trans woman=not a woman, but an insane man

[LUX @oldmanlux]

Build the torso with simple shapes first.

[thecuriouslady @thecurious_me]

@AlanIsNotADJ @atptour Can you provide a single contemporary fact to support your beliefs, or are we venturing into the realm of fantasy? :) I know that certain gays (not everyone, only the uncertain ones) want to distort reality to feel better about themselves.

[𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐄 @ConsulofRome_]

This is what the Roman senate looked like and, unlike in film and paintings, it was not semicircular.

[Reddit Lies @reddit_lies]

No lies detected.

[Man of Myth @Mythos_Man]

“He who voluntarily confronts tremendous odds must have very great internal resources to draw upon.”

— Thucydides

[HR Knuckles @knuckleshr]

@trvipppy studied fine arts for a year here. there is nothing sexy in nude painting. I assure you. all the perverts would be out the class. and the only emotion there is is frustration for not getting the parts right and hilarity from the professor dissing our mistakes.

[1997 Buick LaSabre @97BuickLaSabre]

@reddit_lies Ah, yes. Wikipedia is the academic end all, be all standard.