Medievalist & photographer, livin' the dream. My website: https://xitter.cf/t.co/zvr10bOGU2. Chi vive sperando, muore cantando. I've started Insta @ mad_maenad.
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Where has the girdle book been for my whole life? It would have done a lot more good than the actual girdling!
My limerick using #glutesmaxxing & a form of callipygous. Not as good as @antmoose 's. @chapps @arakhnos
Antinous’ buns were like steel
And Hadrian found them quite callipygeal.
No glutesmaxxing needed;
History has conceded,
As sculpture attests his appeal.
Anticipating #MedievalMonday, here's my new post. An out-take from my book draft. #Satan as #serpent & #dragon. @SarahBlick3 was kind to give me some advice on it in June. Hope you like it! pilgrimtothepast.com/post/sa…
I want to use "callipygous" in a limerick, but I'm running into some obvious problems. I might have more luck with "glutemaxxing." What would the Greeks do, @antmoose @chapps @arakhnos @NCDrusus38?
Between the ‘Heated Rivalry’ press rollout and the rise of #glutemaxxing, straight men are suddenly very aware of whether they have a good butt. But is their quest for the perfect backside undermining what makes it such an object of desire? Allison P. Davis reports on the rise of straight men openly pursuing a juicier, thicker, and fluffier backside — and what that's doing to the current booty culture at large: nymag.visitlink.me/pAMlB2
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✨ It wasn’t until I first saw the Saxon crypt at St Wystan’s, Repton, that I understood John Betjeman’s words: ‘Holy air encased in stone.’ I’ve never felt the past so close, or found such comfort in feeling rooted in a longer story. A real hidden gem, a must see.
#OwlishMonday and here I am having a non-productive discussion with a Great Grey Owl at Muncaster Castle in the Lake District.
For those of you wondering, the vultures in my photos are not AI! In the UK, you can go to certain bird sanctuaries & purchase bird encounters. Here I am with a black vulture at Gauntlet Birds of Prey in Knutson. I was trying for an author photo, but didn't have enough salmon!
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Hello, y'all! I'm back from our 30th anniversary trip in the Lake District. Here's our official portrait, acknowledging Time's swift chariot, and all that. We just got through being rained on for about 15 minutes, but that just adds to the pathos, doesn't it? #Vulture
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Early for #MedievalMonday! Post on Gloucester Cathedral's modern #Gargoyle s. The community decided on something more modern, but was it? You be the judge. (psst @StroudStory --there's a #Stroud gargoyle!) I don't like the way Mr. Wolf's face is cropped!
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Been busy getting ready for our anniversary trip, but did get out to photograph flowers on a garden tour. This nuclear #hollyhock would make a nice focal piece for a waiting room or vestibule, I think. It's rather hypnotic. @BooksTeaFilms @todbooklady @antmoose @TheFrameBlogX
Is #TapestryTuesday a thing? Here's a post on the largest #Renaissance tapestry in the US, a Medici workshop creation at #artsmia. I loved photographing this one. In person, you can really feel its presence. pilgrimtothepast.com/post/da…
Here's a man doing the Lord's work (as my grandma would say, but not about this man 😉):
there’s an Odyssey movie. Love it or hate it, the poem is still better.
I built a free reader for it — Greek with facing English, tap any word for the grammar, every place mapped, the route animated, Flaxman’s engravings. Share and enjoy.
johnhboyer-sys.github.io/hom…
