makeshift-quill.bsky.social
Author, teacher, roller of dice with many sides
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Biggest jump in enthusiasm for silent reading was when I told them audiobooks and graphic novels were options.
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My attention span has just been decreasing for a while. Even sitting down for one game doesn’t work well.
Trying to make more reading time before bed.
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I try to kill that inner crit every day, but the turning point might have begun when a kid made fanart of the story I was reading them during dismissal while working day camp.
If one of my weird little stories inspired someone else to make something? Then maybe the cringe in my head all along.
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It’s so good! Glad you’re finding a way out of the slump. Graphic novels have been doing it for me, and Gideon the Ninth
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Friends and I have been waiting for the next book!
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It’s a pretty cold day. Some super soakers and water balloons (filled with anything you want, really) might be useful.
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An X-odus, if you will
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I just leave broken systems in my wake. So many planners. So many to-do lists.
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I’ve been replaying Gold after finding it at a con, I like these thoughts
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I think this was a joke about the name. It’s not that deep.
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You think people would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
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The answer is they say it’s fake, or the dating is wrong and it’s post-church era when they “invented” Latin.
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Radiocarbon dating of mortar has well-documented usage in archaeology, Donna just has no idea what she’s talking about, but needs an excuse to dismiss inconvenient evidence.
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I spent way too much of this afternoon arguing with her. Primary sources are invalid unless they’re direct original manuscripts (that’s not how history works). Stone inscriptions are fake, ask a geologist (no, she didn’t name any), all the historical writings of Rome were forged by the church, etc.
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Amidst their whole Gish Gallop, I somehow missed that, yikes, this is basic high school level source identification.
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You don’t have any work, you do absolutely nothing in the field. You have a TikTok account of conspiracy BS. I would bet you any amount of money science will never conclude the Roman Empire didn’t exist. They will never conclude that all of the texts & inscriptions were made by the medieval church.
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No, I’m literally reporting the research of archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists. And geologists apparently, since you cannot name any. Which geologists disprove Roman inscriptions?
Lies and attacks will not make you correct, is this how you usually argue?
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Don’t impute false motives, I’m not “carrying water” for anyone, just reporting what I’ve read. You created a standard for “primary source” that most of antiquity couldn’t meet.
Name a geologist who demonstrates Roman stone inscriptions are fake. Just one, please, cite their work and I’ll read it.
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Nope, not quite. But even if the suggested correction of the Larssons were valid, it would still make these trees younger than the medieval church.
But on the validity of the central European Oak chronology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1125786518301371
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I did. You rejected it as false, inconclusive, fake, and fanfiction. No wonder you never became a real historian.
Name a geologist. Come on. I at least provided examples even if you discount them. Give me a name.
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Name a geologist, Donna.
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You…didn’t actually read it, huh? They explain that given the evidence, and where the dendochronology actually does fit, the oak comes from France/Gaul, felled in the early 1st century CE.
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You’re the only liar here. But you wanted more dendochronological evidence, so I found some. From Rome itself, even.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
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“Stone inscriptions are fake,” please tell me which geologists are saying this, name them.
Whole lot of fakes and pointless details about everyday life, and people who didn’t exist, they were so committed to the bit! Even before the medieval church! Wow.
epigraphy.osu.edu/collections/...
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I provided studies of the radiocarbon and palynology of Vindolanda, along with excavation reports of detailed layers of Roman occupation. Historians don’t just take ancient authors as the “Word of God,” they compare them with other sources, verify archaeology if possible, & infer what’s most likely.
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You can’t even get the origin of Latin right, I don’t think you’re capable of doing historical research.
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Yes, I’ve been presenting studies that explain their methodology, and present evidence. You either cannot read them or lie about what they say.
Are Aristotle and Archimedes as “real as Santa Clause?”
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“Y’all” = every historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist in the field.
But a TikTok armchair conspiracist who’s never worked in the field a day in their life blew the conspiracy wide open.
I can recommend books, articles, authors, if you’d actually read them. It’s literally centuries of work.
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As real as Aristotle, or Muhammad, or Hippocrates, actually.
Where are the historians that support this idea?
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For the Greeks alone, we have no original writings of Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Plato, Euclid or Euripides. Most of what we have are medieval manuscripts.
Was Ancient Greece invented by the church as well?
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If requiring the original copy was what made something primary and reliable, everyone in antiquity from Aristotle to Ramesses II, to Muhammad would be impossible to determine. You’re demanding a standard real historians and archaeologists do not use.
When did you take Semester One of Anthropology?
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So you are contending that none of those historians or the people they mention existed? Just to be clear.
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I gave you a study on the radiocarbon dating of the site. You lied about mortar and dismissed it. But if you want the actual precise dating and the study to go with it:
people.anu.edu.au/adrian.manni...
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For the church to fabricate volumes of detailed (pagan) history, rather than accepting maybe the ruin and inscriptions match up with an actual empire, strains credulity. Josephus, Polybius, Livy, and more are primary sources.
sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/asbo...
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You can go read the excavation reports. Still waiting for the academics who think Vindolanda is a hoax.
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“Anything I don’t like is medieval fiction!”
You really are just like an evangelical creationist, wild. It’s like arguing with someone who thinks dinosaurs were fake.
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Sounds like you skimmed the introduction instead of reading the article. But even there, they show how contamination can be avoided, explain atmospheric carbon is incorporated into mortar, and cite sources demonstrating that. Mortar radiocarbon dating is used currently in archaeology, don’t lie.
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Greek historian Polybius just made up Rome? The pre-empire early church argued with nonexistent people? Josephus was just writing fiction? The Talmud, too?
Man the church must have been busy convincing everyone to lie and planting forgeries all over the Mediterranean.
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They’re not stone tablets, they’re wood tablets which used a carbon-based ink.
Latin is also found in inscriptions from long before the medieval church, some like the Lapis Niger and Duenos inscription even before the Common Era.
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The site itself has been radiocarbon dated in detail, and the milieu of the tablets has also been dated using dendochronology
repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/ha...
archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/brow...
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The Latin used in the tablets, the months used, the mention of at least one Roman official known from other sources, centurions, coinage from successive emperors bearing dates…too much to summarize in one post. The excavation reports are here:
vindolanda.com/excavation-reports
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So. No credentials, just the “historian” equivalent of Kent Hovind. Interesting. Sorry you had to deal with a terrible person. You’re still incredibly wrong about history.